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Patsy was so right that BB was trying to mock her beliefs
Kromm
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Patsy was dead on in what she said in the diary room about BB trying to use the meditation task to mock her and her beliefs. Good on her for calling them out (and I'm very shocked BB aired her saying so, since she was so clearly right).
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More time in bed with tea and food being served to her. Do we actually see her standing up .. even on Launch night she was splayed over the sofa.
it seemed clear BB just wanted to do a "calm before the storm" segment.
Are you being contrary just for the hell of it?
It's not about the reality of what meditation is or isn't. It's about how BB can present a belief system (which only YOU are saying means "religion") and use it to make someone look like a flake, a lightweight, a kook. This is not a debate over if meditation is any of those things, or if it's a religion, it's about a case where a media portrayal of someone who believes in living their lives with meditation as a key point was going to present them like a hippie, a flower child, a new Age idiot, etc. and imply they're a kook.
It didn't wind up looking that flakey or kooky because Patsy sussed out what they wanted to do and they backed off a bit. I'm sure the version of this we would have gotten otherwise would have looked and sounded a lot different than it did if she hadn't challenged them on it.
Meditating is just a "thing" like jogging, or Tai Chi. What if she was an adherent of Feng Shui? Should the house be designed to suit her Chakra?
They should have made her do it in a shock suit, or have her stand on her head so it for once looks like she's smiling.
By the way, I don't dislike Patsy, but she needs to lighten up. I don't think that the meditation is working.
After the hissy fit and refusing to do the first thing asked of her in the house, the task wasn't humiliating at all, far from it.
Oh I'm not even claiming the show had no right to try and do what they did. Just that she was dead on SEEING what they were doing. She's taken a lot of trash talk on this forum and I thought it was interesting that there is some evidence that however boring she is, she's not stupid. She saw what they were doing. The right or wrong of BB setting up the situation is something else entirely.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. I like Patsy but that behaviour really wasn't her finest hour. She came accross as a stroppy teenager. It was an opportunity for her to impart her meditativeknowledge or even have a good old laugh, she didn't and I'm disappointed in her.:(
I've added to my post, but to be fair in my opinion the task she was given was not taking the piss at all. At least she could have agreed to it and look at what they had set up before she stonewalled the whole thing. Which I found to be a little over sensitive.
Really
No, I am offering my opinion. That is allowed on a discussion forum. OK?
trying tothink of a single instance where she has done or said anything remotely interesting
get her out before she has a nervous breakdown
She is being paid so so much money. It's an entertainment show. The rules state you have to do as big brother says or face the punishment. The show is about humiliation. She took the money.
Meditation is not a religion.
Following what happened in Paris, everyone is saying there is a right to offend and even offending a whole religion is not as important as being allowed to mock that religion. So Big Brother can mock her, and she has to accept it or leave.
Something can be a belief without being a religion.
It's like being a vegetarian. Or the more radical version, a Vegan. Those are beliefs too, but nobody would try and pigeonhole them as religions.
And that also has a lot in common with the meditation in that it's a non-religious belief that can easily be grabbed on by a media portrayal to make someone look like a total nutter. A percentage of the people doing it perhaps even being nutters... but usually for far broader reasons than them non eating meat, or doing lots of yoga.
How many times in how many responses do I have to basically say "meditation is a belief, not a religion" before people stop spitting back to me posts acting like I said the very opposite? Please read my posts before commenting, it would be appreciated.
I also explicitly stated in a follow up post (and strongly implied in my original post) that BB had every right to do what they did, but that I thought it interesting (and quite satisfying) that she'd turned it around on them. Again, me saying that seems to be being ignored, with a response taking me for task, as if I'd said the opposite thing (that BB somehow had no right to do it). They have every right to try to get her to do it, but if she was able to get them to back off on it, then good for her.
Agreed
She's a bit precious so somehow expects to retain her dignity in CBB, which is ridiculous. No one's "belief system" was being swiped at, it was just a bit of lid lifting on the "Patsy Kensit Persona" she's created.