woo

[dreamer_easy]

Discovered the term "woo" at a particularly smug militant atheist blog this morning. Can't quite work out if it refers to falsifiable superstition and/or divisive OTWism, or to all forms of spirituality. These things are always confusing when you're a naturalist freethinker up to your elbows in gods. Require advice.

(Also need advice on an alternative term for "militant atheists" so as not to piss off majority of atheists who are not ignorant evangelising twerps. In the meantime here's something we can both enjoy: Fred Nile nosedives after distributing Islamophobic "survey". OWAG.)

ETA: By a circuitous route, however, that annoying blog did lead me to Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers About the Heathen.

Comments

[lferion]

I'm with klgaffney on the use of 'woo' in many of the circles/communities/bunches of people I hang with.

Woo generally refers to 'spirit-stuff' that one does. In some of those circles there is an understanding of the possible tension between woo=positive and woo-woo=negative. Also woo having similarities with 'fu' (as in strength/power/ability) and 'foo' (that coding/computer catchall term that can be either good or bad & sometimes both simultanously).

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

So, for example, someone could have good woo-fu? :D