AlexV
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Hey all, my name is alex and this is my first post, wooo! Speaking of woo, I know a person that spouts constant bunk and quackery that needs to be shot down (ideologically).I'll be honest, I'm not a physicist or a scientific scholar in any field so my capacity for arguing against this nonsense is fairly limited..
So a friend of mine's mother, (lets call her deb) always says things like "specific words have power, if you write a word down on a peice of paper and put that paper under an electromagnet, youll see that its vibrating under a specific, powerful frequency", "theyre powerful because the mind creates them and the mind sends out vibrations".She said this yesturday, to whoch I replied by covering my face with my hands and saying "that's mentally retarded".Reminds me of that japanese quack who wrote words next to water and froze the water then looked at the way the ice froze compared to the word and drew a faulty parallel between the structure of the ice and the word.She also claimed that nobody understands what dark matter is, but she does and that some things should not be understood by humanity.When I responded by telling her how scientific she sounded she said "I love math, I love science, I love physics".Guess she didnt read my sarcasm.
Maybe itd help you further understand deb if I mentioned that she buys into "The secret", "indigo children", "magic crystals" pretty much all the pseudoscientific claims out there, she believes them and her only defense is that "science doesnt have the resources or technology to disprove it".
I was raised by christian fundies and even THEY seem relatively logical by comparison.
Help!
So a friend of mine's mother, (lets call her deb) always says things like "specific words have power, if you write a word down on a peice of paper and put that paper under an electromagnet, youll see that its vibrating under a specific, powerful frequency", "theyre powerful because the mind creates them and the mind sends out vibrations".She said this yesturday, to whoch I replied by covering my face with my hands and saying "that's mentally retarded".Reminds me of that japanese quack who wrote words next to water and froze the water then looked at the way the ice froze compared to the word and drew a faulty parallel between the structure of the ice and the word.She also claimed that nobody understands what dark matter is, but she does and that some things should not be understood by humanity.When I responded by telling her how scientific she sounded she said "I love math, I love science, I love physics".Guess she didnt read my sarcasm.
Maybe itd help you further understand deb if I mentioned that she buys into "The secret", "indigo children", "magic crystals" pretty much all the pseudoscientific claims out there, she believes them and her only defense is that "science doesnt have the resources or technology to disprove it".
I was raised by christian fundies and even THEY seem relatively logical by comparison.
Help!
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