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It makes me wish I wasn't an atheist and that I was christian so I could pray to have them smited with fire and lightning and maybe hailstones, with like, a little bit of fire and lightning in them.

Oh HELL NO

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Damn those crafty Czechs!

I hate to break this to you, but I'm getting sick of this trope.

Sex =/= love.

Let me repeat that.

banging someone is not love.

Yes, people who love one another do, in fact, engage in intercourse, however, as a philosopher may say, you're making a category mistake in equalling love as the same thing as sex.

Yes, a lot of people will make euphemisms like 'making love', or whatever, but despite this, the act does not in fact manufacture love.

So, in closing, if you're writing a story, or just working on a relationship, having sex means literally nothing, and is not, in fact, proof of love or what have you.

OLD SCHOOL ROCK OR NOTHING!

You know, one thing I've never liked is New Age spirituality and it's various kin.

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tl;dr: (I've never understood why people put these at the bottom)
New agers are dumbasses who's beliefs aren't legitimate (because they're based on nothing), pretend they have superpowers (which they don't use in any legitimately helpful manner), base all of it one their inability to understand the science they're quoting (and when all this base is washed away, they still cling) and finally; They purposely misspell words.
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As an atheist, I can't really say I like any of the religions, but I find New Age bullshit, along with Scientology and things like Faith Healing to be particularity offensive.

The first major problem with New Age Spirituality is that it just steals and steals and steals fragments of cultures and religions, dead and alive, and knits them together to form utter bullshit. half the time the claims they make goes something like this; Someone makes some shit up, writes a book and has it published; people buy the book, and believe the shit dished out, and then 'affirm' the bullshit by claiming they seen/feel/etc the shit as well.

Take Auras for example, according to New age believers, they're something like blobs of color and light that surround people and are representative of mental states of some nonsense. But, if it really existed, why is it we don't see people talking about it appearing for them, without said person having a background in New age spirituality? Why don't we find references to it in extremely old texts? Not surprisingly, the reason we don't find anything like this is because it was invented by W. E. Butler in the last century.

The second annoying thing with the New Age shit is how they go around claiming they have 'special powers', they go on and on about how they can see the future or such, but when put to the test they always fail, all the time, in ever case; if it wasn't bullshit, these people wouldn't be in internet chat rooms claiming to have powers, they'd be out in the world helping people. Where the fuck were these people in Mumbai recently? This of course leads to the third problem; science.

One of the reasons I hate these sorts of people is that half they time they go out and misinterpret real science, especially quantum physics, and a validation of their views. Yes, Quantum physics is very strange, yes it's seems rather contradictory to what we'd normally thing of as physics, and yes, there is some strange observed phenomena, but that doesn't mean it's validating your bullshit. Here's what I mean; we know of a lot of strange stuff quantum physics--but 95% of those things are only occurring on a quantum level, I believe this is referred to a Wave function collapse. What does this mean? It means that Schrodinger's cat is a thought experiment, and nothing more, IE, if you put a real cat in a real box, with a real set of poison, etc, etc, the cat doesn't suddenly occupy all states at once.

Now, that's not to say we don't see quantum effects on a macro scale, but they only exist in very complex experiments; for example, we see a quantum effect in a superfluid, but superfluids only exist when something like hydrogen or helium (because nether element turns into a solid) is cooled to near absolute zero.

And, when New age people are confronted with the the fact that they haven't a fucking clue what they're talking about, they go and make idiotic claims that "oh, well sciences doesn't know everything," or "Science can't explain away everything," as if it's really some sort of defense.

It's sort of like this:
Them: I'm special, I can see auras, and it's because of quantum mechanics
Me: No you can't, they've done experiments showing it's a whole lot of shit, and those theories you're quoting are being taken out of context and mean nothing.
Them: Well then Science can't explain everything! I've seen it, it must be true!
Me: No one is denying that science hasn't explained everything in the Universe, or is even close to it, but you just used selected theories to support your supposedly theory, and now that I've gone out and pointed out that your supporting arguments are nonsense, you cling to your conclusion.
Them: omg, you're so close minded!!!!
Me: No, I'm not, you're the one who is close minded in this case; had you presented good arguments, based on good evidence, I'd be inclined to believe you, but you haven't, so I don't.

The problem with auras, of course, is that people with eye and brain disorders, as well as migraine headaches, do experience 'auras' or halos, and such not, of course these are serious medical problems, and you really should seek medical help if you're experiencing them, but they have nothing to do with some sort of magical fairy dust that floats around.

The final thing I hate about New Agers is the way they're always misspelling words. You don't want to understand Science, or have a firm grip on reality, fine, but stop misspelling your words, it doesn't make you look special, it makes you look like a fucking dumbass. It's spelled 'Magic' not 'Magick' or 'Majic'. I mean, it's one thing to misspell a word on accident, it's another to misspell it all. The. Fucking. Time.

Don't like what I'm saying? Fine, refute me, prove me wrong, provide to me studies and cases, that prove that your nonsense is anything but nonsense.