You do have a point.
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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoCrystal healers, OTOH…
tux0r@feddit.org 5 months ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 months ago
Imagining a piece of mineral can do something is wrong, but talking to some invisible force can do something is right?
tux0r@feddit.org 5 months ago
Christianity is not the same thing as religion.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 months ago
You may have missed the edit I did. I made it more clear that I was using Buddhism as the counter-example.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months 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.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Clutches crystals really firmly and sends evil thoughts your way
thefactremains@lemmy.world 5 months ago
[deleted]Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months 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.
aleq@lemmy.world 5 months ago
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Thank you for explaining a conversation that I had to me, based on the few words I shared here. 🙄 They also literally used Naruto as an example of how chi works, FYI.
That’s funny, I was under the impression I grew up as a Chinese in an Asian society. Guess I was mistaken.
belastend@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I had a friend who believed in that. She tried to explain to my then GF how her having a symmetrical face means she’s definitely a Libra.
Now, I loved her to bits but my ex-partner did not have a symmetrical face. Few people have. But apparently the way stars aligned on her birthday meant she must have one, so that friend insisted on it.
This isn’t reason or just a different jargon. This is woo-woo. Sitting down everyday, trying to manifest a leading role in a famous TV show but doing nothing else to get this because “manifestation will do its thing” isn’t jargon.
That friend was someone I got along with. Because she did not try to convince me that vaccines are evil and instead I should just do a spirit cleanse. Like others tried to. This “jargon” is accompanied by fundamentally different ideas about how and why things happen and can lead to anti-scientism.
Lastly, yes, I consider sound healing bogus. The idea that frequencies alone can heal serious injuries is dumb. The difference between acknowledging that vibrations picked up by the brain can assist in a healing process and the idea that this can somehow replace any other treatment is fundamentally unreasonable.