Full Moon

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:33 pm

Could we please get over the full moon myth once and for all ...PLEASE! I still can't believe that even educated people believe that crap!

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Sep 29, 2018 2:19 pm

which myth would that be?

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Sat Sep 29, 2018 2:34 pm

That the full moon phase has a physical and psychological effect on the human condition. AAAHHHHH!!!!! ...Scientists have proven over and over it's a nonsense. It been proven based on the original concept that the moon sets epilepcy off is false! I had a magistrate tell me it's true...I'm like huh? You're a learned man you have peoples lives in your hands and you think that kind of stuff?

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 4:17 am

What? You mean when I go out into the back garden and howl at the full moon it's just superstition? Bummer.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:35 pm

I was flying home from Germany once, and the guy in the next seat was a Psychologist from Austria.

We started talking, and our conversation somehow got to that idea, and he suggested that some people could have behavioral changes when the Moon is full, simply because they somehow believe that it happens.

They believe it so they cut loose because they have something to blame bad behavior on.

Similar to how people let go of some of their inhibitions after having a couple of drinks, even though they really have not consumed enough alcohol to actually affect their behavior.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 5:59 pm

It's definitely a load of tosh IMO. I go out into the garden and howl at the half moon, or is it the last quarter? Any way it does one good thing for me ...................keeps one or two unwanted nosey neighbours away from our house ! LOL Oh I do miss me smilies ! It just isn't the same writing LOL grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I always thought the moon was made of cream cheese anyway ................. and there's supposed to be a man on it somewhere ! Did that cow ever come back to earth ? Well that was what somebody told me when I was a little girl. (guffaw)

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:14 pm

Lunacy, don't you know... It goes back a long time (the superstition, that is.)

Annecole · Post by **Annecole** » Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:18 pm

Scientists have proved that its all myth but people do believe in such things.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:28 pm

magentaflame;1520799 wrote: Could we please get over the full moon myth once and for all ...PLEASE! I still can't believe that even educated people believe that crap!

My husband works at a hospital and he dreads going to work every time he sees that there's a full moon. He says all sorts of crazy people show up at the ER.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:01 pm

whoa... hello!!

Full moon is for dancing under.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:17 pm

Annecole;1522463 wrote: Scientists have proved that its all myth but people do believe in such things.

Scientists have proved no such thing, for 2 reasons.

1. Science does not 'prove' anything. It just gathers information that supports a hypothesis or not. If it doesn't support it that doesn't mean it's disproved.

2. There is a lot of evidence to poit to the fact that phases of the moon DO affect people - hence the very word 'lunacy', from the word 'lunar', meaning to do with the moon.

I am Epileptic, and until I was put onto the medication I am on now, which has 100% controlled my seizures, I would have seizures so regularly that they would be predictable to the day. They occured on the 3rd day before the 1st quarter of the moon. I discovered this purely by chance after the neurologist asked me to log my seizures. I got myself a diary in order to do so. This diary was the type that marked the phases of the moon, and after a while I noticed a pattern forming. After that I wrote a program to predict when my seizures were due - and it ALWAYS worked. When I mentioned this to the neurologist he said that this was quite common with epileptics.

After all, if you think about the massive effect the moon's pull has on the tides, it's hardly surprising that it can affect other things. It doesn't mean that this is anything Supernatural - I would be the first to discount that notion, but it most definitely is a factor, and is accepted in the Scientific world that it does affect things within the human brain, although they do not yet understand the why or wherefore.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:16 am

Which moon sets you off?

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:27 pm

I love a full moon, it reminds my of that old serial Dark Shadows. They were showing reruns of that when I was around 5 years old. I loved that show. They were always showing scenes with a full moon. (:

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed May 27, 2020 1:26 pm

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