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Friday Fun Thread for May 24, 2024

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You don't think it is weird that there are now 2 accounts, one brand new, promoting a GeoCities style fringe website no one has ever heard of all in the span of a few days? I mean the whole thing reads like new age woo and that is why it is being dismissed out of hand here.

You don't think it is weird that there are now 2 accounts, one brand new,

I had emailed this thread to @actualistclaud who, out of their own volition, chose to respond helpfully here.

promoting a GeoCities style fringe website no one has ever heard of all in the span of a few days?

Ah, but have you considered the alternative good faith interpretation that @actualistclaud is being helpful towards @Lewis2, as one fellow human being to another, given the later's clear agreement to find an alternative to good feelings (something that most people would rather not give up on)?

I mean the whole thing reads like new age woo and that is why it is being dismissed out of hand here.

Everyone is free to dismiss what they find to be non-sensical, but is it really necessary to make a flippant dismissive announcement on a public forum set up to rationally discuss various ideas, orthodox and unorthodox? Either downvote/report and move on, or be prepared to write a cogent and rational summary of why you think this is all "new age woo" (whatever that means).

You don't know what "new age woo" means? It means crystals, and 3rd eyes and chakras and acupuncture. Sailing over a garden before defeating a thief with nothing but the moral righteousness of an unchained spirit falls into that same catagory for me.

There is no "secret knowledge. It either works, and it becomes science and medicine and known physical laws, or it doesn't and should be consigned to the dustbin of history. This kind of just so story and navel gazing philosophizing falls deeply into the second catagory for me. I've know too many wanna be self help gurus. It becomes an immune response after a while. Basically, it is all BS unless you can prove something or test something.

Yup.

But the options are still “make the case” or “ignore.” Can’t just appeal to that immune response. Them’s the rules.

Same deal as how you’ve talked about religion. Even if you and I think it’s bunk, we’ve got to write with the intent of reaching theists.