--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/chopra-blames-own-meditation-for-baja- > > > quake/19426755?sms_ss=email > > > > > > Chopra Blames Own Meditation for Baja Quake > > > > This is part of his game. He makes it seem as if he is > > mocking the idea that his meditation could cause a quake > > to attempt rapport with people who don't share his > > actual belief that in fact his meditation does effect > > ("affect")
Much appreciated correction. Damn, I can keep that straight for about one month at a time. > > > the environment. It is a way to mask the hubris of his > > true beliefs. He almost sounds like he has some common > > sense about the limits of his personal power. > > Actually, I think he was mocking people like you, Curtis, > right down to your propensity to make something sinister > out of a self-deprecating gag. Yeah Judy he was mocking people who call him on his fantasy that his state of mind affects the world. Really got me! > > If he says he believes he can cause an earthquake by > meditating, that's hubris. > > If he says he *doesn't* believe he can cause an earthquake > by meditating--why, that's hubris too! The reason the joke works is because part of his teaching actually states that his state of mind affects the world. It isn't hubris to make the joke, it is hubris to believe that your state of mind affects the world. Do you share this belief about yourself,is that why you are so quick to defend him? Now if he wants to retract all his statements about his power over the world with the state of his mind I will happily retract my accusation of hubris. > > And how *dare* he have a sense of humor about himself? > That's the *ultimate* in hubris. If he didn't actually believe that his state of mind affects the world you might have a point. But the fact is he does. I wasn't saying how dare he anything. I was just showing how people with wacky beliefs about their place in the world sometimes mask them with humor about a straw man wacky belief. It seems to have worked on you among many others. That old Chopra is so full of common sense wisdom how could we doubt his claim that his mind is working on the "quantum mechanical" level! I point my finger at him as a charlatan because I paid $700 in his doctor's office to get the magic word "amrita" to repeat to cure physical conditions. Medical conditions. Health related issues that he discussed with me in his doctor's office before "prescribing" me a magical word to repeat to cure medical physical, health conditions. So when I view him as a con man it is after having him con out of actual money me a long time ago. >
