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Dwarf

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Re: New Poll Denies Existance of Wicca
« Reply #150 on: June 17, 2011, 05:31:52 pm »
You'll have to forgive me if I didn't really understand any of that.
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Re: New Poll Denies Existance of Wicca
« Reply #151 on: June 17, 2011, 06:50:05 pm »
Quote from: Dwarf on June 17, 2011, 05:31:52 pm
You'll have to forgive me if I didn't really understand any of that.
Really? None of it? That doesn't give me much to work on. I could just say chaos magic interprets everything and every tradition as the same thing (a tool to work magic), but that's not strictly correct either. It doesn't ignore the differences, and it doesn't force you to believe or not believe in anything. It works with their differences, because underneath it all is the belief that belief (or prayer, or magic, or whatever) has power, and your mind will act differently when believing in different things.
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Re: New Poll Denies Existance of Wicca
« Reply #152 on: June 23, 2011, 03:25:03 am »
Quote from: Eagleon on June 17, 2011, 06:50:05 pm
underneath it all is the belief that belief (or prayer, or magic, or whatever) has power

Hasn't pretty much every scientific study done on this (power of prayer, etc.) shown it to be false, at least as much as is possible?
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Re: New Poll Denies Existance of Wicca
« Reply #153 on: June 23, 2011, 03:30:20 am »
Quote from: G-Flex on June 23, 2011, 03:25:03 am
Quote from: Eagleon on June 17, 2011, 06:50:05 pm
underneath it all is the belief that belief (or prayer, or magic, or whatever) has power

Hasn't pretty much every scientific study done on this (power of prayer, etc.) shown it to be false, at least as much as is possible?
This study concluded that knowing people were praying for you to recover from injury made things worse.
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Re: New Poll Denies Existance of Wicca
« Reply #154 on: June 23, 2011, 03:43:19 am »
They just lack faith.
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Re: New Poll Denies Existance of Wicca
« Reply #155 on: August 22, 2011, 11:20:43 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on June 23, 2011, 03:30:20 am
Quote from: G-Flex on June 23, 2011, 03:25:03 am
Quote from: Eagleon on June 17, 2011, 06:50:05 pm
underneath it all is the belief that belief (or prayer, or magic, or whatever) has power

Hasn't pretty much every scientific study done on this (power of prayer, etc.) shown it to be false, at least as much as is possible?
This study concluded that knowing people were praying for you to recover from injury made things worse.

Maybe they didn't pick the right god to pray to.
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Re: New Poll Denies Existance of Wicca
« Reply #156 on: August 22, 2011, 11:21:11 pm »
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