Up to 200,000 gallons of oil a day has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20. So far, all efforts to staunch the flow have failed.
But never fear! Hippie power is here. And one long-haired Colorado nutcase thinks we can solve the problem with a little group meditation.
“The basic concept is to try and get as many people to visualize that the valve is actually functioning and is working and closing,” said Carl Fuermann, a staff member in the University of Colorado’s Registrar Office.
But wait. It gets weirder:
Fuermann said his desire to use meditation to activate the blowout preventer — and his belief that visualization could actually work — is rooted in his own life experiences and in a global movement called the Intention Experiment.
“I’m very known for fixing things and making things work,” Fuermann said, adding that he believes his meditation helped fix a friend’s Flip video camera. “I visualize things working and hold the belief that they actually work.”
Just a wild guess on our part, but we’re pretty confident that a guy who works for the government and thinks he can fix mechanical problems via meditation is also a guy who voted for Obama.
Sounds crazy to us, but on the off chance that Fuermann’s onto something here, let’s all close our eyes and visualize November. Nancy Pelosi out. Ohmmm. Harry Reid out. Ohmmm. Barbara Boxer out. Ohmmm.
Join in. Ohmmm.
Source: DailyCamera.com
This post was last modified on May 10, 2010
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Will this work on Obama and the Democrats too?
ha ha ha I am right their with you, take out boulder screw this state full of hippies. Cant wait to move. I have never seen a real bum who would turn away free food if hungry. Only in Boulder you will see a fricking Bum holding a sign saying "will work for a veggie Burger." Do you think any bum in chicago would be picky first of all? wtf they even give the home less a bad name
I'm visualizing a tactical nuke strike in Boulder.
even looking at this in concept as a physics breaking, deep philosophical possibility -that we can control our world because it doesnt exist- there is no way this would work, in theory (or practice, in the case of that indian dude who lives off the energy from the sun, like birdman or some shit) you would have to literally destroy all bonds with your world consciousness, and for a hippie? well thats impossible, they would have to:
1.never again have dirty hippie sex
2.never cry over a staples center destroying trees
3.stop believing in global warming
4.realize that the earth mother does not f!@#ing exist
5.never again eat from a whole foods or organic garden
6.and they would have to shut their mother f@#$ing mouths for once and keep all their ill informed opinions to themselves
now, theres actually much more they would have to do, but i wont bother writing them, because no hippie on the planet could stop doing one of those things, let alone hundreds of those things.
face it hippies, the reason why indian an tibetan monks are badass and can bend spoons, is because they arent self centered cocks like you, they probably could shut the oil valve with their mind, but they wont, because they want to see you cry.
I'll add #7...Never again cry over a double rainbow.
The way things seem to be falling apart, it will be survival of the fittest again soon, and hippies will be dead meat.
Hippies will be "the meat" in my stew when we have to resort to cannibalism.
hippies the bane of my existence
I remember "hippies" like Carl were the reason I stopped going to Grateful Dead concerts.
I got tired of some liberal douche who drove to the show in daddy's BMW telling me to eat a veggie burger or some veggie chili....
posers.
Christianity = Historically-based.
New Age = Hysterically base.
May the force be with you.
Peace-love-dope-hari krishna dude.