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That even makes my response more poignant. You have negative feelings toward the woo side, and have gone to the other side in the extreme.
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For someone who thinks psychiatry is the height of quackery you sure like to go Freud on people.
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You need to find a middle ground. You refuse to give Lessans the benefit of the doubt because you probably don't want to be fooled again.
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I wasn't fooled to begin with. I approached it all with an open mind, analyzed it, debated and discussed with adherents and detractors, and found it to be nothing but unsupported, and unsupportable, assertions. Lessans writings are in the same category.
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I don't want to speculate
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Sure you do.
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but my guess is that you were hurt by the quacks that claimed to be knowledgeable.
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So, along with my distraught childhood, you believe I was hurt by quacks, and probably religious folks, too, leading to my hatred of believers. You should write a book detailing all these traumas you think I've been through.
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I am truly sorry for any pain you might have experienced, but please don't cast a wide net and include Lessans' discovery in this woo.
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If the shoe fits, eat the pudding.
Seriously Miss Open Mind, how much did you study Scientology before concluding it was a cult? Have you investigated Buddhism, Islam, Mormonism, Hinduism, faith healing, astrology, spirit channeling, astral travel, Christianity, and the type of magic Wiccans and others believe to be possible? What is your critical analysis of all of them? What led you to conclude they are or are not true?
(That list is not exhaustive of the topics
I have looked into)
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He was right. Certain things appear self-evident to "scientific" minds
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Oh? Give a specific example of something "scientific" minds accept as self-evident.