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[–] 44 points 6 months ago (19 children)

I absolutely believe in energy, frequency, and vibration. My wifi vibrates at a frequency of 2.4 and 5 GHz and in order to do that it needs to use energy.

Like, I'm down with hippie woo energy work, it's really useful meditation. I use it to keep my anxiety under control. But your religion can't cure diseases, it can only provide comfort

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    That's how I feel about astrology. A horoscope is just a prompt for self reflection. But it's fun when something feels woo woo or predictive or relatable because... its fun, idk. Its spooOoOoOoKy, it's fun, it's cute. Star charts are a skill you have to learn, it's a hobby, it makes your brain work.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    Well that begs the question though, why do some people find it fun and cute? Because they want to believe there's a lazy easy way to figure things out without doing the hard work of the scientific process.

    From that perspective i find astrology to be harmful and dangerous, although unfortunately ive had no success convincing anyone of that. I suppose some humans just like harmful and dangerous things and perhaps evolutionarily our species evolved to have a large number of those people.

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The irony of finding two other woo-tolerant Lemmites in this comm.

    Once I learned that astrology points to themes of influence on a time frame, it made a lot more sense. Taking it literally and thinking everything is confirmation bias is how people dismiss it. There's more than a few people that have correctly nailed a lot of big events, it's more about technique it seems. Nick Dagen Best published a book I think in 2013 or 2016 that is hitting hard right now - totally called Trump 2 and stuck to his guns on that.

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  • [+] -12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I like maps. I like puzzles. Astrology's both.

    First got intrigued when in my ignorant militant atheism dogma phase, and someone managed to discern my sun sign, just by my appearance and behaviours. I have since gone on to do the same to others, typically with as much world-view-changing astonishment in them as I experienced.

    Can't be bunk if that can be done.

    The observable profiling reality of it, does open minds to wondering about what's the astrological weather like.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    To put on my obnoxious skeptic hat, it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people's upbringing affects each generations' behaviors and mannerisms. Just, with an astrological chart rather than with a calendar.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people’s upbringing affects each generations’ behaviors and mannerisms.

    I do not know how it sounds like that to you. Seems a strong non sequitur. Maybe I'm missing something. Care to elaborate how you made this leap?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    People who grew up around the same time and geography have the same historical pressures on what behaviors they learn. Obviously outcome varies a lot individual to individual, but it creates broad trends among large groups. Sorting chronologically brings those trends to the forefront.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Maybe can cure some diseases.

    Even just via the comfort provided. Comfort enough, to get into a parasympathetic dominant mode long enough for the body to heal itself.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I kinda don't believe in Energy, in the sense that I find it a useful conserved quantity to calculate stuff. Energy, or other physical quantities like fields "existing" though, is a philosophical question

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Alopatic medicine cures some stuff but what does most is treat symptoms cause what it wants is to make money not to cure disease, I'm quite sure companies making billions off insuline and chemotherapy aren't going to even bother trying to cure something they are profiting off, in fact is much probable that they actively try to sabotage research that could end their golden goose disease treatments...

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