Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Why It's A Member Of The Democrat Party!

 

Dr. Oz is the only Republican, I know of, who acts like the woman featured in this story. And he's married to a woman who acts like the one featured in this story. What are the odds?

 

This Is Becoming Like Hitler Online (Do It Enough Ways & One Day The Mark Might Just Begin To Understand It)

 

 I think this is now the fifth version of Storm floating around out there [Click Tim Minchin's tag, below, for more versions on TMR.] 

And then, of course, there's this:

 

Everybody's just jumping on the bandwagon,...

OK, Back To Normal (As If There Was A Normal)

This line never gets old:

"When you get right down to it, nobody wants to be seen as New Age because nobody wants to be seen as irreparably stupid."

And here's a question:

If Oprah is so high up in the NewAge hierarchy, surrounded by (and getting personal instruction from) all the leading con men spiritualists, and becoming an enlightened being and all, why hasn't she disposed of her ego after 25 years of study?

The answer, of course, is because it's all bullshit and Oprah knows it. She's just playing the public for suckers, just as the liberal press does, and your neighborhood psychic.



Enlightenment has never called for spiritual beliefs but the abandonment of them because, as surely as the sun rises in the East, to bring the metaphysical into any serious conversation is to end it.

Or, at least, to end it's seriousness.

We're sure you'll figure it all out one day.

Hat Tip: iOwnTheWorld

Your Lack Of Faith Is Disturbing

"When you are trying to say something it is always satisfying to do it in the enemy camp."

-- Tim Minchin, on performing his anti-NewAge beat poem, "Storm" in a part of Australia with "a more alternative way of life", for Perth Now.

Tim Minchin's Anti-NewAge Beat Poem: "Storm"

Or "The Night Tim Met My Ex-Wife," or "Tim Minchin's 'Dinner Of Enlightenment,'" or "If He's Going To Mention Oprah I Wonder If He'll Mention Obama?" or (our favorite:) "Wow: To Think Some Women Are Willingly Destroying Their Marriages, The Lives Of Other Loved Ones, And Society - And Everything Else In Their Path Like Even A Silly Party They'll Blame On Others For Having Disturbed - Because They're So Fucking Arrogant And Narcissistic (And Blindingly Stupid) They Can't Tell The Difference Between Their Oh-So-Cosmic Asshole Of A Brain And The Fact That What Any Quack, Guru, or Spiritual Leader Sells Is Just Another Cultishly Empty-Headed Hole In The Ground - Which Means, Even If They're So-Called 'Homeopathic Doctors,' They're Not Even Half-As-Smart As A Certain Stupid Fucking Drug-Taking Totally-Wigged-Out-By-The-Multiple-Deaths-And-Other-Damage-Done-To-Others-For-A-Whole-Packaged-Nazi-NewAge-Paradigm Musician!"

But then, upon further reflection, we're sure you can come up with a few more snappy titles of your own,...Storm's nice though. Short.

Here's the lyrics for the Frenchies.

The Macho Response: Tim Minchin

"I don’t have any respect for religious belief. I respect people’s right to have it. I am absolutely respectful of people’s right to do what they want but intellectually I don’t respect the conclusion they’ve drawn, I think it’s crazy. I just don’t even begin to empathise with being able to believe that stuff.

I mean I studied philosophy and philosophy of logic at [university] and stuff, and it just set me on a path…I’m really obsessed with critical thinking more than religion. My issue with religion is intellectual, but if you say, ‘do you think religion is bad?’ I can talk for an hour on the subject but it’s not, ‘yes religion is bad, let’s abolish all religion.’ It’s definitely bad in some ways and it’s amazing in other ways and it’s inevitable because humans have these instincts to fill in these holes and all that. However, if you ask me wether it’s the correct conclusion? I mean it’s not even a question to me, you know...so um, it’s an intellectual obsession.

...It’s like I’m forced to say what I think because what I think is all I’ve got….and I happen to think a lot about that stuff so that’s what comes out…It’s not because I’ve gone 'I want to tell people what I think!' It’s because I’ve become a comedy performer that people want to watch and so I need to write new shows and when I write new shows it’s going to be based on ideas I’ve had….like this whole show culminates in a huge beat poem called 'Storm'…that clarifies everything; it’s this huge rant and it finishes with the question ‘isn’t this enough, just this world?’ and it’s quite serious actually and I’m more proud of that poem than of anything I’ve ever written in terms of trying to clarify my own thoughts, you know. And people react very strongly to it, like people agree with me. It’s not anti-religion, it’s anti floppy thought, it’s anti psychics and….



Why do we need to….the world’s so exciting if you examine it, don’t get lazy and just say, 'well I believe in ghosts and…homeopathy and…psychics and…. don’t, that’s fine, it’s fine look…Just don’t teach your kids that they should feel guilty about masturbating. It’s the ramifications that matter, apart from just the intellectual intrigue it’s the ramifications that matter.

...My compulsion is to make silliness out of big issues…But I think that spreading the idea of critical thinking and scepticism is important in the world and if I have a platform to do that then I’m very proud that I’m doing that and not spreading sexism or racism or just f**k you-ism or prejudice."

-- Tim Minchin, pretty much spelling out the only defensible intellectual position for an artist to have - especially if, like me, you've been put through the wringer and seen it all - and wish you could just get back to Altsounds.

Tim Minchin: If You Open Your Mind Too Much...

See, this is one of those things that hurts now that I'm divorced, and (probably) always will:

Unexpectedly, for the rest of my life, some person with an average intelligence will reference the stupidity of NewAgers, and I will forever be shocked into remembering I was married to one.

I'll also be reminded I was prevented from doing what I could to help make that person, Karine Anne Brunck, unstupid. And I'll be reminded she, and many members of her friends and family, decided to hurt me for saying that. They didn't care about her. All that mattered, no matter what it took, was being happy they got me.

Every one of them - just like the followers of Oprah, and the media that currently supports her/their lies - they're deceiving each other on every important issue a person could possibly be deceived. All of it, the fabrications of a matrix of NewAge charlatans, whack jobs, and criminals, that I'm now condemned to watching passively - for the rest of my life - as though the lunatics having taken over the asylum is the most normal thing in the world. It isn't. It's not even funny.

Why must I watch? Because if I don't, it's been quite adequately proven to me, that even more people (who, like my ex-wife, will claim to love me, along with the rest of the whole wide world,...and all that) will be more than happy to viciously lash out in defense of their beliefs - this "magical thinking" they won't tolerate being examined too closely. They will betray us all for it - in any way possible. And they'll do it again, and again, and again. While looking us right in the eye.

So, under threat, I pretend I see believers as they see themselves - "nice" people - though I know I'm surrounded by cruel, despicable, "evil" Shakespearian characters; spiritual fascists who will lie, cheat, and steal, to maintain this charade of "gods", "powers", and "healing" (according to all-important "ancient teachings") for as long as possible. Until the day I die. And I can't "move on". I don't think it's human nature to even try and do so. I know, many of you will disagree.

But, after 20 years of marriage, it was my wife who slept with the homeopath that killed her mother, as I sat by the phone, waiting to tell her I loved her for what had to be the millionth time. My wife called me, right before she did it, just to hear me say those words.

And knowing that alone has sapped much of the life out of my life. It's certainly sapped the fun out of this performance - especially it's trick ending - something I would've found funny back in the day but now, being the kind of artist I am - someone who feels what he hears - it comes across as a kind of criminal act. It physically hurts.

The real crime, clearly, is what close-up, long term, and repeated exposure to "woo" has done to my mind. I can't forget about it. I'll never be able to just live my life again, ignoring it's influence. Now, I see it everywhere, where before I hardly knew it existed. This malicious Red Queen Alice In Wonderland nonsense. It's just too big. NewAge will never leave me be. There's just too many idiots; smart enough to insist it's true; not enough to get why insistence is necessary. Too many idiots; more-than-willing to let me know I'm wrong - for noticing anything askew in the first place. This "Baby Boom": The world's first cultural revolution built on gullible types reproducing really fast..

The emperor has no clothes. And make no mistake, I, for one, get no joy from saying it. I know the pain of that observation goes too deep for far, far, too many to be laughed at. But he's naked damn it, and he's run off with my wife. The person I vowed my life to. And yea, Mr. & Mrs. Cynical, I know I'm the genius that chose to marry the dumbshit. That must be dealt with as well. Especially as long as I'm reminded of it whenever I see my reflection:

The non-believer who ends up in Hell.