{"id":17556,"date":"2014-08-30T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:37:07","slug":"marisa-sung-s-rules-of-etiquette-for-the-modern-world-number-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17556","title":{"rendered":"Marisa Sung&#8217;s Rules of Etiquette for the Modern World Number 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Thou Shalt not recruit me into your &#8220;cult.&#8221;  I cannot tell you how many times &#8220;holy rollers&#8221; would try to recruit me into their &#8220;Spiritual Group.&#8221;  It is both scary and creepy!  I felt like &#8220;Rosemary&#8221; in &#8220;Rosemary&#8217;s Baby&#8221; being pulled into the cult by her crazy next door neighbors.  Almost as creepy as Facebook and LinkedIn stalking my every move in an effort to make me &#8220;one of them&#8221;! \ud83d\ude41  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosemary&#8217;s Baby<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PewtQsgN5uo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also have a friend who is always quoting the Bible to strangers of different religious\/spiritual backgrounds.  I am of the Christian Faith but I also practice Transcendental Meditation and am interested in Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah and Judaism.  I sometimes like to read quotes from the Bible and I love Bible stories which I share with fellow members of my Church-(The Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan) who are also interested and engaged in that activity.  However, it is never appropriate to push another religion or meditation\/eastern medicine practices on individuals of different religious backgrounds.  Devout Catholics, in particular get very insulted when these followers push the  Meditation and\/or advise them against taking all medications!  TCM is great but it is being marketed as the &#8220;geritol&#8221; of our generation.  People who suffer from severe depression or bi-polar illness for example, should never be told to stop all medication and just meditate.  Meditation helps and improves your outlook and lifestyle but it is not the cure all pill that it is currently being marketed as.   Furthermore, it is against many religions to participate in meditation practices.  Therefore, it is appropriate to share that practice only with people who are open to it and express interest.  The same goes for the Bible and Bible Quotes. We all have to be very tolerant and learn to respect the differences in others.  Just like our daily manners, what is polite in one culture can be considered very rude in another! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Madonna &#8211; Like A Prayer<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/79fzeNUqQbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thou Shalt not recruit me into your &#8220;cult.&#8221; I cannot tell you how many times &#8220;holy rollers&#8221; would try to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2087,1],"tags":[2123],"class_list":["post-17556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news","tag-lifestyle"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"5","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Thou Shalt not recruit me into your &#8220;cult.&#8221; I cannot tell you how many times &#8220;holy rollers&#8221; would try to","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Lifestyle","News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":232,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":5,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-2087\">Lifestyle<\/a> <a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}