You’re not throwing them at your enemies hard enough.
The crystals, they do nothing!
Healed for -5 HP
Uranium will affect your aura by misaligning your chakras
Under the right conditions it will also misalign your skin with your body.
Never underestimate the potential face melting power of angry Rocks.
@ickplant That's completely wrong. Each rock/mineral has a hidden skill. Once acquired, you have less money.
Some crystals like torbernite and asbestos have a special skill too, called "radiation poisoning" and "lung cancer"
Money loss is a very common spell as you have very well demonstrated
There are a bunch of crystals that do shit, like molly and meth.
Also, less fun stuff like salt and sugar.
Placebos can still be effective on a person who knows it’s a placebo.
I was a skeptic but a friend who worked at a crystal shop was ALWAYS around them. Even hauling them by the box then two in a matter of months. He was jacked!
/s just in case
Some of them do shit. Specifically, exploit the impoverished adults and children who mine them so that rich Westerners can wear them.
Hey, some of those are polestones, and are perfectly capable of storing Stormlight! Just gotta wait for the next hightstorm
Kelek's breath man, when is the last time you ever heard of a highstorm outside of Roshar?
Speaking of, when does lemmy get cremposting?
Why's it missing the c? Who knows!
Devil’s advocate time: the placebo effect is incredibly powerful, and for many people it’s all that’s needed.
I'm all for this but it's a slippery slope. People seem to go from using a crystal to get over a small psychological road block to thinking that vaccines cause autism real quick.
So you are saying that paying money to a scammer for a magical rock is a reasonable alternative to seeing a doctor. Also there are different types of placebo effects: https://thelogicofscience.com/2022/09/02/how-well-do-you-understand-placebo-effects
In some cases, yes. Hiccup cures are all placebo, but the placebo effect is all you need to cure hiccups anyway, so in that case they're just as good as a real cure would be if one existed.
But for something more serious where the placebo effect isn't enough, it could be actively dangerous if someone chooses the placebo over real treatment.
Never thought of it that way! Good thought.
What about the healing powers of enjoying yourself with a hobby like collecting a bunch of minerals and just looking at them?
Surely, having a hobby can improve some people's mental health.
That depends. Is your hobby overrun by charletans using your ignorant faith in easily disproven claims to sell false promises of a better life? Because not only is that detrimental to your mental and financial health, but it is bad for society as a whole as it erodes trust in science and knowledge itself.
People who like shiny crystals decorating their homes aren't a problem. People who spend money they don't have on magic because government doctors are trying to put chips in your brain are a real and existential problem.
Obsidian isn't even a crystal...
Neither is lapis. Like come on, rock is literally in the name people
Jesus Christ, they're minerals Marie!
coprolite?
𝓓𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓭𝓸 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽
True, but if you like looking at them and it soothes your stress, that kind of helps. Stress = inflammation after all. Plus, there's the placebo effect, which is surprisingly effective sometimes.
Great guide, could you tell me what sort of benefits I might expect from Selenite?
Have you tried eating any of those before posting this?
Checkmate
It's really hard to argue with superb logic and science like this.
Incorrect. Fluorite is made of calcium fluoride. You can mix that shit with some sulfuric acid and make poison acid gas. Don't do this though, it definitely won't cure autism or help you pray the gay away. Hydrogen fluoride is like the complete polar opposite of magical healing powers.
They're pretty good as door stomps.
Eggcorn?
I was in Sedona, AZ, and I witnessed what I can only call a church service about crystals. Interesting place.
And then most of them will be colored resin anyway.
Fetid fluorite will sometimes give off pure fluorine, which is the exact opposite of healing, but I think it's cool though as I normally only get to breathe the fumes of the organic solvents at my lab. I would love to have perfluorinated lungs, so I myself can become the forever chemical.
I have a lapis lazuli rock the size of a child's fist on my desk at home. It's a beautiful rock and I'm happy it doesn't do shit
I built my entire base out of lapis because idk what else to do with all of it
They look cool... But that's about it.
"Dilute it and shake it, then dilute it again. Then shake it and dilute it again."
Then stick em in a stew
