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  1. Gary C

    Rep. Luna Requests UAP Video, With a List of Names.

    ...posted demonstrates the disconnect between disciplined information collection procedures employed by people who's lives may depend on getting it right vs the woo infotainment industry which depends on a steady stream of woo. n.b. my browser now recognizes "infotainment" as a valid English word.
  2. Y

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    That's why I said in the "woo sense" because that's my experience with it. That's also why I said elsewhere I wasn't familiar with the non-woo sense. Copying from Google Gemini here: > Synchronicity, introduced by psychologist Carl Jung in the early 20th century, refers to meaningful...
  3. JMartJr

    "Alien skeletons" in Mexican cave

    So he's going off into medical woo as well?
  4. deirdre

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    It's not woo. certainly some people can make it into woo (like my preference to decide sometimes that its god or grandpa saying hi), but it itself isn't manifested or anything. there isnt anything supernatural about it happening. It's more just noticing the 'fabric of reality', the way that we...
  5. R2robot

    Fixed Plane labels not showing

    Woo! Thank you!
  6. Y

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    Not really. Physics will postulate missing particles or theories (like relativity) that make predictions that can be tested. Synchronicity, in the woo sense, doesn't do that. Metaphysics gets into the why more than physics. Math starts from axioms, which are agreed upon rules, and beyond that...
  7. Gary C

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    That is actually the point of contention in all the discussions around this topic. Statisticians vs Woo.
  8. deirdre

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    it's incredibly interesting. but like gravity i doubt there will ever be an understanding of why/how/what it is. and it doesnt help anything in anyway (unless you give it meaning of course. it could be comforting like God letting you know He is there, but it could also be terrorizing too if...
  9. Y

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    ...are just gonna happen. I'm sorry you were so stressed out at that time. I've been there, though my coping mechanism is retreating inward, and I hope you don't have to experience that again. Your non-woo version is much more interesting to me from a psychological standpoint than the woo version.
  10. jarlrmai

    The Age of Disclosure film

    The UFO/woo rabbit hole is a fairly common one for rock stars Frank Black, Tom DeLonge, Dave Grohl, Robbie Williams, Elvis, Keith Richards etc
  11. Ann K

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    ...falls down instead of up. The repetition of mundane events is a thing that we don't notice, and depend upon in our daily lives. Where the "woo" comes in is not in the events themselves, but in the significance we place on them. True, sometimes noticing a pattern can lead to a genuine...
  12. S

    Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

    ...likely and reasonable explanation to why there is a dearth of them in the earths shadow. And for people who disagree, some "extraordinary psi-woo" would have be the only other explanation to explain the statistical trend. I guess an error in their procedures or statistical analysis is not a...
  13. jarlrmai

    Baited into Rabbit hole: Mindset, social media and feedback loop.

    ...in these kinds of fields where proponents of one thing, say UFOs sort of end up having to, at least on the surface, accept all sorts of other woo fields especially if someone 'big' starts connecting them together, because they all use the same rhetoric about being open minded etc, if they...
  14. Y

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    Ahhh sorry I should've specified I was referring to "synchronicity" as used in the woo world. It's not super well defined, but it points to some sort of guiding force (not necessarily God even). Some sort of coincidence that points to something... larger.
  15. R

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    Patternicity "Patternicity is the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns, connections, or intentionality within random, chaotic, or meaningless data. Coined by Michael Shermer, it is an evolutionarily driven cognitive bias—often termed a "belief engine"—where the brain prefers to risk a...
  16. M

    Baited into Rabbit hole: Mindset, social media and feedback loop.

    We can do cluster analysis and social network graph analysis. That would be very interesting. People from academia who support those stuff can be more misleading.
  17. Giddierone

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    Synchronicity is not about saying god or a higher power explain or cause the effect. If it were then we’d just be saying “God caused it”. It’s about recognising a meaningful psychological phenomenon (that I’d argue most people have experienced) that appears “acausal,” unexplainable by known...
  18. JMartJr

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    ...coincidental stuff that will lead us to consciously realize something of which we ought to be more aware. Which is in line with "the "woo" comes in is not in the events themselves, but in the significance we place on them," and also with there being a "hidden hand" of some purpose in...
  19. deirdre

    Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

    doesn't physics/math do that all the time? based on this thread, a model cant be established because synchronicity is being defined all wrong in the first place by most! :)
  20. M

    Baited into Rabbit hole: Mindset, social media and feedback loop.

    I find another topic which is related to those woo theory--meditation/mindfulness like Sadhguru and Alien encounter. I practiced meditation before I discover all the woo things. I know there are a lot of evidence which support the benefit of meditation. In meta-bunk, I saw people's opinions are...
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