New age-y stuff and God

I'm reasonably religious -- which, sadly, can sometimes be an oxymoron.


At my co-worker's kid's funeral ths last weekend, did some ''ohmmm''-ing.

Got me thinking about some of the new-agey stuff people do: pyramid power, crystals, harmonic vibrations and such.


Some programmers insert what are called ''Easter eggs'' into their software: hidden little quirky things that if you hit the right combination of keys, you can find. Like --as a completely made-up example -- if you went into a spreadsheet program, scrolled down to cell ''H-42'', and typed in ''Douglas Adams'', it might return a little phrase from ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.'' And a lot of video games have ''cheat codes'' -- like, you push the ''jump,'' ''shoot,'' and some other button at the same time, three times, and you get an extra 10,000 points. Or whatever.

The point is: for those of us who reckon God made the universe, and set everything thing up so that electricity and maganetism and chemical reactions and gravity work -- why **couldn't** she/he also toss in a few ''Easter eggs'' or ''cheat codes'' -- like, if you rub a pink crystal against a magnet and wear it around your neck for a week, your backache goes away. Or acupuncture.

Depending on your mindset when you're tapping into this stuf -- worshipping the crystals themselves, or just figuring they're a ''cheat code'' in the game of life -- I don't see how it could be seen as un-Christian.

IMO.


--GG