re: #173 dog philosopher

these days it seems to mean what we would have called “hippie-dippy”, as in “i’m putting my crystals out in the moonlight to purify them”

One of my students does that. She’s a real believer in crystals, pyramid-power, the whole enchilada of kooky. She’s nice enough, but when I walk into class and the first thing I hear is, “Your chi seems disturbed; I can see your aura spiking” while she looks at me clutching a crystal with a bovine expression on her face, it takes a lot out of you.