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quchen01/22/20251 replyview on HN

In my experience, sacred geometry, and all these other terms like frequencies and energies and what not create highly ambiguous language. Esoteric concepts piggy-backing on physics’ success (or mathematics), trying to legitimize nonsense. Manganese-balancing rose quartz. Nuclear vibrations. Quantum uncertainties with at best questionable claims about determinism.

The only people I’ve ever seen healthily walk the boundaries were from philosophy/physics/math to spirituality (whatever that means for individuals), not the other way round.


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esperent01/22/2025

> highly ambiguous language

So basically, the same as all human language then?

If you're saying that geometric terms should only be allowed to be used in a strictly defined mathematical sense, even by non mathematicians, that's a kind of gatekeeping that doesn't make any logical sense to me.

Firstly, it completely misunderstands how humans use language, how we play with it, make puns, reuse terms from other social groupings (maths) in new ways that have meaning to another social group (new age spirituality), how we bend and twist the meanings of words over time.

Secondly, it's impossible, and unwarranted, to try and police this, so I hope you're good at dealing with being ignored.