at the most basic level the "minimal but respectful take" for me is just about respecting people i know and the experiences and perceptions i know they've had. i see no reason to believe that they're any less reliable than my own experiences and perceptions
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the next level up from the minimal but respectful take involves just not caring particularly one way or the other whether known physics can explain anything. i am not all the way there yet but i occasionally try to meme myself in that direction
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magic has nothing to do with violating the laws of physics. it has much to do with violating *expectations*, and we can reflect on what in our society causes us to conflate the two
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ah no this was a better QT from that thread
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"the laws of physics" *should* refer to your experience of pushing and pulling and bending and breaking and grasping and stretching but it *actually* refers to a specific kind of propaganda that was shoved down your throat in grade school
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okay, fine, i will own up to it because i get annoyed when other people don't do that: this is a subtweet, but i have tried to mostly focus on what i want to see more of and hopefully i mostly succeeded
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Ppl who are real into astrology/conspiracies/woo beliefs *really* trigger me, but it's not because of the beliefs themselves, it's what it indicates about the person.
To me, it implies a profound lack of curiosity in checking to see if their beliefs are true. 1/
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as you can see my pov is almost the exact opposite of the above: "aren't you *curious* what's going on with all this woo stuff, which has been happening uninterrupted to our species this whole-ass time we've been around, several times longer than science has?"
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i really like this question because it seems genuinely curious. i replied with five possibilities: wind currents, electrical / magnetic currents, smells, facial expression, body language. there’s a lot of information potentially available if you learn how to sift it
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I read something about the electrical pulses of our heart being detectable from 100m away… & imagine it speeding up with every inhale and down w every exhale, heartrate shifting in response to thoughts… what horses can sense in us…so much to feel. Im sure it gets way subtler
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100m, damn. you ever hear stories about people who can tell that a sniper is looking at them from that far away? that's also the kind of thing i wonder about and have in mind here
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Not a sniper but just normal people at distance staring intensely yes.
My friend just dreamed an intense intimate encounter with a man she had never seen before, and had his baby in the dream. The next day she met him (in a new place she had never been before—no chance encounter)
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dang. i have also heard some wild dream stories for sure