That's BULLSHIT.

FirmSkater

Crimson King wrote:

FirmSkater wrote:

My girlfriend's mother is a pagan high priestess who not only believes in ghosts and demons but also magic, spells, and curses.

Super nice lady, though. And she doesn't like to talk about her beliefs with people outside her circle, usually.

is the joke that she is a Christian

She actually resents many Christians for judging pagan beliefs. She considers herself a "witch" - and Christianity and witches don't mix well.

FirmSkater

Weaver wrote:

My facebook update from yesterday.

Just overheard a trainer at my gym telling a client that "germ theory" is a fraud.

Weaver don't you know anything! It's just a theory!

Tef

hey @#pipe post that facebook thing about your mates and sunscreen, if you still have it

Brolo

you know what else is bullshit

embedding fonts into websites

why is this so fucking difficult

Spectre-x

Weaver wrote:

My facebook update from yesterday.

Just overheard a trainer at my gym telling a client that "germ theory" is a fraud.

Give him anthrax.

If that's not feasible, shit in his lunch.

Donovan Puppyfucker

Tef wrote:

Sara Lynn wrote:

pretty much all the girls at work believe in astrology and I've had to unfollow most of them from social networks because they post their horoscope everyday

NO

don't do that

That is such a Pisces thing to say

Son of a-

Man, I liked you, Tef...

#pipe

Tef wrote:

hey @#pipe post that facebook thing about your mates and sunscreen, if you still have it

Tef

hey. hey. hey dave. You're a dork, bro

TheStig

I'm so glad I don't have anyone like that on my facebook.

The most annoying posts I get are random "Wooo Go Bears! Another touchdown!"

HeadCreeps

Tox wrote:

Someone share The Secret with me.

I, too, wish to be enlightened.

If you want something really, really bad, you'll get it!

You just have to concentrate and really, really want it.

or something

TheStig

the universe will just give it to you!
also you have to buy this book.

Tox

yeah, dorks

FCD

HeadCreeps wrote:

Tox wrote:

Someone share The Secret with me.

I, too, wish to be enlightened.

If you want something really, really bad, you'll get it!

You just have to concentrate and really, really want it.

or something

This is why no one has ever died, ever. Especially during the Holocaust! Isn't it great that we all have magic thought powers?

MereHappenstance

HeadCreeps wrote:

Tox wrote:

Someone share The Secret with me.

I, too, wish to be enlightened.

If you want something really, really bad, you'll get it!

You just have to concentrate and really, really want it.

or something

If this were true I'd be a fucking jedi flying around outer space fighting baddies with a light saber.

Perhaps my midichlorian count is too low to make these dreams come true.

#pipe

HeadCreeps wrote:

Tox wrote:

Someone share The Secret with me.

I, too, wish to be enlightened.

If you want something really, really bad, you'll get it!

You just have to concentrate and really, really want it.

or something

it sounds dumb, but that is a pretty good summary.

The "secret" to getting everything you want

is to visualise yourself with that thing and believe it will happen.

MrMonroe

Pharezon wrote:

TheStig wrote:

I wish I was a soulless monster who could take advantage of people with fake treatments and steal their money.

Get a business degree or go to law school!

eat a dick

zellychan

Had a friend who was taking massage therapy courses. It was literally half science half mystic. She had a killer anatomy course all about memorizing muscle names and locations, followed by a class about ancient chinese elemental chi healing or something. Her notes were little pictures of fire/wood/water cycles and looked kind of like a Capt Planet fanfic.

Brolo

#pipe wrote:

Tef wrote:

hey @#pipe post that facebook thing about your mates and sunscreen, if you still have it

noooooooooooooooooooo

MrMonroe

FirmSkater wrote:

Crimson King wrote:

FirmSkater wrote:

My girlfriend's mother is a pagan high priestess who not only believes in ghosts and demons but also magic, spells, and curses.

Super nice lady, though. And she doesn't like to talk about her beliefs with people outside her circle, usually.

is the joke that she is a Christian

She actually resents many Christians for judging pagan beliefs. She considers herself a "witch" - and Christianity and witches don't mix well.

it's like oil and water that wants to set the oil on fire

FirmSkater

When I was a kid every single wish i ever made, from birthdays to throwing a penny in a fountain, was to be Spiderman.

I think I got ripped off

TheStig

if the secret was real every man would have a gigantic penis

HeadCreeps

Rolo wrote:

#pipe wrote:

Tef wrote:

hey @#pipe post that facebook thing about your mates and sunscreen, if you still have it

noooooooooooooooooooo

All those poor fish with cancer

#pipe

My boss asked me to design a poster he could post up all over his neighborhood

to protest a phone tower going up in the neighborhood

because the "radiation" is "dangerous" in some nebulous way

I said you are being bombarded with more radiowaves by the sun every second than this tower will ever put out in its lifetime

I made the poster though because he's my boss. Also I'm pretty sure he just doesn't want the tower because it's ugly

FirmSkater

If only we could just get people to stop putting sunscreen on fish in the Great Barrier

Donovan Puppyfucker

#pipe wrote:

My boss asked me to design a poster he could post up all over his neighborhood

to protest a phone tower going up in the neighborhood

because the "radiation" is "dangerous" in some nebulous way

I said you are being bombarded with more radiowaves by the sun every second than this tower will ever put out in its lifetime

I made the poster though because he's my boss. Also I'm pretty sure he just doesn't want the tower because it's ugly

Nah, that can't be right, man. Let me link you to this Youtube video of people popping popcorn with their cellphones...

Donovan Puppyfucker

FirmSkater wrote:

If only we could just get people to stop putting sunscreen on fish in the Great Barrier

The Great Barrier Reef IS getting bleached to fuck, and the coral is dying. But that's not sunscreens fault.

Tef

#pipe wrote:

HeadCreeps wrote:

Tox wrote:

Someone share The Secret with me.

I, too, wish to be enlightened.

If you want something really, really bad, you'll get it!

You just have to concentrate and really, really want it.

or something

it sounds dumb, but that is a pretty good summary.

The "secret" to getting everything you want

is to visualise yourself with that thing and believe it will happen.

See, at first when I heard abouit this thing I had assumed what they meant was that if you focused on what you want to achieve and believed in your own abilites enough, you would be able to achieve your goals. I was thinking, yeah it's a bit fuzzy-wuzzy and not really revolutionary but that makes sense, I can kind of see what people are seeing in this thing. Welp.

TheStig

it must be all that bleach we dump into the ocean

Blake T

The actual secret is that stupid people are suckers and will any will spend a small amount of money for a perceived chance of happiness.

See also: lotto tickets. Except you actually have an infintesemly small chance of getting what you want as opposed to none.

MrMonroe

apparently there's been this big bullshit on several news networks about a finding of a correlation between birth control use and prostate cancer

only FNC and the like ran with it as though it were a causal link

a friend of mine wrote a really good article explaining why that assumption was bullshit

Usagi

#pipe that makes me livid, like just frothingly angry

Blake T

Also someone go to YouTube and search The chaser's war on everything the secret.

#pipe

Usagi wrote:

#pipe that makes me livid, like just frothingly angry

my favourite part was when the guy said he wanted a clean, quiet power generator in his back yard and why was that so hard

and I was like "Oh you mean solar cells you can put on your roof and you could literally go out today and buy some"

Brolo

chrishallett83 wrote:

#pipe wrote:

My boss asked me to design a poster he could post up all over his neighborhood

to protest a phone tower going up in the neighborhood

because the "radiation" is "dangerous" in some nebulous way

I said you are being bombarded with more radiowaves by the sun every second than this tower will ever put out in its lifetime

I made the poster though because he's my boss. Also I'm pretty sure he just doesn't want the tower because it's ugly

Nah, that can't be right, man. Let me link you to this Youtube video of people popping popcorn with their cellphones...

god that fucking video

and it's for bluetooth headsets too

I hate that people can profiteer off that kind of contextless scaremongering

willful ignorance is repugnant, but inciting it for profit is just beneath contempt

King Riptor

Tox wrote:

FirmSkater wrote:

My girlfriend's mother is a pagan high priestess who not only believes in ghosts and demons but also magic, spells, and curses.

Wait, being pagan is bad now?

Being any religion is bad on the internet. You're a drooling caveman if you so much as think about some sort of divine being(s)

Donovan Puppyfucker

King Riptor wrote:

Tox wrote:

FirmSkater wrote:

My girlfriend's mother is a pagan high priestess who not only believes in ghosts and demons but also magic, spells, and curses.

Wait, being pagan is bad now?

Being any religion is bad on the internet. You're a drooling caveman if you so much as think about some sort of divine being(s)

Nope.

TheStig

any religion but mine is wrong and you really look silly if you believe in that stuff

Blake T

#pipe wrote:

Usagi wrote:

#pipe that makes me livid, like just frothingly angry

my favourite part was when the guy said he wanted a clean, quiet power generator in his back yard and why was that so hard

and I was like "Oh you mean solar cells you can put on your roof and you could literally go out today and buy some"

He didn't respond to that! I was so puzzled.

#pipe

Blake T wrote:

Also someone go to YouTube and search The chaser's war on everything the secret.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo

Syphyre

It's a lot harder to get people to think than it is to get people to accept sensational. (ala popcorn cellphone.) And the minute you actually try to explain, their brains shut down. So frustrating.

Things that make me rage: Vaccines = bad, Homeopathy = works, and non-ionizing radiation = cancer.

Can someone tell me how to explain the entire cell phone thing to someone that doesn't involve the word "non-ionizing"?