But the sikh was there to do acupuncture, not to pray. I'm in agreement that it was a weird element though.

I'm not sure I agree with "selfish." Spiritual, or relying on a higher power, yes.

Yeah, selfish was perhaps not the right word, but coffee hasn't kicked in yet and I couldn't quite think of what I wanted to use. There were parallels, although of course, Kurt's reasons are grounded in a more profound need sort of way, since he does need Burt and Finn doesn't exactly need to have touched Rachel's boobs.

As an aside, it's Rachel who's beginning to really get on my nerves. The charming self-absorption has devolved into a raging megalomania that's gone from funny to painful.

But the sikh was there to do acupuncture, not to pray.

But again, not knowing anything about the connection, if there is any, between the two, does the application of the medical technique have anything to do with the spiritual?

I think perhaps because it was grounded in something concrete—the actual physical act of doing something to "help" Burt, was one reason that Kurt was more willing to look to the sikh.

I don't know. I mean, I know I'm overanalyzing it to death, but it's the one thing that consistently gets me about the show-- when they do things well, they do them so very well, with nuance and subtlety, but then they too often go and blow it by taking a lazy way out. It's like the writers who put a hot and heavy sex scene when the protags are in the middle of a jungle, running away from bad guys with guns. Because really, that's the best time to have sex up against a tree.

What did Creed say after, "Be cool, Michael?.."

It sounded like, "The song was about killing a bunch of people."

But again, not knowing anything about the connection, if there is any, between the two, does the application of the medical technique have anything to do with the spiritual?

There isn't a connection. The acupuncturist happened to be a sikh.

I mean, I know I'm overanalyzing it to death

It's the Buffista way.

There isn't a connection. The acupuncturist happened to be a sikh.

I think that was deliberate, to make people/characters wonder if there was an "alternate" spiritual connection.

There isn't a connection. The acupuncturist happened to be a sikh.

And as I continue to overanalyze it to death, wouldn't he have just referred to her as his acupuncturist? Because he did clearly refer to her as his sikh later on in the episode.

Which, nitpicker that I am, was a way for Kurt to say, "I don't reject all religion, I just reject your ideas of religion because they rejected me first."

Which is fine and totally valid and rock on, Kurt, but that then doesn't make him a non-believer in the way that the writers first set out to portray him at the episode's outset.

Okay, I should just leave this alone and accept that the writers manipulated the story in the manner in which they wanted to tell it and I shouldn't worry about it making sense, because this is GLEE and it's not often with the sense-making and more importantly, it's going to drive me bananas.

And as I continue to overanalyze it to death, wouldn't he have just referred to her as his acupuncturist? Because he did clearly refer to her as his sikh later on in the episode.

Actually, she or he said she was a sikh because the prayer circle said "Muslim?" (Which happens with sikhs all the time-so I thought the joke was about assumptions).

Which, nitpicker that I am, was a way for Kurt to say, "I don't reject all religion, I just reject your ideas of religion because they rejected me first."

No, he's an atheist. It's not about rejecting something you feel left out of. It's not believing period.

Yeah, I thought the "my Sikh" reference was just a call-back to the earlier correction from "Muslim?"

The hospital thing really pinged me because I spent much of this summer running interference to keep all of Mom's well-intentioned friends from wearing her out with their constant phone calls, visits, offers to fix dinner, etc. during her hospital stays and recovery. It was all coming from a place of caring about her and wanting to feel like they were contributing to her recovery, but so very not what she needed at the time. I had to be the Bad Guy and tell everyone they needed to back off until she was feeling better and had enough energy to socialize.

Though being a 40-year-old curmudgeon and not having much use for tact under the best circumstances helped get that position heard and obeyed better than Kurt's protestations about religion.