Wisdom on demand

[caraher]

It's the Random (Fake) Deepak Chopra Quote Generator!

[laconicsax]

1. It's fun and sad all at the same time!

Thanks for posting.

[caraher]

2. For a (small?) challenge...

Try to identify the real Chopra quotes. (Someone got all 10 right on the second page so the answers are readily available.)

[laconicsax]

3. They all look the same to me.

I mean, how can you tell that "Existence regulates great possibilities." is a fake quote but "Infinity is beyond limitations." is real?

[caraher]

4. I had the same problem

though others who guessed seemed to do OK.

Now I just want to know what a "quantified eternity" is according to Chopra....

[LeftishBrit]

6. Got 8 out of 10

[trotsky]

5. Ha! That is awesome. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

7. Great stuff!

The sad thing is that someone like the mathematician Sir Roger Penrose is prepared to give Chopra the time of day:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Consciousness-Universe-Deepak-Chopra/dp/0982955200/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1341410210&sr=8-3

[SwissTony]

8. Actually, Penrose seems to have a liking for stuff that has a whiff of woo about it.

The contents of that book are

Section I. Cosmology of Consciousness
Section II. Brain and Mind
Section III. What is Consciousness
Section IV. Consciousness and Thought
Section V. The Neuroanatomy of the Unconscious
Section VI. Remote Consciousness
Section VII. Self-Consciousness - Dissociated, Shared, Near Death Consciousness
Section VIII. Dreams, Hallucinations & Altered States of Consciousness
Section IX. Origins & Evolution of Consciousness
Section X. Paleolithic Consciousness: Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, Spirituality, Sexuality
Section XI. Animal and Artificial Consciousness
Section XII. Quantum Physics and Consciousness
Section XIII. Consciousness and ExtraTerrestrials
Section XIV. Consciousness and the Universe


Apart from Chopra, Descartes, Huxley and Freud seem to have been press-ganged into making a contribution.

[ElboRuum]

9. "Knowledge is inherent in irrational photons"

Ouch.

[pwhtckll]

10. "The cosmos regulates the barrier of sensations"

I wonder if he gets his quotes from this website. Then the website derives phrases from his quotes, randomizes them, and re-assembles them for him to repeat. It's the cosmic cycle of woo.

[ericburns4]

11. Wisdom on demand

It doesn’t make any sense!

[caraher]

12. Perhaps not to your discursive Western mind...

Or, as Deepak Fauxpra just told me, "Our consciousness opens the barrier of facts"

(see, the site is a joke...)

[LeftishBrit]

13. Existence radiates existential brightness

[Silent3]

14. I prefer to say...

...my existence is so radiant you gotta wear existential shades.