{"id":885,"date":"2008-05-26T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2008-05-26T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T04:00:03","slug":"now-im-mad-again-the-power-of-not-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/now-im-mad-again-the-power-of-not-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I’m Mad Again (The Power of Not Now)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know much about that Eckhart Tolle<\/a> character beyond the facts that he writes best-sellers, Oprah likes him and his name is funny. But I feel a seething hatred brewing for The Power of Now.<\/p>\n

I just landed on a blog called Evolving Beings<\/a>, which purports to ‘share wisdom and spiritual enlightenment.’ I patiently read a long post about someone deciding to rid herself of her jewelry collection. She goes on and on about how your “stuff” is really dead weight, just a product of materialism, not essential to Who You Really Are. So I’m reading and reading and then I get to the part where she takes the jewelry to a pawn shop and sells it for a fraction of what it’s worth.<\/p>\n

Please join me in thinking, What a crock of shit! \u00a0 Is selling your jewelry a way to rid yourself of the burden of materialism? And to a pawn shop! A business that profits off the misery of the desperate? Why didn’t this Spirituality Seeker just donate her jewelry to a charity? In my own neighborhood, there are thrift-shops that benefit AIDS, cancer research, drug rehabilitation and homeless shelters.<\/p>\n

Godammit, I am enraged by this example of hypocrisy and stupidity. I hereby launch my own movement called The Power of Not Now . You heard it here first. You can join up today, or you can wait until I devise its 5 Sacred Tenets. The first will be (duh!) “Why do now what you can put off until later?”<\/p>\n

The second will be “Hang on to Your Jewelry!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"