james edgar
March 4, 2008 / 09:06

Too later Internet is broken. My wife was in tears when the webcast stalled 20 minutes in. She's planning to download it tonight. She won't shut up sbout Eckhart Tolle and how great he is.We now have a PVR I get to watch Oprah almost everynight now.
Yeah :(

Toronto Mike
March 4, 2008 / 09:23

Yes, shortly after I wrote this entry I heard Taryn in the kitchen. I asked her if she was booted out of the cult and she told me about the web jam. She was disappointed, but she'll be watching the damn thing on YouTube.

With this Eckhart Tolle having such an influence on our wives, we might want to brush up on what he's pitching...

james edgar
March 4, 2008 / 09:39

I did think about reading the book. But then I shook my head and went out to my garage to start rebuilding my motorcycles carbs. That's a LOT more spiritual for me than some some celbrity pushing "enlightenment" in 3 easy no pain steps.

james edgar
March 4, 2008 / 09:40

P.S. if my wife is reading the above post. It's a different James not me at all.

Argie
March 4, 2008 / 09:42

Oprah’s following really is a cult. Not in the sinister, life altering, scary sense of a true cult but it is very influential. There are so many better role models out there that women don’t have to rely on a woman who has so many faults of her own. It’s surprising really.

Toronto Mike
March 4, 2008 / 10:26

I overheard a bit of the discussion between my wife and my mom and it was about "stuff" and the accumulation of "stuff" and not letting your "stuff" define you.

I think the guy version of A New Earth is Fight Club.

Andrew
March 4, 2008 / 11:37

It is always funny to hear billionaires talk about how they don't need stuff and money isn't important. I would like to see them still say that when they don't have the money and they struggle to pay their bills every month.

In essence Argie is right. There are a lot better people to follow but none of these "better" people have TV shows. The truly great role models don't want fame or fortune. They are everyday people.

But I disagree with Argie's final comment about it being surprising. It's not. People all over the place latch onto an ideal or a person and follow it blindly even if the facts contradict the image. Many Americans think Bush is the greatest President in history despite the evidence to the contrary. Some Canadians latch onto the "Evil Harper" ideal even though he has yet to do anything evil or even remotely bad. People think that gay-marriage will be the downfall of society and yet there is nothing to say it will. It happens all the time.

Argie
March 4, 2008 / 13:05

Andrew: You were doing so well until you launched into an anti-Bush/Harper, gay marriage is wonderful tirade.

Bush isn’t the greatest president ever (that title belongs to Harry Truman). Harper is doing a good – not great – job as PM. Gay marriage is an anachronism - there’s no such thing. Marriage is one man & one woman. Anything else is simply a union.

Andrew
March 4, 2008 / 13:54

Again Argie you haven't read what I wrote. I was not anti-Harper. I didn't say a bad word about him.

I am anti-Bush, as I said there is a lot of evidence to say he is not a great president like a lot of die-hard followers keep saying. It is the point of my tirade. Has Bush done some good things? Yes. Overall he is terrible and the facts prove it.

Argie
March 4, 2008 / 14:35

Andrew: You’re right about Harper. I stand corrected.

As an aside, I wonder if Oprah likes bush… hmmmm.

Howard
September 6, 2008 / 17:50

OPRAH ... from spending several years in Jeremiah Wright's anti-American racist church, listening to sermons like "God Damn America", and giving life time achievement awards to the likes of Louis Farrakhan ... to her newest opportunistic religious beliefs ... who could possibly take Oprah seriously? This woman's ego is soooo big, being a billionaire celebrity isn't enough, she has to start her own religion ... not to mention all the additional money she is going to make selling all those book, tapes, CD's, etc. to her poor followers. Oprah's new power hungry ambitions include efforts to replace traditional America with Obama ... and access to a President she puts into office ... to her efforts at replacing Christianity with a new religion she controls. I think it's time for America to deny Oprah access to our television sets.

dayofwrath
September 6, 2009 / 00:26

The message of the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed,but it is God power to us who are being saved.The power of now is not in or from Eckhart Tolle,but from God.The power is the cross and now is the word that the church emphasizes on it:The Holy past is present "now" with power".Let Oprah and Eckhart if they dare,to speak on TV about the real "power of now" of the cross the true miracle of the blood in the book the coin of the temple by souheil bayoud.There you will find who is the false guru christ and the real Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior.
dayofwrath

Jani Cashdollar
January 29, 2010 / 00:19

Oprah is amazing. Such a beautiful soul. She does a lot of good for the world with her talk show and she has helped a ton of people with problems. She had a hard life but made something of herself, admirable!