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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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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

you just dismiss it because they settled on using a different way of speaking and describing concepts that are nontraditional in western societies.

That’s funny, I was under the impression I grew up as a Chinese in an Asian society. Guess I was mistaken.

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- jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And the problem with using a shared cultural reference is? 😂
  
  Fucker we use water pipes to explain current and other concepts in high energy physics.
  
  You need to get over yourself.
  
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belastend@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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- jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And your problem remains the same. Your friend experiences the world differently than you. You gf might very well have had a symmetrical face in her mind.
  
  And as for sound healing: define healing. ;) many people find emotional release through music. Which is an example of healing.
  
  You basically just sound like an anal retentive ass afk who hasnt even started to comprehend the world and people around them.
  
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