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Do people still unironically say this? It was a joke even decades ago. I remember parodying it as a teenager.
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20. If you ask a lot of folks in the SF burner set for affiliation they'd say they're "Spiritual but not religious" What they mean is "If I want to believe in Crystals and Chakras, I'm going to, leave me the hell alone" I'm not into that...
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They tend to at least be aware of a history of an idea as a cliche though, and update or qualify usage a bit (“I know it’s a cliche to say this...”). I find unaware usages interesting. Generally people who have grown up somewhat intellectually isolated.
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6 in 10 Americans apparently.
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All your recent groks reminded me of a weekend data project i did a while back where I attempted to create a "New Age" score across American cities based as a follow-up of @pewresearch New Age analysis. bit.ly/NewAgeCities
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Actually "spiritual but nor religious" is an increasingly popular affiliation category that is showing up on more surveys and is widely popular among young people in particular. What they mean is: "I am not an atheist or total skeptic, but I don't follow any particular dogma."
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SERIAL, a film from 1980 with Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld poked fun at the New Age sensibilities, along with a lot of other California quirks, back in 1980. Super old trope.
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