Deepak Chopra Responds to Richard Dawkins

[life]

I just stumbled upon this short clip and I have no idea what the context actually is.
It just shows a very short (dare I say arrogant) ad hominem errrr "comment" on Richard Dawkins.



What is it Richard isn't supposed to get?

I concur, I don't get how willfully ignorant people like Chopra can be

[MartinFE]

Deepak Chopra is merely practicing the use of the "placebo effect" to help people get mental strengths.

The only reason Richard Dawkins will never get it, is because he doesn't practice self deceit.

[james1v]

[MotherLodeBeth]

Deepak Chopra is just another anti science new age odd ball. Every time I hear him on a show like Larry King babbling on about Christ conciseness I hear fingernails on a chalk board. ~Beth~

[Tero1111]

So, materialism is obsolete! Must be because there is a controversy and the world is a Goldilocks universe created for us.

[andyx1205]

Chopra, chup ho ja.

Translation: Chopra, shut up.

[matt1985]

One good schoolmaster

[bckiter]

Deepak Chopra makes millions of dollars on using the unexplainable aspects of quantum physics as a metaphor, and some how he manages to correlate it to consciousness. Sort of like how "The Secret" for instance, (or the so called "Law of Attraction") caused the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka. According to the creator of the book the secret, she postulated that all the people on the island must have attracted the tsunami with their thoughts! If only life were that simple, we could eliminate hunger with just thinking of food. Placebo that Deepak Chopra!

[Calilasseia]

Do I need to waste brain cells thinking about this Chopra individual?

[superchang]

I'll see your Deepak and raise you a Dr. Phil.

Check.

[RobertS]

Do I need to waste brain cells thinking about this Chopra individual?

not any more than you need of nuke a gnat?

[natselrox]

Do I need to waste brain cells thinking about this Chopra individual?

You already wasted quite a lot fighting creotards! Why not launch a campaign against this Chopra-bugger? At least he is a strong opponent!

[hyperdeath]

Dawkins always seems to miss "it". However, the "it" in question always seems to an incoherent mixture of vapid clichés, bare assertions and randomly chosen big words. The only common theme to "it" is the assumption that Dawkins must be wrong.

[mirandaceleste]

Do I need to waste brain cells thinking about this Chopra individual?

I think that this answers your question:

You aren't aware that you create the scent of a rose by smelling it, or that what you decide today can alter something you did yesterday. None of us were raised to think that way. But as speculative thinkers, backed up by thousands of years of spiritual insight and the most current experimental evidence, we believe that thinking can be changed. It must. As long as we remain prisoners of materialism, destined to obey random events and subatomic interactions over which we have no power, the true nature of mind will be distorted. More importantly, we will postpone the day when we can master every level of nature through no more than the wisp of a thought and the power of an intention.

(From here)

[Stella]

Ha. The guy's as enlightened as a bowl of soup.

[camoguard]

depends on the soup.

[catalinmerfu]

Posted my comment first on youtube, then copied here:

Mechanistic, Newtonian ... you probably don't understand Richard Dawkins. I always though your books are at the low end of your market (The Third Jesus) and now I understand why.

[Skylarking]

One good schoolmaster

Incredibly apt first post.

[anbhas]

Deepak Chopra is just another anti science new age odd ball. Every time I hear him on a show like Larry King babbling on about Christ conciseness I hear fingernails on a chalk board. ~Beth~

It would be nice if there were some "Christ conciseness" during public prayers. Most of them are way too wordy.