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Crystals (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't be fooled by CERN, LHC's true purpose is time travel. El Psy Kongroo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I thought it was contacting Amanda*.

* I meant to write aliens, but gboard gave them a name. Gboard, Amanda thanks you for your respect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I mean if not then wtf is even the point?!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

The person with the crystals has already concluded, by faith or by doing large logical leaps, that those contain new energy.

The scientists behind the LHC have to meticulously find evidence along the way before they can make a conclusion.

They are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also, all the scientists "accidentally" making the same mistake as the BBC proves that intelligence doesn't necessitate maturity 😉

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What's immature about it? Penis fencing is a respectable mating ritual among flat worms.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I mean maturity is a social construct

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

everything is energy, prove me wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I dunno, they might not be looking in the right place. Have they tried Mystic Mary's Crystal Emporium?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Don't let Big Particle fool you! Invest in Light Matter today

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think there are many societal harms that arise out of enabling and enriching the types of scammers that abuse hopeful yet naive people. But social science doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 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] 3 points 10 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] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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