https://scienceinsights.org/do-humans-glow-the-science-of-our-bodys-invisible-light/

The answer to whether humans glow is a definitive yes. Our bodies continuously emit a faint, steady light, a phenomenon known as Ultraweak Photon Emission (UPE), or biophotons. This glow is a byproduct of our fundamental biological processes, rendering it completely invisible to the naked eye. Unlike the dramatic, visible light produced by fireflies (bioluminescence), this subtle radiance provides scientists with a novel way to peer into the inner workings of cellular health and metabolism.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2018/06/four-ways-human-mind-shapes-reality

It might sound like a pseudoscientific fantasy, but the mind can shape health, behavior and maybe even society as a whole. Stanford researchers are bridging disciplines to understand what our minds can do and how they do it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/choosing-your-meditation-style/202512/why-thoughts-have-power

what we expect, believe, and even feel profoundly alters how we experience the world. Put differently, the mind is not a passive observer. It is a predictive, generative, reality-filtering system—one that continually constructs the lens through which we live our daily experiences.

How does it feel to be confidently wrong?

Cool, so you have evidence for this? Or do you routinely believe in outrageous things with zero evidence?

I don't think reasonable is even it for me, it's just a helpful assumption.

If they are doing a perfect job at a Truman show type situation, there's nothing you can do, so you might as well assume they're not and play your role.

Hopefully the people mocked will adapt to social pressure and change their beliefs in order to fit in better. Bullying generally does work, even if it sucks. The only alternative is to simply murder the ones you disagree with and that sucks even more for multiple reasons, chiefly that right now numbers are against us.

Dicks out for Harambe. 😔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

I absolutely believe in energy, frequency, and vibration. My wifi vibrates at a frequency of 2.4 and 5 GHz and in order to do that it needs to use energy.

Like, I'm down with hippie woo energy work, it's really useful meditation. I use it to keep my anxiety under control. But your religion can't cure diseases, it can only provide comfort

God has not once healed an amputee. What does he have against them?

Meditation is awesome and useful. But it doesn't need to be mystical and magical to be great, and I wish more people realized that.

Not with that attitude.

It's more reasonable via Occam's razor (more complexity is less reasonable, when everything else is equal). However it is still just a belief axiom. You have to assume 1 holds.

Do you know this first-hand? Give us an example of a belief you hold primarily because of bullying.

The latter, with a 's/routinely/rare/'

I also have some curious thoughts about higher dimensional beings as well as some murmurs about what the rustling of trees might be a proxy for if you need the extra fodder, or just a fun drink in a pub somewhere

I'm willing to accept Atheism, 'I do not believe in God', as somewhat dogmatic, but as others have said, it's the null hypothesis and they have Occam's razor going for them. Pragmatically it is a useful stance in light of the societal harm religion does.

I am however unwilling to conflate Agnosticism with 'I can not believe', always been "I'm waiting for evidence one way or the other" to me, so perhaps the more scientific point of view.

They conscript themselves unto a diminutive solace tenet that our noetic essence is not merely inscribed within our cerebral neurons but encompasses a resplendent effulgence that constructively/destructively commingles with the circumambient firmament upon some infinitesimal stratum we ascribe to capricious vicissitudes, and that upon our demise, we sunder solely the corporeal partition of our noetic essence whilst our effulgent essence endures, enscrolled within a vaster concatenation of ambient cogitation.

Somewhat reminiscent of phantasms/an empyrean continuance, yet less plaintive wailing and clanking of fetters and more ethereal attunement to the affective emanation of a park bench amid the interlaced noetic filigrees that have ever impinged upon it.

They might be in the wrong comm though...

There's more and more evidence that we are affected by and emit light in various ways. Did you also know that there is a flash of light when a sperm meets an egg?

Since light is a kind of radiant energy and we evolved alongside the sun for so long, it's not actually that far a leap that our biology would make use of it in some way, if you think about it.

What you are describing maps quite well to the Quantum Memory Model (accessible explanation here) of Physics. Certainly considering information a fundamental quantity that can neither be created nor destroyed is becoming a popular concept.

Ah right. I guess I'm sort of implying that the hidden parts are also imprinted somehow too, through a vague hand-wavey mechanism that I've yet to define

Lo verrily, I thank thee kind gentleman scholar to the spirit of thine timely repose of which mine gedankenings give flight to the fanciness of bees. May the everlasting illumination of others through proxy prose continue to be a boon to those who entreat upon it!

You can map out the inside of a building and figure out where objects are, and when and where movement occurs, with WiFi.

You cannot do this with magic woo woo nonsense that equivocates and conflates terms across different domain specific meanings, and then attempts to build a world view out of confused, meaningless/contradictory gibberish.

He wasn't.

You can't see the biophotons.

Humans have no way of detecting, experiencing them, without complex instruments.

They do not factor in to any decision making activity in our brain, because we have no senses capable of receiving them as input.

Read your own source.

The way that people colloquially use 'aura' is as if they have some kind of magical ability to see things other people can't, that indicate things about that aura-haver's emotional or mental or spiritual state.

They can't, biophotons do none of that, they're just a nearly undetectable form of light that's emmitted by essentially anything that has an active metabolism, ie, is not dead.

They're just using a made-up concept to describe internal herusitics in their mind, ie, their intuition.

Sure, they've used their mind in the way that your last two sources sort of hint at, but its a delusion, its failing to understand their own mind giving rise to a psuedo religious concept.

The only reality, the only power in 'auras' as a concept is sociological, indirect, as a reference with no referent.

Auras being a thing be people can see and use... that's on the same level of 'real' as 'Christ died for our sins'.

If you mean to use a different definition of aura, as in just a glow of light, then sure, technically all living matter has an imperceptible aura.

Could these UPEs play some kind of way into extremely short distance cellular interactions? Yes!

But thats... not what people mean, 95% of the time, when they're talking about a person's aura.

This is the whole problem of using woo woo terms.

You can't conflate two different meanings of words and then act like that is not what you are doing.

You also should specify what you mean, in cases where a word has different meanings in different domains.

Specifically OSI layers 1 and 2!

The whole thing about auras is that they're not visibly perceptible either. Some people claim to be able to see them, but that's a completely separate argument from the much more common belief that they exist.

And according to science, they do exist. They can be detected with certain instruments and even reveal data about health and metabolism.

Biophotons are an imperceptible glow of light that surround living organisms. Auras are an imperceptible glow of light that surround living organisms. Therefore, biophotons are auras.

You can call bullshit on someone claiming to be able to see auras, but if you're saying auras don't exist because science calls them something different, then you're simply wrong.

well so does your mom (ive witnessed it)

No longer made in his image?

to me, those last two statements are pretty close in the grand scheme of things. it was allegorical anyway, since we weren't really talking about god.

if there is no proof one way or the other, the pragmatic stance is to be neutral. if one side is more theoretically sound, the pragmatic stance is to assume that's the correct side while still being open to the other. only when there's proof of one side can you dismuss the other. none of those steps require "belief", i.e. unfounded assumptions.

as an aside, personally i feel like religion is one of those issues where there is proof.

surely if the universe has an infinite lifespan there could be an infinite number of humans? for whatever passes as a human at any given time. the two concepts may even overlap.

not that it matters for the day-to-day, anyway.

You guys, energy, frequency and vibration are all obviously fake. Nobody has ever observed vibration in real life. Go on and try measuring one of those "frequencies", I'll wait. Where are you even supposed to find those? "A faucet dripping"? "Your literal heartbeat"? Don't make me laugh!

That's how I feel about astrology. A horoscope is just a prompt for self reflection. But it's fun when something feels woo woo or predictive or relatable because... its fun, idk. Its spooOoOoOoKy, it's fun, it's cute. Star charts are a skill you have to learn, it's a hobby, it makes your brain work.

Tuning forks are big fake

Yaayyyy, constant gamma radiation!!!

Tech lets people play games with their thoughts

https://www.futurity.org/brain-computer-interface-games-3200662-2/

Must be a Pisces. Classic Pisces vibes lol

Doc, you can't just put cocaine in the frunk of a CyberTruck and call it a DeLorean!

Some of the more storied and out there reports of what happened with the remote viewing program in the 80s and 90s pretty much get close to this.

Big Tuning Fork are lying to us!

Maybe can cure some diseases.

Even just via the comfort provided. Comfort enough, to get into a parasympathetic dominant mode long enough for the body to heal itself.

The irony of finding two other woo-tolerant Lemmites in this comm.

Once I learned that astrology points to themes of influence on a time frame, it made a lot more sense. Taking it literally and thinking everything is confirmation bias is how people dismiss it. There's more than a few people that have correctly nailed a lot of big events, it's more about technique it seems. Nick Dagen Best published a book I think in 2013 or 2016 that is hitting hard right now - totally called Trump 2 and stuck to his guns on that.

Heard some conspiracy folks mention negative frequencies from 5G and the like. It's just a phase I guess..

Some of them are also small fake

I like maps. I like puzzles. Astrology's both.

First got intrigued when in my ignorant militant atheism dogma phase, and someone managed to discern my sun sign, just by my appearance and behaviours. I have since gone on to do the same to others, typically with as much world-view-changing astonishment in them as I experienced.

Can't be bunk if that can be done.

The observable profiling reality of it, does open minds to wondering about what's the astrological weather like.

The map is not the terrain.

Somewhere between naive realism and "some stupid past time fun", there are maps.

Where would we find the citation you say is needed, for what you do not believe?

Though I imagine he paid more attention to the cymatic cromulence.

Too many cut themselves on Occam's razor, incorrectly presuming all else equal.

To put on my obnoxious skeptic hat, it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people's upbringing affects each generations' behaviors and mannerisms. Just, with an astrological chart rather than with a calendar.

I have to charge my phone. What is your wifi password?

the Mass times the Acceleration will equal the^2^ Force.

if the universe has an infinite lifespan (as current models suggest) then we would almost certainly be Boltzmann brains

Sounds like presuming some place further along in an infinite set. We may still be in an early iteration at the start, as plain as it seems.