#magicalthinking — Public Fediverse posts

"It's nothing, you LIBERALS are just exaggerating!"

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2024851/it-s-nothing-you-liberals-are-just-exaggerating

They don't think Aliens, as in intelligent beings from other worlds, are real.....they think demons are real, and UFOs are demons.
It's not the reasonable position that it's a big old universe and we're not the centre of it, so there is the exciting possibility of other minds out there....nope, it's 'Demons'

These fanatics are going to get us all killed...

https://slate.com/life/2026/04/aliens-waffle-house-jd-vance-gregg-phillips-religion-christian.html

#JDVance #GreggPhillips #ReligiousFanaticism #MagicalThinking #Aliens

RE: https://hostux.social/@bmacDonald94/116233671144959056

The #Believers

#magicalThinking
#Cultists
#religiosity
#theology
#Theism
#Religion spoils everything

Take 1 part #Jingoism
1 part #ChristianNationalism
1 part #Fundamentalism
Add some #racism #misogyny and a pinch of #ignorance soaked for decades in
#oligarchy #patriarchy and #propaganda

And you get
#Fascism and #Nazis

I wrote up the devotional I gave for work this afternoon. It's on magical thinking. Treat it like a first draft written in about 15 mins because it is 😂

https://write.as/spaceraser/magical-thinking

#blog #writeAs #magicalThinking #christianity #acts #john #samuel #devotional

@paul @DemocracyMattersALot

#GodLess #Heathen

Yes, same.

#ChristianNationalism
#Evangelical #Fundamentalism #MagicalThinking
#Narcissism
#Theocracy
#Apocalypse

These fuckers think that this whole thing is just a 'practice'' session for the afterlife.

AI is not magic.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Magic #RoseColoredGlasses #magicalthinking

@McWabbit
🙏🏻 I feel this to be true: his ‘donors’ (self-selected on their propensity for corruption) want results; they want Greenland - not so far delivered. 😐

They might even be calling for their money back, or threatening to dump on him, if he doesn’t deliver.🤔

But that phrase “After this is over” feels like magical thinking, implies an imaginary hand… Maybe “in order to end this” can work better. 🤔

The trouble for us normal people (not trillionaires, not billionaires, not massively corrupt) is that it's hard to get into the mind of those others… and that can make us ineffective opponents.☹️

#USPol #corruption #magicalThinking #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@Strandjunker

If I just refresh my inbox one more time, I just know the email I've been waiting a month for will be there. I can FEEL it.

#magicalthinking

#Myths and #MagicalThinking: #American Civil #Religion, the #EstablishmentClause, and “Codified #Irrationality” in Anti- #CRT Measures

https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/jcred/vol37/iss2/6/

Misunderstanding as a commutator operator: https://johntinker.substack.com/p/misunderstanding-as-a-commutator
#ai #marketbubble #snakeoil #magicalthinking #criticalthinking #chatbots

I hope these liars making these projections aren't the reason Labour / TBI think AI must somehow be the magic key to productivity (because somehow the UK is destined to win?) #magicalThinking #AGI #superIntelligence bsky.app/profile/j2br...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tkbweudpy6tvzjqdiza4z3p5/post/3m4jusogu7k27

@CindyWeinstein

#Fascism runs on #ignorance and #magicalThinking

The upside- if there is one - might be that science doesn't stop just because the #Fascist #Theofascist #Oligarchy defunds it.

They tried/convicted Galileo for heresy - and he lived out his life under house arrest- but the earth is still orbiting the sun, not the other way around..

But wow, it sure is depressing to face retiring into the dark ages instead of the enlightenment...

Magical zygotes are only on a continuum of magical thinking, and given our unlimited imaginations anything is possible.

#MagicalThinking
#contraception

https://theconversation.com/3-years-after-abortion-rights-were-overturned-contraception-access-is-at-risk-258458

People take actions that are bad for the rest of us; and when one takes that action and extrapolates some uncontrollable characteristic of that person (e.g., hair color) to be the root cause/marker for the bad action, and then uses it as a proxy for the bad act and then calls those people evil...

congrats, they've fucked up and broke society by being a lazy bigot.

#stereotypes #extrapolation #MagicalThinking

@jeffowski

Oh man. THIS.

#Religion spoils every human relationship.

#Brainwashing
#magicalThinking
All the isms

#sexism #Patriarchy #Racism #Narcissism
#Colonialism #Jingoism #Isolationism

Is MAGA magical thinking? #MAGA #MagicalThinking

The Most Absurd #Beliefs People Actually Follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DI5yN2B_8

#Atheism #ReligiousHistory #Philosophy

Why do so many people still cling to beliefs that defy #logic, #evidence, and basic #commonsense?

In this video, we dive deep into some of the most #bizarre, #irrational, and downright #absurd beliefs that millions around the world still take seriously — from ancient #superstitions and #magicalthinking to modern-day #religiousdoctrines that contradict #reality.

I realized I didn't wear #yubikey on chain on my neck for 8 days (because of circumstances). And this is absolutely record for me, it was never so long until now!
Does it mean I have a problem? :neofox_laugh_tears_256:

I have it on me now. I couldn't feel so... naked? without armor? anymore.

#nerd #MagicalThinking

@dr.andrealove

"Makary, RFK Jr., & MAHA want the appearance of science without the accountability."

Thats it right there..

#magicalThinking

Overwhelming positive response to anthropomorphizing natural phenomena; heavily implying sentience to atoms, electrons, the universe.

While this obviously helps many people comprehend high-level observations, it is also highly misrepresentative of the underlying nature of reality.

This is how we get religion.

#science #sciencecommunication #physics #education #magicalthinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXv49dDQJw

#EverythingIsARemix and the majority set of #MagicalThinking is #culture, #normal, and #mainstream.

https://www.mixcloud.com/ASARadio/

#Atlanta #StreetsAlive #music #people #CityByFoot #biking #scooters #dogs #strollers

Short but sweet bit of #ScienceJournalism.

Magical thinking: it's either all-in or... Poof! The magic vanishes. This is why #MagicalThinking can turn violent, I suppose. All -must- believe lest cognitive dissonance becomes painful.

"In a 2013 paper, Fulcheri suggested some saints, interred in many-layered arrangements (a coffin inside a sarcophagus inside a cold stone tomb), might have been “confined in a particular microclimate” hostile to putrefying microbes."

https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/incorrect-relics-why-some-corpses-dont-decompose/

MAGA and the Republican party is based more on fantasy and magical thinking rather than reality.

They will contort themselves to believe the lies, gaslighting and machinations to be true, and in their minds, it will become so.

Donald Trump is literally the emperor with new clothes.

#maga #trump #fantasy #magic #magicalthinking #Republicans #gaslighting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-Clothes-Illustrated-Christian-Andersen-ebook/dp/B0BLHXSJ2W

Raising tariffs in the hopes of rebuilding American manufacturing is the biggest cargo cult this side of the international date line #magicalthinking #SomeofyoumaydiebutitsasacrificeIamwillingtomake

Common examples of #MagicalThinking in adults include:

Superstitions
•Believing in lucky numbers or avoiding unlucky ones, such as 13.
•Crossing fingers or touching wood to prevent bad luck.
•Carrying lucky objects, like a rabbit’s foot or a mascot.
•Avoiding commitments on Friday the 13th.

The Canadian pop singer Shawn Mendes wrote again and again in his journal "I will sell out the Rogers Center". He was doing something called manifesting, which has taken off on Tiktok. But what exactly is it? I investigate:

https://oblivionwithbells.com/2024/10/19/thoughts-and-prayers-is-really-just-thoughts/

#Manifesting #magicalthinking #manifestation #Christianity #Christian #Prayer #Faith #Belief #God #Jesus #ExChristian #Exvangelical #PostChristian #PostChristianity #Doubt #Praying #Deconversion #Deconstruction

Reading up about manifestation & magical thinking today made me think about "thoughts & prayers". So I wrote a blog post about it:

https://oblivionwithbells.com/2024/10/19/thoughts-and-prayers-is-really-just-thoughts/

#ExChristian #PostChristianity #postChristian #Exvangelical #prayer #Lawofattraction #belief #religion #superstition #magicalthinking #positivethinking #positivity #Christian #Christianity #faith #manifestation #newage #newagethinking #luckygirlSyndrome

And this happened... I accidentally left my #yubikey (this one on dogtag chain I always had on me) in friend's house :blobcatsad2:
Now I really feel naked or like I sudenly lost my weapon or my "magic powers". Have to take it back soon because it's very uncomfortable even if technically I have enough backup configurations to use other #yubikeys to access my things (all my devices/accounts are strongly dependent on yubikeys so I made good backups from the beginning).

#amulet #talisman #MagicalThinking

This is why religious delusions, especially, must be called out & challenged. When adults start believing they receive messages & instructions from nonhuman (“supernatural”) entities, they feel entitled to violence. #christianity #supernatural #entitlement #nonsense #prophets #prophecies #mentalillness #delusions #magicalthinking https://abcnews.go.com/US/lori-vallow-booked-murder-charge-arizona/story?id=105277594

@blogdiva

#Theocracy
#Theofascism
#ChristoFascism
#WhiteNationalism
#Religiosity
#ReligionSpoilsEverything
#OneBookScholars
#Patriarchy
#ReligiousFundamentalism
#MagicalThinking
#BrainWashing