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comment by Meriadoc
Meriadoc  ·  3988 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Are Things You Thought You'd Absolutely Never Change Your Opinion About?

I love me some psuedoscience and futurism, but I'm still 100% Scully when it comes to spirituality. I can't help but roll my eyes at friends who decide to believe in such things, like my friends who recently decided to take up Wiccan for fun, or taking any of it seriously. It just feels like the comfortable beliefs that humans gravitate towards when there's something they don't understand, and then viciously defend when contrarians inevitably arrive with something tangible or objective that illuminates their previous dark corner. How do you reconcile the two?





istara  ·  3988 days ago  ·  link  ·  

With my serious head, I think it is all a pile of bullshit.

However I like reading about magic, and even find the idea of druids and things rather poetic.

humanresources  ·  3988 days ago  ·  link  ·  

do people use the word 'Scully' to describe a skeptic person? because i would enjoy that reference (if it does in fact refer to x-files). loved that series.

Meriadoc  ·  3985 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know if people do, but I and some friends do at the least. Always loved the show, and now I'm working through everything in order. Through five seasons and a movie so far.