tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post1782758706545968357..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: No Kaine Mutiny...Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-46900598531678523342016-07-23T09:54:23.538-07:002016-07-23T09:54:23.538-07:00> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2gxb-TcLM
&...> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2gxb-TcLM<br />> Dude, Where's My Car? (5/5) Movie CLIP - Zoltan Meeting (2000)<br /><br />http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/07/23/oh-joy-new-gurus/<br />----------------<br />Oh, joy: new gurus<br /><br />This article by Yvette d’Entremont is a bit discouraging:<br />http://deadstate.org/why-your-guru-is-bullshit/<br />she gives a list of the usual dorkadonkulous fraudsters,<br />like Joseph M[e]rcola and Deepak Chopra and David Avocado Wolfe,<br />but she also alerts us to the new loonies. . .<br /><br />I’m. . . learning that being a dishonest fraud is profitable,<br />and that they are proliferating.<br />====<br /><br /><br />Yes, I've been noticing this lately myself. Cf. comments<br />I made at<br />http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2016/06/gun-violence-destroys-freedom.html<br />http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2016/07/so-principled.html<br /><br />And here's one (the linked video is a news story **about**<br />a guru, not a sample of his YouTube channel ;-> ) who doesn't<br />beat around the burning bush!<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2Oa4Oigvo<br /><br />I actually dared to leave a few longish comments (I never<br />make any other kind ;-> ) on the channel of one of these<br />self-styled life coaches the other day. I wasn't trying to<br />disparage him or needle him or anything; I just thought I had<br />a couple of worthwhile additions to some content I found interesting<br />(not that I actually expected to open up a **conversation** or<br />anything -- that's only marginally more likely on YouTube these<br />days than talking back to the TV would've been, to establish a<br />dialog, back in the days of my youth when TV was the premiere form of<br />visual entertainment in the home). I thought the response<br />I got was telling. I may be reading too much into it, but<br />then again. . . The first comment I made got through;<br />the next two (on unrelated videos) never did. I suspect this<br />was, in effect, "coach" telling me "there's only one guru on<br />this channel, pardner, and it ain't you!".<br /><br />John Horgan once wrote about attending a satsang given by<br />American "guru" Andrew Cohen, in "The Myth of the Totally Enlightened Guru",<br />http://www.johnhorgan.org/the_myth_of_the_totally_enlightened_guru_15274.htm<br />He described how Cohen shut down an overly participatory audience member:<br /><br />----------------<br />A burly, hairless man on the opposite side of the room. . .<br />was learning to embrace uncertainty. He was a CEO,<br />head of his own company, and everyone expected him to have<br />all the answers. But lately, when people asked him for advice,<br />he often answered, "I don’t know," and it was great!<br />Exhilarating! . . .<br /><br />As Zorba kept telling us about the fabulousness of his life,<br />the tension in the room grew. Everyone watched Cohen watch Zorba.<br />Cohen remained stone-faced throughout Zorba’s monologue.<br />When Zorba paused to let us appreciate one of his witticisms,<br />Cohen said abruptly, "Next question," and looked around the room.<br />Immediately he was back in charge. He was the totally<br />enlightened guru here, not this bald blow-hard.<br />====<br /><br />;->jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-52456413907072951872016-07-22T16:16:53.778-07:002016-07-22T16:16:53.778-07:00Transhumanists clearly live in one of the really o...Transhumanists clearly live in one of the really out of the way pocket universes Heinlein couldn't even be bothered to describe in <i>Number of the Beast</i>.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-45778948635356775432016-07-22T16:04:41.173-07:002016-07-22T16:04:41.173-07:00> No... Mutiny... but much snark. . .
Hey, is ...> No... Mutiny... but much snark. . .<br /><br />Hey, is Zoltan still running for President? The Web site's<br />still there:<br />http://www.transhumanistparty.org/ZoltanIstvan.html<br /><br />Daddy, I wanna vote for "The Science Candidate".<br />Can I daddy, please?<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt0XHy3ustM<br />Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan on His Presidential Campaign<br />Singularity Weblog<br />Nov 20, 2015<br /><br />Istvan to Nikola Danaylov: Now I've become a very visible<br />transhumanist who writes a lot and does a lot of things in<br />the community and I feel I owe a lot to you because of that.<br /><br />This is a cheap shot, but it's still worth making:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2gxb-TcLM<br />Dude, Where's My Car? (5/5) Movie CLIP - Zoltan Meeting (2000)<br />Movieclips<br />Jun 23, 2015<br /><br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com