A Question For The Many Followers Of The Dalai Lama: When He Finally Steps Down From Power Will You Ever Finally Stand Up For Yourselves?

"Buddha" is the number one search term for TMR and, considering the number of people who think Buddhism and all that flows from it is cool, I (and a few others) don't see how most supposedly-educated people in the 21st Century can hold their heads up in public:

Every Western liberal’s favourite man-god has finally announced that he will relinquish political authority and allow his people to choose their own leader. Yes, the Dalai Lama, doyen of the West’s metropolitan chattering classes and hero of every suntanned seeker of spiritual enlightenment, has decided that 52 years is rather long enough to have claimed to speak on behalf of the Tibetan people (10 years longer than Colonel Gaddafi has been making similar BS claims in relation to Libya) and that the time has come for a leader “elected freely by the Tibetan people”. One question springs to mind: what took him so long?

I have never understood the Western hippyish love-in with this giggling monk from the East, where everyone from Hollywood royalty (Richard Gere, Sharon Stone) to literal royalty (Prince Charles) treats him as some kind of unfathomable well of godlike insight. After all, this is a bloke who claims to foreswear worldly goods yet who once guest-edited French Vogue, a mag packed with photos of half-naked women holding handbags that cost more than my house. He’s also done an advert for Apple, which I suppose is marginally better than doing one for BP, and he frequently turns up at glitzy celeb balls held in his honour, including one at which Sharon Stone introduced him as “Mr Please, Please, Please Let Me Back Into China!”, silly bint that she is.

Also, the Dalai Lama has the sorts of views on women and ethnic minorities which if they were uttered at an Islington dinner party would lead to half the guests instantly text-messaging Trevor Phillips to complain. One expert describes Tibetan Buddhist theocracy as “relentlessly misogynistic”. The Dalai Lama says gay sex is “unnatural”. In 1993 in Seattle (where else?) he told a fawning audience of students and part-time Buddhists that “nature arranged male and female organs in such a manner that is very suitable… same-sex organs cannot manage well.” Someone needs to send his Holiness a gay-sex manual. It is striking that some of the very same latte-sippers who get hot under the collar about the Pope’s hang-ups over homos and women also decorate their homes with the paraphernalia of a religious figure who believes the exact same stuff.

[Photo of the Dalai Lama with his "friend", the Nazi Heinrich Harrer.]

I guess I'll just have to accept that most people's beliefs are so superficial and pathetic, I'll never be able to expect anything more than blind cultists, searching for invisible "energy", by following a bunch of nobodies claiming to deliver magic that never appears.

Their Weapon

"Sharon Stone may argue that cutting caffeine is a cure for cancer, but day in day out the press reels out stories about how burnt toast is carcinogenic or how a red wine a day can delay your tumour. The star of Basic Instinct isn’t the problem here."

-- Emily Hill, gingerly telling us - whether we're discussing NewAge celebrities or NewAge journalists - we're surrounded by idiots, in Spiked!

NewAger Sharon Stone Loses Her Kid Because (Like All NewAgers) She's A Total Fucking Freak

"Sharon Stone has been refused primary custody of her adopted eight-year-old son because she wanted to Botox his feet to stop them from smelling, court papers reveal.

The 50-year-old 'Basic Instinct' star is accused of 'overreacting' to medical issues involving son, Roan, by a Superior Court judge who has turned down her request to move the boy to Los Angeles.

A court document outlining Stone's bitter battle with ex-husband Phil Bronstein reveals she was also convinced her son had a spinal condition, even though there was 'no evidence to support this allegation'.

The details emerged in the court's 'Tentative Statement of Decision', which has been modified to give newspaper executive Bronstein primary custody of Roan, with Stone granted visitation one weekend every month.

Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo says in the document: "Mother appears to overreact to many medical issues involving Roan."

Stone's fears about the spinal condition and the Botox injections are given as examples of her overreacting.

She adds: 'Mother suggested that Roan should have Botox injections in his feet to resolve a problem he had with foot odor.

'As Father appropriately noted, the simple and common sense approach of making sure Roan wore socks with his shoes and used foot deodorant corrected the odor problem without the need for any invasive procedure on this young child.'

The judge says: "Unfortunately, the problem caused by Mother's overreactions is painfully real for this child....

'Moreover, because it has come to a point where Father basically tunes Mother out because she has overreacted to so many alleged medical problems in the past.'"

-- A Daily Mail Reporter, allowing us a peek into the divorce, and the mind, of another confirmed NewAger, through The Daily Mail.

I just want to point out a few themes, common to NewAge, that stand out for me:

She was intensely focused on, and was willing to hurt her own child over, something as small as foot odor.

She imagined medical problems in others that she decided to cure herself.

"The simple and common sense approach" either never occurred to her or (more likely) was angrily rejected in favor of the latest trendy, expensive, and worthless NewAge fad.

Sharon Stone's emotional problems and delusions have negatively affected her child who I'm sure (in some weird way) she loves.

After loving her enough to marry her, her nuttiness eventually reduced her husband to tuning her out - which, I'm sure, she and her friends are holding against him.

No matter how unnatural and depressing it may be, for their own good, he and the boy must now struggle to learn how to go on without her.

She, of course, will quickly "move on".

NewAge's Karma Is To Never Be Forgiven

A recent survey of 300,000 people in China found:

70.3% will "never forgive" Sharon Stone for her "karma" remark.

20.5% do not accept her apology because "it was not sincere".

8.7% think an apology is useless and it is necessary to observe Stone's actions.

0.6% are satisfied by Stone's apology.

I think the important lesson for NewAgers is that, when an earthquake destroys one's life and no one can help them - whether it's actual or a metaphorical one caused by NewAgers - those who get hurt are under no obligation to forgive.

NewAgers, seeing themselves as "nice," are silly to think they'd somehow be spared the wrath of hard-wired human emotions, like hatred, or jealousy. Those emotions are a major part of who we are. To demand that anyone (who doesn't buy into NewAge's store-bought philosophy) forgive those who have hurt them is not only mean but cruel. It adds insult to injury. Obviously, the Chinese (who know a bit more about the concept of karma than the average Westerner) don't share in the naive-yet-damning Hallmark Card version of Buddhism propagated here in the West.

Sharon Stone's original comment included her saying, "I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else," but, by it's very rule-changing-without-the-need-for-consensus definition, that's exactly what the NewAge outlook is designed for: NewAgers are one of the only groups on the planet who spare themselves the trouble of doing an emotional inventory of the pain they cause, since they teach themselves to "move on" from such things; not deal with them realistically or in a responsible manner. I have no doubt that, as long as Stone can stay as far away from China as possible - and not lose too many endorsement sponsors - she'll never think about the harm she's caused it's grieving citizens again. That's all NewAge is designed for: learning how to be emotionally ruthless.

Look at Oprah. She's been informed, countless times, that what she's been doing for years now upsets traditional Christians (and others) which - as a so-called "spiritual" person - should give her pause. But it doesn't. She's "moved on" from such a petty concern as other believer's feelings - even if (as she herself has said) she used to share their religion.

All the people who have been harmed by the quackery she endorses, or whose marriages have crumbled because she introduced a "new paradigm" into it, they mean nothing to her, as long as her profits (that's money, folks; supposedly the opposite of a spiritual person's worth) can justify her actions to her followers and herself. And those who have been hurt suffer, alone, while watching the glamorous Oprah collect accolade after accolade for her "work." Is it any surprise that, to many, it's the work of the Devil?

As someone who is now divorced from a NewAger, I'm not ashamed to say I still do a daily accounting of my own actions (Did I try to love her enough? Did I work hard enough? Did I grow more in love, as the years went by, or did I grow cold?) The only answer I keep coming back to is that, whatever my faults - and, believe me, I have them - I was open with her. I rarely hid my feelings or actions. I didn't believe in it. I made agreements with her and stuck to them. And I damn sure loved her. She never had to suffer the repeated shock of betrayal I did, except where she decided - completely on her own - that her desires should come before ours as a couple. Those things never ultimately worked out as she planned. And there was no way they could bring us together in failure, because I didn't have a clue she was acting on her own.

It was only when I found a duffle bag of cassettes, featuring recorded conversations between my ex and her "spiritual advisors," telling her "'good' is when you get your way and 'bad' is when you don't," that I finally understood my marriage was never something she and I shared together. It had been interfered with, from the very beginning, and that interference had worked on us for the entire 20 years.

Many of the "enlightened beings" on those tapes, who had never met me, told her I had "brain damage" and even that I should be "hit over the head" because "he's strong, he's a man, he doesn't believe in the planets." If anyone had told me my wife was brain damaged, I would've kicked their asses (and I figured my wife was weird: I just never knew where her nonsense "healing" claims and such had been coming from.) But she, on the other hand, just laughed, nodded along, accepted those "feminist" occult bleatings as truth, and paid the fee for both of us.

Now I, alone, have to pay the price.

There really was nothing this "strong man" could do, when she was allowing such evil people to set my life's agenda as well as hers, and in a culture enamored enough with such idiotically superficial ideas to wallow in them. That's something it seems impossible for those outside my marriage to grasp.

And it's, still, probably the hardest fact for me to swallow too: that she went to them, paid them, and believed them - until it swallowed us, both, whole - inevitably turning our hearts inside out, and our purest distillation of love into one of the darkest pools of hatred. And, by denying this is what's occurring, others are playing a role in the foundation of our culture's destruction, making whatever cracks exist much, much, larger. Considering the deception at NewAge's core, how could it turn out otherwise?

I'm just one guy, but I'm hoping, maybe, one day - with the help of 1.3 billion Chinese residents driving NewAge's counter-productive message home - the beautiful-on-the-outside Sharon Stone, at least, may be able to figure out just how ugly NewAge beliefs can make someone on the inside, and decide to do something about it. (Her husband is the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, a newspaper in a cult-infested city:) As we all know, "it's only what's on the inside that counts."

And that's probably the only Hallmark Card-type "truth" that's really universal.

It's Official: Earthquakes Are NOT Political

Actress Sharon Stone has stuck her foot in her mouth by making some very Louise Hay-type statements, saying the recent natural disasters in China were "karma" for that nation's treatment of Tibet.

Of course Sharon Stone is the wife of San Francisco Chronicle Exec. Vice President and Editor, Phil Brounstein, which is another form of the NewAge phenomena.