Non-literal atheism?

[bennyboy]

Hah! A woo-less artist is no artist at all.

I had to look up woo on rational wiki. It says plenty about pseudoscience, but it doesn't say anything about artists.

You are a dealer in subtle impressions, not in absolute truths, methinks.

Is that a bad thing? I can tell the two apart if that's your concern.

To me, woo is any scientifically unsubstantiated idea-- karma, spirituality, feng shui, auras, etc. Basically, anything a hippie would be interested in. Stuff like "Are we or are we not the earths natural source for radically expanding creativity?"

I don't think there's anything bad about woo for artists. It's only bad if you think it's more than metaphor, and especially if you insist other people have to believe in the same stuff you do. But I don't think you're doing anything like that, so it's coo'.