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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 12:04 pm
(August 12, 2014 at 12:03 pm)Blackout Wrote: (August 12, 2014 at 11:56 am)Minimalist Wrote: Maybe she was being polite? She could have said "I don't date assholes."
No, she refused to date at least 3 or 4 guys because of zodiac signs, and since she was a very vocal person I don't doubt she'd tell him to go fuck himself if she thought he was an asshole. It's just zodiac, really...
Pssh, what a typical Scorpio...
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 12:05 pm
Are you guys saying that my life source energy crystals are a bunch of hokum?
They can't be. The woman who sold them to me was totally a legit life source energy crystal saleswoman. She was registered with the order of pendragon and the eternal mystics society.
If we can't trust these bodies, then who can we trust??
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 12:08 pm
(August 12, 2014 at 12:05 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Are you guys saying that my life source energy crystals are a bunch of hokum?
They can't be. The woman who sold them to me was totally a legit life source energy crystal saleswoman. She was registered with the order of pendragon and the eternal mystics society.
If we can't trust these bodies, then who can we trust??
Was that a family guy joke?
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 12:41 pm
(August 12, 2014 at 12:03 pm)Blackout Wrote: No, she refused to date at least 3 or 4 guys because of zodiac signs, and since she was a very vocal person I don't doubt she'd tell him to go fuck himself if she thought he was an asshole. It's just zodiac, really...
That's such a Gemini thing to do.
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 12:59 pm
Welcome to Chicago! Summers are sublime but the winters suck.
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 1:02 pm
(August 12, 2014 at 12:59 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Welcome to Chicago! Summers are sublime but the winters suck.
I believe you might have read my post incorrectly, heh.
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 2:12 pm
(August 12, 2014 at 12:08 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: (August 12, 2014 at 12:05 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Are you guys saying that my life source energy crystals are a bunch of hokum?
They can't be. The woman who sold them to me was totally a legit life source energy crystal saleswoman. She was registered with the order of pendragon and the eternal mystics society.
If we can't trust these bodies, then who can we trust??
Was that a family guy joke?
No?
I just wrote it on the train. If it is then I've plagiarised accidentally and without knowledge! 
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 2:14 pm
(August 12, 2014 at 9:48 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I was wondering if you guys have noticed a correlation either way between atheism or theism and pseudoscience? Are theists more likely to believe in pseudoscience because of their religious beliefs, or are they kind of isolated in their own irrational bubble against it? Could also be no correlation at all, seeing as my sample size is pretty limited to my experience, but it would be interesting to explore.
Anecdotally speaking:
Most people I know that were most likely to get into the type of woo you mentioned were all Wiccan. One has since become somewhat of a pantheist.
Most atheists I know aren't really into much of anything supernatural.
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 12, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Back in my bitchier days I made a hobby of busting the more scammy of these people's chops. I'd convince them I was skeptical but interested and get them all hopped up on their own self-delusions and then call them on all the bullshit at the height of their confidence.
Nowadays I show people examples like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPFoDkGFrU
The simpler the better because it's less likely to cause that knee jerk reaction to plug their ears and ignore it. Bill Nye is awesome for this.
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RE: Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience
August 13, 2014 at 1:27 am
Maybe in Texas, but out here in California people love to mix new age bullshit with old age religious bullshit. A type of intellectual flubber I would call it, the believers mind takes many shapes.
Like any philosophy, just like all Christians are not created equal, neither are all atheists created equal. Anyone has the liberty to sprinkle superstition anywhere they like. For example, I love the idea of karma, though I will never believe in the validity of it, I will sometimes fallaciously use it in conversation.
It's like some atheists believe in big foot or don't believe in evolution or climate change. "People are people, so what should it be?" so goes the famous song.
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