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Short comment:
Does the LHC explain emotions?

 

Long comment:
Perhaps there are other “forces” in the universe than physical forces. For example what is faith but a non-physical force? And yet it drives people to feel certain ways and do certain things. Same goes for love.

Just like the placebo effect there are many things that affect a person internally even though externally they don’t appear to be doing anything.

If something so simple as wearing a bracelet brings balance to someone’s troubled mind then I don’t see the issue nor do I see the reason to argue about it on the internet.

Now, all that being said, these products are just a grift. We lost the plot when we went from
“pretty rock that eases my mind because I get dopamine from looking at it”
to
“this rock has magical powers and you should buy it because of that”.

Conclusion: people are allowed to feel spiritual and psychological connections with things and it is wrong to take advantage of those feelings for profit.

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I dunno, they might not be looking in the right place. Have they tried Mystic Mary’s Crystal Emporium?

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I and a lot of other people use crystal bracelet to help us sync up with other people. Even if we’re apart for days, we can show up exactly at the same place at the same moment if our crystals are vibrating at the same frequency.

How do you explain that?

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Tides come in, tides go out. Can’t explain that

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Is that frequency something you can control or measure? Do you agree on a shared “let’s meet” frequency you set it to, and if the other happens to have it set to that as well, you end up meeting? Or is it more of a random chance thing, like running into each other in places you both frequent at coincidentally matching times and deciding it must be the bracelets’ doing?

Or am I falling for a joke?

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I think they mean a watch

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I wasn’t entirely sure if that’s what they mean, but I considered the possibility. I opted to give a serious response just in case, accepting the possibility I’d be wooooshed.

I did.

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I don’t really know, I only know the basics of how to use it. But twice a year when the planet reaches a certain position in the solar system, you have to calibrate it 1/24th of an earth rotation, and then do it again after a certain time. I don’t understand why, but everyone is doing it. The crystal draws energy from a silver pendant the size of a coin.

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A watch. I knew it. Nice one.

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Piezoelectricity?

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Dunno what that is, sounds fake.

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The person with the crystals has already concluded, by faith or by doing large logical leaps, that those contain new energy.

The scientists behind the LHC have to meticulously find evidence along the way before they can make a conclusion.

They are not the same.

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