Comments on: Brisbane council to waste tax payers money on feng shui http://scepticsbook.com/2008/12/19/brisbane-council-to-waste-tax-payers-money-on-feng-shui/ Contains Reason. Not Excuses. Thu, 10 May 2012 04:13:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cannonball Jones http://scepticsbook.com/2008/12/19/brisbane-council-to-waste-tax-payers-money-on-feng-shui/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Cannonball Jones Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:02:09 +0000 http://scepticsbook.com/?p=158#comment-51 One of my friend's fathers has been a practitioner of feng-shui for a long time so I've picked up a fair bit of it - fairly 'advanced' stuff rather than the snippets you get in Hello magazine. Now I don't for a minute believe in all the energy bollocks that is sprouted by its advocates but a lot of it really is common sense, practical design and a bit of psychology. I wish someone would take it upon themselves to carve away the piles of nonsense and present a trimmed-down version with the fairly sensible bits. It might actually be useful for people like me who don't have the first clue about interior design, etc! And on the main topic of the article - whether there is a tiny bit of common sense in feng-shui or not, the fact that a council is spending taxpayers money on it is ridiculous. One of my friend’s fathers has been a practitioner of feng-shui for a long time so I’ve picked up a fair bit of it – fairly ‘advanced’ stuff rather than the snippets you get in Hello magazine. Now I don’t for a minute believe in all the energy bollocks that is sprouted by its advocates but a lot of it really is common sense, practical design and a bit of psychology. I wish someone would take it upon themselves to carve away the piles of nonsense and present a trimmed-down version with the fairly sensible bits. It might actually be useful for people like me who don’t have the first clue about interior design, etc!

And on the main topic of the article – whether there is a tiny bit of common sense in feng-shui or not, the fact that a council is spending taxpayers money on it is ridiculous.

]]> By: First Skeptics’ Circle, 2009! « Bug Girl’s Blog http://scepticsbook.com/2008/12/19/brisbane-council-to-waste-tax-payers-money-on-feng-shui/comment-page-1/#comment-50 First Skeptics’ Circle, 2009! « Bug Girl’s Blog Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:18:19 +0000 http://scepticsbook.com/?p=158#comment-50 [...] Skepbitch exchanges emails with a psychic hotline worker, and Book of Pooh-pooh reports a city council spends tax-payer money on Feng Shui. [...] [...] Skepbitch exchanges emails with a psychic hotline worker, and Book of Pooh-pooh reports a city council spends tax-payer money on Feng Shui. [...]

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