Posted on 04/28/2005 7:56:11 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
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Oh, some of it is good common sense.
Like facing the bed so you see the door when you sleep, etc. (Gives people the willies, otherwise).
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Great, now Disney has hired the Fab 5 to design its theme parks. This Queer Eye for the Straight Guy thing is getting out of hand. (No pun intended)
Also tends to have a lot to do with air-flow...
If you follow feng-shui, you tend to end up with a room that is nicely layed out, and easy to clean and move around in!
Old Chuck has a point about "feng shui" which is actually Chinese for "I can believe they're buying this BS."
I guess in China, you have to pay attention to this FS business because the culture in more monochromatic and oppressive. Whereas, in the US, one may say what one wishes, even if it's incorrect.
But then, who really cares what Disney is or is not doing? It ain't what it used to be, and never will be.
I can think of a hundred things Disney has done that are far worse. This doesn't really bother me. It's more a matter of good luck than religion, and I don't see any of this as seriously idolatrous or anything like that.
I do certainly agree on the other hand that our courts have acted unconstitutionally in forbidding freedom of religion to Christians in America. But I don't think this is the best way to make the argument. It can't be more than one time in a hundred that I disagree with Chuck Colson, but I guess this is one of them.
Well maybe, but the main point here is all the spiritual crap. Here's an example: My brother-in-law digs acupuncture. But he doesn't buy into any of the chi stuff, he just buys into the theory (which has some good scientific data backing it up) that the needle sticks release endorphins and cause other chemical changes.
So sure, a feng shui design might improve air flow, but if you also believe it affects "life energy" and luck (as Disney is pretending to believe) then you might as well get a voodoo blessing while you're at it. Mmmmmmm...chicken! [Homer Simpson noises here.]
Love Chuck Colson, but I thing they are wrong about Disney World.
WDW can do nothing about stopping gy days. It is not a WDW sanctioned event, the people who attend just state "we're going to show up during this week and wear a ___ colored shirt." Well, there is really nothing WDW can do. They can't ban them from coming just because they are gy; it would invite lawsuits that would destroy them. You could have a white supremacist day, and they could do nothing then either.
But what they leave out is that Disney does do a lot of things like "A night of praise" where they have contemporary Christian performers sing in the park. I believe that is a Disney sanctioned event. So, on the whole, I don't think Chuck has relayed the complete picture.
Willies hell, it just guarantees a clear shot. Don't want to get the powder burns on the missus when a bad guy comes a calling.
LOL!
Hey,, if it works and nobody is getting hurt...
No, you have it reversed. You don't want to NOT be facing the door(feet facing the door is best, but sideways is OK). Read the post again.
Exactly! Feng Shui neveer hurt anyone so let it be.
I knew a guy that couldn't possibly stand to have his back to any kind of door or entryway. He said it had to do with being in wrestling through high school and college. Apparently he developed instinctive reactions to peoples movements in order to be a good wrestler.
He said that having his back to a door would cause his instincts to fire off and it was really distracting to him. He was young, just out of college at the time, so may be it wore off after a time.
But what about the poor chicken? :-)
the chicken is over here!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1392840/posts?page=45#45
And it's yummy, too!
"It's just that demon life has got me in feng shui" With appologies to Nanker Phelge
LOL. Thanks, I needed that.
Penn & Teller did a great show on Feng Shui. They had two "experts" come in to re-do a house, both claiming they were not just making stuff up, but following set rules of Feng Shui. Both rearranged everything completely differently, even stating diametrically opposed reasoning (like #1 "That should be over there because.." and #2 "That can't be over there because...").
Feng Shui is just interior decorating with a mystical component, and boy do they charge for that mystical component.
True, it doesn't hurt anyone. We have a lot of professions that don't technically hurt anyone, but do provide entertainment value although what they're doing is complete bunk. Examples are those that communicate with dead loved ones (known as cold reading in con circles), palm readers, etc.
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