offensive defense

okay, so i may have gone a tad too far with a couple postings. this doesn't serve exactly as an apology (which maybe safer), but as some measure of an explanation. an excuse note.

two posts. the first, "ancient chinese secret." now, i'm not discounting the whole of chinese culture. gimme a break! i'm an acupuncturist, for pete's sake. my job IS chinese culture (product of). and i don't pretend to KNOW everything about chinese culture (HARDLY) or even about acupuncture. but what i was speaking about was what one of my college professors called "orientalism." it's a phenomenon of western culture, perhaps not limited to it, but particularly rife in our modern global environment, and especially so in the alternative health field, where new exotic health products seem to pop up and become "rediscovered" every month or so. to me, this is more of a marketing ploy than anything else. keep this in mind: JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING COMES FROM SOMEWHERE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE, WITH A NAME THAT SOUNDS, for lack of a better word, "EXOTIC," DOESN'T MEAN IT WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU. my post on the "ancient chinese secret" was intended to critique this sort of mystique-generating practice...

you know, there once was a villain in the spiderman comics called mysterio. he had a glass globe head. he kinda looked cool, but his only power was producing a lot of smoke and making holographic images. that's all. "ancient chinese secrets" are real, in some cases (witness some taijiquan masters, for instance), but unfortunately, in today's global marketplace, it's just like mysterio: smoke and mirrors, signifying nothing.

okay. that was easy. now on to post #2, which is offensive primarily by title. i know, i shouldn't have said it. and, especially being a religion major, i shouldn't have "poked fun" at a religion. but what i wrote was from experience. and it wasn't intended to put down either christianity, or women... if anything, it was a commentary on the adolescent mentality of young infatuated boys... for them, love is an end all be all thing, and it is profoundly selfish (i.e., "love ME"). that's really all i was trying to say.

if nothing else, i'm human, and this is a blog.