crazy new age people annoy me.

[stilleto]

I came home from my walk and my daughter, who was waiting for dinner, asked what took so long. I said i met the new neighbors and they want a babysitter.
She was SO excited... until i told her that the mother does crystal healing in her garage.

My daughter (she's totally me) was like, "crap. crazy people".

 

[Bikini Mod]

Ah, I was fully expecting a comment to that effect.

My problem is not, and has never been with Christians (or any religion, per se). My problem is with people who tell me that because I follow a non Christian religion I am, unequivocally, WRONG, ergo, condemned to hell, and then when they go into great detail enumerating the "Biblical facts" to justify their condemnation. My problem is with the people out there who claim to know the mind of God, and how God judges me, my beliefs, etc.

Let's face it, you're guilty of the same thing, only in reverse. Because those people want to promote something you don't understand (transcendental meditation) in your mind they automatically are stoner weirdos (granted, their beliefs are weird to you, but do you know they smoke dope?) I just don't see what's wrong with hoping for a kinder, gentler society, and if they want to help people learn how to meditate, it's not like that's going to hurt anyone. Meditation in no way is a threat to any organized religion and has been proven to have beneficial effects on health and stress levels.

Actually I've always felt any person who is serious about their faith should meditate as well as pray because it's said that while prayer is speaking to God, meditation is listening to hear God speak to you.

^^ Great point of view.

I admit though, that I am guilty of thinking off the bat that some of these people are crazy. I suppose to me for someone to be THAT off the wall "in your face" about their beliefs is as bad as "nutjob" christians doing the same. The only difference (that I can think of) is that the new age people, while they may seem *out there* aren't condemning me to hell. So I guess they are pretty harmless.

... that is, unless they drink the blood of unborn children... like I do.

 

[redsamurai]

nothing, if that's what you want. she wants to find a man.
i should clarify- she has a perfect figure. TINY waist, long legs, big chest... and has never had a boyfriend. why? she's so annoying.

pics of your hot sister or stfu!!

 

[mrplunkey]

Ah, I was fully expecting a comment to that effect.

My problem is not, and has never been with Christians (or any religion, per se). My problem is with people who tell me that because I follow a non Christian religion I am, unequivocally, WRONG, ergo, condemned to hell, and then when they go into great detail enumerating the "Biblical facts" to justify their condemnation. My problem is with the people out there who claim to know the mind of God, and how God judges me, my beliefs, etc.

Exclusivity is one of the tenets of their religion. Sure, they think I'm going to hell -- but why do I care? One of these guys can claim a direct line to God as well -- yeah, I don't care about that either. And lots of people tell me things that annoy me every day. Hell, I don't want to hear another word ever about Michael Jackson.

Let's face it, you're guilty of the same thing, only in reverse. Because those people want to promote something you don't understand (transcendental meditation) in your mind they automatically are stoner weirdos (granted, their beliefs are weird to you, but do you know they smoke dope?)

The two people being interviewed sounded like the two principal characters on the movie: "Dude, Where's My Car?". Plus they went on and on about expanding their own consciousness and how our existence should be restored to its natural state. I'm gonna go with the odds on this one and label them stoners.

I just don't see what's wrong with hoping for a kinder, gentler society, and if they want to help people learn how to meditate, it's not like that's going to hurt anyone. Meditation in no way is a threat to any organized religion and has been proven to have beneficial effects on health and stress levels.

Actually I've always felt any person who is serious about their faith should meditate as well as pray because it's said that while prayer is speaking to God, meditation is listening to hear God speak to you.

There's nothing wrong with extolling the values of meditation, nor is there anything wrong with extolling the values of christianity, scientology, Judaism or any other religion for that matter. It's just some of them are funnier to me than others.

 

[stilleto]

pics of your hot sister or stfu!!

lol, this is my sister in law.
she's not hot. i mean, great body, average face, that ALWAYS has a sourpuss on.

 

[redsamurai]

stilletto, what exactly was she doinng in her garage? If by "crystal healing" she's referring to how crystal bowls vibrate when you run something around the edge.....than that's actually not bad stuff. Those bowls are remarkably expensive, but they produce sounds that are "incredible". I couldn't possibly describe how the sound permeates through you. Whether these things have lasting ramifications or not, I have no idea......but I know you do feel better afterwards. They can offer any sort of new age explanations they want, like it "aligns" your chakra's......I dunno, I just know that I've been in the presence of those bowls while they're being lit up.......and it's incredible, especially the big ones that you can feel hitting you lower in the body. I know a girl who was a bodybuilder and she lost her period for over a year. She sat in on one of those sessions and than literally "exploded" down there later that night. She called me up the next day practically crying she was so happy. She had gone to see alot of specialists and the medical community was telling her she may never get it back. take that for what you will.

 

[ricco561]

my sister in law is one of them. she's a feng shui consultant who is always talking about energies. Meanwhile, she's 32, single, and hangs out with her other strange single loser friends.

so i have some new neighbors down the road. I went for a walk before and they were outside (they close on the house tomorrow). I introduced myself and told them my daughter is looking for a babysitting job. they were thrilled.
the husband tells me he's a civil rights attorney. great. the wife tells me she does crystal heeling and will set up her shop in the garage.
she asked if i need any heeling.
no no. i'm good. perfectly healthy.
She tells me she can cure bad vibes and other shit.
no no. i'm good with that too.

friggin' loons.

Because he's a civil rights lawyer?

 

[musclemom]

The two people being interviewed sounded like the two principal characters on the movie: "Dude, Where's My Car?". Plus they went on and on about expanding their own consciousness and how our existence should be restored to its natural state. I'm gonna go with the odds on this one and label them stoners.

I understand your perspective on the other two points so I'm just singling this out. I reiterate, I fail to see how the idea of trying to expand your consciousness (which is another way of saying thinking beyond the conventional societal paradigms) is bad and necessarily means someone uses dope. I believe in expanding one's consciousness, and haven't touched marijuana (or any other illegal, mind altering substance) since I was in my late teens.

As far as judging people by the way they speak, if that were the case then every Southerner with a heavy accent is an ignorant redneck, every New Yorker an aggressive asshole, every person from the better parts of England Oxford educated and gentile, etc.

Tell, me, Plunk, what's wrong with encouraging people to think beyond the here and now, the shit you can touch and how to make more money? What's wrong with encouraging people to just take five minutes to think about something other than how to get ahead? What's wrong with telling people to take five minutes and think about how they can change their small piece of the universe? Because that's all any of us can really do, y'know. What's wrong with picking up that aluminum can you see lying on the ground in your parking lot and making sure it gets into recycling or smiling at a stranger and wishing them, sincerely, a nice day. Expanding your consciousness means living consciously, and thoughtfully instead of just existing.

 

[mrplunkey]

Tell, me, Plunk, what's wrong with encouraging people to think beyond the here and now, the shit you can touch and how to make more money? What's wrong with encouraging people to just take five minutes to think about something other than how to get ahead? What's wrong with telling people to take five minutes and think about how they can change their small piece of the universe? Because that's all any of us can really do, y'know. What's wrong with picking up that aluminum can you see lying on the ground in your parking lot and making sure it gets into recycling or smiling at a stranger and wishing them, sincerely, a nice day. Expanding your consciousness means living consciously, and thoughtfully instead of just existing.

You're equating someone's individual effort to pick up an aluminum can with two people trying to psychically align their spiritual energies so as to transform the entire world from a technology-based to a psychic-energy based society?

And you're suuuuuuure you haven't smoked any herb since your teens? I KID!

In all fairness, you're comparing apples to nuclear explosions here.

 

[Bikini Mod]

You're equating someone's individual effort to pick up an aluminum can with two people trying to psychically align their spiritual energies so as to transform the entire world from a technology-based to a psychic-energy based society?

And you're suuuuuuure you haven't smoked any herb since your teens? I KID!

In all fairness, you're comparing apples to nuclear explosions here.

Perception is reality. You BOTH get to be *right* in this arguement.