Continuing with my diatribe on Buzzfeed's 22 Questions, we have this gem, offered up by a woman who looks like she has magic crystals hanging on every sash, curtain rod, and door jamb of her house:
"What about Noetics?"
What about it?
Just because you've given a ridiculous idea a special name, doesn't mean it's no longer a ridiculous idea.
What about excremeditation (deep thought while taking a shit)?
What about sphincto-vegetation-induced epiphanies (the realization that maybe you shouldn't stick a bell pepper in your asshole while you have a bell pepper stuck in your asshole)?
See?
Fancy names don't give things merit. Quantifiable data does.
There is merit to the idea that you can change the course of your own life via changing your own thought process, but that has everything to do with the nature of positive actions following positive thoughts and producing positive results. The same can be seen in a negative loop. That's just basic psychology and willpower, and it has nothing to do with telekinesis.
You cannot affect the physical properties of actual things by thought alone.
You can "think you can" like the little engine that could all you like - and you can be right - and sometimes wrong, but c'est la vie, no?
What you can't do, is think something to be true, and have it become true because you thought about it hard enough.
That's why they (never mind who they are, we all know they're experts) say "wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills faster."
That's called magical thinking.
I believe children are able to overcome this mental deficiency at about three. You might as well be insisting that something isn't there because you can't see it.
But isn't that basically what young Earth creationists are known for anyway?
Things don't appear because you want them to, and they don't disappear if you choose to ignore them.
Don't believe me?
Take a long walk off a short cliff, but before you get to the end, wish really hard that the edge would extend under your feet, and see what happens.
Let me know how that works out for you.
You're dismissed.
No comments:
Post a Comment