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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Crystal healers, OTOH…

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  • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fun fact: a lot of the crystal healers i interact with are solid people.

    Nutty sure but most of them are all about emotional wellness and support and very few are okay with trump or republicans.

    It always amuses me when the people who think they’re rational and shit on the mystic groups miss out on wonderful friends and allies.

    Kind of like the 2019 campaign when everone shit on Marianne Williamson.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh I have friends in that group too. The problem is, I wouldn’t trust any of them to do logic and reasoning. They’re great people, but they couldn’t reason their way out of a wet paper bag.

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      • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        they couldn’t reason their way out of a wet paper bag.

        neither can you apparently. you’re confusing reasoning with jargon. they just speak a different dialect.

        ‘focus energy in your feet’ is tell you to ground yourself, loosen your knees and tighten the core. chi describes focusing your mental attention on something. any person who has snowboarded/skateboarded would understand exactly what that person is saying if they bothered to listen and put the terms into context.

        do you consider ‘sound healing’ bogus? what if I told you your cells have receptors that can detect sound vibrations (your ears work right? but its more than that individual cells can too.)? which cause neural impulses which can impact large areas of the brain and body directly and indirectly.

        your problem is you dont stop to listen and understand what these people are saying and you just dismiss it because they settled on using a different way of speaking and describing concepts that are nontraditional in western societies.

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  • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You do have a point.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Imagining a piece of mineral can do something is wrong, but talking to some invisible force can do something is right?

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      • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Christianity is not the same thing as religion.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Personally, I put that kind of woo-woo in the same bucket as religion. It’s all belief in made up nonsense that is indicative of a lack of critical thinking.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Clutches crystals really firmly and sends evil thoughts your way

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    • thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What if I told you the problems only materialize when people tell other people what, and what not to believe?

      Pure belief and spirituality (when you remove the need for compliance and/or judgement of others) is critical for healthy evolution of humanity through personal growth.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What if I told you the problems only materialize when people tell other people what, and what not to believe?

        I disagree. The problems materialise whenever a person enters the real world and their beliefs affect how they act.

        For example, a religious doctor choosing not to administer birth control, or not to perform abortions. That’s a real-world problem caused by religious people’s own beliefs impacting how they personally choose to act, and having a negative effect on society at large.

        Pure belief and spirituality is critical for healthy evolution of humanity through personal growth.

        Was. If you said was critical, I would agree with you. But certainly not is. We have no use for woo-woo and belief in nonsensical claims today.

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  • aleq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They are powerful centers of healing though…

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s something wrong with outright rejecting objective reality to believe in the fantastical. Doesn’t lend itself well to rational thinking voters, exactly does it?

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kinda depends on their exact beliefs. Cuckoos aside, a lot of non-extremist religious folks have views that are reasonably compatible with reality, or at least not mutually exclusive.

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I belief in an invisible wizard in the sky that grant wishes and subject you to eternal torture if you don’t both believe in him and love him is incompatible with reality

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        As long as they aren’t believing every small thing that happens is due to the actions of said sky wizard, I’m not seeing the incompatibility. Also, I’m agnostic, so if you’re trying to get a raise out of me don’t bother.

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      • thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s just as compatible as imagination and fairy tails as long as you don’t force your beliefs on others, or make decisions that impact others based on those beliefs.

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  • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You mean like running a campaign based on genocide, war hawking, and enabling corporate abuses as a democratic candidate? Yeah i was pretty baffled by that too.

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