Well, "piss off" is maybe not the best way to phrase it. At my "end of chemo" party, one of our guests sneakily whispered to me that she was also a "cancer survivor", breast cancer. She doesn't like talking about it but wanted to express some sort of support. Anyway, that launched a larger conversation about various woo-peddlers ranging over supplements and acupuncture, finally ending at the Tao of Physics (and by association the Dancing Wu Li Masters). She doesn't really know much physics, but expressed positive responses to the idea that Eastern religions and modern physics are "coming toward the same thing" or somesuch vagueness. I'm worse than skeptical about supplements and any ignorant dietary modifications. I'm openly hostile to acupuncture. And I hadn't given any serious consideration to quantum woo since my attempts to grok Penrose's arguments about the noncomputability of human thought. So I had a very bad reaction to her positive response to the Tao of PHysics...
It didn't piss her off so much as shut her up. I may well have shut down a friendship because of my caustic/arrogant reaction, simply because we'd started the conversation in a particularly vulnerable state (talking about "cancer survivorship", whatever that means). It's been awhile, though. So, I'm hoping the next time we see them (her), it'll have blown over. On 01/15/2016 11:03 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
You can't piss off facebook folk if facebook itself, both site and posts, hasn't already. On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Gary Schiltz <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Made my day! Now I have to have that internal debate about whether to share it on my Facebook timeline and piss off my new-agey friends.
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