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News Briefs 04-12-2008

These are the last days of our lives… in 2008.

  • Narcissism and Spiritual Materialism: The New Age Legacy.
  • Why the Pascagoula River UFO encounter in 1973 is worth a Congressional investigation.
  • Battlestar Galactica gets a prequel spinoff. Frak yeah!!!! (H/T Slashdot).
  • Happy 30th anniversary, Star Wars Holiday Special! C’mon, it was Boba Fett’s 1st appearance, you gotta give it credit for that…
  • Screw U, Virgin Galactic! Xcor Aerospace is giving me a better deal.
  • Think of it as Coppertone max factor for Hubble’s brother: Huge Sun shield built for space telescope.
  • Behold! A supernova, as seen by Tycho Brahe—the wooden-nosed astronomer, not the Penny Arcade douche.
  • Giving life a hand. Just go easy with it, or you’ll go blind 😛
  • Incredible artifacts from the Stone Age era have been unearthed in Russia—including an amazing feminine figurine that I think it’s the precursor of every husband’s wallet-kept photo of the misses.
  • Video: Inca mummy and ceremonial objects found near Machu Picchu.
  • Scientists pinpoint flu gene. Not that I really care, since I use the best anti-body builder in the world: Tequila :0)
  • The terrible disease that has NO ONE worried about…yet.
  • Has the Monster Quest crew discovered a Baby Ogopogo carcass?
  • Loren Coleman discusses Synchronicity & Coincidences in the Mumbai terrorist attack.
  • Americans are all actors in a staging called “Airport Security”.
  • Spain’s secret role in the War on Terror. Secret that is… until now.
  • Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that ‘won’t commit war crimes’. Apparently waterboarding would produce a short circuit on them.
  • British adults fear their youth are turning ‘feral’ in their behavior. Time to use the Ludovico technique?
  • Psychiatric disorders are commom among college-age individuals, and yet few seek treatment—it’s easier to buy a gun instead :-/
  • You think ‘Freebird’ is tough on Guitar Hero? Try playing it with a laser harp, dude. Click here to read the instructions to build one, & ROCK ON!
  • Aloha, Agassi! After conquering San Francisco, Shai Agassi is expanding his electric car empire onto the land of Lilo & Obama.
  • Last Tuesday Rick dreamed of a scarab tattoo on his bicep. Maybe he was just foreseeing his future ride… and that it will cost him a leg & an arm to buy 😉
  • A most Burtonesque event, if I may say so: Man’s ring turns up after 21 years inside the tummy of a fish.

Thanks Rick, Kat, & DynaSoar

Quote of the Day:

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

William James

  1. I seen the Star Wars Holidaze Special
    I was excited as a teenager to see it, but I still thought it wasn’t very good. I remember being worried that the next movie would suck. As an adult I was given a copy to watch last summer. OH MY GOD its even worse then I’d remembered. Carrie Fisher had to of been high, Mark looks made up as a girl. And Harrison Ford has an academy award winning preformance, acting his way out of a paper bag. Jeez what a stinker!

  2. Zen Vs. New Age
    That zen guy seems like a condescending prick.

    I’m not gonna be donating anything to his organization.

    Tired of folks who lump anything they don’t like under the “new age” handle (a term that goes back at least to the turn of the century)

    1. He has a point though
      IMO He has a point though: that currently there are many people living in developed countries who feel a sense of dissatisfaction with their lives, that something is missing, and they go to these ‘spiritual shops’ to try to buy something that will fill in that void; or they go and buy the books Oprah tells them to buy; or buy the DVD of the guru with the highest ratings.

      What the author is criticizing is not New Age as a term or a philosophy, but the mercantile aspect of the movement; which is in itself ironic considering New Age was about abandoning the materialistic aspect of the Western ways.

      Any noble ideal can be corrupted by greedy men; New Age is no exception.

      I personally can’t stand that some people go & buy books like “The Secret” because they think in them they’re gonna find the key to have a bigger house, a better car or a more beautiful spouse. Some aspects of the New Age movement seem to self-centric: “I’m the center of the Universe”, “I control my own reality”, it’s all about me me me.

      The New Age movement failed because it focused on encouraging people to find the God within yourself. It should have focused instead on finding the God in everybody else.

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

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