I just asked Google what is the meaning of life and here's what the top hit said: "The Meaning of Life is the fourth studio album from German thrash metal band Tankard."
Chade-Meng Tan is also known for this: "When it's 'normal' that every workplace offers massage, meditation, three organic meals a day, and lets you bring your dog to the office, our work will be done."
How's that mission coming along, Googlers? Any progress? Some of us are still stuck on the bottom of Maslow's pyramid, while you selfish bastards are busy actualizing your damn selves. (I should have expected this from someone who believes dogs are more appropriate office companions than cats.)
How terribly enervating this is. What's with the social engineering, Google? Must you use company time and resources to do this?
Owen called this part of the goofy human potential movement that sometimes bubbles up here in NorCal, not unlike the fungus that's randomly killing the oak trees in the hills. That is, no one knows where it's coming from and it's downer. I wouldn't even dignify it with that. It's more basic, and more banal. Tired and tiresome people, unable to stomach traditional religion, still seek some 'meaning' and so reinvent the wheel. There's nothing particularly original about this, but they hold it up like the just knitted it out of their own navel lint.
Go ring bells, do downward dog, wave Tibetan prayer flags. Just don't think it's that new or that it really means anything. A friend's Facebook profile said he needed a spiritual advisor, this after abandoning a corporate career to go haring off after a yoga instructor's certificate. No, darling, what you need a blow to the head.
@Hydroceph: It lies to itself and others that it's an attempt to find authentic experience, but it's really just American consumerism applied to spirituality--clean it up, box it up, wrap it in plastic, and sell it.
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Personally, I think their efforts should be focused on searching for a clue first.
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Just sayin'.
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So now you know.
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How's that mission coming along, Googlers? Any progress? Some of us are still stuck on the bottom of Maslow's pyramid, while you selfish bastards are busy actualizing your damn selves. (I should have expected this from someone who believes dogs are more appropriate office companions than cats.)
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Owen called this part of the goofy human potential movement that sometimes bubbles up here in NorCal, not unlike the fungus that's randomly killing the oak trees in the hills. That is, no one knows where it's coming from and it's downer. I wouldn't even dignify it with that. It's more basic, and more banal. Tired and tiresome people, unable to stomach traditional religion, still seek some 'meaning' and so reinvent the wheel. There's nothing particularly original about this, but they hold it up like the just knitted it out of their own navel lint.
Go ring bells, do downward dog, wave Tibetan prayer flags. Just don't think it's that new or that it really means anything. A friend's Facebook profile said he needed a spiritual advisor, this after abandoning a corporate career to go haring off after a yoga instructor's certificate. No, darling, what you need a blow to the head.
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I don't even know what that means.