I'm certainly not going to push meditation on anyone, but I don't think the "it wasn't developed in parallel" argument is a poor one-- meditation practices are

I'm certainly not going to push meditation on anyone, but I don't think the "it wasn't developed in parallel" argument is a poor one-- meditation practices are pretty much ubiquitous throughout all of Asia. That's not nothing. Furthermore, besides the obvious Buddhist and Hindu traditions, there are meditative traditions (albeit minor ones) within Christianity. I'm quite surprised to hear that you tried meditating every day for a month or so, without "getting it"-- to me, that sounds like you had a terrible meditation instructor. Anyway: feel free to not meditate, if that's working for you, but the "not invented here" argument seems pretty weak to me.