I am, as of this day, a sixty-eight year old geezer. I am now a Carlin-esque curmudgeon. After careful consideration, I believe the human predicament is without hope. We have been dealt an unplayable hand. I shake my head and chuckle. This is my survival mechanism.
I thought that yoga is just stretching and nothing hard and then I started doing yoga.... and no, it's not just stretching 😁 9 years later still doing it, although without the woo.... it helped a lot with my back problems and it really helped me with stress relief and letting go of things.... side benefit is physical fitness.... Yoga with Adriene is my to go, highly recommended
I feel you on the yoga experience, for me too limberness is mostly a theoretical concept. I have switched to Tai Chi, which keeps the movements more within the natural range of motion.
The line (from The Princess Bride) starts out with the Sicilian exclaiming, 'Inconceivable!' and Indigo Montoya says, 'Why do you keep using that word? I do not think it means what you think it means.'
"Yoga" just means "technique," "practice," or "discipline" so it can be used to designate almost anything. You can have a "yoga" of ice cream making or a "yoga" of stamp collecting.
When I first encountered yoga women. I thought they were calm and zen. After marrying one I realized she does yoga because she’s the exact opposite and does yoga to regulate the extreme neuroticism and self inflicted stress. After a few years she did hot yoga, started sleeping with one of the men in the class and we’re no longer married.
In my late 20s I managed a location of a large chain gym. The staff and many gym members HATED a select group of women the staff referred to as the "yoga bitches"; they were the biggest bunch of entitled spoiled brats in the place, very far removed from the stereotype of the mellow we-are-one-in-humanity yogi. They whined about the music in the rest of the gym being too loud, the lighting, that we didn't provide mats and blocks (for obvious hygienic reasons). We had to install locks over the thermostats when "hot yoga" became the craze and they would jack the temp up to 85 degrees because fuck the spin class coming in afterwards. Centered and mindful they were not. Personally I hate yoga; boring and too slow for me. I'll stick to weightlifting with a half hour of cardio thrown in after for good measure. I take out any angst on the iron.
@@kayanneyoung9788 lol. Yeah that’s my experience too. They’re extremely picky, fussy, complain about everything and as a group are complete nightmare but see themselves as hyper virtuous and superior to everyone else who’s not vegan or yogic.
I was a yogi before I declared myself an atheist. Good stuff. I don't do hot yoga, though. It took me 18 months to do pavritta ardan chandrasana and my jam is vinyasa flow. Remember, nothing is sacred -- *except Taylor Swift!* Namaste, bitches🤘(the beauty in me recognizes the beauty in you)
I do Martial Arts and I always wanted to try Tai Chi, but every class I found was full of woo. Finally when I was over 50, I found a class that is mostly free of the woo. I hope I can make up for lost time while I'm still healthy.
My wife and I have been watching "Yoga with Adriene", she often hints at the 'woo woo' stuff, but it's irrelevant. Yoga is one of those things that actually has a benefit, we just need to refine it down to the actual benefits vs the superstition. I have core muscles and I feel great. edit: Namaste Seth :)
Another definition of namaste is, "The sacred in me greets the sacred in you." Seth, I don't know if you read your own comments, or if you have people, but I hope this gets to you. I have listened to your speeches, your podcasts, your true stories, and I think you're missing something when you denigrate the 'woo-woo stuff." I'm nobody special; I'm no author, or podcaster, or UA-cam creator. I didn't come from an evangelical background. But I did find my own way out of Christianity . . . the difference is, I found my way to the pagan community. I can't speak for the whole community, but what I find there is what I think of as the secular sacred. Do I truly believe a god and goddess created the universe? Only on alternate Tuesdays. But do I lend credence to the Gaia hypothesis, that our whole planet is a living organism? Climate change says it is. Do I believe in miracles? Yes and no. I believe in rational science, but that doesn't keep me from finding babies and galaxies miraculous. I don't need a deity to see wonder and awe in our universe. I'm sorry; this is not coming out as clearly as I'd hoped. I'd love a chance to talk to you about all of this, on your show or off, including why you might want to rethink the woo-woo (hint: that lavender towel? That was aromatherapy, and science has found that it DOES relax you.) I just think, in your 'rationality', you may be closing your mind as much as any Christian--and ignoring possible allies in the pagan community. I'll NEVER try to convert you to any goddess, but I will try my hardest to try to convince you that you might be seeing this one thing (or group of things) wrong.
I practice Zen meditation, which is largely a breathing exercise, something the Western tradition barely recognizes. Some time ago I got into an online discussion on some fundamentalist Christian site. My main question has never been answered, "What is the difference between satanic breathing and Scriptually-based Christian breathing?"
@@user-vq4pm2xq2k I think you misunderstand me. Fundamentalists frequently condemn meditation as a "demonic" practice. I simply asked how breathing --- an essential act for all living creatures --- could possibly be demonic. I don't believe in anything demonic thus the concept of any physical or meditative practice being satanic or scriptural is absurd.
I think deep fakes will be a positive and not a negative over all. Be like Photoshop picture or didn't happen. But soon photoshopping got good we need be more careful of how we accept things. This will make us critically question video footage which is good. I feel.
What donnie really needs is a nice long dirt nap. If i know my country like i think i do , the kennedy treatment cant be far away. All biden needs to do is wait for the Supreme Court to give the president a free pass of immunity. He could theoretically solve all of donalds problems for him lol
But the cancer is not an infection. Please Seth don't say things like that. Maybe quoting Dawkins recently become a "satanic" thing to do but I love his argument about religion is a virus. When Aron Ra saying that Yah Weh is like exhaling inhaling air. Dawkins talks about why religion is not a meme. It is rather a virus like thing.
@ecstanton8385 just do your yoga and vote early liberal. After covid and all your bs lies no one cares about your opinions anymore. Even if you have a PhD
@@LobosankI need a divine savior now that this image is burned in my brain, thanks a lot. If only there was an obsessive weirdo who supports rapists and fascists commenting on this video. Hey, what a second!!
Love the show, seth. Could you do a show on religion's involvement in 12 step programs?
Yes.
I am, as of this day, a sixty-eight year old geezer. I am now a Carlin-esque curmudgeon. After careful consideration, I believe the human predicament is without hope. We have been dealt an unplayable hand. I shake my head and chuckle. This is my survival mechanism.
Just try not to drag others down with you.
@@Spock_Rogers My mad plan is to drag others, including you, into the jaws of Hell!
@@Spock_Rogersdragging people down is how i get my chuckles. Rearranging deck chairs got boring.
Oh Seth, this was a great show! 💕 You’re a captivating orator. Your speech at the end was a very moving. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Why would foreigners try to destroy Ameica? America seems fully capable of destroying itself withou involvement from other countries.
What a great episode. Thank you for sharing.
I thought that yoga is just stretching and nothing hard and then I started doing yoga.... and no, it's not just stretching 😁 9 years later still doing it, although without the woo.... it helped a lot with my back problems and it really helped me with stress relief and letting go of things.... side benefit is physical fitness.... Yoga with Adriene is my to go, highly recommended
a year and a half in now. Yoga with Adriene as well, and my back and neck are feeling much better. Namaste.
We appreciate u Seth
You are great at wordsmithing, and it's wonderful how you use that ability to build up and encourage. You are a beautiful person.
I don't wake up and check on the world anymore. I turn on some music instead.
Yoga is the best anti aging and anti stress remedy.
Brilliant talk as usual. Thank you.
FYI: Namaste, in colloquial use translates to "The spirit in me recognizes the spirit in you."
Namacra is the crazy in me recognizing and respecting the crazy in you. 😊
I don't believe in the spirit, but I am a network engineer and I like to think of it as a 'ping of love' to anyone out there who needs a hug
I'm sorry you were feeling despair, Seth. I look at you as a beacon of strength, and inspiration.
I feel you on the yoga experience, for me too limberness is mostly a theoretical concept. I have switched to Tai Chi, which keeps the movements more within the natural range of motion.
Tried it once, not for me, way too slow.
Thanks for this SEth. This is very much where I am mentally right now. Im wobbly and clumsy but it's still me.
The line (from The Princess Bride) starts out with the Sicilian exclaiming, 'Inconceivable!' and Indigo Montoya says, 'Why do you keep using that word? I do not think it means what you think it means.'
Stress relief,,,,,, STOP WATCHING THE NEWS!
Why isn't this episode in the RSS feed for the podcast?
"Yoga" just means "technique," "practice," or "discipline" so it can be used to designate almost anything. You can have a "yoga" of ice cream making or a "yoga" of stamp collecting.
I want the Seth Andrews exercise video!
When I first encountered yoga women. I thought they were calm and zen. After marrying one I realized she does yoga because she’s the exact opposite and does yoga to regulate the extreme neuroticism and self inflicted stress. After a few years she did hot yoga, started sleeping with one of the men in the class and we’re no longer married.
Goodness that's such an abrupt ending to a story. I hope you have or will find someone better.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I hope you're not saying yoga is to blame. People do what they're gonna do.
In my late 20s I managed a location of a large chain gym. The staff and many gym members HATED a select group of women the staff referred to as the "yoga bitches"; they were the biggest bunch of entitled spoiled brats in the place, very far removed from the stereotype of the mellow we-are-one-in-humanity yogi.
They whined about the music in the rest of the gym being too loud, the lighting, that we didn't provide mats and blocks (for obvious hygienic reasons). We had to install locks over the thermostats when "hot yoga" became the craze and they would jack the temp up to 85 degrees because fuck the spin class coming in afterwards. Centered and mindful they were not.
Personally I hate yoga; boring and too slow for me. I'll stick to weightlifting with a half hour of cardio thrown in after for good measure. I take out any angst on the iron.
In other words, a woman.
@@kayanneyoung9788 lol. Yeah that’s my experience too. They’re extremely picky, fussy, complain about everything and as a group are complete nightmare but see themselves as hyper virtuous and superior to everyone else who’s not vegan or yogic.
I was a yogi before I declared myself an atheist. Good stuff. I don't do hot yoga, though.
It took me 18 months to do pavritta ardan chandrasana and my jam is vinyasa flow. Remember, nothing is sacred -- *except Taylor Swift!*
Namaste, bitches🤘(the beauty in me recognizes the beauty in you)
Some of Sagan's monologues have been put to music, so you're in good company Seth :)
I do Martial Arts and I always wanted to try Tai Chi, but every class I found was full of woo. Finally when I was over 50, I found a class that is mostly free of the woo. I hope I can make up for lost time while I'm still healthy.
Please define "woo".
@@billtomson5791 Bull $hit
@@billtomson5791 Supernatural nonsense
@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst Thank you, and namaste.
@@billtomson5791I believe the term was created by the magician James Randi.
He was an interesting fellow.
You should check out some videos of him.
My wife and I have been watching "Yoga with Adriene", she often hints at the 'woo woo' stuff, but it's irrelevant. Yoga is one of those things that actually has a benefit, we just need to refine it down to the actual benefits vs the superstition. I have core muscles and I feel great.
edit: Namaste Seth :)
Y'all-Qaeda!
Gravy Seals!
Mule Team Six!
I'm dying over here.
To the son of the alcoholic: Spend your time with the guys you've found who validate you for who you are, not who they want you to be.
@ 52:02
Humans ARE animals. 🌞
Touch your toes? It’s a workout on daily routines, I gotta hold my breath just to tie my shoes!
Who else wants to see a video of seth doing goat yoga?
I saw it on the farmer's only dating site. I'm not kidding! 🐐
Another definition of namaste is, "The sacred in me greets the sacred in you."
Seth, I don't know if you read your own comments, or if you have people, but I hope this gets to you. I have listened to your speeches, your podcasts, your true stories, and I think you're missing something when you denigrate the 'woo-woo stuff."
I'm nobody special; I'm no author, or podcaster, or UA-cam creator. I didn't come from an evangelical background. But I did find my own way out of Christianity . . . the difference is, I found my way to the pagan community. I can't speak for the whole community, but what I find there is what I think of as the secular sacred. Do I truly believe a god and goddess created the universe? Only on alternate Tuesdays. But do I lend credence to the Gaia hypothesis, that our whole planet is a living organism? Climate change says it is. Do I believe in miracles? Yes and no. I believe in rational science, but that doesn't keep me from finding babies and galaxies miraculous. I don't need a deity to see wonder and awe in our universe.
I'm sorry; this is not coming out as clearly as I'd hoped. I'd love a chance to talk to you about all of this, on your show or off, including why you might want to rethink the woo-woo (hint: that lavender towel? That was aromatherapy, and science has found that it DOES relax you.) I just think, in your 'rationality', you may be closing your mind as much as any Christian--and ignoring possible allies in the pagan community. I'll NEVER try to convert you to any goddess, but I will try my hardest to try to convince you that you might be seeing this one thing (or group of things) wrong.
Yoga counts as an exercise even if far too many dismiss it.
I practice Zen meditation, which is largely a breathing exercise, something the Western tradition barely recognizes. Some time ago I got into an online discussion on some fundamentalist Christian site. My main question has never been answered, "What is the difference between satanic breathing and Scriptually-based Christian breathing?"
There is nothing like Christian breathing or santinic breathing. Don't try to take over others culture or demonize them. Mind your own business
@@user-vq4pm2xq2k I think you misunderstand me. Fundamentalists frequently condemn meditation as a "demonic" practice. I simply asked how breathing --- an essential act for all living creatures --- could possibly be demonic.
I don't believe in anything demonic thus the concept of any physical or meditative practice being satanic or scriptural is absurd.
Seth do u still play tennis?
Are we really going to do yoga?
Your music owner is blocking me from downloading and listening to this video.
Seth you are not listed as a speaker in Philadelphia.
I'm not. Not this year. - Seth
I think deep fakes will be a positive and not a negative over all. Be like Photoshop picture or didn't happen. But soon photoshopping got good we need be more careful of how we accept things. This will make us critically question video footage which is good. I feel.
I'd try yoga if they were actually able to breathe fire like Dhalsim.
What donnie really needs is a nice long dirt nap.
If i know my country like i think i do , the kennedy treatment cant be far away. All biden needs to do is wait for the Supreme Court to give the president a free pass of immunity. He could theoretically solve all of donalds problems for him lol
Duck Fonald 2024
But the cancer is not an infection. Please Seth don't say things like that. Maybe quoting Dawkins recently become a "satanic" thing to do but I love his argument about religion is a virus. When Aron Ra saying that Yah Weh is like exhaling inhaling air. Dawkins talks about why religion is not a meme. It is rather a virus like thing.
False: Religion is a cancer.
Seth's jealousy of and obsession with Trump continues to this day....
YOGA of course!!! Gotcha proving Romans 1 is true again. Now go vote early. TRUMP 2024!!!
Ah yes. The classic combination of theology and fascism.
@@samuelkoebbe5638True....fascism and religion...conservatism's kissing cousins
christo-fascists are a loud, but tiny group. Namaste.
@ecstanton8385 just do your yoga and vote early liberal. After covid and all your bs lies no one cares about your opinions anymore. Even if you have a PhD
@@LobosankI need a divine savior now that this image is burned in my brain, thanks a lot. If only there was an obsessive weirdo who supports rapists and fascists commenting on this video. Hey, what a second!!