Monday, June 12, 2006
Yup. The Social Sciences are a perilous job. especially when your superstitious respondents make you gulp down some "holy" water that has been sitting in a bowl with a weird-lookin' rock in it. You can clearly see aliens and foreign elements (I'd say mostly Chinese nationals) dust particles from beyond traversing the watery space around the planet "Lingam"... and you have to gulp it all down cos the old dude thinks its some super power. I mean, yeah far be it for me to deny the existence of The Almighty, but heck! - food poisoning is NOT my idea of a fun and fruitful way for express passage into heaven.
It's also scary when some people can defend the sexual scandals by their spiritual leader by actually acknowledging those scandals as true, and arguing that it's holy on the basis that our judgments are clouded by the western judeo-christian ideal that divine is the antithesis of sexual action. (That is, to be divine is to be pure and virginal, to be sexual is to be sinful). The scary thing is that this guy believes it through and through. His brother apparently has had his.. um.. .appendage fondled by this leader... and he felt "a great energy surge through his body.. and he knew his bad karma was set free." Heck.. is that what they're calling nowadays? I feel a great energy when i get an orgasm too! "...Ohh honey i had a multiple karma just now!" Must be my "Karma"... Sheesh.
