I Don't Know If Love Makes You Stupid, But This Sure Is

[Johnny Pneumatic]

What won't people believe in? (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060514/lf_afp/afplifestyleusfengshui_060514194841)

[Waluigi]

Focusing on the hits, ignoring the misses. How many people Feng Shui'd their living spaces with no discernable effects?

If I had to guess, I'd say this article was prompted by the PR firm for either Feng Shui Masters, the American Feng Shui Institute, or a company that sells Feng Shui crap.

I'm surprised the Skeptics Society was quoted, but I still think it's a PR piece. Why else would you write about this?

[D. Scarlatti]

Feng Shui'd

Gesundheit.

[Shake]

There's a sucker born every minute.
-PT Barnum

... and someone to take advantage of them every other minute.
-Shake

[Waluigi]

Feng Shui'd
Gesundheit.
Goes in tight? No, not anymore it doesn't.

[Beth]

I agree with Pat Linse, it sounds "charming and poetic. It appeals to the emotions. It could make a person happier and more receptive to a relationship."
don't believe that it sends forth any energy, but people might be more confident. Anyway, I like Feng shui. I like the clean, elegant style of it. It is peaceful and uncluttered and sure as hell would love to do that to my bedroom. I think if it was less cluttered and messy I would think more about getting it on. [deep voice]Oh yeah![/deep voice]

When we finally start our new house, I will do a mix in styles, including feng shui. But that is a few years from now.:)

[godfry n. glad]

Dave Barry: "Do you know what 'feng shui' means in Chinese? It means 'latest fad'."

[Beth]

Hehe. Yes, I suppose that it is a fad, but I think that some of the designs are just very nice. I was going to feng shui my house back years ago, when I was naive and did not realize it was all new agey stuff. I thought it was just clean Oriental lines-type stuff, but was shocked to find out that a toilet being left open sucked all of my prosperity out of my home. I was shocked to find out that the mirror that faces my bed actually reflects negative energy onto us at night when we sleep, making us future cursed and diseased people. I was basically just shocked that most of my decorating was just a bucketload of bad luck and illness.

[godfry n. glad]

All that certainly explains why your life is so miserable, right?

[Beth]

Nope. Unfortunately there are other reasons to that. Namely the fact that I cannot shake dumb-assitis. Wait a minute. I'm not miserable. I think things are getting better and will be grand.

[Blue]

Feng Shui love... the things desparate people for love will never cease to amaze me.

[Adam]

It's not entirely ridiculous. Observe:

"Oh! I see from your carefuly placed vase of flowers that you practice feng shui!"
"I do indeed."
"I also practice feng shui...I find that <insert feng shui jargon here>"
"What an interesting opinion! Let us immediately <take your pick: talk some more/get a drink/strip naked right here and fuck in a position carefully selected to encourage the flow of qi>."

[Leesifer]

Adam, you're such a smoothie. :flirt:

[Perry]

Hypothetically, superstitions can have a real correlation based on psychological principles. For example, blue, green, and purple flowers can have a calming effect, and that calming effect can create a social personality and lead to clarity of thought and success (I'm being extremely optimistic here for sake of argument). It's an issue of correlation v. causation. In this case of feng shoe (sp?), it's not interesting enough that I really want to learn about it, but that's just a random thought about all this superstitious bullshit-type stuff. Of course the placebo effect and selective perception are usually more powerful than any other effect.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Hypothetically, superstitions can have a real correlation based on psychological principles. For example, blue, green, and purple flowers can have a calming effect, and that calming effect can create a social personality and lead to clarity of thought and success (I'm being extremely optimistic here for sake of argument). It's an issue of correlation v. causation. In this case of feng shoe (sp?), it's not interesting enough that I really want to learn about it, but that's just a random thought about all this superstitious bullshit-type stuff. Of course the placebo effect and selective perception are usually more powerful than any other effect.

But just interior decorating(the non mystical kind) done right can have the same effect too. What makes feng shui superstitious BS is all the talk of qi, ley lines and all that nonsense. Cut that esoteric crap out of feng shui and it'd not be worthy of being made fun of. Unless of course it still made stuff look like shit, which following the rules of feng shui can sometimes be what happens.

[erimir]

I'm gonna get a feng shui haircut.

Need to direct the chi in my body.

But since this is so I can get laid, the haircut won't be in the traditional place ;)

[godfry n. glad]

I'm gonna get a feng shui haircut.

Need to direct the chi in my body.

But since this is so I can get laid, the haircut won't be in the traditional place ;)


You done got yoursef wunna them Norelco Bodygroomers!

Let your feng shui!

[godfry n. glad]

It's not entirely ridiculous. Observe:

"Oh! I see from your carefuly placed vase of flowers that you practice feng shui!"
"I do indeed."
"I also practice feng shui...I find that <insert feng shui jargon here>"
"What an interesting opinion! Let us immediately <take your pick: talk some more/get a drink/strip naked right here and fuck in a position carefully selected to encourage the flow of qi>."

:rimshot: qi dong

[Adam]

But just interior decorating(the non mystical kind) done right can have the same effect too. What makes feng shui superstitious BS is all the talk of qi, ley lines and all that nonsense. Cut that esoteric crap out of feng shui and it'd not be worthy of being made fun of.

Not necessarily. The mystical bullshit part may well be a big part of what creates the psychosomatic mental effect.

[erimir]

Yeah, you would need to make up some Western pseudoscience as an analogy.

Like... Interior decoratology.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

But since this is so I can get laid, the haircut won't be in the traditional place ;)

I'd recommend you get a yin yang cut into your pubes.

[Blue]

It's not entirely ridiculous. Observe:

"Oh! I see from your carefuly placed vase of flowers that you practice feng shui!"
"I do indeed."
"I also practice feng shui...I find that <insert feng shui jargon here>"
"What an interesting opinion! Let us immediately <take your pick: talk some more/get a drink/strip naked right here and fuck in a position carefully selected to encourage the flow of qi>."

Well, that's not ridiculous, but that situation is based on similarity, because they both previously were into Feng Shui. What's ridiculous to me is when someone begins Feng Shui for the purpose of meeting someone. It's actually more sad than ridiculous.

[ChuckF]

It's not entirely ridiculous. Observe:

"Oh! I see from your carefuly placed vase of flowers that you practice feng shui!"
"I do indeed."
"I also practice feng shui...I find that <insert feng shui jargon here>"
"What an interesting opinion! Let us immediately <take your pick: talk some more/get a drink/strip naked right here and fuck in a position carefully selected to encourage the flow of qi>."
That would be the long version.

Short version:

"Oh! I see from your carefuly placed vase of flowers that you practice feng shui!"
"Feng shui up your cooch!"
<get it on>

[Adam]

So what you're saying, Chuck, is that I need to get me some feng shui flowers, stat?

[Adam]

Well, that's not ridiculous, but that situation is based on similarity, because they both previously were into Feng Shui. What's ridiculous to me is when someone begins Feng Shui for the purpose of meeting someone. It's actually more sad than ridiculous.

I dunno...it's no more sad or ridiculous than doing anything else for the purpose of meeting someone, IMO. I've been adised at various times that I should do everything from take dance classes to go to church in order to meet someone, and I don't see dropping a vase of flowers onto a table somewhere as being inherently sadder or more ridiculous than either of those things (speaking as an atheist with no particular interest in dance, that is).

[peepnklown]

Feng-Shui is a Starbucks waiting to happen.