# The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969 "2013-04-06T01:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/1 "2013-04-06T01:09:19Z")
[Link](http://crispian-jago.blogspot.de/2013/03/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense.html) All the flavors of woo neatly organized. Religion. Medicine. Pseudoscience. Paranormal. Anyone care to venture what’s at the intersection of Religious Bollocks ∩ Quackery Bollocks ∩ Pseudoscientific Bollocks ∩ Paranormal Bollocks before they open the link? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/2 "2013-04-06T01:22:37Z")
Scientology. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/3 "2013-04-06T01:23:42Z")
What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/4 "2013-04-06T01:28:18Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > What do I win? A free E-meter audit! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/5 "2013-04-06T01:49:11Z")
I should have guessed, it was obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/6 "2013-04-06T01:59:59Z")
I love it. I wish I could post it on my Facebook page, but too many of my friends and family are into at least some of this bullshit, and there would be a whole lot of offending going on. Unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/7 "2013-04-06T02:40:58Z")
**Alice** beat me to it… would’ve been great to post on facebook, but would offend too many people. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/8 "2013-04-06T02:44:58Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I love it. I wish I could post it on my Facebook page, but too many of my friends and family are into at least some of this bullshit, and there would be a whole lot of offending going on. Unfortunately. > [@Waxwinged](#): > > **Alice** beat me to it.. would’ve been great to post on facebook, but would offend too many people. You say that like offending those people is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/9 "2013-04-06T02:46:09Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You say that like offending those people is a bad thing. When you’ve got to live with them day in and day out, and when quite a few of them are your customers? Yes. It is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/10 "2013-04-06T03:00:46Z")
The thought that it would offend someone occured to me as well. The very next thought was that they don’t mind offending me at all. It is now on my FB. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/11 "2013-04-06T04:47:40Z")
The akashic record stuff is religious bollocks? I thought it would fall into paranormal/pseudoscientific bollocks, or just paranormal bollocks. Maybe I was conflating it with genetic memory and/or past life regression. Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/12 "2013-04-06T05:20:38Z")
When Lord Xenu sees this, he’s gonna be _soooo_ mad! Just as soon as he’s released from his Volcano Prison. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/13 "2013-04-06T05:22:04Z")
Conversely, I would probably have filed chakras under religion rather than paranormal. Or at least in that intersection. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/14 "2013-04-06T05:32:08Z")
It’s like looking at Dan Aykroyd’s plate after returning from a massive smorgasbord of bullshittery. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/15 "2013-04-06T13:10:00Z")
I like the translations. I always wanted to know what the Croatian or Italian equivalents of “bollocks”\* were. \*in the metaphorical, not the literal, sense. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/16 "2013-04-06T13:28:57Z")
I thought acupuncture had some benefits going for it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/17 "2013-04-06T21:28:08Z")
They left out UFOs. Meh. Pisspoor job. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/18 "2013-04-06T21:45:04Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > They left out UFOs. > > Meh. > > Pisspoor job. Why don’t you make a better one, then? In fact, why don’t you do _anything_? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/19 "2013-04-06T23:15:54Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Why don’t you make a better one, then? In fact, why don’t you do _anything_? friedo, if you don’t like me, or my posts, just ignore them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969/20 "2013-04-07T02:04:36Z")
Maybe I’m just weird, but my first reaction was to confirm that the formatting covered all of the possible combinations, and then to make a mental note of that arrangement of ovals. I hadn’t even realized that it was possible to make a complete Venn diagram of four circles. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense/654969.md?page=2)