What is your woo?

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Hundreds and hundreds of people experiencing spontaneous remissions by following the meditation techniques of Dr. Joe. I just autoplay YouTube all day and listen to these real people talking about their personal healing.

Woof!

Discover what he claims the science behind it all is here. Very inspirational approach that balances the spiritual with the scientific. Believe in it all… or not… there are good things happening to people here. I can’t think of anything bad to come from this.

Undercover cops using the “face” of arch villains in a radical transplant procedure.
It’s a Hard Target to aim for, some experts claim it to be Mission Impossible too, but hey, we can dream of A Better Tomorrow

I’m gonna try that Woofing Theorem. Thanks for sharing something I’d never heard of before.

Women.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies CT, I have season tickets to my local basketball game. I have everybody around me believing in the Woofing theorem, and my daughter will scream at me if I make a slip. If you read the woofing theorem once the game starts, the ending is absolutely determined, but my daughter maintains that if you say something DURING the game that’s called “jinxing.” Jinxing, is, of course, complete bullshit.

Of course. Jinxing is BS. Wish my XXXwife would have jinxed me instead of hexed me. I could deal with the jinx. But the hex…

Good luck at the game… Or does the wish of good luck affect the woof? Oh sorry man.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Season is over, and we got crushed the first round of the NCAA. Saying “good luck” isn’t a woof, though.

I use Dungeons and Dragons to explain my world in context. I’m obsessed with ability scores. I always wonder how things would turn out If I had just a little bit more.

god

Our universe being a computer simulation.
Alien abductions.
Ancient aliens.

I guess mine is that we can go through wormholes and that we’ll figure out how to (ideally within my lifetime). Or aliens visit (again, ideally within my lifetime). But it’s only a fanciful sort of hope for either.

Free will/agency.

It’s really hard to give that up and admit we’re all meat computers with no say in anything we do. We can’t “praise” Einstein himself, except that he had a good model of meat computer who was fortunate enough to be exposed to the right stimuli at the right times. Likewise for Shakespeare, Mozart, Martin Luther King Jr., etc. In the same vein we can’t really “blame” Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, (Trump).

I often try to believe that I have some control and influence in raising my son. (today was a bad day)

I still have my imaginary world.

I’m more disinclined to fall for woo, given my background, but I’m still comforted by ritual.

I don’t know how to explain it, but sometimes I light a candle or burn incense for different reasons. I’ve lit candles for friends who’ve died, and burned sage in my home after a stressful day. Not that I think there’s anyone paying attention to these actions, but just the motions are comforting. It’s a thing to do when there’s nothing to be done.

Also, while I don’t believe in the woo behind “grounding”, I do think a barefooted walk in the woods is the best way to spend a day.

I read my horoscope on occasions. I’ve even read the tarot cards in the past. And I once went to some sort of psychic reading once (I’m still waiting for the things he said would happen to occur). I don’t actually believe in any of these things, but I find it fun to see what they suggest is going to happen.

Scientism (which is the unscientific view that science has all the answers). I encounter it a lot, including on here on Fluther, and it’s really easy to join in with all the people who want to pretend that a sliver of scientific evidence against anything they don’t like constitutes an exhaustive refutation (or that the absence of infallible absence for something is an absolute proof of its opposite). But I do my best to stay strong.

Gods. Not God, but gods. I believe in gods. Not as literal beings, mind you, but as being born in the human heart and mind and residing therein and, thus, are as real as they need to be to those who dream them.

@Seek

Ritual is important and an invaluable tool for the psyche.

Personality theory.

Numerology

Great answers everybody, thanks! I love it. Keep them coming.

Serial killers. Believe me, I have nothing in common with them, I can’t even hurt a mosquito. I am curious about what makes them tick.

I have few.
Nice guys finish first in the long run.
Women will pick the nice guy with a good job over the tattooed biker (secretly collecting public assistance).
A strong password is better than a weak one.

Empirical evidence disproves these but I still believe.

That since my family is descended from a priestess (and some relatives still retain their priesthood) I secretly think that I possess supranatural ability, that not every descendant will have it, and that I didn’t want to use my power just because I don’t want to. Having this unusual capability makes me think that in the past a God (I’m an atheist, but who says I can’t fancy mythological explanation?) probably exist in the world and have mated with my ancestor, thus explaining this secret power that some member from our bloodline have. With this in mind, it’s not unusual for me to think that other supranatural factions (tarot users, fortune tellers, divinators, etc) all around the world have their own unexplainable power.

I hope conspiracy theory can be included here so I’ll say that I also believe that every law enforcement departments are corrupted, and everyone is inherently evil and they just surpress their evilness by trying to define and do what they self-proclaimed as goodness.

supranatural

Alternative medicine and ufology aren’t always woo. There are flying objects that have not been identified, and being interested in what they are isn’t woo. It’s only woo when people leap to unwarranted conclusions about them, which not all ufologists do. It’s also not woo to ask what sorts of things might be good for our health other than drugs. And one of the big focuses of alternative and complementary medicine is prevention, whereas a lot of mainstream medicine is about intervening after something has gone wrong. Would you rather exercise and be healthy all your life, or be dependent on pills and surgery after letting yourself go? I would prefer the former.

@Seek I liked the HBO miniseries better.

Bulletproof Monk

Sorry didn’t read the question well! :(

No worries.

I’m currently listening to an audiobook by Sam Harris:

Waking Up: a non believers guide to spirituality.

You all know my semantic issues with that word. Apparently that’s a big part of the beginning of the book.

But I’m pretty sure it’s basically arguing for the benefits of meditation and psychotropic drug experimentation without religious attachment.

:: shrug:: We’ll see how persuasive he is.

@ragingloli me too, a procedural one at that.

I still, somehow, after everything, kind of have a feeling that things will generally work out OK in the end.

@mariah now that’s a great answer. Thanks!

@Mariah Sorry. That’s not a woo. That’s a fact! :-)

Dreams, and by dreams I mean the ones you have whilst sleeping, can guide you well if you listen to the messages they send you from your subconscious.

Prayer is simply a form of silent aspiration and yearning, which can bring good things to you whether you believe in God or not.

Curiosity and goal seeking are part of what makes us uniquely human. Treasures beyond measuring…

Beauty can be found in the most mundane things if you are looking for it.

Kindness and compassion trump power and greed anytime, anywhere.

Is this all magical thinking? Maybe….maybe not.