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Diploid
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Someone Please Splain This To Me
#14160924 - 03/21/11 07:11 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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So I was listening on the radio to some chick who's had some commercial success singing Tibetan monk chants and selling the CDs. She claims that her chanting creates an "energy field" with mystical powers that heal illness, align chakras, and improve humors or some such. You know the drill.
She went on to expound on (pay attention, this part's important) how listening to her CDs would confer all those benefits and more to the listener.
The interviewer, to her credit, took a respectful but skeptical approach. When she pointed out that, to her knowledge, no scientific study had ever demonstrated any such energy field, the singer replied that there is in fact a powerful energy field that forms around her when she sings and that scientific instruments are simply not capable of detecting it.
She immediately followed up with the standard "they laughed at the Wright Brothers and Tesla" and so on. She insisted that some day scientific instruments will be invented to detect these energy fields.
The interview then asked the killer follow up question: "If no scientific instrument can detect your energy field, how is it that a microphone can record it and a CD player can reproduce it?"
Doh!
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Re: Someone Please Splain This To Me [Re: Diploid]
#14160944 - 03/21/11 07:15 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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she is crazy or a scammer. maybe a crazy scammer? It is really sad people believe crap like that and buy it or spend real money on shit like that.
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Re: Someone Please Splain This To Me [Re: Diploid]
#14161072 - 03/21/11 07:38 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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And yet they come in droves to worship.
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Re: Someone Please Splain This To Me [Re: Diploid]
#14161386 - 03/21/11 08:38 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Why are people so...strange?
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Re: Someone Please Splain This To Me [Re: Poid]
#14161567 - 03/21/11 09:19 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cause nature don't care.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Someone Please Splain This To Me [Re: Icelander]
#14161722 - 03/21/11 09:54 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said: And yet they come in droves to worship.
See that devil-may-care sheep, 6th row back, third from the end? Yup. That's me!
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She's just trying to use and abuse the system like those before her imo.
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Re: Someone Please Splain This To Me [Re: Joolz]
#14162267 - 03/21/11 11:32 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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The sounds have powers in the minds of the listener, not through subtle ethereal emanations. Tesla be damned, this all B. F. Skinner.
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Re: Someone Please Splain This To Me [Re: Diploid]
#14162998 - 03/22/11 03:09 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Diploid said:
The interviewer then asked the killer follow up question: "If no scientific instrument can detect your energy field, how is it that a microphone can record it and a CD player can reproduce it?"
that is exactly the right question to ask.
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