I was looking at the Big Brother TV show Web site, and I came across an article on how the house was designed according to the principles of Feng Shui:
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Energy: Colliding Forces
In the living room the energy flows through the windows and doors of the north wall, and has no exit on the south side. This will create constant confusion and competitive energy as it enters and exits through the same path. This dynamic is further emphasized by the watchful “eyes” of Big Brother, the cameras behind the two-way mirrors throughout the house. These mirrors reflect and intensify energy waves, and many of them are positioned directly opposite the expansive windows of the north facing wall. A scattered pattern of dissonant energy waves ensues. Some of the House Guests will feel uncomfortable in the crossing pattern of force.
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It’s one thing to talk about painting in soothing colors and moving furniture out of the way of traffic, but when New Age goons start using the vocabulary of physics to lend scientific validity to superstition, I have a problem.
Yes, mirrors reflect energy waves(aka visible light), but intensify light?
What are “dissonant energy waves”? And don’t hand me that crap about qi, which has never been shown to exist in a controlled lab environment.
Have you noticed that bollocks are very well balanced? They swing with cosmic harmony. You can devine the location of the pyramids with the pendulous motion of the scrotal contents.
Thanks for the advice, Coldfire. I divined the right position for my desk, and now the qi is flowing, my chakras are spinning, and the Serpent of Fire is zipping up my spinal column like a freight train. I regressed to my past lives as Cleopatra, Napoleon, Lincoln, and Eleanor Roosevelt, not mention my lives as high priests in Mu, Lemuria, and Atlantis.
Now I can’t get any work done because the UFO High Masters and my Indian spirit guide keep fighting over who gets to channel through me next.
[hijack] Why is it that people who are convinced that they are a reincarnated spirit always were someone FAMOUS in their previous life? You never hear someone saying “In a former life, I was a toothless uneducated horse shit shoveler in medieval Central Europe. I died of the plague at age 25, having achieved nothing in that life.” [/hijack]
matt - I wouldn’t worry, there’ll always be an abundance of assholes with more money than brains. You must excuse me now, it’s time for my Ginko herbal tea enema before I consult my astrologer
Fung Shui is not a load of bollocks. That damn TV show Big Brother is a load of bollocks.
I was an ant in my past life and I’m glad I got squished. Have you any idea what it means to be controlled by the Queen ant and have no life? … Wait a minute, that’s happening in this life too…
Yes, they can, but at least the Chinese can claim feng shui as a treasured part of their cultural heritage. Besdies the Chinese version deals with spirits, qi, and invisible
dragons, none of which are testable propostitions. U.S. feng shui’ers try to pass it off as science. :rolleyes:
New Agers embrace feng shui as part of their rejection of reason and common sense. You can get modern Americans to embrace reincarnation, channelling, crystal therapy, and past-life regression, but just try to get them to take a math or science class…
I live in a town that has a historic architectural district. The guidelines include what types of siding materials are in keeping with the town’s history. So this yahoo who owns a tarpaper shack wants to remodel. Her problem? The house is across the street from the base station of the gondola (ski town, no?). She ranted and ranted about how she HAD to build with brick to block the “electrical emanations” from the gondola building, according to her feng shui consultant. Needless to say, brick didn’t fit in with the historic guidelines. Hissy fit ensued. House not remodeled.
Now, here’s my problem with it: The effing motor for the effing gondola is at the TOP of the MOUNTAIN! The gondola building at the base doesn’t “emanate” anything more than your neighbor’s house! There’s nothing in it to emanate except some lights! And if logic doesn’t persuade you, build the effing thing out of brick and put the approved siding on top of it!
Ah, like so many other people in the world, you need to watch more Red Dwarf. And I quote:
Rimmer - “She told me that in a previous life I was Alexander the Great’s chief eunuch…It explains so much.”
Lister - “Like why you have such a lovely soprano singing voice.”
Ah, Red Dwarf. Is there any problem you can’t solve?
Ah yes, the logical fallacy of argumentum ad numerum. The idea that the more people believe something, the more true it is. On behalf of those who fight ignorance: Bullshit, kell.
qi? The life-force/energy that feng shui focuses on is chi. A lot of feng shui is simple psychology, position a “power seat” that faces the door and has its back to the wall. This seat will attract people. Well, who doesn’t prefer to have their backs to the wall and faces to the door?
There is a lot of parts of numbers of religions that don’t make any sense. (Heaven? A place where all the good dead people go? What do they do, play bocci?) Feng shui happens to be trendy at the moment, so it is being misused. But dismissing a religion based on misinformation and ignorance is equally offensive in any religion.
Past lives always being famous people is one thing; past lives being famous people whose lifespans overlapped is another (Lincoln, born 1809; Napoleon, d. 1821)
It depends on the transliteration system you use. It’s chi in Wade-Giles, but qi in Pinyin, so we’re both right.
Feng shui has nothing to do with religion any more than dowsing or Tarot card reading do. I’ve seen it done in Hong Kong and also in Korea, where it’s called ‘pungsu’, (same characters meaning ‘wind/water’ but different sounds). I have no quarrel with feng shui as Chinese traditional culture, but for Americans to use it and call it scientific? Puh-leeze, honey!
Sheesh, don’t you people recognize parody when you see it?
Yes we are, Falcon. By threatening to move a Pit thread to the Pit I was facetiously underscoring my intended point to SR. Namely, that in this forum offensive comments are de rigeur.
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