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Science & Alternative Science / Re: The Science of Faith Healing

« on: March 12, 2025, 04:34:36 PM »

It’s fascinating to see how the themes in "Where Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for Miracles" delve into the interplay between mind, body, and healing. The author’s journey, transitioning from skepticism to personal healing through faith healing techniques, certainly provides food for thought. The notion of commanding pain to leave and fostering readiness to heal does seem to overlap with the well-documented placebo effect, which showcases the power of belief in influencing physical health.

The connection between mental and physical well-being, as discussed in the book, aligns with teachings from many traditions, like the concept in Buddhism that a healthy mind can lead to a healthy body. While the metaphysical explanations are open to interpretation, the anecdotes and studies pointing to the efficacy of the placebo effect remain intriguing. They challenge us to consider the role our psychological state plays in our overall health and recovery.

This paragraph has characteristics of both AI-generated and human-written text. It is well-structured, grammatically polished, and presents a balanced analysis—traits often seen in AI writing. The smooth transitions and neutral tone also suggest AI involvement. However, the nuanced discussion of the placebo effect, connections to Buddhism, and subjective phrasing like “certainly provides food for thought” add a personal and reflective touch, which is more common in human writing.

If this was AI-generated, it was likely refined to sound natural. If it was written by a person, they have a clear, structured writing style.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 03, 2025, 03:19:49 PM »

The only evidence I see that Russian elections are not free or fair, come from the ilk, i.e., warmongering, regime-changing, lying, globester, asshats, who got us in this position in the first place.

Ok, how about a little zetetic research. Start an account on Russia's VK and post the words 'Putin sucks and we shouldn't have invaded Ukraine.' You can experience Russia's freedom first hand.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 02, 2025, 08:55:44 PM »

The ilk here want to support Zelensky, despite no free elections in the Ukraine, and that is exactly why he is a Nazi.

Action69 is dishonestly misrepresenting something shock exclusive.
The UK generally have elections every 4 or 5 years.
We had one in 1910 and then not till 1918
Similarly we had one in 1935 and then not again till 1945.

Just have a think and see if you can remember what happened in those periods (hint - 1914-1918 and 1939-1945) which might have made holding elections impractical.

63% of people support Zelensky
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47601

That's a damn sight higher than Trump's...

The Ukrainian government was busy handing out weapons to the civilian population to defend their lives and homes against the murderous orc army invading their country. They had to delay their elections.

If the Russians want peace, all they have to do is leave Ukraine, all of Ukraine.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 01, 2025, 03:27:21 PM »

It's also worth repeating once again that Trump's sympathy towards Russia rather than Ukraine is not a political, ideological, or even financial calculation. Trump is a layman with no real knowledge of or interest in international politics. This is entirely because he likes Putin on a personal level and wants to impress him. Whatever pleasure he gets out of trying to please Putin is not something that benefits anybody but himself. A good leader would set their own personal feelings aside when making these kinds of important decisions.

Putin gave Trump a soccer ball to play with. That's all it took to win his allegiance.

Another aspect is that Trump really wants to be Putin. He wants to have his media in charge, he wants to incarcerate his political enemies and imprison people who make fun of him.
 He imagines that Putin gets to grab all the pussy he wants

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 01, 2025, 02:19:21 PM »

Well, I knew there was going to trouble brought to our country and that is why I have been prepping, but this Nazi bastard can go fuck himself.

Zelensky is a short, Jewish comedy actor whose grandparents died in the holocaust.

I hate to tell you this but the Trumputin is lying to you and the earth is round. People are laughing at you.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 28, 2025, 10:46:36 PM »

Zelensky just fucked up big time. He threatened the US and its citizens.

"If Ukrainians wanted to surrender, they would go to Moscow, not Washington."

Neither Trump nor Putin have any rights to Ukraine and in fact, the U.S. agreed to help protect Ukraine from Russia.
Putin is a despot and Trump is an idiot. The Donald can take his military aid and fuck off.


Trump is selling out Ukraine to Russia just like he is doing to America while idiotic rednecks cheer him on.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 27, 2025, 12:15:51 PM »

If they were part of a prior agency that was turned into DOGE it is somewhat inaccurate to say that the DOGE team is quitting.

Maybe Elon should write an email to his stockholders explaining five things he did at Tesla this week.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 24, 2025, 02:24:57 PM »

The family wants a good education and strong moral values for their children, something that has not been provided in the public school system in the US because of people like you, Kramer.

I hope Trump is able to fix it, but that will take quite a bit of discipline to overcome his naturally democratic roots.

If you want to live in a country like Russia or Iran with good education and strong moral values, by all means please go. In fact, Trump wants to deport people, he should subsidize travel and logistics to move people like you out of the country.

Understand, the U.S. government can fall to extreme right-wing nationalists but America will never be Russia. My family and I will never allow the government to block us from the rest of the world. I will boycott the state medias that Trump seeks to establish. Stand-up comedians will stand united as they make fun of Trump's idiotic statements.

You can take your Pro-Russia, Sharia law bullshit and find another country. It will inevitably fail in America.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 24, 2025, 12:37:26 PM »

TDS actually stands for Trump Dumb ass Syndrome. It causes willful ignorance in idiotic rednecks which leads them to buy worthless meme coins and Chinese printed Bibles from a megalomaniacal buffoon who is coordinating with our national adversaries to seize control of our nation.

Here's an example of extreme Trump Dumb ass Syndrome which speaks to the diabolical effectiveness of the Russian psy-op against America. Imagine being so frightened of the 'woke, liberal, leftist agenda' that you are willing to give up your freedom of speech, give up free access to the world wide web, give up the freedom to read any book you want all for the protections of the Trumputin.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/the-american-families-moving-to-russia-to-flee-moral-decline-of-us-k9975x2nj


Actually maybe we need more traitors like Action80 and Tucker Carlson to move to Russia, could be a good thing for America.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 20, 2025, 01:19:50 PM »

Of course, embryos are vulnerable and needy.

Unless they're conceived in Mexico, in that case those drug dealing rapists can fuck off.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 19, 2025, 12:45:13 PM »

Without billionaires there would be no such thing as the average working man.

Without the average working man, there would be no billionaires.

Most billionaires are helpless without average people and lack the skills to manage day-to-day life without their staff. Watch one of them try to change a flat tire on a car or fix a toilet, very sad.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 18, 2025, 08:17:18 PM »

This alarmism is pretty dumb.

Given that Trump has destroyed 90% of the businesses that carried his name and he is now in the White House practicing the same bumbling incompetency that led to a half dozen bankruptcies, we should all be alarmed.

Believing that Trump will be successful at anything but grift, megalomania and corruption is pretty dumb. It requires disregarding decades of Trumpian failure.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 15, 2025, 04:07:50 PM »

How much did the NSA invest in looking at all of our personal data?

Yep, the NSA, the Chinese, the Russians and now Lex Luthor. These people digging around should be forced to buy our data from legitimate data brokers like everybody else does.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 15, 2025, 02:38:13 PM »

Fraud begets fraud and is connected to morality. If they are willing to steal money from the public then then there is a higher likelihood to cut corners on research and push out dangerous and questionable therapies. There is a greater danger in allowing fraud. The billions lost to government waste and fraud could be used to save lives elsewhere, such the homeless situation.

People lost around 40 - 50 billion dollars on meme coins in the last month. Just the money lost on meme coins from the Donald, Melania and their charlatan preacher would have fed a lot of homeless people. The good news is that being an incompetent buffoon, Trump couldn't execute a successful rug pull and the price collapsed before he sold. Only the devs that talked Trump into this stupid scam made money. We need to redefine fraud.

But it's all good, DOGE is spending millions of dollars a week rooting around in our personal data looking for fraud.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: February 15, 2025, 02:23:24 PM »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3eg3n11gvo

This clown has been getting a lot of coverage in the press over here.
There's zero chance that he will ever find the hard drive. If he ever did it would pretty likely be broken anyway.

This will be like the Treasure of Oak Island. For years to come, generations of people will spend millions of dollars digging through the garbage. Occasionally, they turn up a little piece of trash that could be from the same area and time frame which reignites the hunt. Eventually, it could be a reality TV show.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: The Science of Faith Healing

« on: February 07, 2025, 08:28:31 PM »

I hate televangelists that do these public faith healings because they're all fake. Someone once pointed out that at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes you see crutches left behind by those who were healed but you never see a prosthetic leg left behind.

But, there are some annoying studies that show a small but persistent evidence that there is something metaphysical, psychophysical to our health.

The power of placebo has been long documented but there have also been power of prayer studies (actual randomized, double blind) where patients who were prayed for show some statistical benefit from that prayer. Typically, these statistical successes are a very low percentage but high enough to defy random chance.

As much as I would like to poo-poo Tom's post, the fact is that there is a small set of findings that indicate there is something more to ourselves than our bodies. The body of evidence is small but statistically real, it won't go away even after being challenged by years of study and still can't be explained.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 07, 2025, 12:59:00 PM »

Bitch away, LD, bitch away...

Triggered...LOL!

This is the real Trumpian Manifesto. At its core, it's a juvenile eagerness to upset, hurt, or otherwise oppress the people they hate. Conservatives don't vote in their own best interests; they vote in whatever they think will be the worst interests of the people they hate. They'd rather ensure everyone, including themselves, are miserable rather than be happy and risk the people they hate being happy too. The cruelty is the point. I am not happy and it is your fault.

FTFY. NNTTM.

Another demonstration of how Trumpism works. Stomp out the truth and substitute whatever you want.

It's not just that Trumpians are hateful people but that hate is being used to play them. Big strong Trumputin will protect you from the liberal DEI groomers trying to change your child's gender.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 06, 2025, 02:03:47 PM »

Your objections are moot.

The order is signed.

I don't care about anything else you want to bring up.

The Trumpian Manifesto

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 06, 2025, 01:10:59 PM »

You are certainly allowed to think the EO means whatever you think it means.

Anybody is.

I am under the impression it means nothing else than what it was announced to be.

People who were born with a penis can no longer compete in sports with biological women. Any sports organization or school allowing this activity will no longer receive funding from the federal government.

That is all.

Not a big deal there are people who would disagree with this "common sense" EO.

Happens all the time.

What about people that are born with a large clitoris and a small penis? What about people with both sperm and eggs?
You and Trump have no business in other people's pants.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: February 06, 2025, 12:33:40 PM »

Yes, it's an EO that says Gender Identity doesn't exist and if you have eggs, you must act like a girl and present as a girl in society.

Where does the EO specifically state "gender identity," does not exist?

Which other human sex would have eggs?

Trump said that only male and female will be recognized, genetically intersex people with or without eggs will not be recognized.

Claiming that intersex people don't exist is an important part of their agenda. If intersex people do exist that would mean that there could be a biological component to homosexuality instead of a personal choice. This would compromise the Republican theory of homosexuality that they use to get their ignorant, redneck followers worked into a froth.