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Old 07-28-2008, 08:43 PM   #115 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Angela View Post

I think that psychic phenomena is the same way, and as long as it's not used in an interventionist manner, it deserves the same treatment. That is, if people want to consult psychics, and even if they want to become addicted to consulting psychics and run clean through their inheritance on it, that is fine with me.
What would make consulting psychics not interventionist? Isn't a reading actually bringing information into your life that you thought you didn't have? Isn't that intervening with your life?

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But other than that little interventionist clause, just like belief and investment in religion, I think belief and investment in psychicism is well left to the discretion of the believer/investor, regardless of how dumb or smart I might think they're being.
so if you knew something possibly hurts someone, that you see it as dumb - what do you do? allow it to their discretion?

What about "hey you might no want to do that"?

or am I not following?
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