Category: sloppy thinking
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Once more, with barely any feeling
I just realized I’ve been overlooking the most blatant example of bad thinking I could possibly hope to find. It’s been right under my nose and, in the past, on my calves and hamstrings, too. I’m talking about homeopathic arnica remedies. That’s right, in the past I applied homeopathic arnica with the expectation that it…
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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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Now this really bugs me
First of all, another comment that my lack of blogging results from: Getting a bit tired of rehashing the same themes (there are only so many ways that thinking goes awry in the New Age and “spiritual” world, really) Being busy with things like Invisible Shoes running sandals Nothing spinning in my head loudly enough…
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Homicidal Homeopaths!
I’ve had it with homeopaths. The one group of people who could fix all the world’s problems, but, do they? Noooooooooo. How dare they hoard their knowledge and mastery over the world in exchange for the selfish act of earning a living and supporting their families? Look, I like being able to pay the rent…
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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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You heard it here first
Whattya know, even though it’s Fall, I found a bee in my bonnet today. Actually, I’m writing this post just so I have the ammunition later to say, “I told you so.” I was thinking about how proponents of Intelligent Design (a.k.a. creationism, a.k.a. religious fiction), like to look down their nose and say, “Nobody…
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The Confidence Con Game
Personal note: You may have noticed that the frequency of my posting has diminished quite a bit. In part that’s because I started this blog to have a way to get out of my head the various rants that make appearances while I’m in the hot tub or in the car. And, I’ve gotten a…
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Oh, those wacky Buddhists…
I know a number of religious fundamentalists. But, no, they’re not Christian. Not even Muslim. And, nope, not Zoroastrian, either. They’re Buddhist. And among the reasons for their holier-than-thou-ness is they think Buddhism is “smarter” than other religions. They think Buddhists are more about critical inquiry than unfounded belief, not prone to superstition or magical…
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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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Buddha the Internet Marketer
If the Buddha were alive today, the odds are just as good that he’d be an Internet Marketer as the leader of a new religious sect. Why? Because the guy knew how to sell. Let me talk about the Internet Marketing world before we return full-circle to the robed former Prince of the Sakya clan…
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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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What science says about enlightenment
With the idea that I should be eating a bit more protein, and being someone who is primarily a vegetarian who eats sushi every now and then, I headed for the low-fat dairy aisle. Sucker that I am for personal testimonials, I remembered a friend saying he loved kefir, a yogurt-ish drink. Well, I’m no…