Poll: Voodoo: is it real?
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Aint real, only in ppls mind (like religion and green men from mars).
To put it this way; voodoo (and curses) only work if the victim believes in it.
To put it this way; voodoo (and curses) only work if the victim believes in it.
I don't believe in it.
[sub][sub]But I'll still take great care not to offend those who practice it. Better safe than sorry.[/sub][/sub]
[sub][sub]But I'll still take great care not to offend those who practice it. Better safe than sorry.[/sub][/sub]
Fake...unless someone has a voodoo doll of me, then its real, completely and legitimately real.
(Don't hurt me!)
(Don't hurt me!)
Well, of course voodoo is real. It's a system of belief practiced by thousands of people, it's not like it's some giant hoax that they've been perpetuating on us for centuries or a mass delusion on our parts that people practice it.
Oh! You mean voodoo magic? Yeah, no, that's not real.
Oh! You mean voodoo magic? Yeah, no, that's not real.
I chose your retarded because you are. Voodoo has nothing to do with terrorists, and voodoo is just a hollywood money magnet. The voodoo youre talking about atleast. Real voodoo (really called vudon or something similar) is a real religeon. Google it.Scarecrow 8 said:
No, it's not. It's not real the same way God isn't real, ghosts aren't real, and so on.
And it won't stop millions of people in believing it and self-deceiving themselves enough to make other feeble minded ones as infected.
Although in Voodoo's defense, they've got an awesome mythology. That Baron Samedi (aka Baron Saturday) is one awesome dude.
Of course, keep in mind, if you choose to delude yourself with superstitions that, say, some kind of extraplanar entity can make your wishes happen if you ask it hard enough, you're going to associate when it happens and disregard when it doesn't and become a bigger lunatic because that's kind of how your brain works.
Same thing with curses. If you really think having a black cat cross road before you (or whoever the fuck that goes) somehow brings bad luck, then have one unlucky event correlate with said superstition, you're likely to misinterpret simply chance for some kind of curse or bad luck and end up associating it with whatever superstition, only making that connection stronger and making you more insane for anyone not as feeble minded.
And it won't stop millions of people in believing it and self-deceiving themselves enough to make other feeble minded ones as infected.
Although in Voodoo's defense, they've got an awesome mythology. That Baron Samedi (aka Baron Saturday) is one awesome dude.
Of course, keep in mind, if you choose to delude yourself with superstitions that, say, some kind of extraplanar entity can make your wishes happen if you ask it hard enough, you're going to associate when it happens and disregard when it doesn't and become a bigger lunatic because that's kind of how your brain works.
Same thing with curses. If you really think having a black cat cross road before you (or whoever the fuck that goes) somehow brings bad luck, then have one unlucky event correlate with said superstition, you're likely to misinterpret simply chance for some kind of curse or bad luck and end up associating it with whatever superstition, only making that connection stronger and making you more insane for anyone not as feeble minded.
Just as real as christianity or hinduism, in that some people genuinely believe in it's effects and perceived truth value. It exists as a practice and a religion.
Does that mean you can actually do something with it? ...No. There is no evidence it can achieve any kind of supernatural or otherwise inexplicable effect. Just like prayer, psychics, seers, talking with the dead etc.
In the sense of 'Is it true?' it is not real. In the sense of 'does it exist as a religion/social construct/practice?', it is.
Does that mean you can actually do something with it? ...No. There is no evidence it can achieve any kind of supernatural or otherwise inexplicable effect. Just like prayer, psychics, seers, talking with the dead etc.
In the sense of 'Is it true?' it is not real. In the sense of 'does it exist as a religion/social construct/practice?', it is.
Sure it works. I have some self help voodoo book and excellent quality voodoo dolls that I can sell you too.
It only works if you believe in it according to legend. Working on that it is most likely a psychological effect, it never happens but you believe it does and therefore to you it is real. I don't believe.
Hay guys, we've got a troll here! Man the flamethrower!onda said:
Tourists aren't generally terrorists. Although some might be...
Voodoo isn't a hollywood money magnet, how many voodoo oriented movies have you seen in the past decade? Especially ones that actually, you know, are acclaimed for something? Fucking Mummy is a bigger money magnet then voodoo for hollywood. Not to mention vampires.
Something being a religion doesn't make it credible. There are enough retarded religions as it is, look up scientology. Or Christianity. Or Islam. Or any tribal belief. Or any kind of paganism and non-monotheistic religion like Hinduism, whatever Greek and Romans and Norse and countless others called their religions and so on. Not to mention more abstract things like Buddhism or LaVeyan satanism.
What might make a decent myth or generic moral-providing story has very little credibility in regards to anything. Or, you know, volcanoes are Hephaestus forging some shit, sun is a wheel in the chariot of some generic sun god, and lightning is Zeus or Odin or whoever smiting someone. And there are no diseases because they're really just demons possessing people! (Try telling that to a terminal cancer patient for the lulz.)