06-30-2021, 01:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-30-2021, 01:51 AM by Eric the Green.)
(06-29-2021, 08:05 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(05-04-2020, 07:07 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote:(05-02-2020, 11:36 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(05-02-2020, 09:07 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote: -Rationalism, Millennials are definitely less prone to magical thinking than among Boomers, GIs or even Missionaries
What is your definition of "magical thinking"? I'm curious if it matches my wife's definition.
Belief in supernatural beings, extrasensory perception, miracles. Belief that prayer and meditation can achieve anything beyond good feelings. Magical thinking is believing in anything you could use to win the Randi prize.
This is why religious Millennials are persecuted. The majority wants to force us not to believe in these things. The atheists are the oppressors and the religious the oppressed ones.
"Magical thinking" is often good thinking, in the cases Blazkovitz mentions. But the kind of thinking that claims that speculation and mere innuendo are "facts", when they are not, is a problem that sometimes afflicts both old religious and new age people today. And science can be and often is used to successfully verify factual claims about "supernatural beings, extrasensory perception, miracles. Belief that prayer and meditation can achieve anything beyond good feelings," even if a scientistic philosophy (as espoused today on wikipedia for example) is not open to such claims being possible. The Amazing Randi is a fraud.
This looks like a pretty good discussion of "magical thinking."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...-make-you/