Junk 'science' religions: What practical applications do you see emerging?
Posted on: May 3, 2008 - 2:30pm
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Junk 'science' religions: What practical applications do you see emerging?
This is a good question that was raised in a video posted to a different thread. I think it's a good one to ask here:
Intelligent Design proponents, Scientologists, New Agers, Creationists, etc:
What practical applications do you see as eventual byproducts being created by your exploration of a supreme being, or 'ultimate' purpose?
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I think there are some people that are part of the new age, that might have some practical fields of study, chakras and vibrational healing, a lot of work needs to be done on meditation and the mind, I don't think crystals have any powers personally.
I am not saying these are all legitimate fields of scientific application, but the claims need to be vetted for truth or fraud.
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Not to answer for anyone, but I'd think that New Age types would imagine lots of benefits. After all, they come from the tradition of believing that doctors are quacks and the real way to cure cancer is waving quartz crystals around. If that turned out to be true, what an amazing benefit to everyone except insurance companies and doctors!
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Actually I imagine if all the new-age wackos really followed that shit there'd be one benefit. There'd certainly be fewer of them.
Science works whether you believe in it or not.
Newage, rhymes with 'sewage'...
Ya take an old superstition, wrap it up in s shiney new package, and sell it to idiots like Luminin....
LC >;-}>
Christianity: A disgusting middle eastern blood cult, based in human sacrifice, with sacrements of canibalism and vampirism, whose highest icon is of a near naked man hanging in torment from a device of torture.
The only thing that I have seen in the case of new age crap....and for the most part it's crap, is the idea of organically grown foods, now I KNOW this isn't a new age idea as it was done well before our time, but processed foods has taken over and so has the use of chemicals in our foods (which personally I believe has been one of the many causes of the rise of ADD, ADHD, and autisim in our children). However many new agers (that I know) believe in organic foods and that chemicals are harming our bodies (which every year new studies point that out). As for the rest of the new age stuff, like crystals, and any other crap regarding life forces and living energy fields.....your in the same field as the christians, muslims, jews and all the other supernatural deity believing folks...your full of shit.
I think the amount of intelligent substance in the New Age movement is about as much as that behind Cartman's attempt to travel back to 1776 in an episode of South Park where he had to complete a history report on the Founding Fathers:
Cartman (While hanging suspended over a water bath next to a plugged in DVD player): I am just about to flashback to the days of our founding fathers. I have programmed TiVo to record over 150 hours of the history channel. When Tivo is full, both TiVo and I will drop into the water, combining our electro-whatever fields and sending me into a flashback of history"
True virtue is life under the direction of reason
-Baruch de Spinoza
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One of the very, very few benefits I see in the new age mumbo jumbo is the practice of meditation, yoga, breathing and relaxation techniques, not because it might realign your chackras or cleanse your aura or some such quasi-scientific idiocy, but rather because it encourages those who exercise them to take some time out from the increasingly neurotic demands of the everyday life, and just center our attention in ourselves and consciously make an effort to relax, something which in itself can (as I have observed in dozens of cases) bring about great benefits in your health, both mental as well as physical.
This humanistic coating is the only positive thing I could say for new agers, and it's the only really good application that could be derived from them, other than that, the crystals, the chackras, homeopathy, the really crappy music, all those have little to no application, but rather a potentially detrimental use and abuse (well, maybe not the music, which would fall into the "harmless but annoying" category).
As for intelligent design, creationism and scientology, I see absolutely no application whatsoever that could be beneficial, let alone practical, that could be derived from them, and quite frankly, if given the choice, I would prefer to keep the new agers around instead of the IDiots, crap-ationist and those trekkies in drag.
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None. None of these junk sciences will eventuate practical application because none are grounded in any practical methodology. They are 'make shit up' fests based on the golden rule of propaganda - Start logically, follow semantically.
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