# WTF is this gibberish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408 "2013-08-16T13:25:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/1 "2013-08-16T13:25:26Z")
This is the complete description of a video show that was presented to me for broadcasting on our TV station. It’s complete gibberish to me. Quantum physics is more understandable. I’d like to hear interpretations, and I’ll bet that no two are alike. You probably won’t be able to google it yet, but the source is [here](http://ethicalprogramsdistribution.com/) (a web page under development). Here we go: > [@](#): > > Astral Horror-What Energy Fields Are We in Communication With > > Everything is energy and no energy can ever be lost. So everything that is emitted by a person is recorded – in the soul, in the coarse-material and finer-material cosmoses. And, since these inputs are combined with huge energy fields of the same kind, the people who helped form these fields are in constant communication with them - not only during their life on earth but also the souls in the beyond. This and more are the works of the individual person, works that follow him…[end] Must I be stoned to make any sense out of this? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/2 "2013-08-16T13:30:05Z")
I flashed on the scene in Animal House where the 3 students are smoking pot with Donald Sutherland’s professor character, discussing how one atom can contain an entire universe. Wow, man!! 😃 Sounds like high-grade woo… ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/3 "2013-08-16T13:31:28Z")
I am stoned. Sounds like new-age woo to me. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/4 "2013-08-16T13:58:59Z")
Wow. I’m actually a fan of new-age woo, but that sounds flakier than … no, I’ve got nothing. Nothing flakier than that. But I desperately want to watch an Asylum/Syfy original movie called “Astral Horror.” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/5 "2013-08-16T14:01:38Z")
It’s become entirely too easy to make videos. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/6 "2013-08-16T14:30:49Z")
Time Cube: The Video ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/7 "2013-08-16T14:37:31Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Sounds like high-grade woo… Hmmm. What is the difference between high-grade and low-grade woo? There must be something we can go on; a test, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/8 "2013-08-16T14:39:14Z")
Low-grade woo is demonstrably false. High-grade woo is more subtle. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/9 "2013-08-16T14:42:14Z")
High Grade Woo is made from fine material, while Low Grade Woo is made from coarser material. It’s really that simple :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/10 "2013-08-16T14:46:57Z")
I tried entering that block of text into Google translate. It said, “English Detected,” so I have my doubts about Google’s translation skills. Maybe it’s lowland woo. In French, it sounds better (but _everything_ sounds better in French): > [@](#): > > Tout est énergie et aucune énergie ne peut jamais être perdu. Donc, tout ce qui est émis par une personne est enregistrée - dans l’âme, dans la matière dense et plus fine matière cosmos. Et, étant donné que ces entrées sont combinées avec d’énormes champs d’énergie du même genre, les personnes qui ont contribué à former ces domaines sont en communication constante avec eux - non seulement au cours de leur vie sur terre, mais aussi les âmes dans l’au-delà. Ceci et plus sont les œuvres de l’individu, des œuvres qui le suivent … ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/11 "2013-08-16T15:05:30Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Low-grade woo is demonstrably false. High-grade woo is more subtle. Low grade woo is patently recycled bushwah. High grade woo is new and more entertaining on at least one level, being made from fresher ingredients. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/12 "2013-08-16T15:12:16Z")
There is no new woo. It’s the same old woo, repainted and repackaged. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/13 "2013-08-16T15:12:17Z")
I’m pretty sure I saw that episode of _Doctor Who_. I think it was the season where Christopher Eccleston played the Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/14 "2013-08-16T15:20:38Z")
[And every time Chekov eats a pie, Scotty beams it right out of him!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQc-noLQBM) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/15 "2013-08-16T15:22:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Everything is energy and no energy can ever be lost. Well then where the heck are my keys, huh? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/16 "2013-08-16T15:26:10Z")
It’s about ghosties and goulies and long legged beasties. And things that go bump in the night. Or woo, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/17 "2013-08-16T15:28:28Z")
Hell, just air the thing. Maybe one of the viewers will figure it out. 'Course, they’d have to be stoned \*themselves \*to want to watch it. Seems to be something about the soul surviving after the body is gone, 'cause of energy patterns imprinted in the fabric of the universe or something. Puff, puff, pass. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/18 "2013-08-16T15:38:20Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Hell, just air the thing. Maybe one of the viewers will figure it out. 'Course, they’d have to be stoned \*themselves \*to want to watch it. Wouldn’t want to get the reputation of an “all-woo” channel. Or maybe there’s an untapped market. I do have air time to fill at 2AM. Or 3AM. 4? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/19 "2013-08-16T16:18:24Z")
\<\\> But it can transform into an unusable form of energy. \ No. Everything that is emitted travels outward until absorbed by something that it hits. Also what a person emits is infrared radiation. Not all that exciting. (OK, there’s also [Bioelectromagnetics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectromagnetism), but that’s not technically an emission, unless you’re an electric eel.) \< – in the soul, in the coarse-material and finer-material cosmoses.\> The soul and 2 cosmoses must have been defined (or just spoken of loosely) outside of any science that deals with energy. (And there’s no evidence of anyone’s bioelectric field being recorded anywhere.) \ Also a non-science statement. There are no known energy fields absorbing human-emitted infrared or any other form of human emissions. (Electric fields influence one another, and birds may navigate via sensing the interaction of the earth’s magnetic field with their biofield, but influencing is not combining and especially not recording.) \< the people who helped form these fields are in constant communication with them - not only during their life on earth but also the souls in the beyond.\> Reminds me of The Grapes of Wrath. > [@](#): > > From IMDb > > Tom Joad: Well, maybe it’s like Casy says. A fellow ain’t got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then… > > Ma Joad: Then what, Tom? > > Tom Joad: Then it don’t matter. I’ll be all around in the dark - I’ll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there’s a fight, so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the houses they build - I’ll be there, too. \ I like the way **Steinbeck** said it better. Misusing the words ‘energy’ and ‘emitted’ and ‘input’ or, rather, using them for purposes of decoration, to make a statement sound sciency, does not improve the basic idea of “I’m not going to be completely gone when I die” or “I’m not really alone”. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408/20 "2013-08-16T16:40:04Z")
**Yllaria,** you took the words right out of my mouth. But isn’t it obvious? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-gibberish/666408.md?page=2)