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I believe that most of the advertised "psychics" are fake, they're just looking to make some money, the real ones usually keep to themselves/hide it or are spread around through word of mouth.
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No, these were friendly psychics; my brother, his girlfriend, their buddies, my step-mother's dangly crystal pendulum thing. You'd think 50% would say male and 50% would say female, but exactly 100% said that my niece would be a boy.
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The human race is so ignorant. Think of all the things that you think 'I don't understand that, but I'm sure there are scientists somewhere do'. I would love to see a book of 'Things you think the human race knows that we actually don't' - I wanna buy that; it'd be fascinating! We don't know why gravity works. Why does the spinning Earth mean things stick to it? We don't know. 97% of the universe is 'missing'; our understanding of the universe says it should exist but we can't see it and we don't know what it's made from.
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I agree with your premise, at least to the point where militant atheists try to claim that shit like String Theory explains all of life's mysteries despite the fact that it's as unprovable as the existence of God. But I do feel the need to point out that things stick to Earth because it's a large mass, not anything to do with it spinning. You're getting confused with centripetal force.
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If you aren't a fundamentalist, you aren't a Christian. You don't get to temper ancient texts with modern wisdom. IF MODERN WISDOM CHANGES YOUR FAITH THEN YOUR FAITH WAS INHERENTLY WRONG TO BEGIN WITH. Also, it isn't fair. It isn't fair that I had to live through what I did, and you don't. I know that's a stupid and shit argument, but I don't care. It isn't fucking fair.
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I sort of semi-agree and majorly disagree with you. I don't get the logic of anyone who would try to change religion; for instance the Reform streams of Judaism who, when they started, had big meetings* to decide what parts of the tradition and texts to keep and which to ignore. I mean, if you're doing that, you're not following the religion any more.
That said, I do believe in
interpreting the traditions and texts through the filter of the modern world. For instance, in Judaism there are rules about decency and modesty in dress and behaviour. The most extreme example of this is that Ultra-Orthodox women have to be dressed completely covered from neck to ankles and also have their hair covered after marriage. They're also not allowed to sing in front of men. The primary reasoning for this is so as not to inflame sexual urges in the men who look at/listen to them. On the other hand, Modern-Orthodox Jews say that standards of decency are a cultural thing, and that women should be able to wear pants or t-shirts if they want to, simply because that's what everyone wears today and we're used to seeing it.
*Massive simplification of the history. Don't quote me on it.