The new law allows yoga to be offered as an elective for grades K-12. While it erases a ban that, over the years, some schools had not realized existed, it also imposes restrictions on how yoga should be taught. Students won’t be allowed to say, “Namaste,” for instance. Meditation is not allowed.
“Chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, induction of hypnotic states, guided imagery, and namaste greetings shall be expressly prohibited,” the bill states. It also requires English names be used for all poses and exercises. And before any students try a tree pose, they’ll need a parent’s permission slip.
How the fuck to they enforce a meditation ban?
student sitting quietly
Ronnie McFuckface Principal: “hey! Hey you there! What are you doing? Sitting quietly? Looks like MeDiTaTiOn to me, buddy! Here, take this Bible and read it aloud.”
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Black kids sitting quietly are meditating. Call the cops.
White kids sitting quietly are good kids.
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they did you a favor. you can now spend time more wisely.
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I am certainly looking forward to the next great debate of whether the country is moving left or right and the great victory of Alabama unbanning yoga is exhibit D.
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I think there are some fundamentalists in the West who don’t like yoga cause it’s devil worship or whatever.
It seems like they got their Yoga mixed up with the Karma Sutra and here we are
Oh yeah, there is all sorts of panicky stuff amongst evangelical Christians about how doing sun salutations is devil worship.
I’m all for yoga and meditation, tbh.
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Reminds me of an old joke my dad told me
A guy wanted to get into a shul on Yom Kippur, but realized that he was in trouble because at the temple near him, without a ticket they don’t let you in.
He said to the doorman, “Look, I just want to give a message to a friend in there.”
The guy at the door said, “Sorry, you can’t go in without a ticket.”
The first guy replied, “Just let me in for one minute, then I’ll be right out.”
“Alright,” said the doorman, “but I better not catch you praying.”
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I guess it’s a step forward from a ban on Yoga, but lol. English names only makes me laugh. “Now children, to end the class we will finish with corpse pose. Lie on your back and clear your mind and corpse it up”. Or is Shavasana considered meditation?
No guided imagery?
Instructor: “Imagine a blue sky”
Parents: “There’s a demon behind that cloud!”
Might as well just have the kids do pilates.
It will be funny when these students get older and get to do the “forbidden yoga”. Or getting together privately with friends and saying “namaste”.
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Yoga originally is a religious practice. In the interest of separation of church and state it should be restricted in public schools.
I was thinking this might be the only thing that could motivate groups of kids in Alabama to meditate.
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So my mom had a bunch of jewelry. I know literally zero about jewelry as the entire concept makes zero sense to me.
Some of it looks a little old. I highly doubt any of it has huge value but I couldn’t tell a $2 ring for a $2M one.
How do I get a real appraisal on stuff like this? Seems like walking into a random jewelry shop has super high variance.
Look for Hallmarks
Different countries have different marks I’m sure + any other Marks or symbols I’d do some research online.
Canadian
British
And there will be more depending on Value and maker
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Posted this in streaming thread but it deserves more visibility (from Knives Out).
I seem to remember that we were promised a fight between @StimAbuser and @microbet once all parties were vaccinated. Where are we on that? I need entertainment.
We went through this recently. If you think there’s something seriously valuable, find a professional, licensed appraiser who will not be purchasing the items from you. They can give you a fair market value and replacement value. The former is what you get if you sell it on the open market, and the latter is what you insure it for.
Our appraiser charged us something like $125/hour, and went through a large collection of valuables in a couple of hours, triaging them into “research and appraise”, “sell as silver metal”, and “not worth the time to research/appraise”. This was not jewelry, so YMMV.
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as we sit here in our bubble, just remember that stats like this exist:
https://twitter.com/TSnyderDC/status/1395931743601913857?s=20
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