Came across a list of pseudosciences and was fun seeing where im woo woo.

Lunar effect – the belief that the full Moon influences human and animal behavior.

Ley Lines

Accupressure/puncture

Ayurveda

Body Memory

Faith healing

Anyway, list too long to read. I guess Im quite the nonscientific woowoomancer. How about you? What pseudoscience do you believe? Also I believe nearly every stone i find was an ancient indian stone. Also manifesting and or prayer to manipulate via subconscious aligning the future. oh and the ability to subconsciously deeply understand animals, know the future, etc

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    41·
    2 days ago

    Counterpoint:

    Time IS real, but like all dimensiona of space it must be traversed in a direction. We can only experience it in a linear fashion, but as it can be traversed there must be a forward and backward (regardless of if we can access it or not). Ergo, predestination is real because all moments are happening simultaneously in different locations upon the time axis.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Here’s a twist I just came up with. We experience time passing, because we’re sliding through it uncontrollably.

      Imagine a sled sliding downhill. If you wanted to stay still in time, that would take active effort. It’s like pushing against the sled to prevent it from sliding down. If you want to go back where you came from, it would take even more effort. It’s like climbing uphill.

      Also, I have zero evidence about any of this, which makes me 99% confident that time doesn’t really work this way. It just sounds like an appealing concept that should be a foundation of a scifi novel.

    • droplet6585@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      must be traversed in one direction

      See that’s the part I’m not so sure of. At least for all information transfer. Matter is likely too weighty to go against the current.

      But time “feels” like a plane where traversal is just beyond my fingertips.

      Or I’m just in the really early phases of dementia.

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I think it’s like… in terms of time we’re kind of ‘2D’. Like if you picture a dot on a sheet of paper, it can only move around the directions on that flat plane. That’s time and velocity for us. if you go further up the X axis, you go less far along the Y axis, which is why time slows down the faster you go.

        If you were somehow ‘3D’ in time, it’s be like if you lifted the pen off the paper, you could hop around all over the place or maybe even to a different sheet of paper entirely.