Comments on: Welcome to the center of the universe, population: You. http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:53:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Corvinity http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66579 Corvinity Wed, 07 May 2008 22:48:25 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66579 I hate seeing spiritual beliefs abused this way. "a household synonym for “cool-sounding sciencey stuff I don’t understand” " --junk science "Quantum physics" already is that, as evidenced by this (in no way even remotely unique) article. I wish people would stop insisting on having their gods and their science -- and, for that matter, everyone else's gods and sciences -- live (or die) in the same world. Then the creationi - er, intelligent design theorists, could stop insisting that we can't have our science, the neocons could stop insisting that the middle east can't have its Islams, certain atheists could stop insisting we can't have our gods, and certain new agers could stop insisting that those atheist science people are ruining their vibes. I have a dream, that one day, people will fucking relax. <i>Aho Mitakuye Oyasin</i>. I hate seeing spiritual beliefs abused this way.

“a household synonym for “cool-sounding sciencey stuff I don’t understand” ”
–junk science

“Quantum physics” already is that, as evidenced by this (in no way even remotely unique) article.

I wish people would stop insisting on having their gods and their science — and, for that matter, everyone else’s gods and sciences — live (or die) in the same world. Then the creationi - er, intelligent design theorists, could stop insisting that we can’t have our science, the neocons could stop insisting that the middle east can’t have its Islams, certain atheists could stop insisting we can’t have our gods, and certain new agers could stop insisting that those atheist science people are ruining their vibes.

I have a dream, that one day, people will fucking relax.

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin.

]]> By: junk science http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66232 junk science Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:54:54 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66232 I hate seeing quantum mechanics abused this way too. No doubt if string theory becomes a household synonym for "cool-sounding sciencey stuff I don't understand," we'll start hearing about how god lives in Calabi-Yau spaces. I hate seeing quantum mechanics abused this way too. No doubt if string theory becomes a household synonym for “cool-sounding sciencey stuff I don’t understand,” we’ll start hearing about how god lives in Calabi-Yau spaces.

]]> By: Cat http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66201 Cat Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:41:01 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66201 A field guide to the "enemies of God", eh? Well, might be good for these ever so openminded folks to know the different types of atheists for quick identification on the go so they can send bad karmic energies our way with their telepathic superconscious mind rays. You know, the same ones they use to channel aliens and spirits from beyond. New Age wackos poorly understood quantum mechanics = new realms of delusion. A field guide to the “enemies of God”, eh? Well, might be good for these ever so openminded folks to know the different types of atheists for quick identification on the go so they can send bad karmic energies our way with their telepathic superconscious mind rays. You know, the same ones they use to channel aliens and spirits from beyond.

New Age wackos poorly understood quantum mechanics = new realms of delusion.

]]> By: Kyso Kisaen http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66164 Kyso Kisaen Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:18:11 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66164 My graduate department does free lectures to interested groups, and we got a rock and mineral club one day. Nice people, pretty smart. So we show them some sheets of paper made with the same material as a mood ring - basically temperature-sensitive material. You can do something called "ghost hands" with it where you put your hand on a table for a few minutes and then put the sheet where your hand had been and a thermographic image of your hand appears. Children love this, by the way. Anyway, damned if one of these guys didn't want to talk about using this stuff to see your aura. At the crunchy granola place where I sometimes get massages, the services get more expensive the further from reasonable they get. Massage? $50/hr. Being hooked up to a machine that reads your aura? $200. A vaguely defined session in which a German woman with a tragic past helps you connect with "Angels of Light" for reasons left hazy? $400. My graduate department does free lectures to interested groups, and we got a rock and mineral club one day. Nice people, pretty smart. So we show them some sheets of paper made with the same material as a mood ring - basically temperature-sensitive material. You can do something called “ghost hands” with it where you put your hand on a table for a few minutes and then put the sheet where your hand had been and a thermographic image of your hand appears. Children love this, by the way. Anyway, damned if one of these guys didn’t want to talk about using this stuff to see your aura.

At the crunchy granola place where I sometimes get massages, the services get more expensive the further from reasonable they get. Massage? $50/hr. Being hooked up to a machine that reads your aura? $200. A vaguely defined session in which a German woman with a tragic past helps you connect with “Angels of Light” for reasons left hazy? $400.

]]> By: violet http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66147 violet Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:33:17 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66147 Yes. Yes, it does, and yes, it was. (That's the checkout conveyor. I dropped it down to take a picture. Website goes <a href="http://www.wie.org/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.) I should point out, in the interest of fairness, that I am just as annoyed when <em>scientists</em> do the thing I mentioned above. It's rather more rare, but it does happen, and in that case, the frying pan comes at <em>them</em>. Let your findings stand on their own; don't imbue them with all sorts of bizarre spiritual and societal relevance that they <em>don't have</em>. Evpsychs, I'm looking at you. Yes.

Yes, it does, and yes, it was. (That’s the checkout conveyor. I dropped it down to take a picture. Website goes here.)

I should point out, in the interest of fairness, that I am just as annoyed when scientists do the thing I mentioned above. It’s rather more rare, but it does happen, and in that case, the frying pan comes at them. Let your findings stand on their own; don’t imbue them with all sorts of bizarre spiritual and societal relevance that they don’t have. Evpsychs, I’m looking at you.

]]> By: Esme http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66146 Esme Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:25:18 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2008/04/28/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe-population-you/#comment-66146 Does that seriously say "Atheists: a field guide to the new enemies of God" And this was at an organic grocery store? *cries* Does that seriously say “Atheists: a field guide to the new enemies of God”

And this was at an organic grocery store?

*cries*

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