# New Agers: just stop. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 24, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780 "2012-04-24T05:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/41 "2012-04-25T02:53:57Z")
Native Americans, Hindi, or Bhuddhists can’t teach us what we all need to know about pyramid power, Harmonic Convergence. affirmation, and holistic… everything. Ommmmmmmmm… motherfuckers! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/42 "2012-04-25T03:07:22Z")
Hell, I don’t even care if the OP’s rant was total shit. The “the rodeo buckle of the bible belt” phrase was golden and made it all worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/43 "2012-04-25T05:20:24Z")
> [@Dolomite](#): > > Its a welcome change from the usual cowfucker truck driving idiot that inhabits Fort Worth. I dunno. It changed from cowfucker truck driving idiot to big ass SUV, phone in one hand, latte in the other, kids in the back screaming, entitled Central Market shopper. Not sure it’s any better… Love that store but I avoid it like the plague because of that parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/44 "2012-04-25T06:07:29Z")
Hey, what do you get when you play country music backwards? You get your job back, you get your wife back, you get your pickup back . . . But what do you get when you play New Age music backwards? You get New Age music! ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/45 "2012-04-25T06:19:05Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > If you really hate Texans that much, maybe you should just leave. Or maybe you only hate the white ones. Yeah, Pete. Go back to Belgium, you Belgiumesian hater. Seriously though, lot of us grew up in Texas (even my waffle sucking friend Pikey Pete). We’ve watched it get dumber and dumber every year. It’s not that we hate Texans, it’s that we hate stupid Texans, and they seem to be taking over. The biggest problem (other than having family and and friends who aren’t idiots here) is that once you are in Texas it’s hard to save up enough money to move someplace else. wages are low, so you cant really save up. You reach a point where you are kind of stuck in this big ole inbreeder vortex. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/46 "2012-04-25T06:42:04Z")
in response to a few of you: a) I’m white. (makes some of your comments seem…bigoted.) b) I’m not religious in the slightest. I am what we call ‘post-theist’. c) I love Texas, but I just have to shake my head at some of the chuckleheads in this state. What really gets me is that so few of you seem to grasp that my original post was about new-agers and their disrespect for the spiritual and cultural customs of other people. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/47 "2012-04-25T06:45:04Z")
> [@bdgr](#): > > Yeah, Pete. Go back to Belgium, you Belgiumesian hater. > > Seriously though, lot of us grew up in Texas (even my waffle sucking friend Pikey Pete). We’ve watched it get dumber and dumber every year. It’s not that we hate Texans, it’s that we hate stupid Texans, and they seem to be taking over. > > The biggest problem (other than having family and and friends who aren’t idiots here) is that once you are in Texas it’s hard to save up enough money to move someplace else. wages are low, so you cant really save up. You reach a point where you are kind of stuck in this big ole inbreeder vortex. Austin and Houston are basically not Texas, how does the Texas stereotype square with the fact parts of Houston have street signs in Vietnamese. You could live in either city and be blissfully unaware of the mouth breathing stupidity the state is supposedly known for. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/48 "2012-04-25T06:57:15Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Austin and Houston are basically not Texas, how does the Texas stereotype square with the fact parts of Houston have street signs in Vietnamese. > > You could live in either city and be blissfully unaware of the mouth breathing stupidity the state is supposedly known for. I don’t know if you’ve been to Austin recently, but it gets more and more like the southern most suburb of Dallas these days. No where near as weird as it used to be, because somehow they found out the secret of making weird commercially viable. As for Houston, you are quite right, it isn’t Texas. Its the afterbirth of Louisiana dribbling down Texas’s leg. The humidity is unbearable. It smells worse than Venice (Italy, not California.) The traffic is atrocious. Worst, I’m allergic to pine pollen. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/49 "2012-04-25T07:05:21Z")
> [@pikey\_pete](#): > > As for Houston, you are quite right, it isn’t Texas. Its the afterbirth of Louisiana dribbling down Texas’s leg. The humidity is unbearable. It smells worse than Venice (Italy, not California.) The traffic is atrocious. Worst, I’m allergic to pine pollen. I’ll agree to all those points, but I still have a soft spot for the working class industrial city full of immigrants. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/50 "2012-04-25T11:06:49Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > This thread has got my aura all out of kilter. Step in, I can rotate and align your chi for you. My first pit rant was about a masseuse who offered to align my chi. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/51 "2012-04-25T12:00:59Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > As long as we keep Memphis, we’re fine on the bbq front. No we have to keep Texas as part of our strategic BBQ triad. Along with Memphis and Kansas City Texas helps ensure that the USA is always defended against a sneak BBQ attack by some third world despot with a gas grille. ---
**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/52 "2012-04-25T13:06:59Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Of course, this describes adherents to most organized religions, but at least most of them won’t kill themselves due to their own stupidity. I look at the crowd of Christian crazies outside the abortion clinic and think, "If only that could be arranged… " ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/53 "2012-04-25T13:42:09Z")
> [@OP](#): > > No, I’m talking about these strange, raised middle class, whitebread loons who think that wind chimes are a musical instrument. Since when are wind chimes emblematic of New Agers? If so, then all the suburban twits who hang wind chimes on their porch for nonstop jangling have suddenly morphed into hippies. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/54 "2012-04-25T14:01:27Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Since when are wind chimes emblematic of New Agers? If so, then all the suburban twits who hang wind chimes on their porch for nonstop jangling have suddenly morphed into hippies. suburban twits don’t record them onto cd’s and play them as ‘meditational music.’ Also, it is a sad world when people don’t remember the words of George Carlin. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/55 "2012-04-25T14:10:30Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > No we have to keep Texas as part of our strategic BBQ triad. Along with Memphis and Kansas City Texas helps ensure that the USA is always defended against a sneak BBQ attack by some third world despot with a gas grille. now here is a man who knows his bbq. He never once mentioned Georgia as being part of the strategic BBQ triad. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/56 "2012-04-25T14:11:12Z")
> [@florez](#): > > while lying naked in the mud, > the Great Spirit will come, and give us our dream warrior names. > I got dibs on running deer. Shouldn’t that be Running Bare? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/57 "2012-04-25T14:42:22Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > And for added bonus points they’re probably not telling anyone else who they can and cannot marry or claiming a say in what women can do with their bodies on the basis of their mumbo-jumbo. Ever tried telling one you’re on the pill? My housemate got told not to take it by a fucking NHS nurse, due to some new age bulllshit about ‘natural cycles’; apparently she should have taken some extortionately priced herbal shite ‘prescribed’ by a ‘holistic herbalist’. I have quite a lot of friends who believe some combination of new age bollocks. They’re nice people, in general, but it’s all I can manage not to slap them at times. When someone you know gets ill, and spends two weeks trying to cure it with ayurvedic fucking tea, then winds up hospitalised and seriously ill, rather than going to a bloody doctor as soon as they realise it’s not just a minor bug- and this in a country with free medical care and very cheap prescriptions, it’s hard not to get a little stabby. When a friend who’s a trained pharmacist is also ‘training’ to become a reiki practitioner, it’s hard not to try and slap some sense into her. I’m Filbert, and I endorse this pitting. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/58 "2012-04-25T14:57:46Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Ever tried telling one you’re on the pill? > > My housemate got told not to take it by a fucking NHS nurse, due to some new age bulllshit about ‘natural cycles’; apparently she should have taken some extortionately priced herbal shite ‘prescribed’ by a ‘holistic herbalist’. > > I have quite a lot of friends who believe some combination of new age bollocks. They’re nice people, in general, but it’s all I can manage not to slap them at times. When someone you know gets ill, and spends two weeks trying to cure it with ayurvedic fucking tea, then winds up hospitalised and seriously ill, rather than going to a bloody doctor as soon as they realise it’s not just a minor bug- and this in a country with free medical care and very cheap prescriptions, it’s hard not to get a little stabby. > > When a friend who’s a trained pharmacist is also ‘training’ to become a reiki practitioner, it’s hard not to try and slap some sense into her. > > I’m Filbert, and I endorse this pitting. Be sure to get back to us when they start picketing, intimidating and killing chemists or making entire political parties and their candidates kow-tow to their delusions. Bronze-Agers. Just stop. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/59 "2012-04-25T16:51:55Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > When a friend who’s a trained pharmacist is also ‘training’ to become a reiki practitioner, it’s hard not to try and slap some sense into her. > > . ROFLMAO Actually I am trained as a reiki practitioner, and I don’t happen to believe in ‘energy work’ at all [it was a christmas present from a new agey friend.] I happen to think it works because of the placebo effect, personally. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/60 "2012-04-25T17:17:06Z")
Let me get this straight. This is a rant about wind chimes? Not even a neighbor’s wind chimes? Somebody has been skipping their meds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780.md?page=4)