DO you follow any of these quacks, charlatans, liars, mystics or self-promoters? (page 6)

Terry

Think of Terry as:

The slap round the face that a hysterical person needs.

I think of Simon Cowell on American Idol. He says blunt things and the audience boo's him.

That's me.

passwordprotected

Well, at least life is a rich tapestry of gay abandonment for you, Terry.

shopaholic

To me, all of them do not fall into the categories you listed. A couple of them were key in my sanity and survival after my awakening and have helped countless of others for the better.

We're all different...one man's quack is another man's light.

Terry

Well, at least life is a rich tapestry of gay abandonment for you, Terry.

I afraid to parse that sentence!

undercover

I think of Simon Cowell on American Idol.

You watch American Idol?

And you criticize those who like Oprah?

Pot...meet kettle

Terry

You watch American Idol?

And you criticize those who like Oprah?

Pot...meet kettle

Oh, bother!

Oprah invites crackpots on to spew mystical bullshit and her viewers connect Oprah's gravitas to it as legitimate "information."

American Idol is mindless entertainment. Simon Cowell demonstrates what "telling it like it is" offers by way of contrast.

Apples and Oranges, m'lad, chalk and cheese.

Oprah, who is a self-labeled "Christian", was recently named the "most dangerous woman in the world" by Bill Keller, considered by some to be the world's leading Internet evangelist. He accused Oprah of peddling the equivalent of "spiritual crack." Keller has been warning the subscribers of his Daily Devotional for years about Oprah and how she uses her TV program to promote every New Age philosophy in the world, including the wildly popular book and DVD last year, "The Secret," which teaches readers or viewers that simply by desiring them strongly enough, one may obtain wealth, health and happiness.

However, rarely has Oprah shown more enthusiasm for a New Age guru than for the so-called Eckhart Tolle, who takes his first name from the well-known 13th century Catholic Rhineland mystic, Meister Eckhart. Tolle is the author of several books including "The Power of Now," and, most recently, "A New Earth."

Much like many other New Age systems, Eckhart's "spirituality" is a vague, ethereal blend of spiritual theories and ideas, gleaned from all of the world's major religions. Eckhart promises the attainment of "inner peace" and a higher state of consciousness by utilizing methods of meditation that plunge one into the "now." He also says that mankind is in a moment of crisis, in which the race must either achieve the next stage in its evolution by attaining "higher consciousness", or destroy itself and the planet.

Terry

We're all different...one man's quack is another man's light.

You are certainly entitled to your own opinion.

I will comment on one thing, however.

You seem (to me) to be saying a thing is not what it "is". Which means a thing is whatever we want it to be or what we interpret to be.

Excuse me if I hear you wrong.

A Quack is a deceiver. A Quack appears to be respectable and helpful but is not. If somebody is "helped" in some odd way by listening to a Quack that does not make them any kind of true "light". It merely points out the possibility of placebo or self-deception.

Just had to point that out.

I respect your right to disagree with me.

undercover

Oprah invites crackpots on to spew mystical bullshit and her viewers connect Oprah's gravitas to it as legitimate "information."

American Idol is mindless entertainment. Simon Cowell demonstrates what "telling it like it is" offers by way of contrast.

Apples and Oranges, m'lad, chalk and cheese.

Well, it was a joke... not a serious criticism.

American Idol may be mindless entertainment to some but it has changed the popular music world which to music lovers is much worse than Oprah's spirituality.

not a captive

What can you do if, after all 7 rules of thumb have been internalized, you still have to admit you also saw and touched the whale?

Do you pretend it never happened?

Deputy Dog

Terry

Don't try to lie about it. You accept some of these people as an Authority. You listen to them. You watch them. You buy their products. You are nfluenced and shaped by their advice.

Where's Obama's picture?

Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Why surrender your mind to hucksters, self-promoters who bally-hoo nonsense and mysticism like it was gold?

Why is BELIEF in fluffy supernatural nonsense so appealing to you? Miracle cures? Talking to the dead? Mind over matter?

I don't know.That's just how politics work isn't it.

DO you follow any of these quacks, charlatans, liars, mystics or self-promoters?

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