how to tell kids not to play with a Oujia board
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| Just tell her it's scary choose one or two occult newspaper articles and tell her it's scary. Stay away. If you have been having good communication with your teen, she will most likely listen |
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Used to attend an ultra Catholic school myself. Friends and I look back and laugh at some of the stuff they told us. Come to think of it we laughed at it then. |
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This is an easy one: teach your kids that there is no life after death, no spirits, ghosts, heaven or hell.
I'll quote at some length from the best thing I've ever read on the subject (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/): Adam claims that there "simply is no controlled, experimental[ly] verifiable information" regarding life after death. By these standards, there is no controlled, experimentally verifiable information regarding whether the Moon is made of green cheese. Sure, we can take spectra of light reflecting from the Moon, and even send astronauts up there and bring samples back for analysis. But that's only scratching the surface, as it were. What if the Moon is almost all green cheese, but is covered with a layer of dust a few meters thick? Can you really say that you know this isn't true? Until you have actually examined every single cubic centimeter of the Moon's interior, you don't really have experimentally verifiable information, do you? So maybe agnosticism on the green-cheese issue is warranted. (Come up with all the information we actually do have about the Moon; I promise you I can fit it into the green-cheese hypothesis.) Obviously this is completely crazy. Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation, but from the gross incompatibility of that idea with other things we think we know. Given what we do understand about rocks and planets and dairy products and the Solar System, it's absurd to imagine that the Moon is made of green cheese. We know better. We also know better for life after death, although people are much more reluctant to admit it. Admittedly, "direct" evidence one way or the other is hard to come by -- all we have are a few legends and sketchy claims from unreliable witnesses with near-death experiences, plus a bucketload of wishful thinking. But surely it's okay to take account of indirect evidence -- namely, compatibility of the idea that some form of our individual soul survives death with other things we know about how the world works. Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die. If you claim that some form of soul persists beyond death, what particles is that soul made of? What forces are holding it together? How does it interact with ordinary matter? Really people, grow the hell up. |
Anonymous
Pin the tail in the Balaam. It heckles you if you miss badly. And screams if you stick him. Fun for the whole family! |
Anonymous
ok .. how do you play strip ouija??? |
