Deekap Chopra, grumpy gus
Oh boy. Deepak Chopra, spiritual peace pacifist, has some serious animosity towards Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society.
On Larry King Live, they [and a boy who says he was reincarnated as a World War II pilot] debated over life after death.
However, after Shermer made a reasonable comment about our brains allowing us to have a “sense of self”. Chopra couldn’t let that insightfulness go unchallenged.
After starting with:
CHOPRA: Well, I have to say of Michael that he is very superstitious. He’s addicted to the superstition of materialism.
[What ever that means]
Everytime Shermer commented on the conversation Chopra chimed in with less than enlighted ridicule.
CHOPRA: ..are we talking to you, Michael, or to your [neural] networks right now?
And…
CHOPRA: So what — you know, when you say I’m skeptical about this, who’s the “I” that’s skeptical? Is it your networks or is it — it you? Are you confused?
And…
CHOPRA: Because his neural networks will not allow him to.
It continues…
CHOPRA: All I have to do is debate with your synaptic networks, not with you.
I would think that such an “enlightened individual” as Chopra would come with a more mature form of debate.
But you might be saying, “Hey Jeffrey that’s not fair. Chopra said a lot more meaningful things.”
Well, I think I can let Michael Shermer answer that with his treatise on Deepakese.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Aha what a clown.
January 23rd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I don’t know what’s worse. These ’spiritualists’ or the gullible fools who are so quick to pay them?
If Mr. Shermer gets to debate him will there be a requirement that the responses meet some standard like perhaps using whole sentences of comprehensible English? If there was it would be interesting but it is very unlikely that a man who has made a fortune being intentionally vague would agree and would most likely manage to make it look like the requirement was somehow biased or discriminatory.