Apparently, in the spirit of “political correctness gone mad” or somesuch moronic ballyhoo, a teacher from a school in Seattle, Washington, USA has decided that egg-shaped containers often given as gifts at this time of year, and often known by the rather sober moniker “easter eggs”, are henceforth to be called “spring spheres” by her pupils.
That’s according to an article from fundietastic outlet CBN.com, anyway, who are obviously up in arms about “easter” being taken away from Jesus, who is of course the origin of the egg/confection combination, probably by having left them behind in his tomb as incontrovertible yet tasty proof of his having being there. Or something.
And—obviously—she’s not a maths teacher, otherwise she’d know that they’re spring ovoids not spheres. The silly ninny.
Note to self: buy chocolate.
The results and the breakdown are worth the long session it will take to review, very worthwhile.
When this first was released I was fascinated and had more than a handful of post on this study/poll. I went so far as to dig up the original test and reformat it for an on-line test that will give you your results - It could be fun.
"A highly educated girl from USA visits India in search of spiritual awakening. She reaches Rishikesh and meets a so-called sage. She is initialized in a week and goes back to USA with the hope of enlightenment in due course.
The so-called sage chases her to USA and settles there with a regular flow of money from her and others in contact there. She meditates, practices yoga as guided, and develops bipolar syndrome - a psychological disorder. As a result she becomes unpredictable and irritable and when calmed down becomes passive ready for an exploitation. Other exploitations of the girl, including sexual, begin and become frequent. He keeps on asking for money on different pretexts and she provides under his influence treating him divine. 14 years pass by.
She is now matured and works as a professor. She can understand the reality through her experiences. With assistance from her friends, she realizes her folly of harboring a cheat in the robe of a sage, who tries to keep her isolated from such friends. Finally, she got isolated with a great disappointment and almost incurable psychological disorder."
This is what is happening in some cases while in most others, beautiful American women take up the business of spirituality and thus become channels of exploitation of many others by the spiritualists of different shades - mostly from India.
Spiritual practices work like hypnotism and in many cases even psychodelic drugs are used to have unusual experiences to be lost in at regular intervals. These things put the practitioner on an infinite path of hope which he/she never desires to leave, but with no ultimate results.
In reality, there is no enlightenment but just mirages through auto-suggestions. No body is divine or having divine powers, or capable in inducing divinity. All such feelings are results of misplaced faiths generated by propaganda of spirituality all over the world, particularly in India for lack of education and scientific temper and in USA for the people's utilitarian and artificial lifestyles and their disenchantments from these.
India is the center of this business of spirituality because all the cunning persons here go in for such trickeries for quick gains of wealth and fame. Hard honest work is hardly appreciated here. In India, people get easily attracted to these trickeries but being poor can't provide much to this business. So, every spiritualist tries to make it to the prosperous USA.
