Kabbalah Centre tries to trademark Red String

[hgc]

Thanks to The Smoking Gun (http://thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html), we have access to the trademark application, and its rejection, by the Kabbalah Centre in L.A. that caters to Madonna, etc, for Kabbalah Red String.

Apparently, to wear a red string around your wrist fends off the evil eye.

I suggest that Michael Jackson wrap himself in big red bow, because there's a lot of unhappy looks coming his way.

[c4ts]

Kabalah is weird. It's all a bunch of superstition and numerology.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by hgc
Thanks to The Smoking Gun (http://thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html), we have access to the trademark application, and its rejection, by the Kabbalah Centre in L.A. that caters to Madonna, etc, for Kabbalah Red String.

Apparently, to wear a red string around your wrist fends off the evil eye.

I suggest that Michael Jackson wrap himself in big red bow, because there's a lot of unhappy looks coming his way.

Heh! Kalifornia Kabbalah^TM.

No more rooted in rationality than "real" Kabbalah, but much more democratic. :D

No nonsense about having to be a male Orthodox Jew over 40 and a "Torah sage". Or finding a master willing to teach you. Or years of study.

Just hand over your cash and you're a Kabbalist.

Kalifornia is so much better than the old country! :p

Edited to add: I should note that most Orthodox Jews nowadays don't have any use for Kabbalah

[Candace]

Originally posted by Abdul Alhazred


Heh! Kalifornia Kabbalah^TM.

No more rooted in rationality than "real" Kabbalah, but much more democratic. :D

No nonsense about having to be a male Orthodox Jew over 40 and a "Torah sage". Or finding a master willing to teach you. Or years of study.

Just hand over your cash and you're a Kabbalist.

Kalifornia is so much better than the old country! :p

Edited to add: I should note that most Orthodox Jews nowadays don't have any use for Kabbalah

Ah, thank you Mad Arab! I was just going to post the same thing but you have put your words so much better, I'll just add a brief "I agree".

I don't remember original Kabbala (pre- A Kabbalah for the Modern Age by Winkler-Jones) being so fluffy-bunny white light. This is, after all, the stuff EEEEEE-VIL magicians like Al Crowley and Elphias Levi wrapped their dangling participles up in to make it look all mystical and spooky, isn't it?