Daily Archives: 28 February 2010

Spirituality: the current contender for all-time, grade-A, prime-cut bullshit

Depak Chopra is at it again. You’ve got to love empty tautologies like this:

“This domain of awareness is a core consciousness that is beyond our mind, intellect, and ego.”

There is no awareness beyond mind, intellect, and ego.

“When we have even a partial glimpse of this level of awareness we experience joy, insight, intuition, creativity, and freedom of choice. In addition, there is the awakening of love, kindness, compassion, happiness at the success of others, and equanimity.”

So, if I can achieve an undefinable “core consciousness”, everything will be sweetness and light, and all the world’s ills will dissolve into cotton candy and pastel-colored cute ponies.

What a load of empty, meaningless crap. It’s not on the level of Christian bullshit (the all-time winner), but it gets a B- for effort.

In celebration of freedom of speech

In celebration of Pharyngula’s recent post, here is a pictorial version of Muhammed:

If Muslims have a problem with this depiction of their prophet’s image, it is their problem, not mine. (See the site linked above for images that really would send them into orbit.)

There are damned few wingnut fundies of any flavor that get this. If you don’t like what you see, look somewhere else, or turn off the TV, or don’t watch the movie.

Rerun: who’s responsible?

Some thoughts about you, the electorate, and our current American political system, from V for Vendetta:

“It’s no good blaming the drop in work standards upon bad management, either, though to be sure, the management is very bad. In fact, let us not mince words. The management is terrible.

“We’ve had a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars, and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This is plain fact.

“But who elected them? It was you! You who appointed these people! You who gave them the power to make your decisions for you!

“While I admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal error century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.

“You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders. You have allowed them to fill your workspace with dangerous and unproven machines.

“You could have stopped them. All you had to do is say ‘No!’

“You have no spine. You have no pride.”