Can we have a proper 'woo' topic?

[IndigoBarbie]

Dear MNHQ, I fully believe in freedom of speech and experiences, and as such I go out of my way to assist those who are asking more angelic/psychic etc questions, since this is my real life in a nutshell. Getting sooooo fed up of threads becoming all about others who don't believe and blatantly attacking those of us on thread who want to actively discuss and share and I think a lovely new topic of 'woo' or something you feel is an appropriate title could be provided for us to have proper sharings and discussions.

I want some imaginary helpers Garlic, will they do the ironing too?

Now a psychological emotional support topic would be good, with practical non woo solutions like garlic mentioned.

They're smarter than that, Unreal, they explain how to avoid ever needing to iron

Now your topic idea, I like vairry much! People could pop their angels in there, if they really had to ...

Angels could be tools I suppose. Do we let Paul McKenna in?

He's a tool!

Psychological support - that'd do it.

Garlic, when you say: "I use imaginary helpers as a self-compassion tool, as recommended by various renowned psychologists. I don't believe they really exist, but they help anyway - my own mind is doing all the work" - that's what I do too; but that's why I'm interested to hear how other people use the concept of imaginary helpers.

With feathers, I use them as a prompt to mindfulness and memento mori.

It's interesting to look at how people use stuff like this to get by. I'd like to discuss it, without being sneered at and de-railed.

On Christian threads, they don't get loads of people coming on every bloody time to say: "Immaculate conception? Are you kidding?" Yet that is at the heart of Christianity. And indeed it was an angel wot done it.

GarlicJuneBlooms the debate you are asking for can never happen here. There would be too many anti woo comments for anyone to wade through for the argument. We need an 'ignore poster' option so the anti-woo could be filtered out.

Personally I think it wwould be one heck of a thread with over half the comments invisible and a woo bunfight weaving through.

Thanks MNHQ You totally rock...

Can't wait til CoteDAzur sees a ghost in RL, and then has to reassess the reality of existence like very many of us have had to do. It's all part of the craziness that is life. Woooooooooooo!

At the very least, we could discuss the line between woo and non-woo.

And how something like Transcendental Meditation moves from woo to non-woo.

And whether it works to do woo things or non-woo things if you think it's all a load of baloney.

"Immaculate conception? Are you kidding?"

That happens quite often actually.

If and when you have a woo topic, don't think people won't come in and remind you that all that voodoo is not real and doesn't work beyond the placebo effect.

Generally concerted de-railing doesn't happen to Christian threads to an extent which closes them down.

Did I hear TM? Does anyone do TM and would like to discuss about it?

PS - I'm totally scientific minded but interested in TM.

"Can't wait til CoteDAzur sees a ghost in RL"

That may be a long wait, Indigo.

I love how you say that as if everyone sees ghosts at some point and it is only a matter of time until I see one, too

You don't need that "but" in your post, Lady, thanks to recent research. The medics are with you.

Cote, never say never. That's all I'm sayin'......

There's self help, alternative therapy and there's woo. The twains never meet, nor should they.

Woo is spirituality isn't it? Isn't that where it belongs?

It was established, over multiple thousand post threads, that the Feminism topic was about Feminism, not for feminists.

So, tough. You could have a woo board, but it would have to be about woo, not a place excluding non-woo-ers, subject to usual Talk guidelines.

Otherwise, MNHQ would have to deal with multiple threads about policy. Again. And again. And again.

Côte I haven't seen mine yet either, still waiting...

As Crotch said, if you get your woo topic, we'll be there with you

I know what you are hoping is to have the numbers to shout down anyone who points out the error of your ways, but facts, reality, and theory will still not be on your side. So good luck with that.

Did we kill the thread with reason, Cote? :-D

It's not actually a war.

We just want to chat.

Yes we do just want to chat

So what you're saying cote is that you are going to purposely (and gleefully it seems) going to derail every single woo thread so it descends into a fight and eventually dies.. as what happens with all of them?

Just for the record like.

Quite. That's what the feminists wanted too, but it was thrashed out and MNHQ decided on their policy.

I think there were lots of suggestions of ignoring the naysayers and starting off-MN boards.

The point is, though, that feminists, like Christians, do manage to talk amongst themselves on MN.

No, they really do not. And if there is a thread where that seems to be the case, it has been because of ridiculously hard work on the boards and behind the scenes, with multiple casualties along the way.

So, I'm sorry, if the woos got a protected board, there would be an uproar. If something like women's rights on a female dominated site didn't get it (not to mention the hell that SN advocates have to go through on here) , there will be plenty who have a lot to say if woo-pedlars get one.