Oprah "spiritual" garbage annoys and damages

Anyone with a brain knows that Oprah's "spiritual" topics are garbage. Obviously I'm not a fan and I don't watch. However I listen to XM satellite radio and they sometimes do heavy rotation of advert clips of her "Oprah and (equally moronic) Friends" episodes. The most recent one is not only annoying but damaging to anyone sucked in by the "logic" of the discussion.

Her guest is telling Oprah that she was at a prison and when someone was locked up in solitary, he started screaming in anguish. Her guest then jumped to the conclusion, in this clip, that he was screaming because "he was locked up all alone with his mind," while a Buddhist would "thank you for locking him up" (with his presumably serene mind). This is wrong in so many ways it is pathetic, but it is an alluring temptation of "logic" and that is the problem.

First of all, no human is ever alone. Every person, whether they believe in God or not, has God with him or her, even in the most dire of circumstances, and also their guardian angel. So it is outrageous that in this clip the implication is that someone can ever really be "all alone except for their (tormented) mind." People weak in faith will listen to this garbage and then start nodding, feeling all wise, thinking, wow, that must be terrible. Well, yeah, it might be terrible but because that is a mental illness or severe biological or emotional distress, not because "they are all alone in the universe locked up with their awful tormented mind" (as I paraphrase what they are implying).

As people struggle with disorders like bipolar, ADHD, depression and anxiety, the last thing they need to hear is that it is physically possible to be "all alone with only their tormented mind, locked in a jail cell." It may feel that way in moment of breakdown, but by contrasting this supposed man in prison with a BUDDHIST, they are obviously making a "spiritual" point and being downright destructive regarding negating a mental health point.

Second, I have no problem with Buddhists, but you have to remember what their alleged gig is regarding spirituality. Buddhists, to various degrees (and depending on their authenticity) try to detach from life. So just as God gives them the gift of life, many who call themselves Buddhists (especially new agers), abuse the idea of detachment from materialism in order to detach from belief in God and belief in the sanctity of fellow human life. Again, authentic traditional Buddhists have their heads screwed on right and are not a trouble in this regard; they have the balance correct with compassion and attachment to humans, while not letting the material part of life overcome their priorities. But Oprah and fiends, oops, I mean "friends" are not speaking to mainstream Buddhists. They are speaking to needy and often troubled "western" "seekers." And so to imply that anyone is ever alone (no God, no guardian angel) and that believing one is Godless and "doesn't care cuz I is detached from the material world" is insulting, troublesome and unhelpful. Like I said, that clip and all it exhibits is wrong in so many ways it is not funny.

But this is so typical of the hidden agenda of mind melding that Oprah and her new age ilk are constantly doing. They are always trying to get to people's minds to push their anti-institutional religion agenda (anti Jewish, anti Christian, anti Muslim) because they are hooked on the new age squishy idea of the "universe" and its "cycles" and like dealers have to push that "view" on everyone else all the time or they are not happy. And that is the question, isn't it. Why do they feel they have to push that view, exactly the opposite of what many who suffer from disorders like depression need? Selling books and her media empire is the obvious answer, but there's more to it than that. See, if they really believed their own garbage they'd be "serene" in their own minds about it, and not have to constantly recruit. Recruiting differs from evangelizing. Evangelizing means bringing the word of God to those who have not yet heard. Recruiting means that you can convince yourself that you are "right" if you get a bunch of other fools to believe along with you (and buff your behind with praise all the time, plus give you their money).

Wow, I am just boggled. As people struggle with mental disorders that often come from disconnect and alienation, all we need is them smearing the belief that people can be alone and trapped in their minds. What a piece of work these types are and the damage is enormous. I've disliked her and her ilk for decades as I watch the damage spread and spread and spread. When will people wise up? Never I guess.