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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
 Posted - 03/27/2004 : 16:51:50
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This from the Skeptic Sociatiy e- Skeptic magazine:
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FUNG SHUI NONSENSE SPREADS
From
Los Angeles Times: Want a Corner Office? First Check the Chi
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fengshui21mar21,1,6130543.story
Want a Corner Office? First Check the Chi
More big firms, among them News Corp., are quietly using feng shui in their work
spaces to help ensure success.
By Sallie Hofmeister
Times Staff Writer
March 21, 2004
Mitchell Stern had one of the best perches in town.
From his window on the 11th floor of DirecTV's El Segundo headquarters, the new
chief executive of the satellite-TV company could take in the mountains,
downtown skyscrapers, LAX and ships out at sea.
Stern traded that panorama last week for a view of the Hyperion sewage treatment
plant and the company parking garage. But the new office has something his old
one lacked: It's a lucky charm for someone born on May 25, 1954, Stern's birth date.
At least that's the assessment of the feng shui consultants hired by Stern's
boss, media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Along with a growing number of major corporations, Murdoch's News Corp. empire
is quietly employing the 4,000-year-old Eastern practice as a way to improve its
business success.
Other corporate believers reportedly include Coca-Cola Co., which called on a
feng shui expert at the suggestion of one of its Asian bottlers, as well as
Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard and Ford Motor Co.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2004 : 21:08:18 [Permalink]
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:hilarity: Well, I guess wealth and power does not necessarly equal smarts. Just because a superstition is 4,000 or so years old does not mean it's any less of a superstititon.
I find it appaling that the rich and famous so often buy into this crap, although perhaps I shouldn't. But it seems to me that if someone has enough drive, skill and intellegence to become wealthy, they'd not throw away a portion of their wealth on metaphysical nonsense.
Hey, y'all Ozzies, if we can work it so's Murdoch can be deported, would ya take him back? Pleeease? Fox Nooze is such a parcle of idiotcy and it is lowering the national IQ.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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