Is New Age superstition ridiculous?

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How are we defining "New Age superstition"?

The whole kit, from alternative medicine (homeopathy, acupuncture, non-FDA approved herbal treatments) to astrology to Western-friendly bastardizations of Hinduism (especially the yoga movement) and Buddhism to NeoPaganism right down to every quack Tarot reader and "Gypsy" fortune teller.

Don't disregard alternative medicine so fast. Even western doctors and pharmacists will admit western medicine usually just alleviates symptoms and doesn't really cure it and definitely doesn't prevent it. These herbal treatments certainly do work just as well as any western medicine considering you know what you are doing. We learned about them in Pharmacology and treated them like any other medicine. Of course even most western medicines are herbal extracts. If you are having a heart attack then feel free to pop some aspirin, but if you want to prevent it then look to "alternative" medicine.

I also don't see what's so wrong with people doing yoga. If they get all mystical about that sh**t then I admit its weird, but at the end of the day it's just another way to get your daily exercise.

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I just don't "get" new age/Eastern medicine.  Yea, over time they stumbled on some effective herbal remedy.  But this "natural is better" stuff is absurd.  We have a rigorous scientific testing schema which we're abandoning for "it grows in the ground, so it's not bad like those pills you hear about"?  Just don't get it.

Yeah I don't buy into the whole "natural" fad but sometimes eating or using the plant as a whole works better than just isolating the active ingredient. This is because other chemicals may help modulate the effects of the drug and that is something not so easy to test, especially when there may be multiple modulatory chemicals.

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Do the idiots think there are no chemicals in plants? LOL.

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Yes.  And possibly demonic also

Yeah anything other than western civilization is demonic huh? But wait, isn't science demonic too? What with "believing" in evolution and all that ungodly junk.

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Yes.  And possibly demonic also

Yeah anything other than western civilization is demonic huh? But wait, isn't science demonic too? What with "believing" in evolution and all that ungodly junk.

So is evolution demonic?  No it is just unproven and its kool ade drinking followers think it is a fact like the global warming myth.  And the one about Elvis being alive.  But its not demonic.