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They're drawn to woo beliefs because it feels good or serves some meaning purpose for them - which I get, I mean I was raised in religion - but there's a total absence of interest in tests to check other theories for why they might be experiencing this thing 2/

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I don't get this! How could you not be curious about other theories, when you *know* other people in the world deeply believe stuff that is clearly wrong? It *must* feel convincing to them, so "feeling convincing" to you shouldn't be sufficient criteria. 3/

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Anyway, to me woo beliefs indicate the person has a systemic lack of interest in knowing if they're wrong, and doesn't question their models of their own experience. And this is *really bad* for interpersonal relationships. What if they're wrong about *you*? 4/

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Getting to know someone really deeply requires setting aside your own models to step into their models; it requires being really interested in being willing to be wrong about someone, in actively seeking that out. It's a delicate, careful, nuanced process. 5/

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If someone fails at something so easy as woo, I doubt they'd succeed at something as difficult as understanding another human person. So I get triggered by ppl with real woo beliefs; I see them as not caring about something I deeply value, as incapable of understanding me. 6/6

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2/2 I wonder if your hang ups related to your childhood religious situation and your hyper logical processing stops you from exploring the more woowoo stuff because it triggers you and requires a leap out of rigid thinking and into the unknown.

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i have seen very up close and personal the damage that can come from woo thinking; you're privileged not to have had to experience that

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As a young man, I had woo beliefs and a systemic lack of interest in knowing if I was wrong. I also wasn't that great at understanding other people.

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I sympathize with your argument, but be careful. The success of long-term relationships is highly correlated with partners irrationally idealizing each other.

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