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    Image of abettertomorrow abettertomorrow
    01/09/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    because, as an anonymous internet commentator, that's really important to me
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    01/09/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    What, no attribution?...
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    01/09/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    Well, Google is a search company so it seems only natural that they search for meaning in life.


    Personally, I think their efforts should be focused on searching for a clue first.

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    01/09/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    Methinks a there is a group of people in the Bay that have too much money and need to be relieved of it.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    Put not your trust in princes, in the sons of men.


    Just sayin'.

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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    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."


    So now you know.

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    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    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.)

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    Image of seyswho seyswho
    01/08/09

    @Auntie_Meme: When it's normal that I can bring my dog-eating Brazilian giant anaconda to the office, our work will be done.
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    Image of fractal_elves fractal_elves
    01/08/09

    @seyswho: When it's normal that every workplace offers massage with happy endings, our work will be done.
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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    01/09/09

    @fractal_elves: When northern Californians realize they haven't invented the concepts of protest, goodness, and purity, work=done.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    01/09/09

    @fractal_elves: when it's normal that everyone just sits around baked all day on medicinal marijuana, occasionally giggling, our work will be done.
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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    01/09/09

    @Dr. Nick: Yes, Doctor. Exactly.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    Those two look like they met at a NAMBLA conference 20 years ago. Still, they seem like a happy couple.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    It is so time for Cyra McFadden to write Serial II.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    Google the words "Spiritual Growth" and look at the Sponsored Links that pop up in the right-hand column. But take a dramamine first.
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    A changed browser you can believe in.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    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.

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    01/08/09

    @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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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    01/09/09

    @Hydroceph: Yes. All that. Thank you.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    01/08/09

    In reply to Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
    I tried searching for inner peace, but I came up with 4 million responses and none was the one I wanted.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    01/08/09

    @TedSez: When I tried, it said Did you mean in her piece?


    I don't even know what that means.

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