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Perhaps not the best inspirational quote to put on the wall of your salad place
By adamg on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 11:59am
A roving UHub photographer with a keen memory for bizarre cult news looked up the other day while getting a salad at the State Street Sweetgreen and saw this anodyne quotation about creativity by somebody named Osho.
Osho? He was also known as Rajneesh, an Indian mystic whose followers started a commune in Oregon and then hatched a plot in 1984 to take over the county by putting up candidates for the county board and ensuring their victory by keeping other residents away from the polls by poisoning them with salmonella solutions poured into salad bars and salad dressing at local restaurants.
To be sure, Osho/Rajneesh denounced the leader of the commune for causing the largest salmonella outbreak in the US that year, but maybe there are other inspirational quotes from people whose followers are not connected to poisoned salad bars a salad place could use.
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Lincoln Meme
Just change the attribution to Abe Lincoln. Fixed!
Further memefication
Then attribute the entire quote, Lincoln's name included, to Michael Scott.
OSHO!!!
OMG, you have to watch Wild Wild Country. Incredible stuff
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/wild_wild_country
Rajneeshpuram
I lived through the Rajneeshpuram episode. I remember his "lieutenant" was Ma Anand Sheela, a tough bird who swore so much Ted Koppel cut off her microphone during an appearance on Nightline.
Tough bird?
Try psychotic piece of shit.
I used to work in this
I used to work in this building in the before times. I remember seeing that quote after watching the "Wild Wild Country" documentary and audibly saying "what the fuck?" to myself while I was waiting in line for a salad.
You mean
This documentary?
Also known as "The Bhagwan".
I remember him.
And then there was Guru Maharaj Ji, the thirteen year old Perfect Master. Did he ever grow up? :-)
Also immortalized in the "Bloom County" comic...
...when Bill the Cat joined.
DLM
He did. https://www.premrawat.com While cultism is a problem in lots of spheres- Religion, Politics, Yoga --- (and I believe in atheism mostly) - sometimes the goal is peace, not taking a piece, carrying a piece, or being a piece ---but promoting PEACE.
Well I say
Existence is the most creative rebellion
Stick that in yer pipe & puff on it, Osh’
That's very good
but may put you in danger of being mistaken for a Christian philosopher. If existence is a rebellion, it must be a rebellion against nonexistence; and making existence out of nonexistence is, according to said philosophers, the only true creation.
Why can't we use Western intellectual quotes?
To do is to be - Socrates
To be is to do - Kant
Do be do be do - Sinatra
To be is to do - Kant
I always thought it should be "To be is to do - unless you Kant."
There were so many cults
with local presence in the 70s and 80s. I remember the Scientologists (usually masquerading as something else), the Boston Church of Christ, the Hare Krishnas. I seem to recall a cult related restaurant operating in Teele Square in Somerville in the late 80s. It was Indian and I thought it might have been related to the Rajneeshis but not certain.
The Processeans
There was also the now-forgotten Processeans (Process Church of the Final Judgement) who sold their magazine on the streets of Boston in the early 70s wearing long black robes and silver crosses. They also had a coffeehouse just outside Harvard Square. I can't recall exactly where, but I went there a few times circa 1973.
Also in the 70s...
We couldn't go to Subway because the Moonies ran them. Meanwhile, bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran was ok
But did they take over a small western town?
Rajneeshpuram was a shit show in the most literal sense of the word.
And that's why
a salad at Sweetgreen is worth $15.
Salmonella
The Baghwan's (Osho's) right hand woman Ma Anand Sheila and Sweetgreen have something in common, yes?
Rajneeshis put slamonella in saladbars, sickening a thousand people. The obliviousness of a salad place featuring an Osho quote is stunning.
Funniest thing I’ve read all day.
Gotta add this to the sightseeing tour for upcoming visitors.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
My brother went on a college trip for a weekend when Rajneeshpuram was in full exploding bullshit.
He credits his experience with resisting cults throughout the late 70s. Seriously fucked up place and group.
, "... My salad days, / When
, "... My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!"
OMG!
The look in Osho's eyes when he boarded that plane for his final trip from America.
I could tell he really was going to miss his Rolls Royces.