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I'm just pointing out woo has little value other than a source of fiction.

• rosser 8y ago
  No, you're being casually dismissive. "It's all bullshit and without wisdom", emphasis added; you don't make a distinction between woo and otherwise — and not all spirituality, or even religion, is woo, I promise you. If you're going to hand-wave like that, you're not doing whatever point you might have had any service, except perhaps in gathering "Yeah, what he said!" votes from people who already share your beliefs, and antagonizing people who might think differently — people from whom you might learn something, if you were to try listening over dismissing. I could enumerate I don't even know how many cases of "ancient wisdom" where people were forbade doing dangerous things — like, say, the Kashrut tradition against eating shellfish and pork before we had a meaningful notion of germs — absent the specific understanding we have now, that tells us why doing that was a bad idea. But I don't need to; you're the one making the positive, and unsupported, assertion that other people's world-views are "bullshit".
  • Numberwang 8y ago
    Any sane person would chose washing your hands and more useful knowledge than the collected wisdom mentioned. People can rarely be woken up from wishful thinking and in the cases they were they did the work themselves.
    • rosser 8y ago
      And now your position is that people who disagree with you are insane. Yeah, this dialogue is going places...