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Comments

Re: Friendship deal killers

[(Anonymous)]

Having experience you can't explain is just life... and it's completely different than being into a bunch of woo woo things that have little basis in reality.

As for the idea that it doesn't harm anyone? Belief in unproven nonsense harms plenty of people. Look at the anti vaccine movement, which is only the tip of the iceberg of people spending time and resources on medical treatments that don't work, thereby negatively affecting their own health or the health of their children. Look at the people who spend money they can't afford on psychic readings. Look at the heartless charlatans who claim they can contact the dead and therefore con grieving people out of their money.

I'm okay with judging people like that, and while they might be worthy human beings, it doesn't mean they make great friends... which is what the anon was talking about.

Re: Friendship deal killers

[(Anonymous)]

What you appear to be saying is that my friends, i.e. people who have had experiences they chose to deal with in their own way and do not push their beliefs on others, are synonymous with charlatans who prey on the vulnerable, and people who make medical decisions based on fear as opposed to scientific evidence.

There's a world of difference there.

My point was having a belief in the paranormal does not make you an irrational human being. It certainly doesn't make you a financial predator, or someone who advocates what is tantamount to child abuse.

Personally, I enjoy people being different and having different experiences in my life. Every single friend I have is wonderful, generous and loyal and they all have wildly disparate beliefs on these subjects. And yet we all get on well. *shrugs*

Re: Friendship deal killers

[(Anonymous)]

*Although obviously charlatans and anti-vaccine people exist, it doesn't mean that everyone ever who believes in something you think is 'woo woo' falls into those or similar categories.

Re: Friendship deal killers

[(Anonymous)]

Er, no. The very first sentence of my comment was: "Having [an] experience you can't explain is just life... and it's completely different than being into a bunch of woo woo things that have little basis in reality."

I underlined the part you missed for emphasis.

Re: Friendship deal killers

[(Anonymous)]

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it doesn't mean they make great friends...

How does being open and/or vulnerable to idea that there is something else out there mean someone, across the board, wouldn't be a good friend (which is essentially the judgement OP is making)? That, to me, is a very illogical statement.

Everyone has their vices. Everyone has their blind spots. You might as well say that people who buy into the latest dietary fads are universally bad friends.

(Also, please don't lump the anti-vaccine movement in with new-age beliefs, I agree with you that the anti-vaccine movement is very dangerous but it's also not the same thing as the rest of what you're talking about.)

Re: Friendship deal killers

[(Anonymous)]

There is a pretty big difference between someone simply believing something that's unproven and someone acting on a set of beliefs in such a way that it harms others.