I'd like to see a self-described neopagen give a coherent definition of "energy" just once.
I can't even talk to astrologers. In several attempts to do so, I heard the line "our brains are made of water, and the moon controls the tides, and therefore the moon controls your personality" at least five different times. Even a high school understanding of science can refute that.
2007-05-29 12:44:37
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answered by Minh 6
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Obviously we have here someone who has never heard of the Placebo Effect. Or, a Scientification of casting a spell. Seems the Rational Skeptic Fundamentalists can't deal with something, unless you can speak their pseudo-scientific language.
Call it an Angel, and you're a religious flake, but speak of Ancient Astronauts (aliens, something Carl Sagan believed in, because it allows Atheists to call all religions a Cargo Cult), and suddenly you have them eating out of the palm of your hand.
Neophobes come in all flavors, oddly enough.
2007-05-29 12:54:50
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answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6
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There are issues that believers have chosen to interpret as evidence that their fashionable thoughts occurred and that i doubt that something you or i will say will exchange their minds. Flood? they sometimes cite the visual allure of marine fossils on mountains. in no way techniques that modern-day fossils are in no way got here upon there, this is in ordinary terms people who date from whilst that rock exchange into underwater, because of the fact they do no longer settle for that there could be fossils from one thousand million years in the past, the two. Archaeologists got here upon a city that have been burned with some sort of sulfurous substance. They attributed it to a close-by volcanic eruption, yet you comprehend what the literalists did with it. A city the place Jericho could have stood exchange into got here upon with partitions that have been destroyed. regrettably for the literalists, the destruction exchange into dated at a pair of thousand years in the previous Joshua exchange into meant to have lived. etc. EDIT for the ease of a poster under me: then you definately've Ron Wyatt, an newbie who someway controlled to "locate" evidence that professional archaeologists have been searching for for some years. His evidence crumbles decrease than close scrutiny and his son has admitted that Wyatt planted the chariot wheels.
2016-10-06 06:57:08
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answered by ? 4
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Why do people worship a god that has no scientific evidence that he exists? I am not really wiccan, but I can tell you that if you put positive energy into a rock, the rock does not need to know it is positive. Like a glass does not need to know that it is filled with water.
2007-05-29 12:43:19
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answered by Tina R 2
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We love you too.
Why does it bother you if we choose to believe in something spiritual? Wicca does not claim to be scientific - it has to do with personal beliefs. Nothing spiritual has ever been proven to exist, and that is true for all belief systems that are not scientific. We don't care.
Why don't you go pick on a religion that actually feels it has to prove itself?
2007-05-29 12:56:22
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answered by KC 7
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Why do people pray when there is no scientific evidence prayers work?
Why do people wish on stars or make a wish when blowing out birthday candles when there is no scientific evidence wishes work?
Why do people "think positive" when there is no scientific evidence thinking positive works?
Why do people do anything that isn't scientifically proven? Because they believe. Sometimes that's all you need.
2007-05-29 12:47:08
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answered by Brooke 3
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lol yes I get your point, however, since you've never considered wicca, and haven't experienced anything for yourself, how about laying off the insults?
Be glad that Wiccans don't legislate their beliefs into your legal system nor do they try to convert you.
Live and let live and don't worry about the 'loser hippies'... they're the least of your problems.
2007-05-29 12:43:41
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answered by Kallan 7
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Well I'd like to be able to say just because you are ignorant of how energy works, is why you don't understand but I don't feel like bothering with someone like you.
2007-05-29 12:51:20
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answered by Janet L 6
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*yawn*
There's a LOT of nontraditional, non-Western medicine that has no real basis in "science" . . . but still works.
Did you know oncologists find the "four humors" paradigm of ancient Greece VERY helpful in treating certain cancers?
That *positive thinking* and *laughter* both have documented, statistics/control group verified health benefits?
Know what you know, don't know what you don't know.
2007-05-29 12:46:26
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answered by Boar's Heart 5
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Probably for the same reason people pray. They think it works because they read too much into coincidences.
2007-05-29 12:42:43
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answered by eri 7
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