• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    “Words truly matter” but I can’t understand for the life of me what these ones mean. Can someone help me out.

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      5 months ago

      Words have powers bordering on magic, I guess is the idea.
      And for many people that’s true, for as long as they are willing to believe that.

      So I guess what I’m saying is that placebos have powers bordering on magic.

        • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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          5 months ago

          There are people who think that “positive” or “negative” words have a magic-like effect on natural processes.

          From what I’ve seen, this was originally popularized in 2004 by Masaru Emoto’s book “The Hidden Messages in Water,” where part of his claims were that snowflakes would develop differently in containers labeled with negative or positive emotions.

          Naturally, this turned out to be a complete lie, but many people, such as those in the original post, still believe that words can somehow influence things like mold development on food.

          • gens@programming.dev
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            5 months ago

            I watched a youtube video about it. It’s temperature that dictates how a snowflake looks. Simple as that.

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      It’s basically explained in the next sentence. The words we use to each other matter

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          5 months ago

          They wrote mean words on one jar of rice, nice words on the other, and the one with mean words grew mold, illustrating that you should choose your words carefully. That was their intention at least.