Ghosts, psychics, astrology, acupuncture, premonitions, homeopathy, hypnosis, telepathy...
Fuck off and grow a brain, morons.

That is all.
( ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 1:52, 16 replies)

you forgot god...
the biggest pile of hogwash of em all
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 2:01, closed)

*kisses quim*
hang on, not what I meant. But everything in your post...
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 2:31, closed)

On the other hand, the existence of a supreme being is the trickiest proposition of them all.
Although there is ample scientific evidence against ghosts, astrology, homeopathy etc., you can't logically prove or disprove the existence of a supreme being, making it something of a paradox.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 2:38, closed)

I think
there's something more to acupuncture and hypnosis than the others. For a start they're provided on the NHS.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 2:42, closed)

well
we got to write about SOMETHING this week, no?
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 3:44, closed)

@Belms
So is homeopathy.

Just because you can get it on the NHS doesn't mean it works.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 3:50, closed)

@Woodside
Yeah, but if you can't logically prove or disprove it, couldn't you enrich your life further by assuming it not to be true and expending the resultant freed-up time and energy on other things?
_{Like venting one's turgid spleen on an interweb message board...}
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 13:27, closed)

You seem to be lacking in the brain department yourself.....
In not realising it possible for you not to read this qotw. It is possible. Honestly.

You're like one of those grumpy old fucks who sees something on telly and instead of switching over decides just to have a go, despite the fact that it's not hurting anyone and makes people happy.

Idiot.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 13:31, closed)

"...makes people happy"
I thought most people were scared of ghosts...

_Sorry...
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 13:42, closed)

well I've had acupuncture a number of times
and whether it works as acupuncture or placebo it's done the trick; so I'm not complaining.
(Frozen_Banana Shaved against the grain; thoroughly unrewarding., Sat 5 Jul 2008, 15:15, closed)

Acupuncture has some basis in fact;
it just doesn't work for the reasons that many of its practicioners say it does. It works on babies and horses, so that diminishes the case for the placebo effect alone.
( Bob Todd whee, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 16:48, closed)

Acupuncture only works (sometimes)
when you ask for it as a treatment for 'X' or if the 'doctor' says that acupuncture will cure 'X'. IE, it's all Placebo bollocks. You want a cure, you get told you're getting a cure, so you believe it.

Bollocks to personal experience. Read the science and the facts. I'm sure there is one person out there who knows for a fact that they were kidnapped and probed by Aliens. Just because that 1 person believes his own experience doesn't mean it's true.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4508597.stm
( ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:27, closed)

It's not like homeopathy.
Acupuncture works for the same reason people are given "bee therapy" for arthritis, where a jar of bees are allowed to sting the hand - the sensation of injury or damage causes the body to rush healing factors to the afflicted area, which can inadvertently bring some relief of symptoms to other conditions in that area. It has absolutely nothing to do with manipulation of chi or body energies, but it does indeed help and not just because of the placebo effect. Doesn't mean that the "eastern energy lines" rationale stated for it isn't absolute crap, of course.

Homeopathic medicine, however, is a contradiction in terms.
(Drakkenmaw, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 23:17, closed)

Oh, and...
I happen to like creepy stories. I don't have to believe in the things that go bump in the night to relate stories about them, enjoy media based upon them, and pretend that they're real for a little bit so as to have a good time.

If you can't do that, if you can't suspend disbelief for a few moments for the sake of immersing yourself in something cool, I feel rather sorry for you.
(Drakkenmaw, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 23:20, closed)

and yet..
you beleive in zombies...
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 18:39, closed)

Exactly
^^^^^^
What he said. With bells on.

Just because people hold different beliefs to you, doesn't make them morons.

Have you never thought that there are some things on this earth that cannot be explained? How come so many people have witnessed things that defy any logical explanation.
(Swarve, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 4:53, closed)