Cults, Gurus, NewAge - The Stuff Accepted As Normal

I’m convinced my friend has joined a cult.

 What can I do?

Feet of Clay - A Study of Gurus

Witchcraft Mentality and Freethought 

in Northern Ghana

Parents say church 

is brainwashing daughter

Children’s book by Mormon apostle’s wife 

draws fire

WATCH THIS SEGMENT IF YOU GET ABOUT 15 MINUTES:

  ABC News - Nightline Lookout: 

Dream Seller (Full Episode)

"Did A Cinnamon Bun Leave A Message From Above?"

"Is it a holy image or a bucket of filth?"

BIG RED: Christian Swingers Get A Chance, Naked, Life Is Staged, MLK Fights, And Those Non-Human Humans

Christian Swingers’ Dating Website 

Offers ‘Faithful’ Couples Chance To ‘Hookup’

Mike Leigh’s NAKED, 

A Fun-Filled Romp For Children Of All Ages

This Man Believes 

All News Events Are Staged By Actors

A Bitter Battle Erupts Over the Last Hours 

of Martin Luther King

Otherkin

(PW does it again!)

 

You've Got Experience - Mine's Black - And That's Weird

Months After an Assassination Attempt, a Bangladeshi Atheist Blogger is Still Speaking Out

The Dark Side of "I Have a Dream": The FBI's War on Martin Luther King

"I came up with Ruckus before the Tea Party, and before Herman Cain. But in the post-Obama era, half the country became Uncle Ruckus. The world is more polarized and extreme. Ruckus embodies that. I remember watching CNN when Herman Cain was the frontrunner for the Republican party, and they did a segment on whether Herman Cain was Uncle Ruckus. [Ed. note: This segment is no longer available online.] They brought in an expert and had pictures of them side by side... I couldn’t believe what I was watching. When Ruckus was first introduced, he felt like a funny, fringe character. He was bizarre and really extreme. Now, he feels like he represents a lot of right wing ideology. It’s crazy, but the times caught up to him."

Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity

"Police said Vincent Bright is religious and took the body in hopes his father would be resurrected."

I'm Trembling As I Compose This (I Need To Be Held,...)

Look - we can fix this race thing. We've just gotta prepare! Like, whenever minorities get invited to appear on TV and yell, "Y'all's CRAZY!" have a scrolling translation for white folks ready, like this:

"If America’s bipartisan establishment is agreed on something, you can be pretty sure it will be a disaster. That is my reluctant conclusion, after nearly three decades of involvement in politics and journalism, in Washington and New York. 

I say 'reluctant' because I am not a populist by temperament. I respect academic training as well as expertise based on personal experience. I think that institutions are, or should be, less likely to make mistakes than individuals. I detest people who pose as “contrarians” for the sake of controversy. I would happily be an establishmentarian, if there were a U.S. establishment worth belonging to. 

But the track record of what passes for the bipartisan elite in the U.S. in the last generation has been pretty poor. Instead of sober, dispassionate analysis of long-run trends, considered from the perspective of the nonpartisan national interest, the conventional wisdom among America’s movers and shakers has consisted of one hysterical fad after another."

See? Huh? Viola! I'd go from an "Angry Black Man" to a guy who doesn't waste a lot of words.

BTW - if the networks ever decide to call me - better amend that translation to say it's no accident the NewAger's favorite question is "What are you afraid of?"

What's an accident is, whatever we fear, we can find out - fast - at The Drudge Report. 

I'm never getting on TV, am I?