Confusing Complexity
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Description
Confusing complexity is a way to create the impression that you are an intelligent and insightful person by filling your speech with big, lofty, scientific or intellectual-sounding words. Even when you have nothing important or interesting to say, this can obscure your message so that your audience will not understand what you are saying, but will be left believing that you must be fascinating and brilliant.
Example
The Secret works because your brain's neurological impulses emit hyperdimensional energy that transcends the spatio-temporal matrix resulting in supermaterialist shockwaves that transmogrify subjectivity experiences into physical non-physical presences.
Famous Examples
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We discovered that it's the shape of the waveform, not the freqency [sic] of delivery, that has an impact on the human body. This portable, wearable Zapper delivers positive offset square wave electromagnetic wavefoms [sic] throughout the body. These electrical signals serve to support a vigorous, healthy immune response. They also support healthy systemic detoxification, resulting in increased energy and vitality.
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In the absence of a conscious entity, the moon remains a radically ambiguous and ceaselessly flowing quantum state.
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
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Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
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Nature is a self regulating ecosystem of awareness.
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In their new book The Healing Self, due to be released tomorrow, Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D. are telling the world that habits can be changed, but so can neural pathways and even gene expression itself.
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Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space, time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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It is a place where there is something called the observer effect, or the power of intention, which means intention is very powerful when brought to this space and it orchestrates its own fulfillment – what people call the law of attraction – so those are wonderful qualities of your own spirit.
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Heart intelligence underlies cellular organization and guides and evolves organisms toward increased order, awareness and coherence of their bodies’ systems.
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Some prominent researchers believe that our intelligence, creativity, and imagination interact with the energy field of intention rather than being thoughts or elements in our brain.
Context: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way -
Lee Strobel: Some critics say that the resurrection is an extraordinary event and therefore it requires extraordinary evidence (...)
Craig: Yes that sounds like common sense but it's demonstrably false (...) because this standard would prevent you from believing in all sorts of events that we do rationally embrace. For example, you would not believe the report on the evening news that the numbers chosen in last night's lottery were 4, 2, 9, 7, 8 and 3, because that would be an event of extraordinary improbability.
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