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A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.
And we’re all out of bubblegum.
If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.
Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
T R E 4 5 O N
All your base are belong to Tunch.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
People are complicated. Love is not.
Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
We are aware of all internet traditions.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Ugh
That just shows you can’t win the hard workers- hard working Americans, light Americans, vote, John.
jake
Let me help you: Humans is the crrrraziest peoples.
That’s it. Now we just have to wait until the TalEvan pick it up and runs with the Light/Lucifer thing.
isit2009yet
When you consider that the article claimed that Fred Thompson was one as well, you can’t make anything other than bird cage liner out of it…
Wilfred
I think I just intuitively shit my pants – I’ll have to appeal to the authority of my shorts.
El Cid
Sounds to me like a version of this weird thing going around among the kinds of people who believe these things, whereby people try to convince themselves that their smart kids are really these special beings known as “Indigos”:
This is clearly a winning strategy with which to win over skeptical voters. Barack Obama will wield potent mojo; perhaps uniting with other ethnic groups to form one giant super-robot capable of replanting the Amazon rainforests in a day.
MNPundit
Um, cool. When we evolve I want some wings.
I donated money to Obama and worked in Iowa, MN and ND so he owes me.
Jon H
As long as nobody claims he emanates a particular energy that appeals to dragonkin, I’ll be okay.
dorkboy
No comment.
Jon H
More seriously, I think that’s just the Bay Area Democrat version of the Presidential Prayer Team types among Republicans.
Martin
Welcome to the Democratic Party, John.
KCinDC
I was under the impression that the San Francisco Chronicle was a real newspaper, not some kook’s newsletter. Does Notes & Errata run next to the horoscope column in the comics section or what?
Ned Raggett
Yeah, I’ve encountered Morford’s work before and I think to myself, “Back in the nineteenth century we had fine upstanding American satirists like Twain and Bierce from the Bay Area. Now we have this guy.”
SamFromUtah
El Cid – thanks for mentioning the Indigo Children; the Lightworker piece struck me as exactly the same kind of woo. In practice, I think a lot of kids presented as “Indigo” are brats the parents would rather label as a hyper-evolved being than discipline.
I think the Lightworker article can be safely ignored – but if it’s true and Obama is a “philosopher and peacemaker of a very high order”, I won’t complain.
dr. bloor
This will certainly lay to rest all those accusations about his supporters being members of a cult.
El Doh
NEXT!
scarshapedstar
“More light!”
Wilfred
Oh, gert the fuck out of here.
EJ
Isn’t all that stuff what we used to just call “charisma?”
That article is exactly like every other column Mark Morford’s ever written. It’s one of those “only in San Francisco” things. He’s a fun read but I wasn’t aware anyone took him seriously.
Genine
Actually, being heavily involved in the occult and metaphysical community myself, I have heard this before. Though no polling has been done on this, I believe most metaphysical occult people are for Obama.
I’ve lived in 3 different cities (so far) in my life and I only know 3 people who supported Clinton.
Anyway, the Galactic Federation of Lightworkers are a bunch of wackos and I’m not wrapped too tight myself, so that’s saying something. They’re not necessarily bad people, they just don’t vibe with me because they don’t seem very concerned with… Earth or being human.
Anyway, a number of metaphysical bigwigs like Marianne Williamson and others endorsed Obama and many local metaphysical organizations here in Denver have hold mediatations for him and whatnot.
Also I am wary of the whole indigo child thing. Yes, I’m into magic but some things are just to woo woo for me.
The Moar You Know
I know Morford, not well. The link cites only part of his piece, the part that makes him look like a raving lunatic.
Here’s the entire piece.
He’s an interesting guy. Usually a lot more…practical than this.
Incertus
This is the same paper that’s home to Debra Saunders. It’s a psycho’s funland on the Op-Ed page most of the time.
By the way, in the list of crazy-ass religions to be connected to, where does Lightworker stack up next to Muslim or member of John Hagee’s Church, which casts out the demons of anal fissures?
dr. bloor
Either that, or indigo is the color of your aura if you’re postnatal tox screen is positive for cocaine.
Wilfred
I wonder if Clinton got the Heaven’s Gate vote?
El Cid
Well, on the plus side, such new agey types might have the decency to label the first major party African American nominee as an “Indigo” rather than a “dark purple”, but they better be really, really careful who they’re speaking to and that their listeners know what the hell they’re talking about.
Grand Moff Texan
“Energy” blah blah blah.
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NR
Seems pretty kooky to me.
But crazy people get to vote too, and if this brings more of them on board, why not?
The Moar You Know
The dead still vote in America. Pretty likely.
Grand Moff Texan
Feh. The present generation of college students are like “Rain Man,” without the math skills.
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Just Some Fuckhead
Jesus John. It’s the dawning of the age of Aquarius for crying out loud. On December 21, 2012, near the end of Obama’s first term, we’ll have for all intents and purposes the occurence of the Sacred Tree which has been coming to fruition slowly over thousands and thousands of years and which will mark the end of the old world and the beginning of the new world. I don’t know about you but I’m frankly tickled to death to have a Lightworker on hand for this awesome galactic upheaval.
Grand Moff Texan
Yeah! To think he gave up the Rapture and burning crosses for this.
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hamletta
Like Ole Perfessor says, you oughta read the whole thing. OTB excerpted the most woo-woo portion.
The rest of the piece is tempered with caveats and skepticism. And it helps if you’re familiar with Morford’s writing style, which is over-the-top purple (in a good way, at least to my taste).
SamFromUtah
Yeah! To think he gave up the Rapture and burning crosses for this.
LOL! I have to admit I like the lefty crazies better than the right-wing ones.
El Cid
Hey, in those movies where Wesley Snipes was a good vampire fighting the bad vampires, didn’t they call him “Daywalker“, since he didn’t burn up in sunlight?
This is nearly a perfect analogy.
Barack Obama: Daywalker.
Although to be honest, Republicans remind me more of those magic zombies from that awful movie “I Am Legend”, where once again there are night-bound baddies, but mostly they turn to the camera and roar over and over and over.
A Different JC
Reading that article was like a one-way trip to coo-coo town. Gave me shivers.
But it may give a new meaning to ‘post-racial’
Sasha
That left-wing religio-spiritual kookery is just damn odd — and that’s pretty much it.
Right-wing kookery is what is currently known as mainstream social conservative thought.
Genine
Funny. But seriously, all lightworkers are not the same. I feel as though I need defend decent lightworkers from “light-chaser” lightworkers.
“Light-chasers” or fluffy-bunny types are just as fucked as Hagee, Dobson and the rest of them. *shudder*
The lightworkers I am friends with actually want to radiate and love and peace, yet are human too and embrace humanity.
Its almost like for every 10 fluffy-bunny types, you have two that are for real.
protected static
A hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl…
marjowil
I understand it, but cannot explain it without being ridiculed here as a wacko.
Before I surrendered my faith in the future and human nature to join the reality-based blogosphere, I believed in this stuff, and part of me still does, I guess.
To put it in S-F terms, it’s like being a Vorlon working against the Shadows (Babylon 5). Or the Force, vs. the Dark Side. that’s it. big story.
Being a “light-worker” simply means one of the good guys, helping to advance the human race toward some positive outcome, i.e., not ignorance, darkness, prejudice, fear, and all those bad things we associate with Christianist republicans.
You can put it in the same general category as Oprah’s The Secret hooey, and other metaphysical stuff. Just ignore it. It is nothing that requires believing that a comet will come by and pick you up in your athletic shoes, sans genitals, at the end of time.
The Moar You Know
And there was your first mistake. I lived in the Bay Area for thirteen years, SF for five, and while SF is a world-class city, it’s got a newspaper with a lack of quality that would shame a small town.
Still an improvement over my current home, San Diego, which has a newspaper that would shame an elementary school.
Toolshed
My Tai Chi master said to me that, as a yogi, he saw a purity in the presence of Obama. I just smiled and nodded at the senile old man.
Is it so hard to make a political decision based on rational and logical processes. Keep the irrational shit to yourself, you’re only making those that agree with you look ridiculous by association.
Same shit happened with the diefying of Bush. At least the religious right hates McCain as much as the rest of us.
jrg
Can’t we have a leader without praying to him in some way or another? I mean really, this is just as crazy as those kids who were praying to GW Bush in “Jesus Camp”.
The dude could be Jesus, Buddha, and the Dali Lama combined for all I care. I’m sick of superstitious people who are incapable of separating politics and religion.
“Galactic Federation of Light” my ass. We need is a great leader, not some sort of interstellar warlock. If this guy can’t explain why Obama is a good candidate without invoking galactic conspiracy theories, he should not be writing a newspaper column.
SpotWeld
Just when I thought this, the ’08 election season couldn’t get wackier… now it’s turning into anime.
El Doh
Bring on the tentacles, I guess.
cleek
fapfapfap woooooo fapfapfap woooooo
Grand Moff Texan
Uh, I hate to remind anyone of The Unpleasantness, but that already happened.
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w vincentz
I’ve already explained this in the “dap” thread. The current term is “light worker” so as not to confuse the recent converts. Note “cosmic power” transfer in the “dap”.
Sure, many doubt that they’re here, but the Earthlings seriously need their help. They have taken pity on us and sent us a “light worker” and his supportive cosmic spouse.
So as not to be too repetitive, look at the giant stones at Stonehenge. Do you really think the Druids knew the secrets of anti-gravity?
I won’t even get into the pyramids or the Nazcar lines.
Connect the “dots”. Ever hear of UFO’s?
The “light workers” call them inter stellar vehicular transport. ISVT’s…not UFO’s.
Grover Cleveland
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SpotWeld
… if this results in a National ESPers party, I’m going to demand a giant armored robot suit.
Jake
As long as he doesn’t start showing up in places with Tom Cruise by his side, I’m not worried.
SteveinSC
Now I know whence my last year’s out-of-body expericence came! I felt that light radiated by Barack when he was here in O’burg SC! I couldn’t get a ticket to his rally, but I could distinctly feel a floating-sort of glide to my step when he was in town. Thank you Jesus!
El Cid
As long as we are ready to defend Obama’s shadow.
A Different JC
As a life-long Democrat, I do have to apologize for making anyone feel excluded. My comment about that article being a one-way trip to coo-coo town should be understood as acknowledging that OTB intended me to feel that way.
Unless, of course, making me feel like I’m on a one-way trip to coo-coo-land is considered a good thing in New Age circles… then, carry on!
Dreggas
I have heard of them as well. I am a pagan myself very much involved in many aspects of the occult, not so much wiccan as that is just a sub-group. Mostly Celtic/Druid with a smattering of eastern zen and some tribal shamanism.
The guy may sound kooky, but there are people who believe in this and not all are completely out of their gourds. Just like any religion or belief system they all have their nuts.
Thom
It’s, uh, satire.
No?
Dayv
I used to read Morford’s column regularly. When he’s railing against social conservatisim, fear of sexuality, and anti-environmentalism, he is fun, witty, and profane. He’s pro-sex and pro-freedom and pro-learning and all sorts of things… But when someone puts a nonsense bit of new age philosophy in his ear, he turns into a stone cold, tone deaf, and basically embarassing dumbass.
passerby
“…He’s a fun read..” Absolutely, I haven’t found anyone else writing the kind of stuff Morford writes. Kinda new age with razor sharp snark going on. He loves his yoga, his girlfriend and his porn.
As for Obama being a lightworker, who can say. But, the word charisma definitely applies. He’s dripping with it. Even when he’s politicking I get the impression that he is totally sincere.
Barack: The “It” Guy.
T
Dreggas
Yeah, O has enough Charisma to totally be an epic sorcerer.
flavortext
In other news, the oh-so-serious Mr. Friedman is cheerleading war with Iran.
Good god.
Rome Again
John,
Don’t worry, he’s been called a Lightworker all along. whenever they call him Messiah they say the same thing. It’s an illuminist terminology, and would scare the hell of those who keep a watch for the Illuminati, except, I wonder if they have noticed, “HE’S NOT USING ANY CORPORATE MONEY” so he’s either the real deal (Jesus himself come to life) or he is a man with a vision and a tenacity to think straight and work hard.
Barack Obama: No more illuminist than John (Son of Cain) McCain and Hillary (I’m your nominee, it’s inevitable) Clinton.
ec1009
WHAT WILL YOU MAKE OF THIS JOHN?
http://www.barackobamaantichrist.blogspot.com/
John S.
Interesting.
I wonder if this Galactic Federation of Light has anything to do with the Galactic Empire.
If so, and by some chance Obama is some sort of Hari Seldon type figure, then I pray that McCain is not The Mule.
w vincentz
flavortext,
When the Earthlings learn the secrets of “light propulsion”, you’ll see how absurd Mr. Friedman is. War, petroleum, totally for the ignorant amateurs.
The “light workers” will explain.
BTW, we “aliens” call them “light warriors”.
Just Some Fuckhead
I would urge everyone to calm down and focus on the three and a half GOOD years of the tribulation. That’s three and a half more than we got with GodBoy.
Ninerdave
He’s just pandering to the new-age crystal toting set.
Velvet Elvis
I always figured shit like this is where the “moonbat” epithet came from.
Cris
So I guess the Natural Law party endorses Obama.
Zifnab
People were calling Bush the Second Son and claiming he brought God into the White House. Bush was third rate son of a middlingly successful ex-President.
Barack Obama is a genuinely decent human being with oratory skills and a leadership position in a tidal wave political movement. He’s Reverse Ronald Reagen.
I’m not surprised in the least that people are making the same mistake about Obama that they made about Bush. I wouldn’t even be surprised if some of the same people who made the mistake about Bush are diving head first for Obama, for the same reasons (omg! President!) We live in a country that loves to worship stuff. Don’t be surprised if two years from now the board locals bemoaning the rather disturbing fervor with which the nation has taken to him.
I just hope all the hero worship doesn’t go to Obama’s head. Absolute power, corruption, etc etc. He’s walking a dangerous road for so many, many reasons.
Chuck Butcher
Well, read Taylor Marsh comments to see how odd this actually looks.
cbear
Me neither, John. I thought the Manson Family people were still in jail.
Squeaky? Squeaky, is that you?
Dreggas
Personally, I LOL’ed.
Zifnab
OMG! It all makes perfect sense to me now!
GoMS
“This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl…” -Johnny from “Airplane”
Cain
I was fucking right, he is The One Who Comes With The Dawn! It’s Dragon Fucking Reborn! I knew it! KNEW IT! Someone check his arms, he’s probably got dragons on his arms.
After that crazy shit, I’m sure my stuff is sane.
cain
nightjar
A long time ago I dated a New Age gal who insisted we roll the I Ching to see if the time was right to achieve oneness.
As the great philosopher Vince Lombardi once said winning isn’t everything, It’s the ONLY thing.
Cain
I’m cool with anyone who has that attitude. Conducting your life that way is way more important than what religion you belong to.
cain
w vincentz
Please calm down everyone.
Barack is not the false messiah. Don’t worry.
We’ve already seen the “Anti-Christ”.
Please take a minute or two and investigate this site, and you’ll see who he is.
http://www.bushisantichrist.com/
passerby
“Goody Goody Gumdrops!” Wow I haven’t heard that used for at least 30 years. I’m going to try to work it back into my vocabulary.
T
flavortext
w v,
lol wut?
StuV
Genine…
[Insert sound of head exploding]
Zifnab
hehe. There are some good ones in here, at that.
I mean… it’s just… wow. I guess some people go with their guts and some people just go bat shit insane. You know. To be on the safe side.
4tehlulz
No. Just fucking no.
Dreggas
We all know of course the Jesus was a zombie
w vincentz
flavortext,
There’s far too much for me to explain in this limited forum. However, if you’d like to know more, I’d be happy to inform you for the modest sum of 94K (euros only) mailed to my Nigerian bank account.
In the meanwhile, click on Zinfab’s link above. It’s a bit old (2001), but now that the “secret” is out, it will get you started.
BTW…”wut” is a very bad word in our home language. Please refrain from using it again.
KCinDC
The category of utterly vile stuff put together by a despicable person to make money? I’m sorry, but telling people that everything bad that happens to them is their own fault and, for example, the people killed in the Holocaust died because they weren’t thinking positively enough goes well beyond harmless kookiness. I sincerely hope the Lightworkers stuff is nothing like The Secret.
ThymeZone
I see that the thread is being treated as open.
Two things I noticed today:
1. As recently as a few hours ago, Diane Feinstein was saying in public that Clinton had gotten more popular votes than Obama. I find myself struck with a strong desire to urinate on her car seat at this moment. I mean, What.The.Fuck? is wrong with these people?
2. I am also struck with the idea that we are into new and uncharted territory this year in American politics. The dynamics, the demographics, the positions of the power machines, the messages … it’s all new, and the morons who are supposed to be presenting this story to us on television and also in print have NO FUCKING IDEA ON EARTH WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. Every word out of their mouths is just pure and unadulterated bullshit.
Pay no attention to these jawflappers. This year, the thing belongs to the people. It’s going to be vewy, vewy intewesting!
Zifnab
Isn’t that the sort of logic you use after beating your wife? “I swear to god, officer, I wouldn’t have… but she had it coming.”
Dreggas
The media has yet to grasp the fact that it’s becoming more and more irrelevant every day and that, in fact, people are starting to think for themselves for once. Granted there are still a lot of brain dead people but if this country was as bad as it had been Obama never would have survived Wright, hell everyone would have bought into Hillary as inevitable too.
w vincentz
TZ,
You said:
“… it’s all new, and the morons who are supposed to be presenting this story to us on television and also in print have NO FUCKING IDEA ON EARTH WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.”
You are SO correct!
Earthlings have had great difficulty for quite some time.
That is exactly why our celestial friends have offered us the intervention via the “light worker” to help us understand.
Whammer
Hey TZ,
I’m there with you peeing on DiFi’s car………. Maybe you take the car seat and I’ll do the gas tank.
She is an abomination to me, despite the fact that I’ve voted for her several times. The friggin stupid moron Republicans can’t come up with anyone better than her, which is actually saying quite a bit.
Tom Campbell, who is a pretty sane guy despite the fact that he’s a Republican, couldn’t win the R nomination for Senate in CA because the SoCal wingnuts thought he was too moderate……..
KCinDC
The Secret.
Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill
And that Zombie builds a mean hotrod.
Blue Raven
Stu:
I remain amused at people who assume that just because someone believes in one area of the woo-woo stuff that they swallow every last bit of it.
Blue Raven
Can I be the one to put the dead fish in her glove compartment?
D-Chance.
Same old, same old. Thim thar Bildin Burgers are out tuh git us!
Just ignore the black helicopters overhead…
laneman
This thread has caused my children and cow orkers to question (well, re-question) my sanity as I giggle and snork.
Zif, that quote is sheer brilliance, PotD.
w vincentz
Earthlings,
Pissing in cars and putting dead fish in glove compartments only demonstrates how far you have yet to evolve.
It’s pathetic, really, that you Earthlings continue to fight wars, kill each other, for antiquated energy sources like “fossil fuels”, and continue to have doubts about those that are here to rescue you from your foolishness.
You Earthlings have a lot of evolvement to realize.
Do you yet not understand why Belsor didn’t land his vehicle and discuss this with you?
Yes, it was unfortunate that he decided to approach you at a place called a “skeet range”, but he clearly said, “Greetings Earthlings, I come in peace.” Belsor’s voice is very small.
It really fucked him up when the shooting started.
Sometimes, you Earthings aren’t very friendly.
Rome Again
B-b-b-b-but Armageddon! B-b-b-b-b-but The Rapture!
Rome Again
True, so long as his last name isn’t “De Vere” or “McCain” I’m just fine with handsomely middle named Hussein!
SamFromUtah
it’s all new, and the morons who are supposed to be presenting this story to us on television and also in print have NO FUCKING IDEA ON EARTH WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. Every word out of their mouths is just pure and unadulterated bullshit.
Well, the no idea what they’re talking about part and the spouting entirely bullshit part is nothing new. I agree that things are changing, but the pundits have been lost at sea since at least 1992.
Chuck Butcher
I’d be willing to push that back to about 1968 when the shit really started hitting the fan. They have a stake you know.
Llelldorin
Oh, dear God. One post up we have racist morons having Zulu Dawn fantasies based on a few cheering black guys, and down here we’ve got another bunch of wackos deciding that Obama’s literally a magical Negro?
Oy. Just… oy! I’d like to believe (despite massive evidence to the contrary) that we’re not quite this broken as a country.
When we have that conversation on race, do you think it’d be OK if we locked these guys in the attic first?
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
This is not exactly a new development. Back in the 1950’s the SF Chronicle went on a crusade to do something about the shockingly indecent fact that the animals in the SF zoo were not wearing any clothes ! They were all running around naked ! ! That’s right, the zebras and lions and antelopes were a warning sign of the degeneracy of western civilization, well before the DFH’s showed up.
grumpy realist
Actually read some history of SF and you’ll see this isn’t all that crazy by California standards. Emperor Norton, anyone?
(Now of course with the “Emperor of Light” stuff I’m looking around for Barack’s other head and wondering exactly when the Improbability Drive shows up. Heck, we’ve already got the Babelfish.)
Genine
Thanks, Blue. Its true. I believe what I do based on experience and logic (everyone has different kinds of logic). So I am no different than anyone else in that respect.
But, its all good. I have atheist friends who think I’m wacko, Christian friends who think I’m going to hell and friends that are in-between and/or nutty like me.
Jon H
Toolshed wrote: “My Tai Chi master said to me that, as a yogi, he saw a purity in the presence of Obama.”
Actually, the current Dalai Lama seems to give everyone that impression (except the Chinese, I guess). He just seems to personify “good” somehow. (Personally, I doubt the next one will, lacking the unique upbringing and life history of the current DL.)
But I really don’t get the same vibe off of Obama. Not that he’s bad, he’s just normal.
Just Some Fuckhead
Me either, but then I know a lot of people of color who are cool and easygoing like Obama. Nothing special to me.
mere mortal
I have a guess of what you would say about these nutters if they were supporting *any* other candidate.
You’d say they were nutters. You’d say we’re interviewing for a temp job in government employment, not a messiah.
For the love of the flying spaghetti monster, the picture of Obama at the link has a halo. The strongest words the blogger there can say about the freak is that he finds the position “somewhat implausible.”
Where’s your pride, your “powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity?” How are we to deal with these fruitcakes when they realize that Obama is merely a man, not someone to deliver us to a higher state of being or government?
MR Bill
I’ve been working for a guy, finishing his (small) house to get a Certificate of Occupancy after he’s had a building permit for seven (!) years. I’ve worked a couple of days a week (when my other home repair job was slow) for the last year, and he was actually ready for an inspection over a month ago, but kept putting it of. Finally I got him to explain that he was waiting for Jupiter to enter Leo as a auspicious time. I got him to call and at least leave the Planning office (for that’s who deals with this in Gilmer Co. GA) a message that he wanted to schedule it.
He thinks McCain is a “decent man who don’t know he serves the Dark Agenda”, Mrs. Clinton a secret agent of the Rothchilds and the dark forces, and Obama our best hope, but not a Lightworker. That would be the humans who have contacted the Good Aliens (as opposed to the Grey guys who mutilate cattle, probe anuses and make human alien hybrids)to deliver us from our controlling would be masters (the Trilateral commission, the Bilderburgers, the dark Illuminati, the Queen…).
He expect the Great Galactics to ‘manifest’ themselves and direct world wide war crimes trials, and the world economic system to be reformed (It seems the Galactics favor the gold standard…)
One hour after he left his message on the Building Inspector’s voice mail, the Inspector drove up, saying ‘well I’m in this end of the county, let’s give it a look and save me a trip all the way out here” (this is near the southern Terminus of the Appalachian Trail in the National Forest).
The house passed,and the dude kept saying “today was supposed to be a bad day..”
MR Bill
And, as a friend once told me:
“New Age is Old Hat.”
Frank Jacobs
Agreed. I actually stopped reading immediately at the mention of his name. That was pretty much all I needed to know about any of this drivel. I suppose it gets him all kinds of young, confused, liberal booty, to which I say bully for him, but the idea that his pap has now gained enough velocity to escape the Bay Area gravity well is disturbing.
An old S.F. buddy of mine once said that every time he reads one of Morford’s columns, he thinks of this guy.
Li
The ‘lightworker’ idea is kind of a throwback, a new term for an enlightened or ascendant individual; this is conceptually not new, no it’s as old as the hills. The term is merely new age.
I’ve met a few people, in my work in the martial arts, and at the University, that strike me as giving off love and peace, and could be called ‘light workers’ of various degrees. But mankind is lacking in true enlightenment at the moment. The hugging saint of India comes to mind, because though some of her followers gave me pause, the person herself was truly remarkable when I had the privilege of being in her presence. The Dali Lama is another that many mention, but these are only the obvious ones. I would nominate Shigeru Miyamoto as well, but that’s just a gut feeling. . . that man gives me warm fuzzies every time I see him, and I don’t even understand Japanese that well.
Barack? I dunno. . . he’s certainly got charisma to spare, but so does Steve Jobs and no one is saying he’s some enlightened being, though many in the computing industry think he has great psychic power. I believe they call it his ‘reality distortion field,’ and some companies have gone so far as to warn negotiators about it when dealing with Apple.
I’ll take the advice of the prophet, and judge Obama by his actions in office. If he turns out to be enlightened, I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but I frankly doubt any such person would make it far in American politics.
BTW, you guys should be more careful, Buddhists and hindus are not easy to offend, but saying outright that enlightened beings of various extents are not among us is kind of like walking up to a Christian and telling them that the resurrection never happened. Bad form.