Category: New Age thinking
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You’re not intuitive, you’re lazy
Another bit of dried grass just fractured a even-toed ungulate’s spine. I may have to punch the next person who tells me they’re “intuitive.” (Of course, if they’re really intuitive, they should be able to see it coming and avoid the blow… but I’m willing to bet there’s a contusion coming.) Why so anti-intuitive, Steven?…
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98-pound positive thinking weaklings
I’m confused. If positive thinking is supposed to be so powerful that it can bend the molecules of the universe to its will, magnetize money, eradicate disease, overpower anyone else who wants the same thing you do, and otherwise exert more control over the external world than all other forces combined… Then why is it…
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Oh, and let’s be prepared for 12/22/2012
Keeping the theme from my post about creationists co-opting reality to support their beliefs, let’s quickly visit the 12/21/2012 gang. Here’s my prediction about that upcoming non-event. Unless the upcoming movie 2012 is a documentary made in the future and sent back through a wormhole (or put in the mailbox shared by Sandra Bullock and…
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Add this to my 11 year history of alien abduction
Must be something I ate, ’cause I’m still on a writin’ roll (and using lot’s o’ apostrophes). I have a flyer that I got 25 years ago. It was for some transformational workshop. I can’t tell you what it was for because “have” means that it’s packed away in a box with other stuff I’ve…
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I couldn’t care less. Really. I tried.
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this video must be worth 1,000,000… each one better than what I could have come up with, so here it is: I’d like to hear a Homeopathic doctor on the witness stand for malpractice: “What do you expect?! I did as little as I could do!”
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Sitting in a room all alone
For years, I’ve had a fantasy about being able to write a SHORT blog post. Well, today is that day! I just saw an ad for a Law of Attraction workshop, and all I could think was: If the LOA REALLY worked, then why would the guy need to advertise? If he REALLY believed in…
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Spiritual Schmiritual
So, in my last post, I mentioned my desire to be so divorced from all things spiritual and personal development-ish, that I couldn’t even be called a critic. But before I could do that, I need to know the terrain I’m leaving. After all, if I want to get out of the game, I need…
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How to be successful in anything… finally, the truth revealed!
From the “I couldn’t have said it better myself” department comes the following, thanks to Saturday Night Live. While this video is about manifesting a particular goal — picking up women — I’m sure you’ll see how to apply this to whatever you’re trying to get. For extra credit, fill in the blanks: To become…
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I think I can’t. I think I can’t. Oh… oops, I was wrong.
From the “I couldn’t have said it better” department comes this op-ed from Barbara Ehrenreich that was in the New York Times on the 24th of September. Lifted, verbatim, with great appreciation… The Power of Negative Thinking GREED — and its crafty sibling, speculation — are the designated culprits for the financial crisis. But another,…
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Who you are really… AS IF!
Life is like a bowl of cherries. NOT. I just walked outside and life was in no way like a bowl of cherries. In fact, it was so unlike a bowl of cherries I can’t even list the differences between life and a bowl of cherries. All the world’s a stage… Ummm… not really. As…
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Attractive ways to attract attraction-attracting attractiveness
It’s getting worse. When I last wrote about “attraction,” I was getting maybe 3-4 emails a week telling me how I could attract whatever it was I wanted — sex, money, sexy money. Now it’s 3-4 per DAY. Clearly, I’m attracting these emails. Otherwise why would they show up in my inbox? It must be…
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Shoot me. Shoot me now! Why? It’s beyond a secret.
Let me sum up the following post in one word: AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! If you can’t figure out from incisive and condensed comment what I’m talking about, I’ll elaborate (but only a bit, because I’m low on oxygen from screaming at the top of my lungs for the last 5 minutes). I’ve said before that the surest…
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Water is not water (and other things Quantum Physics DOES NOT say)
Every January 1st, I join about 600 other “Polar Bears” (a.k.a. boneheads) and head to the Boulder Reservoir for our annual plunge (if you were wondering about the “a.k.a.” a moment ago, you probably understand it now). If you don’t know how this works, here’s the deal: The ice has been cut away from a…
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You can be Tony Robbins!
How’s this for a reality show: You can be the next Tony Robbins! Now the question is: Is this a show about becoming a self-help teacher or the freakiest makeover show ever on television? Then answer is actually… wait for it… motivational speaker. And this isn’t just an idea. This was a real show called…
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The Three Stooges of Truth…
All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Shopenhauer I don’t remember when I first heard this quote, but I can’t count high enough to list the number of times I’ve heard it tossed into conversations in the year since,…