--in defense of rationality in an irrational world. A rational humanist's encounters with religion, woo, and muddled thinking.
Monday, November 15, 2010
In the community: Woo vs woo?
How does a customer decide which woo to choose?
Are astrology and tarot cards complementary woo or competing woo?
Is this the woo equivalent of an interfaith center in which different irrational practices may be practiced by people who, although they share a building and a belief in silly things, don't share the same belief in the same silly things?
Can you get two different predictions if you do both woos? If not, why even offer two woos? Wouldn't one woo be enough woo?
And, really, if the astrologer and/or card reader could truly predict the future, would they have set up shop in Dundalk, Maryland? Not dissing Dundalk, but seriously. Someone who can predict the future bases herself in the obscurity of Dundalk? Why? Could it be because enough gullible people willing to pay someone to tell them fairy tales about their future live in the Dundalk area?
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