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You know it's easier with things like this to sit back and enjoy it Isaac Send a noteboard - 13/06/2012 02:39:35 PM
I've actually got a nice set of Tarot cards lying around and books on astrology, it's interesting stuff, just like my SF/F novels and D&D rulebooks. Utter garbage, but the methodology can be fun and it's nice to practice cold reading people, which is a handy skill to be good at. Where possible it's nice to explain to people on the edge that no, the planets really don't exert influence and no, vaccines are perfectly safe, those are neither entirely true but that's the problem. Without expertise the curious layman is simply limited to how good an 'expert' is as convincing them which tends to be controlled a lot by how pretty a picture of the world you can paint for them. Trying to explain the gravitational influence of Neptune on them is roughly the same as the 10 ton boat their neighbor parked in their driveway tends to result in them actually using a good sense of reason to say something like 'well yeah, but that's had a huge impact on my life, so so could Neptune, and that's on everyone, it's like everyone has a yacht parked in the lot next to theirs!' [that's nearly a perfect quote of a real case by the way]. The various all-natural diet/lifestyle crap is irritating but it's the mindset itself, not the specific incarnation, that's the problem, and there's little you can do about that.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

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Facebook eye-openers.(partially NSSP) - 13/06/2012 05:10:53 AM 1250 Views
A cousin of my wife just posted a link to his new business - 13/06/2012 12:00:19 PM 863 Views
You know it's easier with things like this to sit back and enjoy it - 13/06/2012 02:39:35 PM 837 Views
Re: A cousin of my wife just posted a link to his new business - 13/06/2012 05:07:04 PM 831 Views
The worst I got lately was football idiocy - 13/06/2012 12:36:22 PM 939 Views
I laughed at your post - 13/06/2012 05:03:18 PM 666 Views
Re: The worst I got lately was football idiocy - 13/06/2012 08:34:42 PM 782 Views
*NM* - 13/06/2012 08:51:04 PM 391 Views
Re: The worst I got lately was football idiocy - 13/06/2012 08:57:11 PM 723 Views
You complain about football comments, and then you post things like that? - 13/06/2012 10:31:10 PM 712 Views
Same here - 14/06/2012 12:24:46 AM 769 Views
A lot of people used to think like that - 14/06/2012 10:13:27 AM 730 Views
Re: A lot of people used to think like that - 14/06/2012 10:32:15 AM 672 Views
Re: A lot of people used to think like that - 14/06/2012 04:14:20 PM 782 Views
What were his stats again? - 14/06/2012 08:38:40 PM 750 Views
Maybe you can clarify... - 13/06/2012 02:01:58 PM 781 Views
Maybe I can. - 13/06/2012 04:55:28 PM 893 Views
Facebook is about the casual insulting of opposed political, religious and social viewpoints. - 13/06/2012 07:22:57 PM 772 Views
Apparently. - 13/06/2012 08:13:38 PM 837 Views
Re: Maybe I can. - 13/06/2012 07:50:53 PM 795 Views
Re: Maybe I can. - 13/06/2012 08:10:32 PM 806 Views
Re: Maybe I can. - 13/06/2012 08:46:45 PM 801 Views
Hm. - 13/06/2012 09:52:58 PM 804 Views
Did I mention - 21/06/2012 07:35:14 AM 764 Views
This is actually the biggest reason I dislike Facebook (and other social media). - 13/06/2012 03:49:45 PM 848 Views
Yes. - 13/06/2012 05:06:02 PM 751 Views
Re: Yes. - 13/06/2012 07:10:50 PM 690 Views
Once upon a time, I was good at that, prided myself on it. - 13/06/2012 09:27:11 PM 729 Views
We have two options, as I see it: 1) Wear big boy pants; 2) Hide lots of posts. - 13/06/2012 04:02:07 PM 1049 Views
Hahaha yeah - 13/06/2012 04:21:11 PM 788 Views
Or big girl pants? - 13/06/2012 05:11:09 PM 795 Views
I'm lucky that I pretty much never see anything on Facebook that really annoys me - 13/06/2012 04:23:43 PM 752 Views
I've been thinking about that. - 13/06/2012 05:02:17 PM 752 Views
Yes - 13/06/2012 05:40:35 PM 759 Views
Good. - 13/06/2012 07:49:13 PM 982 Views
I thought so too. - 13/06/2012 08:27:45 PM 748 Views
Re: I thought so too. - 13/06/2012 09:22:38 PM 827 Views
Very well said, and done. - 13/06/2012 09:18:37 PM 779 Views
Same. And re: the backlash: there'd almost have to be, wouldn't there? - 13/06/2012 10:18:57 PM 844 Views
Well yes, that was me rather stating the obvious - 13/06/2012 10:56:12 PM 839 Views
An AZ cop posted a FB pic of him with kids, a gun and a bullet riddled shirt with Obamas face on it. - 13/06/2012 11:40:38 PM 894 Views
I think you might have missed what my point was. - 13/06/2012 11:51:15 PM 749 Views
Looks that way; sorry. - 14/06/2012 12:47:16 AM 680 Views
usually hide them if it annoys me for longer than a week *NM* - 13/06/2012 04:51:56 PM 314 Views
Most folks I can tolerate. - 13/06/2012 05:55:31 PM 793 Views
My Facebook friends tend to be tolerable. - 13/06/2012 07:31:59 PM 755 Views
I will de-friend the people who annoy me. - 14/06/2012 01:23:32 AM 694 Views
Facewhat? *NM* - 14/06/2012 02:37:47 AM 297 Views
Luckily I haven't got many of these. - 14/06/2012 11:05:43 AM 742 Views
I find a lot of interesting news on Facebook - 14/06/2012 01:37:59 PM 809 Views
Same on the replacing much of what I once received from this community. - 14/06/2012 09:48:15 PM 676 Views
For me, if it's everyone once in a while, I'll let it slide. - 14/06/2012 01:53:58 PM 751 Views

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