{"id":128,"date":"2014-12-10T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/?p=128"},"modified":"2015-01-24T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T03:51:43","slug":"i-dont-believe-in-magical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/i-dont-believe-in-magical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Believe In Magical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe in magical thinking.<br \/>\nThis means I don&#8217;t believe in any of the beliefs listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Alien Crop circles<br \/>\nAngels \/ Archangels<br \/>\nAstrology<br \/>\nBaptisms<br \/>\nBig Foot<br \/>\nBlessings<br \/>\nBoogeymen<br \/>\nChemtrails (other than contrails.)<br \/>\nClairvoyance<br \/>\nCrystal power (excepting piezo effects)<br \/>\nCurses<br \/>\nDemons<br \/>\nDowsing<br \/>\nDevils<br \/>\nESP<br \/>\nEvil<br \/>\nExorcisms<br \/>\nFairies<br \/>\nFaith healing<br \/>\nFortune telling<br \/>\nGhosts<br \/>\nGhouls<br \/>\nGoblins<br \/>\nGods (any, all, including the concept of Jesus as lord)<br \/>\nGood luck charms (4 leaf clovers, rabbit&#8217;s feet, et al)<br \/>\nHexes<br \/>\n(that) Homosexuality and deviations are by choice, not genetics.<br \/>\nHoping<br \/>\nImmortality<br \/>\nIncantations<br \/>\nJinxes<br \/>\nKharma<br \/>\nLast rites<br \/>\nLaying of hands<br \/>\nLoch Ness Monster<br \/>\nLuck<br \/>\nLucky numbers or objects<br \/>\nMagic (true, not by performing &#8220;magicians&#8221;)<br \/>\nMartians (present-day anyway)<br \/>\nMojos<br \/>\nNumerology<br \/>\nOracles<br \/>\nOuija boards<br \/>\nPalm readers<br \/>\nPast lives<br \/>\nPhysical representations (Jesus&#8217; likeness in trees, food, etc.  Virgin Mary appearances, etc)<br \/>\nPoltergeists<br \/>\nPotions and elixirs<br \/>\nPowers of inanimate objects and shapes (crosses, pentagons, etc)<br \/>\nPower of positive thinking<br \/>\nProphecy<br \/>\nPsychics<br \/>\nPrayer<br \/>\nPremonitions<br \/>\nRain Dances<br \/>\nReincarnations<br \/>\nRituals (purifications, carrying a bride over a threshold, fertility, rain dances, etc.)<br \/>\nSainthood<br \/>\nSanta Claus<br \/>\nSin<br \/>\nSorcerers<br \/>\nSouls<br \/>\nSpells<br \/>\nSpirits and spirituality<br \/>\nSprites<br \/>\nSuperheros (Batman, Superman, Spiderman, The Hulk, etc.)<br \/>\nSupernatural powers<br \/>\nSuperstitions (stepping on a crack, four leaf clovers, under a ladder,  black cat crossing, throwing salt over shoulder, knocking on wood, et al)<br \/>\nTarot cards<br \/>\nTea leaf reading<br \/>\nTelekinesis<br \/>\nTelepathy<br \/>\nThe Easter Bunny<br \/>\nThe Tooth Fairy<br \/>\nTime travelling<br \/>\nTrolls<br \/>\nUnicorns<br \/>\nVampires<br \/>\nVigils<br \/>\nVoodoo<br \/>\nWarlocks<br \/>\nWerewolves<br \/>\nWishing<br \/>\nWitches<br \/>\nWizards<br \/>\nWorship<br \/>\nZombies<\/p>\n<p>None of these beliefs above have any solid evidence of existence yet provided for.<br \/>\nNo religions either: Including Christian (all sects), Islam, Buddha, Hindu, Taoism, Scientology, Zen, etc, etc,<\/p>\n<p>Certain beliefs I have are real, but limited.<br \/>\nFor example, chiropractic, accupuncture\/accupressure, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Below is what I DO believe exists, yet are all unseen by the unaided human eye (except for light and certain lasers).<\/p>\n<p>Anti-biotics (unseen)<br \/>\nAtomic and sub-atomic particles (quarks, electrons, protons, neutrons, etc)  (unseen)<br \/>\nAtoms and molecules  (unseen)<br \/>\nBacteria (unseen)<br \/>\nCells (blood, plasma, cancer, stem etc) (unseen)<br \/>\nDNA \/ RNA (unseen)<br \/>\nElectricity (unseen- closest natural sighting would be lightning)<br \/>\nElectromagnetic inductance (unseen)<br \/>\nLasers (can be seen or unseen depending on frequency or type)<br \/>\nLife on other planets (unseen)<br \/>\nMagnetism (unseen)<br \/>\nMicrobes (unseen)<br \/>\nPhotosynthesis (unseen)<br \/>\nProteins (unseen)<br \/>\nRadiation (infrared, radio frequencies, microwaves, x-rays, atomic, nuclear, cosmic, gamma, etc. (unseen)<br \/>\nViruses (unseen)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kevin Lightner, 6\/19\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe in magical thinking. This means I don&#8217;t believe in any of the beliefs listed below. Alien Crop circles Angels \/ Archangels Astrology Baptisms Big Foot Blessings Boogeymen Chemtrails (other than contrails.) Clairvoyance Crystal power (excepting piezo effects) Curses Demons Dowsing Devils ESP Evil Exorcisms Fairies Faith healing Fortune telling Ghosts Ghouls Goblins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,18,27],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-ideas-2","tag-kevin","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthfool.com\/kevin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}