No option for 'douchebag'?

He's right, you know.

I'm going to have to go with EPIC.

/DNRTFA

JerseyTim: sweetmelissa31: ecmoRandomNumbers: And if you're one of the dipshiats who subscribes to "The Secret" or "What the BLEEP Do We Know," you should be killed if you're not prepared to atone for what you've done.

I watched "What the bleep do we know." I can't even begin to describe the absolute stupidity.

Screw you, that water is happy! Happy, I tell you!!

Shhh. You're going to anger Ramtha.

Just a tool.

I think the late great U. Utah Phillips said it best (and I think he might've stolen this quote from someone else):

"No matter how New Age you get, OLD AGE is gonna kick your ass."

My (ex) wife thought What the BLEEP do we know was... deep. I watched it with here, on her urging, and was snickering less then a minute in. I explained that quantum physics doesn't work that way, but she was quite adamant that it was science. Queue the "Science doesn't WORK that way!" pic.

Deepak Chopra is one of those morons who learns a little bit about complicated topics, then tries to pepper in some pseudo-philosophical bullshiat to try and make up for his lack of a complete understanding of the subject at hand.

It's farking irritating. I used to have a friend who would do that and I wanted to punch him in the face every time.

I still have the old Brita pitcher my ex-wife stuck with (probably expensive) clear stickers reading "trust" and "love".

Yet the water still tasted like crap when the filter got old.

/tap water man now
//should probably toss the old pitcher
///or use it to make mixed drinks tonight! YES!

Every time I hear "Deepak Chopra", I think it's some weird pre-packaged vegetable product, "D-pak chopped Okra"

hairywoogit: Queue the "Science doesn't WORK that way!" pic.



/wait, I think I did it wrong
//i think you mean "cue" the pic, not "queue" the pic...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

I read somewhere where some guy said that if you think you understand quantum mechanics then you really don't understand it.

I think Mr. Deepak is living testament of that.

/Quantum healing my ass

ecmoRandomNumbers: And if you're one of the dipshiats who subscribes to "The Secret"... you should be killed if you're not prepared to atone for what you've done...

Ugh... At the urging of my mother and my wife I finally broke down and started to read The Secret, and had to give up before I got halfway through. Classic New Age tripe: hardback, wide margins, 30 worlds to a page, too many fonts, etc.

And on top of that, it reads like an infomercial for itself... it never gets down to brass tacks and actually says anything.

"Without God would there be no love? In my confusion I found someone who made it clear. Someone who had thought about this topic a lot. Now at this point I knew a little bit of science but not a lot, and that made me the perfect candidate for Deepak Chopra.

I was so intrigued with this quantum mechanics that Deepak refers to over and over and over again in his books, that I decided to take a class in it.

And what I found is- Deepak Chopra is full of shiat!"

-Julia Sweeney
Letting Go of God

/This was my favorite part of her monologue.

His glasses are gay.

/hot like a tranny mess

The Bad Astronomer: /10 GOTO 10

Are you implying that the logic is circular, Dr. Plait?

Say what you will, but the guy plays a mean sitar.

Dear God, my crazy ex made me listen to this dick on a long car trip one time, the horror.

Is he blue or purple? I think purple is for epic tools.

I think he's using the word "skeptic" to mean "anyone who doesn't agree with my bullshiat."

Pandering to both science AND religion?

Sadly, there's a lot of money to be made from people who haven't rejected science utterly, but know little about it and are thus vulnerable to judicious use of pseudo-scientific language. Hence, "What the BLEEP Do We Know" etc.

Sadly, my own GF seems to define "skepticism" as "crossed-arms negativity", though I admit the general tone of The Skeptical Inquirer magazine (which I occasionally enjoy) does tend to lean that way. But that is not what the word actually means.

The disturbing thing is not that this idiot exists. The disturbing thing is that he has a lot of followers who actually believe this shiat. I just watched Richard Dawkins' "Enemies of Reason" (this douchebag gets interviewed, among others) on youtube, and the mind boggles.

This stuff makes me think that this whole democracy thing might be a stunningly bad idea in the long term ...

Phil Plait doesn't like the HuffPo because of the woo-woo stuff they publish, that's fine, I don't like HuffPo either. I'm still trying to figure out if Plait has stopped going on Coast to Coast AM, where 99% of the nations woo-woos go to speak of anti-vax stiff, anti-agw, homeopathy, numerology, astrology, and all sorts of crap that Plait would seem to hate.

One of my ex's was a New Ager...the first movie she made me watch was "What the Bleep...". She said the movie changed her life, was her favorite, and was very deep.

I have degrees in Biology and Physics. Our relationship didn't last 3 months.

/She has a PhD.
//Is psychology.

It is stupid, but is it any stupider than any organized religion?

Deepak Chopra is merely the newest incarnation of this subtle creep toward accepting the scientific concept or theory made accessible and without depth. The tiny sliver of legitimacy is all such need to peddle snake oil because the majority simply do not understand how science works and thus could not be expected to understand why Chopra, his ilk, the zealous, etc., are absurdly inaccurate.

Oddly, enough such salesmen and faithful exist to create a community to vigorously defend itself until the tiny sliver becomes a splinter, annoying those salesmen who somehow turn against the very methodology from which they stole legitimacy.

How do we know what we know, how did we know we were wrong, and how do we know what we do not know? Science. A great man once said, "Science, it works biatches."

LegacyDL: I read somewhere where some guy said that if you think you understand quantum mechanics then you really don't understand it.

Feynman.

FloydA: AdolfOliverPanties:
The very thame air that you breathe containth, on a microthcopic level, atomth of the air that wath breathed by Jethuth Chrith, by Krithhna, by Buddha...


...And by thousands of Igors from Uberwald.

that made me snort!

nirwana: He's right, you know.

pfffffffffffffffffffft

The Bad Astronomer: /10 GOTO 10

Hey... are you stealing my source code?

TheyCallThisWork: I think he's using the word "skeptic" to mean "anyone who doesn't agree with my bullshiat."

"Skeptic" has become such a venomous word, but I believe this is because skeptic has become stolen, in much the same way scientific terminology is by snake oil peddlers, for those who want to preach nonsense but from a combative stance. Hence we have vaccination, 9/11, global warming, etc., "skeptics" who are not skeptical of certain aspects, which is absolutely acceptable, but outright deny the entirety. "Skeptic" is a label with legitimacy whereas "conspiracy theorist" is one which denotes paranoia.

Gaylord Fister:

This stuff makes me think that this whole democracy thing might be a stunningly bad idea in the long term ...

Well, obviously.

Gaylord Fister: whole democracy thing might be a stunningly bad idea in the long term ...

Actually, coming down from the trees was the bad idea (with apologies to douglas adams...)

Vangor: TheyCallThisWork: I think he's using the word "skeptic" to mean "anyone who doesn't agree with my bullshiat."

"Skeptic" has become such a venomous word, but I believe this is because skeptic has become stolen, in much the same way scientific terminology is by snake oil peddlers, for those who want to preach nonsense but from a combative stance. Hence we have vaccination, 9/11, global warming, etc., "skeptics" who are not skeptical of certain aspects, which is absolutely acceptable, but outright deny the entirety. "Skeptic" is a label with legitimacy whereas "conspiracy theorist" is one which denotes paranoia.

In my experience the word 'skeptic' mostly has a good reputation. That's why climate change denialists like to call themselves skeptics, they're leeching off of the reputation of the word.

It doesn't have a good reputation amongst new age woo-sters though, because to them it's synonymous with 'people who expose our bullshiat'.