While I was taking geology at uni we, people from the department, would often go out for drinks at the end of the day...

This is why memes like Neil Tyson and Bill Nye have to exist. People like them try to bring science to the general public and illuminate their minds, in hope that they will not fall for traps like your mom's. Veeky Forums hates pop sci but the truth is that it is needed.

Are there some poisonous minerals you're allowed to sell? It'd be win-win: You either make some dumb cunt suffer, or they'll see the error of their ways.

My mom herself insists she doesn't believe in all the healing crap, as I've explained to her multiple times why it's bullshit, but she is very prone to new-age nonsense. Her listings are full of new-age crap, she doesn't specifically say that crystals will heal illnesses or anything in her listings, but says they are good for meditation and other crap like that.

She is into a lot of other similar crap like having Budda statues everywhere in their house, even though she's not a buddhist nor does she understand the religion at all. She also eats a shit ton of expensive supplements that cost a fortune, and only shops at whole foods / only eats organic, gluten free bullshit even though she doesn't have celiac disease, but maintains that gluten made her feel sick (despite her probably eating it the vast majority of her life without problems). All imaginary problems that are slowly eating away at my dad's retirement money.

I mean she makes money selling crystals, but my dad has probably invested ~$100,000+ in her store over the past 2.5 years and she has only made I think ~$55,000 back, but she has a shit ton of inventory she hasn't sold. She's only sold 1000 things so far in two years.

These pics are about 1.5 years old too, she has a shit ton of minerals in her own personal collection as well, probably at least 10,000+ individual specimens as well as a lot of larger specimens including a massive quartz crystal that is about 1.5" tall and weighs about 50 pounds.

>My dysfunctional geology nerd friends are single and lonely.
>My dysfunctional roommate really admires geologists.
I don't blame them for trying, OP. It probably just slipped their mind that you are one of the only people in university who would rather be right about something than get laid.

Maybe pyramids have power.

>crystals don't have powers

you're mom is a lost cause like the people she sells to, you can't sweet talk your way out of that fact, sorry.

The problem with this that mostly, it is much much easier to produce an endless stream of bullshit that it is to dispute it. Also, idiots won't listen to reason anyway.

To store the souls of the children they raped at that Clinton pedo island, obviously.

Haha

>She pulls out this necklace calls it "Blue Sandstone"
downblouse pix or else bullshit

I don't know man. Maybe she enchanted them with cosmic and earth runes.

>fucking new age hippies and their "everything is magical" bullshit.

It actually looks like some kind of layered chalcedony (agate) that has been cut and polished into a double-terminated quartz """crystal"""

Chalcedony is cheap and easy to come by, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case.

Another common thing people do with this type of jewelry is they take large quantities of really cheap, shitty quartz that wouldn't sell on its own, and they electroplate it, like pic related and sell it for a decent amount of money.

I used to do it, but now i just ignore it. Its just too mentally tiring to argue with these people and then deal with them hating me for correcting them.

Last time i did it
>girl thats a friend of my friends doing a 'detox'
>5 cucumbers blended with shit
>still eats the exact same shit, but adds the cucumber drink after every meal
>wont shut up about how great it is and how much weight she is going to loose with this
>'fat is all the toxins in the body, detoxing allows the liver to excrete all the fat into your urine'
>Cant take it and tell her, politely, that theres no such thing as a detox, and she wont loose any weight, that its good she is getting some vegetables in, but its not a magic cure
>later friend talks to me alone
>'stop being so rude user, just because you went to university doesnt mean you know everything.'
Actually i just realized i haven't spoken with that guy in over 3 years.

Crystals really do vibrate really fucking fast

some can melt ice faster than your finger

The perception and their vibration make crystals interesting to more 'enlightened folk'

When subjected to an electrical current you mean. Quartz for example is used in quartz clocks / watches as an electronic oscillator.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock

no, crystals vibrate because they aren't at zero kelvin. Some can melt ice faster than your finger because they have been warmed up hotter than your finger. For more info see phonon spectra.

Get her to wear an uranium crystal, that will release its energy real nice on her.

>I can't take it, so I just tell her straight up, that it's glass, normal man-made glass. She is probably older than that hunk of garbage silica, in fact I'm pretty sure it is a Venetian method from centuries ago to sell waste glass. It has no crystal habit, it has no natural energy, it does less to keep you grounded than the beer glass in my hand (at least that has beer in it).

C'mon man this is such an easy question for someone studying geology. It's armchair level psychology. Most people don't like being told they are wrong and much more important than that, you're making something she treasured very much look simple, superstitious and tedious. Yes, I know, it is what I just described, but look, human relations are not always about proving people wrong. It's about understanding how others feel and reacting appropriately.

Well yes, by that definition every single molecule of every single thing is vibrating as long as its not absolute zero. That does not mean that crystals are giving off "energies" or some other pseudo-scientific nonsense.

On the face of it OP comes off as enlightened and superior but the placebo effect is real, scientifically proven and girls are far more interesting with a bit of mystique attached.

There is still motion at absolute zero.

Oh man can you even buy those? A single crystal of uranium would be really cool. I mean I know it's just gonna look like a shiny piece of metal, but still giant single crystals get me hard.

Naturally occurring Uranium is found in a lot of rocks. I think most natural is U-238 which isn't that dangerous compared to the other isotopes of Uranium.

There are many minerals that contain Uranium within their crystal structure, so you could probably wear a Crystal that has Uranium in it, such as Torbernite.

can I lick it then?

I hear the same shit about electronics and aviation, especially stuff about wireless and chemtrails.
The good thing is I'm generally successful in convincing people that bullshit is bullshit.

Meant to add, successful in everything but fitness, where everybody has a different bogeyman making them gain weight or have bad joints or whatever. They insist that the info they get from their friends who've been trying to lose weight for 20 years is better than the info they get from people who have actually lost weight.

edge

>stop being so rude user, just because you went to university doesnt mean you know everything

I dropped out of college and this still makes my blood boil. Do they not realize that you learn critical thinking in academia? No one can know everything, but people can learn how to sift through utter bullshit. At the end of the day people will believe what they want, but it's the smug "just let them believeeee" assholes that really get me.

>She got pretty pissed. I don't get it are we just supposed to let people be wrong?

Pretty much, yes. People are taking it very personally when they're misinformed, and it doesn't help when folks treat stupid people like they don't deserve to live. So people are getting very defensive. It sucks, but ...

If you don't at least attempt to educate people, you're part of the problem. It's up to them how they take it.

Shit like this just makes the problem worse

youtube.com/watch?v=x6pYAiRqhio

Slickly-produced, visually appealing nonsense is incredibly dangerous. This is brain poison,gently swaying its listeners into believing things that even rudimentary investigation show are untrue.

Spirit science is great though. I mean who else would come up with space jews.

to be fair, they are pretty much magic

It pisses me off

I can't imagine not being the autistic STEMtard that I am, but I guess most people aren't

You'll never be able to just shit on everyone as much as they deserve to be shat on.

dumb chicks are the easiest to get puss from

Why do you have to be such an autist OP. Fucking retards the lot of you

That's just Dick Unity

Those are gorgeous mate. I a collection of some pyrite specimens.

I use to work at a rock and mineral shop to pay through my college and those new age fags are the worst. They speak of enlightenment and powers and all this crap to stroke their ego. Worse you get some people who only use rocks for medical conditions. I'm glad that there is a market that rips them off because if they belive some heat treated garbage is mystical more to them.

Picture the conversation like a game of chess, logically box them in to where they are forced to realize something themselves. Don't attempt with drunkards or individuals prone to being aggro, such as soldiers or police officers

I think the idea is to have more tact when you inform them.

The Japanese are a very socialistic culture, as opposed to individualistic. Per etiquette, when faced with a misinformed or ignorant guy, they will always attempt to communicate in such a way as to allow him to realize his indiscretion or error on his own (if not at that moment, then later when he thinks on it), so as not to embarrass him in front of others.
Instead of his scorn or jealousy/impotence, they receive his respect for their consideration.

I think it's not a bad thing to try if you want to maintain good relationships. Not always easy though, sometimes you just have to hope they pick up on it later. I mean, it's not like you win anything either way, and you can't say you didn't try.

What the actual fuck is this

TRIPS NEVER LIE

DOUBLE DUBS CONFIRMS. QUICK SOMEONE CALL ALEX JONES!

haha what happens in this gif, someone explain pls

>all the newfags ITT who don't recognise pasta

That would work in a such a society. Alas in the west and America in particular, too many people believe having an opinion is enough to justify their position, and still react badly to being informed.

youtu.be/QkfkPUwbLI0

Orgones man orgones 170,000+ views cant be wrong.

Kek'd to that

Tinfoils answer:
She's having a seizure.

Pleb answer:
A quadruple bypass double take from an unexpected question from a reporter.
>Try the Chai!

The problem with this kind of stuff is the placebo effect. It doesn't matter if the crystal has magical abilities or not if she believes hard enough that it keeps her grounder it will. Honestly historical magic is probably all just crazy placebo effects anyway

Hello my autistic friend, the short answer is yes.

In this particular situation I can tell the female was particularly attractive if she can bullshit about gemstones to a group of geology students. They wanted the attractive women to hang around and you likely scared her off. You're undoubtedly the bane of your peers from that.

Sage. I'm pretty sure this is a bullshit post (even though it could easily be real) because if you're normal enough that people will invite you out for drinks then you'd definitely know that you don't piss off hot chicks.

>it's good money

>no she's wasted almost 50 thousand dollars and is another fifty thousand in debt currently

which one is it, user?

Not really in debt considering my dad is wealthy enough to afford her "hobby," but like I said, she has made $50,000 of a $100,000 investment, but she has so much inventory that she hasn't sold yet that she will probably make a profit off it within another year or two, and she still has enough inventory to make probably 5x what they invested since they bought a lot of crystals in bulk pallets at mineral conventions. You buy a big lot for cheap and sell each one individually for profit.

You're wrong OP you faggot

Those cystals do have magic power

When you compliment them you get blowjobs

Not that you would know

>being this much of a normalfag

There's a limit though. It's annoying when someone is looking me in the eye trying their darndest to convince me of something that is just absolutely bullshit. It feels insulting and humiliating, even if they have great intentions.

Trying to teach people the truth is for plebs.
What's much more useful, and ultimately more intellectually rewarding, is to try to understand why they believe something that a minimal amount of research would disprove. Understand why people believe bullshit, and you can create your own bullshit more effectively (see and for more details).

Also note that is correct that you probably gave up a great opportunity for some hippy poon.

tl;dr, it's much more useful to you to let people believe bullshit. It's one less person that you have to compete against.

kek

Beer keeps me pretty grounded to be honest.

>to more 'enlightened folk'
And there's your sign...

>If you don't at least attempt to educate people, you're part of the problem.
That's what I used to think. It may be true. But you will end up dying alone.

I have the luxury of talking to many of these idiots on a daily basis ironically some of them are graduates and have masters degrees and everything. Had a girl one time tell me that "sulfates cause cancer, its why you should avoid wine and foods with sulfates" and she's in complete disbelief that the body needs sulfates for specific biochemical interactions because she read some "study" that sulfates were bad having no idea about what they were used for in the body

You really shouldn't be afraid to just call these people fucking retarded and they're believing in nonsense

>are we just supposed to let people be wrong?
Depends on if you want to get married or not.

>crystals don't have powers

Your mom made the mistake of buying low-quality material, if the pics you posted are any indication. Don't buy a bunch of crap, always buy the best you can afford.

>This is now a mineral specimens thread

Rhodocrosite from Sweet Home Mine, CO

Cerussite from Tsumeb, Namibia.

83% lead by weight.

Euclase from the emerald mining area of Colombia

Ferberite from China

Pyromorphite from Daoping mine, China

Aquamarine and schorl from Pakistan

Legrandite from Ojuela mine, Mexico.

FYI these are all somewhere between ~2-10 inches, I'm just too lazy to look up the dimensions.

Azurite from Milpillas mine, Mexico

Hooray, it's gemAnon!

Gold, probably from the western US.

Crystallized gold can be worth 1,000 times the price of gold by weight.

Zoisite variety Tanzanite, dug up by ignorant miners who generally break crystals like this to be cut into gemstones

Red beryl, exclusive to Utah

Topaz and fluorite from Pakistan

famous blue-capped elbaite from the Tourmaline Queen mine in California called "the steamboat"

nice

gypsum, from mexico

Now that's what I call combos.

>tl;dr, it's much more useful to you to let people believe bullshit. It's one less person that you have to compete against.
fuck that, you want to hinder societal growth at the sake of your own expense?

Your're wrong... Because if enough people believe the bullshit it gets a momentum of its own. It's all fun and game memeing this crap around, but eventually the gov if going to pour cash into crystal "research" because of popular demand...
This kind of shit is why people are not vaccinating their kids, and don't be an edgy mofo and say they're clearing the gene pool...

I'm not worried. There's plenty of autists out there who push for the truth. As long as there's a large enough bulk of truthseekers, then there's plenty of cover to push for whatever you think is profitable.
Basically, as long as there's academics pushing what's actually true then I never need to worry about that

>vaccines
I won't say that they're clearing the gene pool, but there's a sizeable bulk of people pushing for mandatory vaccination. Again, not worried.

Elim?

there's still potential energy at absolute zero. It's called zero-point energy

>zero point energy
>potential energy
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>I don't get it are we just supposed to let people be wrong?
Seems to me like you get it just fine. Some people have a disease called
"being wrong all the fucking time" and the best treatment is to cut their bullshit off at the source. It's an infectious disease. Either quarantine them or vaccinate the people around them.

KDP crystal for the NIF laser