New Agers: just stop.

[Rachellelogram]

There are plenty of educated assholes who believe this shit. Including my mother and most of her circle of friends. ugh

[TriPolar]

@Darth_Panda

But the US needs to keep Texas to advance our strategic bbq interests.

Damnit people! Burning meat is not BBQ!

[MsRobyn]

@VinylTurnip

**Loony’s **solution to the “Texas problem”: everyone who isn’t a homophobic fundie bigot can just leave!

That’s why I left.

[Enginerd]

@Darth_Panda

But the US needs to keep Texas to advance our strategic bbq interests.

As long as we keep Memphis, we’re fine on the bbq front.

[Dissonance]

@pikey_pete

That is a given, after all Texas is God’s, armed, heterosexual, oil and cattle country (at least it is if you believe our retarded sleazebag governor.)

Holy dog shit. Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don’t look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?

[John_Mace]

This thread has got my aura all out of kilter.

[Little_Nemo]

@pikey_pete

This ends when I see them co-opting other people’s cultural and religious traditions piecemeal. New Agers: stop it with the grocery store spirituality. If you are going to embrace the native american spirituality: go to a res and ask them to teach you. Wanna get some of that esoteric learning from the subcontinent? Go convert to hinduism. Maybe inscrutability is your thing. Go spend a few decades as a buddhist novice. When you start mixing traditions and throw in a few crystals, you just seem silly. More than that, you insult people who grew up with the traditions and spiritual practices which you have decided to co-opt.

If you’re going to call yourself a Christian, do what Jesus said and give all your material possessions to the poor.

[The_Devil_s_Grandmother]

I’ll fix it for ya, John. Hold still a minute. :: poke, poke :: All better. Please donate some money to an animal shelter, it’s all I ask.

[Drunky_Smurf]

I think the OPs crystals need to be retuned because that was a weak pitting.

[Kimballkid]

@VinylTurnip

“The path of knowledge is long and arduous and will require many offerings to the Great Spirit. Cash is preferred.”

In the Great Spirit we trust, all others pay cash.

[Smeghead]

@Drunky_Smurf

I think the OPs crystals need to be retuned because that was a weak pitting.

It’s a homeopathic Pitting. The weaker it is, the more effective it will be.

[SteveG1]

@tagos

At least they’re making some effort to think, unlike those who are just going along with what they are born into.

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.

This.

As long as they leave me alone, who gives a shit.

Added on edit: At least it isn’t those guys trying to get laws passed according to the way they interpret or misread their “holy books”.
As long as they leave me alone, who gives a shit.

[John_Mace]

@The_Devil_s_Grandmother

I’ll fix it for ya, John. Hold still a minute. :: poke, poke :: All better. Please donate some money to an animal shelter, it’s all I ask.

Thanks, but now my chakras are all discombobulated!

[Kimballkid]

I don’t know if the Great Spirit knows how to combobulate.

[foolsguinea]

So if one is a member of an organized religious tradition, and follows random woo because his leaders tell him to do so, is that better? The OP seems to trying to apply a standard akin to TheyChangedItNowItSucks to religion. Only authorized authorities count. I’m not sure I agree.

And yet, I’d probably agree that this type of behavior makes it easy to grab the parts of religion they want and probably not the ethically difficult stuff. But then again, so does more traditional religion.

[florez]

I also have a problem with new agers, and what seems like their hypocrisy, and naive optimism.
But, maybe- if we all join hands, burn sage, and sing kumbaya while lying naked in the mud,
the Great Spirit will come, and give us our dream warrior names.
I got dibs on running deer.

[MandaJo]

@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.

Ha. Try telling them you aren’t going to breastfeed.

[Yllaria]

@Smeghead

It’s a homeopathic Pitting. The weaker it is, the more effective it will be.

snerk Nice.

Reading the OP, I discovered that I now have an image in my head related to mixing religious symbols. I think I got it from The Language Imperative, but I’m not sure.

The author ran across a tourist trinket shop overseas. It had a little statuette of a crucified Santa Claus for sale.

[Little_Nemo]

@Smeghead

It’s a homeopathic Pitting. The weaker it is, the more effective it will be.

So the more we dilute the thread with follow-up posts, the stronger the original post will become.

[BrainGlutton]

@Chimera

Why won’t you teach me your secret gaia worship native magic? I’m like, totally cool and down with the oppressed Native Americans and stuff.

And if you’re still reluctant, maybe you’ll change your tune after a bit of torture . . .