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[–] Infinitenonblondes 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You’re not throwing them at your enemies hard enough.

[–] ickplant 10 points 1 year ago

The crystals, they do nothing!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Healed for -5 HP

[–] ArchmageAzor 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uranium will affect your aura by misaligning your chakras

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@ickplant That's completely wrong. Each rock/mineral has a hidden skill. Once acquired, you have less money.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Some crystals like torbernite and asbestos have a special skill too, called "radiation poisoning" and "lung cancer"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Placebos can still be effective on a person who knows it’s a placebo.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a bunch of crystals that do shit, like molly and meth.

[–] grue 4 points 1 year ago

Also, less fun stuff like salt and sugar.

[–] ATDA 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey, some of those are polestones, and are perfectly capable of storing Stormlight! Just gotta wait for the next hightstorm

[–] tox_solid 10 points 1 year ago

Kelek's breath man, when is the last time you ever heard of a highstorm outside of Roshar?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Speaking of, when does lemmy get cremposting?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just started the second book, damn good so far!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Devil’s advocate time: the placebo effect is incredibly powerful, and for many people it’s all that’s needed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] FlyingSquid 17 points 1 year ago

Some of them do shit. Specifically, exploit the impoverished adults and children who mine them so that rich Westerners can wear them.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jun/16/are-crystals-the-new-blood-diamonds-the-truth-about-muky-business-of-healing-stones

[–] MoltenBoron 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obsidian isn't even a crystal...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither is lapis. Like come on, rock is literally in the name people

[–] rockyrikoko 6 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ, they're minerals Marie!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] themeatbridge 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Tenthrow 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about diamond? Those can be traded for large sums of money which can significantly improve your health.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, that's not true. Fluorite has a slight healing power for your teeth.

[–] ickplant 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, fuck, you got me. Now I have to admit that crystals do have healing power.

[–] TurretCorruption 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also Quartz is used extensively in electronics, including medical devices that help people with healing or managing their ailments.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RGB3x3 12 points 1 year ago

𝓓𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓭𝓸 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽

[–] GallantTheKnight 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried eating any of those before posting this?

Checkmate

[–] ickplant 6 points 1 year ago

It's really hard to argue with superb logic and science like this.

[–] TragicNotCute 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great guide, could you tell me what sort of benefits I might expect from Selenite?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it doesn’t do something I just can’t remember what that something was…..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries I got you. The something was nothing.

[–] Hotchili 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it doesn’t do nothing isn’t it doing something?

[–] Slowy 4 points 1 year ago

Now now, some powerful minerals, when ground into a powder, have the ability to grant the user silicosis

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] PeterPoopshit 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] TheHighRoad 6 points 1 year ago

I was in Sedona, AZ, and I witnessed what I can only call a church service about crystals. Interesting place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And then most of them will be colored resin anyway.

[–] Stilicho 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're pretty good as door stomps.

[–] Random_user 6 points 1 year ago
[–] finkrat 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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