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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« Last post by Tom Bishop on February 08, 2025, 06:43:27 PM »
The pendulum is beyond its apex and is definitely swinging to the other direction now. The Left may never fully recover.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Relativity and frames question
« Last post by Pete Svarrior on February 08, 2025, 02:35:39 PM »
The only place "the ua" is defined in the entire internet is the wiki?
Incorrect.

And I was supposed to guess that just from a single mention of "the ua" in the op?
No. You are supposed to be familiar with the FET prior to posting here. You shouldn't have to guess the very basics, because you're supposed to already know them. You agreed to this when you chose to post here. If you don't like that, post somewhere else.

Please either brush up on the basics and start engaging in good faith, or refrain from spamming the forum. I'm making this request politely for now, but if you don't make a decision, one will be made for you instead.

It feels like you're being exceptionally unreasonable. You're not even giving me a chance lol.
I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. I hope you'll be able to find a place online to hang out at that makes you feel better.

Hell, even when I Google "the ua flat earth" it doesn't look like anything from whatever wiki you're referring to comes up on the entire first page of results
I'm not sure why you'd admit to this. "I can't work a search engine, life is so unfair 😢". Just conceding that you failed to even try would have been a better look.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« Last post by Action80 on February 08, 2025, 11:18:56 AM »
Rest assured, kavorka, if I find a groomer, that will be the end.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing
« Last post by markjo on February 08, 2025, 04:42:28 AM »
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: The Science of Faith Healing
« Last post by Dr Van Nostrand 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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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Relativity and frames question
« Last post by flannel jesus on February 07, 2025, 07:42:58 PM »
I don't believe I said anything about a wiki page. What are you talking about?
You're in a thread about one - it's where UA is defined. I suggest you failed to read it before posting. It sounds like I didn't go nearly far enough.
The only place "the ua" is defined in the entire internet is the wiki? And I was supposed to guess that just from a single mention of "the ua" in the op?

It feels like you're being exceptionally unreasonable. You're not even giving me a chance lol. The op doesn't give a link to the wiki and it doesn't mention the wiki. How could I possibly meet your expectation?

Hell, even when I Google "the ua flat earth" it doesn't look like anything from whatever wiki you're referring to comes up on the entire first page of results
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Relativity and frames question
« Last post by Pete Svarrior on February 07, 2025, 06:58:47 PM »
I don't believe I said anything about a wiki page. What are you talking about?
You're in a thread about one - it's where UA is defined. I suggest you failed to read it before posting. It sounds like I didn't go nearly far enough.
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Science & Alternative Science / The Science of Faith Healing
« Last post by Tom Bishop on February 07, 2025, 06:11:07 PM »
I came across a book at my local alternative science book peddler titled "Where Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for Miracles". This book was purportedly written by an MIT-trained engineer who developed a life-altering muscular sickness, which kept him in constant pain and prevented him from working. He began trying every traditional and non-traditional healing protocol without success, finally reaching the bottom of the barrel in his desperation: Faith Healing. He found a practitioner and Faith Healing apparently helped his issues dramatically. He even proceeded to change careers in pursuit of this practice and now helps others, with many interesting testimonials and anecdotes shared in the book.

The procedure can be simplified as thus: If you have a pain, all you need to do is touch near where it hurts and tell the pain to go away. The pain will then go away and you feel better. Some suggest that it is helpful to command that the pain dispel and leave, and to tell it that you have the right to live your own life. This process will need to be repeated when the pain recurs, which results in the pain becoming less and less prominent until full healing is achieved.

Other elements of the protocol appear to be related to convincing yourself that you are ready to heal, which is a necessary component. Surprisingly, none of what is described appears to directly deal with faith in the religious sense at all. Faith appears to refer to the faith that it will work despite not knowing how it can work. My own interpretation is that this is the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a known curiosity where if someone thinks that a false pill will heal them, somehow it does help them. The placebo effect is pretty much equivalent to how faith healing is described in this work, since a non-active pill apparently results in healing based on the faith of the patient.

The author of the book describes that he believes that something metaphysical is occurring, and there are apparently a number of spiritual interpretations. However, I tend to believe that placebo effect and faith healing anecdotes can be described with known concepts. We know that the body is able to clear out its diseases naturally. There is no disease that which kills 100% of the people it infects, or makes all people chronically ill, and many recover on their own from the same disease, which proves that there is a possible physical self recovery process in the bodily machinery. Once you choose to heal your mind, your body physiology can then relax the the countless stressed tissues and components in your body, allowing plumbing and connections to work better with a more normal state and flush out the disease. The body may also be able to utilize water and nutrition more efficiently to create what is necessary to heal.

The connection between good psychology and good health has been recognized throughout history. Ancient Buddhists describe that a healthy mind creates a healthy body. It is not necessarily to know exactly how the placebo effect and faith healing works, only that there are enough accumulated anecdotes that there may be something there. Faith healing practitioners have refined their techniques over the years, and now offer an array of engaging courses and programs to prepare the mind and compel the action of the placebo effect for our own benefit.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« Last post by Dr Van Nostrand 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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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Relativity and frames question
« Last post by flannel jesus on February 07, 2025, 11:29:27 AM »
I really don't understand why we have so many people here discussing a wiki page they blatantly haven't read. Aren't you RE'ers supposed to be the enlightened intellectuals in the room? Wouldn't it have been prudent to read the document you're debating before declaring what you "know"?

I don't believe I said anything about a wiki page. What are you talking about?