Deepakity

March 28, 2014 • 8:01 am

Ah, the old boy shows that he can’t distinguish between anger, criticism and ridicule. I do believe he’s the one who needs meditation (or more meditation, if he’s already doing it).

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I ain’t mad, Deepak, honest! I’m just vastly amused at your pretension, your thin skin—so thin that it makes you engaged in Tw**er fights with nobodies, and especially with your diamond studded-glasses.

(Protip to the fashion-conscious guru: lose the bejeweled specs!)

 

 

56 thoughts on “Deepakity”

  1. For a supposedly “spiritual” guy, the Deepster sure looks concerned with material possessions!

    1. True, science frequently crushes wishful fantasy. This is not to suggest that creativity and imagination are not fundamental to science. One would hope Deepak opened his eyes to the wonder of our world without the insistence that his immature perceptions must tenaciously reflect reality.

      1. Reminds me of a qoute: “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes.”

        -William Ford Gibson

  4. I’ve never been angry at a clown nor do I hate clowns.

    I laugh at clowns, like Deepak, because they are funny.

    The irony about Deepak is that he never learned to spell “fakir” correctly.

    But I guess that would be an “ad homophone” argument.

    2. But actual clowns do not steal people’s money while also causing untold damage in the form of encouraging people to embrace unsupported nonsense and reject real science.

      Kinda makes me angry.

      1. Clowns are scary. Every single person I’ve ever asked either hates or is scared of clowns. Just used in too many horror movies I guess.

        1. I think anyone who was a kid in the early ’90s either hates or is afraid of clowns – at least when they wear a purple suit and are voiced by Mark Hamill!

          1. Well, I do like to think of myself as young, but we Boomers hated clowns before Mark Hamel was born, although a purple Mark Hamel is way up there. It’s one of the reasons we never understood why it took so long to catch John Gasy. But if you want the absolute scariest clown, worse that “It” or the one in “Poltergeist”, or Jack Nicholson Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” beats them all, hands down. I hope no one bests him while I’m still alive!

        3. I just wasted ten minutes trying to locate a video clip of a Malcolm in the Middle where Hal & the boys ruin Lois’s birthday, track her to an amusement park to make up, and get into a fistfight with 3 clowns taking their meal break. Loved that episode.

        5. They didn’t need to be used in horror movies, just go to any circus and watch them; clowns are arseholes.

          1. I have only been to the circus once in my life, when I was fairly young. I didn’t enjoy it then, and I hated the clowns.

  5. ” I do believe he’s the one who needs meditation (or more meditation, if he’s already doing it).”

    Meditation or medication?

  6. Wow… that weird playground taunting persona the Deepakity has assumed lately is more than a little disturbing. I’m pretty sure, though, that meditation won’t cure what ails him.

    1. Don’t speak of him in the past tense. Bootsy is alive and as funkadelic as ever. Still gigging. He’s actually going to be in my neck of the woods soon. Might have to make a pilgrimage.

  9. He seems to anger more easily these days, which makes him even more amusing. I love the way you push his buttons too, Jerry!

    But maybe it’s not just Professor Ceiling Cat who is making him so angry. I wonder if his anger has anything to do with the growing number of Deepak Chopra satirists on Twi**er, who share satirical pseudo-scientific pseudo-profound blatherings which sound no different from what Chopra’s been saying for most of his career.

    A friend of mine who is one of the satirists recently got his account temporarily suspended, and he wonders if Deepak has anything to do with it.

  11. Another element of disgust: the Mayo Clinic promoting woo. They have a wide array of “alternative medicine” offerings. Having been a nurse there, it’s really dismaying to see them stray from proven, scientific principles.

    1. And it’s not just Mayo. Many hospital organizations and doctors’ practices have succumbed to the siren call of “consumer-driven” medicine.

      As long as idiots like Dr Oz, Dr Chopra, Dr Weil use their credentials and high visibility to promote woo, this insanity will continue.

  12. LOL! Deepak can’t lecture anyone on these things after he got so angry after the Michael Shermer & Sam Harris Debate that he couldn’t meditate, not to mention that during the debate he was so angry and loud, Sam Harris had to ask him to dial it down a bit.

    1. I loved that debate! It’s such a clear illustration of two antithetical styles of thinking. My favorite part is when Deepak claims to be an expert on quantum mechanics because he’s studied chemistry, biology, and physics at the college level. Woop-di-doo!

      1. Oh but the BEST part was when Sam Harris said, “we’ve all studied physics in highschool” or something to that effect. Burn!

  13. That kind of nonsense “Boy, you sure are angry!” argument is basically a way for him to say he has no legitimate argument and has to resort to name-calling. He’s essentially admitting defeat. Yay!

  15. Perhaps he needs medication, not meditation. Sometimes spelling auto correct can cause this kind of misunderstanding.

    And hey, the eye bling works for Elton John.

  16. It’s been my experience based on observation over the past 14 years that while on the one hand meditation does help people be more calm, cool, collected, brave, and focused, it simply does not at all help develop critical thinking skills or mature sober clarity of thought in any way whatsoever!! And far too many of its practitioners believe it is a universal panacea for all ills.

    There was about 10 years ago a joint interview by Larry King with both the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra and through much of the second half the DL seemed to be distancing himself from DC’s more wooish claims and by the end of the hour I was heavily suspecting that Dalai Lama was beginning to regret having written a forward to Chopra’s book. (I don’t have any special reverence towards the Dalai Lama- I just think he’s much saner than Chopra.)

    Prominent atheists Sam Harris and Greta Christina (and the massively less prominent myself) practice meditation, but they (and I) simply do not pretend to derive solutions to all of life’s perplexing problems from it.

  18. “You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” — Deepak Chopra

    It’s like he’s mining quantum physics (the superposition principle here) for his dumb New Age philosophy.

  19. Wow.
    #soreloser, huh?

    How old are you Deepak? Seven?

    I already had zero respect for his woo and his fleecing of the gullible, but now I can’t even see him as an adult. Not only is he immature, but he throws his tantrum in public. I think he’s going to regret doing that at some point.

  20. As I’ve mentioned more than once, the New Age and Spiritual crowd is very, very afraid of anger, in themselves or others. Because they associate mysticism, revelation, and spiritual enlightenment with a deep and pervading sense of peace, any show of hostility is immediately interpreted as insufficient wisdom. If you get angry it not only means you’re wrong — you would only get angry if you KNEW you were wrong. That’s where the anger of skeptics comes from, they think: the frustration and fear of knowing the mystics are right.

    From their perspective belief is identity and “normal” people would therefore either agree with them or allow them to be who they are. They wouldn’t care what other people believe. Therefore getting mad at pseudoscience is like getting mad at people in hats or sitting on chairs. There’s no reason … unless someone is feeling threatened by the woomeisters’ very existence.

    Lose your temper and you automatically lose the argument.

    Not that they ever argue, mind you. Argument is angry and they seek the calm detachment which comes from centering your being in Love. Thus they only ‘share’ their views, towards which you may or may not be open, it’s okay. Any response other than an equally causal “not for me but nice for you” means they ‘touched a nerve.’

    1. Just the strategy for never having to worry about losing face no matter how nebulous or ridiculous your claims may be.

    2. There’s a kind of fatuous phony peace in many New Agers that I suspect conceals a deeply suppressed rage, rather like the lead character who thinks he is Jesus in the play “The Ruling Class”.

    3. Epistemology and reality are two very hot-button terms inside Woo-town city limits, as I learned on the hard way to BetterToJustKeepMyMouthShut-ville.

  22. I just don’t understand what Jerry was supposedly a “#soreloser” about? Was it that months-late critique Jerry posted about the other day? The one Chopra himself didn’t even write, and which Jerry proceeded to tear apart anyway?

    As an aside, I love that he has diamond encrusted glasses, because it’s absolutely what I would expect a snake-oil salesman to wear.

    Just once, I’d love to see Chopra in a debate with a real scientist (particularly a quantum physicist), where the ground rules stipulate that he will be cut off every time he starts to retreat into quantum babble that is either misinformed, or plain incorrect. His debate with Harris/Shermer had it’s moments (mostly belonging to Sam), but Deepak was still allowed to go on at length about things that were plain false. It gets overwhelming, trying to fight back a blunderbuss filled with falsehoods.

  23. Funny that a guy who blabbers all the time about self awareness has absolutely none of that substance when it comes to dealing with his own anger.

    Or maybe not so funny. Just boring and frustrating.

  24. Meditation can help stress, if it’s not tied to woo. I won’t speak for Jerry, but I gather the main issue with Chopra is not the fact that he promotes meditation. It’s the crap he peddles along with it.

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