I bitch a lot about New Age religion on this here blog. That's because someone whom I really like is being devoured by that shit. A ridiculously intelligent individual who would be a totally cool human being if he would just grow the fuck up and stop clinging to easy answers. He was devoutly religious for many years. Went to church all the time, bought every religious book there was to be found, the whole nine yards. Then one day he realized it was bogus. Bullshit. Now all this was before I knew him. Met him-really like his 'normal' personality. Normal interests, normal outlook on life, all seems good.
Fast forward to one year later. Completely fucking crazy. Filled the Christian hole with New Age spirituality mumbo jumbo. He doesn't watch TV any more-just those stupid tapes. He just doesn't see it. It's insulting to anyone's intelligence. They make life out to be so simple. Just 'do this' and 'do that' and you'll be a happy zombie and get whatever you want. That's not life. Complexity and the full gamut of emotions are what makes human life beautiful and unique. Not mind vibrations and not thinking about the past or future. Humans have 'flaws'; we get angry, sad, depressed, scared, you name it. We also experience happiness, love, joy, passion and a whole lot of other emotions. There's no simple answer for how to live your life perfectly-no simple solution for clearing up depression or unhappiness.
They're just trying to make a profit and it's working. I don't fault them for that. I just wish people (who I care about) would stop succumbing to it.
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Universe..and all the delusional people in it.
So I'm sitting here watching a History Channel special about the Universe; black holes, white holes, quantum mechanics and all the like. At one point in my life I used to be insanely interested in physics-quantum physics to be exact. I was ready to go to Georgia Tech and study quantum physics for four wonderful years and solve all of the questions currently posed by physics. Anyways, the show reminds me of a movie I onced watched titled "The Elegant Universe". I think it was a special on Discovery channel or something-but it was carried by Blockbuster. Now I was always more of a book person when it came to physics, so I wasn't up on the latest and greatest physics movies. The person who suggested "The Elegant Universe" first wanted to see another movie I'd never heard of, something along the lines of 'What the Fuck do we Know'. Luckily for me Blockbuster was out of our second choice, so Elegant Universe it was.
The film was pretty decent, really. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert or anything near one concerning quantum physics, because it's fucking complicated. But this movie seemed like a pretty unbiased look at quatum physics, specificially string theory and TOE.
Now at the time I figured the person with whom I watching the film was just curious about quantum physics, much like myself. Later I figured out that he was watching this movie to confirm his own (unfortunately shared by millions of others) delusional theories of reality and destiny and other mystical bullshit. I remember him uttering phrases such as 'I knew it', and 'that's what I've always thought!' whenever they talked about small strings emitting vibrations.
Turns out he was a complete quack. Ok, maybe that's a bit harsh-but this whole new age religion/mysticism thing embracing quantum physics as proof of their crackpot theories is killing me. Turns out that's what the 'what the fuck do we know' movie was about. Greedy whack-jobs bastardizing physics to convince the naive and gullible that they create their own realities and they emit magnetic waves or something that attracts things to them. I'm not even going to delve into why this is absurd because any person with half a brain would be able to do that for themselves.
I dunno, the whole thing is so ridiculous that I have a hard time even understanding what they're trying to get across. It's no different than good ol' religion. At least religion doesn't try to explain itself using phony science.
The film was pretty decent, really. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert or anything near one concerning quantum physics, because it's fucking complicated. But this movie seemed like a pretty unbiased look at quatum physics, specificially string theory and TOE.
Now at the time I figured the person with whom I watching the film was just curious about quantum physics, much like myself. Later I figured out that he was watching this movie to confirm his own (unfortunately shared by millions of others) delusional theories of reality and destiny and other mystical bullshit. I remember him uttering phrases such as 'I knew it', and 'that's what I've always thought!' whenever they talked about small strings emitting vibrations.
Turns out he was a complete quack. Ok, maybe that's a bit harsh-but this whole new age religion/mysticism thing embracing quantum physics as proof of their crackpot theories is killing me. Turns out that's what the 'what the fuck do we know' movie was about. Greedy whack-jobs bastardizing physics to convince the naive and gullible that they create their own realities and they emit magnetic waves or something that attracts things to them. I'm not even going to delve into why this is absurd because any person with half a brain would be able to do that for themselves.
I dunno, the whole thing is so ridiculous that I have a hard time even understanding what they're trying to get across. It's no different than good ol' religion. At least religion doesn't try to explain itself using phony science.
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