Feng Shui
Posted on: August 26, 2007 - 8:12pm
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Feng Shui
This has only recently become popular in the west, but is a very irrational idea, and pseudoscience. The very idea some mystical thing will give you bad luck because you set a room up a certain way. Set it up the way it looks good to you and that makes sense - ie saving room, not having stuff in the way. On a side note, why does pseudoscience seem to be so much more popular in the US than valid science?
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What Is Feng shui realy about again?
I heard someone describe it as:
Aranging your furniture so that a dragon could walk around without messing things upp, Or something.
But I doubt the real deffinition is as rational as that.
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my uneducated guess is - real science is boring whereas psudoscience says crazy things and proports them to be true.
the only thing feng shui offers is aesthetics. But you dont need some eastern philosophy or crap like that, just you know, have an eye for what looks nice.
I've never believed anything Feng Shui had to offer. Shifting a chair a few degrees to the west won't increase my money flow.
When I arrange furniture, it's in a way that is most useful and convenient to me. Most of the time it looks good too.
I think anything about Feng Shui services you find in the west is going to be a huge superstitious sham. :\
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It's about changing all the things around you in your life to increase prosperity, right down to the furniture.
The funny thing is, if you look at houses designed with feng shui in mind and room layouts (furniture etc), everything is always placed in really stupid awkward spots that puts things in the way and in impractical spots.
Organised religion is the ultimate form of blasphemy.
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It's probably because a significant portion of the population think "regular" science is "a tool of the Devil" (heliocentricism, evolution, medicine etc. ) whereas the newer, "shinier" pseudoscience is ... well ... new and shiny.
People like shiny objects.
Americans like shiny objects more than most other people.
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It has something to do with some sort of mystical energy that is apparently affected by what side of the room I put my sofa on. It also apparently is magnified by certain otherwise useless trinkets that many feng shui consultants just happen to be selling at an ultra high price. A coworker of mine has spent hundreds of dollars of her own money to feng shui her office, and still believes. I always give her shit for it, but deep down it really saddens me that people can be scammed so easily.
"On mine honour, my friend, [...] there is nothing of all that whereof thou speakest: there is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body; fear, therefore, nothing any more!"
- from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra
It's also easier in the sense that you can believe that you can become rich and successful by rearranging your furniture, as opposed to, you know, working hard or something like that.
Basically its more popular becasue fucktards can understand it.
Real science is somewhat tricky and requires study in order to grasp it. Bollocks like feng shui can be understood by and moronic, new age, airy fairy fuckwit. Yeah maaan its like ancient and japanees maaaan and like the energies maaan flow around the like room maaaan and it like balances your ying with your yang maaan yeah and that means you will get greater luck maaan.
Fucking morons.
Last night I went to buy a coke from the machine down the hall, but before I left, I picked up all my dirty clothes that had been scattered on the floor and I threw them in the basket at the foot of the bed. And then the coke machine gave me two cokes for just one dollar!
It has to be true! How else could that happen?!
/sarcasm
A place common to all will be maintained by none. A religion common to all is perhaps not much different.
While I don't agree with the reasoning behind Feng Shui, I think the appearance of a room can have a profound effect, psychologically, which can affect health, productivity, etc. The science behind it is, of course, bunk. Seems pretty harmless, unless your grams is getting fleeced by some silk-wearing David Carradine type.
I know why people like pseudoscience. Real science is hard: there are actual rules by which things interact, things that have to be memorized and studied, and checked, and understood. Even then, you don't get to play with the big boys. You might dabble in psychics, but you're not going to find yourself debating Hawking any time soon. Pseudoscience offers you the keys to the kingdom, and you don't have to KNOW anything. People love it because the ratio of work to "results" is perfect for their laziness.