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Crystals (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

At this point people can believe in whatever they want as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. Someone believing in a bunch of crystals and burning their money on them is a lot less harmful than other beliefs that I won't mention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Agreed. Crystals, manifestation, astrology etc. is such a stupid thing for people to feel mentally superior over others for. Being a jackass and bullying people for wanting to believe in something like luck is mentally weak. Science doesn't save a mind from its own ignorance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@[email protected] Ty, both. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm having a hard time with this. We don't know what we don't know and it takes a lot of undeserved confidence to say anything is for sure. Fermilab never found the god particle and we're pretty sure that exists. I'm not saying it's true, but you guys are being a little over confident. Think about all of the theories and hypothesis that have been altered or completely changed over time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fermilab never found the god particle and we're pretty sure that exists.

The "God particle" is the Higgs boson. They found it with the LHC.

Think about all of the theories and hypothesis that have been altered or completely changed over time.

This tells me you don't just not know how science works; you don't understand what science is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

The “God particle” is the Higgs boson. They found it with the LHC.

Right, the fermi lab peeps were skeptical about ever finding it. LHC proved it. You're making my case.

This tells me you don’t just not know how science works; you don’t understand what science is.

Do you? It's a process of finding out. Have you proven that stones don't have an energy that we don't have the equipment to measure? The black and white in this thread is now becoming funny while spouting that you believe in the process.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well this is kind of funny that this came up soon after our convo:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah?

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