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Eh-- pick your battles. If family members get a positive placebo effect from listening to "5 Hours High Quality BEST 432hz Meditation Healing Chakra" on YouTub
by costcopizza 10y ago
Eh-- pick your battles.
If family members get a positive placebo effect from listening to "5 Hours High Quality BEST 432hz Meditation Healing Chakra" on YouTube...Who cares?
- nkrisc 10y agoIt's fine. But I'm not going to pretend it's not BS when they try to talk to me about it. Now my mom no longer talks to me about homeopathy.
- brokenmachine 10y agoThat sounds like typical libra talk. I'm an Aries so I don't do that.
- dhimes 10y agoHa! I thought you were making that up...
- ptaipale 10y agoThe one whose inheritance is next squandered on highly priced meditation chakra recordings and excessively expensive hoax high-end audio equipment? (From Youtube to purchasing mail order junk...)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoUntil that person dies or is otherwise ruled incapacitated, it's their money to spend however they like.
- Retra 10y agoNo it isn't. Spending is very clearly regulated, and you are only allowed to spend it on sufficiently 'normal' things.
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- nkrisc 10y agoWho's to say you're going to inherit anything anyway? Maybe they've willed it all to charity.
- ptaipale 10y agoAnd I might not even care so much about the inheritance, but I might want the old parents to have something saved up for the old age so they're not completely at the mercy of the welfare system... (Not something I worry about personally, parents long gone).
- thebspatrol 10y agoBecause it requires a core assumption of anti-intellectualism. It doesn't bother you when friends and family are sold on something that is baseless and are completely opposed to actually researching it and at the very least becoming more skeptical about it?
- Taek 10y agoNah. We evolved to be superstitious. It's evolutionarily advantageous. Why? Because it's much less costly to develop a random incorrect superstition than it is to miss an important correlation. How harmful is it to meditate to 432Hz compared to... well maybe without that superstition they wouldn't even meditate at all. It's probably advantageous, even though it's bullshit. As long as they aren't engaging in harmful behaviors (e.g. anti-vax), best to let it go.
- Retra 10y agoI would argue that "not letting it go" is equally harmless and to be permitted to the same degree that you propose otherwise.
- Taek 10y agoSorry for the late response, but correcting someone often has social costs. It takes time and energy, and can cause people discomfort and can weaken friendships. It can also make them stronger, I'm not proposing you always ignore superstitions. Just ignore them when there's a cost and minimal payoff.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoI think the problem is the mindset. And it's slowly spreading because it's considered rude to challenge it. It's this mindset that leads to unvaccinated children and the use of amber jewelry[0] that's a choking and strangulation hazard on infants and toddlers because amber has supposed magical healing properties. That article is from late 2013 and if anything it's more prevalent. [0] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/amber-teething-necklaces-pose-choking-hazard/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/amber-teething-neck...
- M2Ys4U 10y agoIt's the same reasoning behind Steve Jobs choosing quackery over medicine to treat his cancer.