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Participant[quote=SK in CV]I’m always surprised when one who identifies as an atheist uses the phrase “I believe”. At its core, it’s a religious phrase.
Scientific studies have shown little benefit to regular intake of fish oil. Fiber, in balance with other dietary intake, has been shown to be beneficial. Vitamin D is a necessity. No peer reviewed studies show an significant benefit to oregano oil or turmeric over other similar herbs.
Interesting timing on this. My daughter just posted a quote on facebook from someone named Tim Minchen (confession: I have no idea who he his.)
“Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proven to work? Medicine.”[/quote]
placccebo is real, Gd or pill
Participantas we speak, baltimore burns to the ground. clearly the protestors are unfocussed, but they look a little like photos of the Intifada uprising.
people with nothing to lose can be a bit dangerous.
Participant[quote=Blogstar]I eat a fish oil capsule or two a few times a week , a multi-vite and magnesium zinc supplement but not everyday. I don’t believe in any of them.
I run and do other exercise quite a bit and was having calf cramps a lot maybe the magnesium helps, My calf muscles have been great. I doubt it did the trick because I also started running more intelligently, more but more intelligently.
I have a pretty healthy diet. Going to drink Iced green tea this summer with the best honey I can get.
Do you still lift weights , scaredy?[/quote]
no. the krav maga is kind of wearing me out. im not sur eif its dumb or not. i am definitely getting good practice kicking to the crotch. i think moving forward, its probably more important for me to be able to hit people really hard and fast in the face or neck and kick really hard than lift a bit more weight.
priorities..
Participantits very difficult for me to truly believe that i a m actua;;y in reality going to die. all of the past evidence tends to show that i will live, since i have been alive continuously all the time, at least all of the time that i am conscious of. based on past performance, i dont see how I can die. ive heard of death happenign to others, but this could just be a scam to get me to buy life insurance.
plus i feel pretty good. but then again, everyone feels good until they dont.
2ka year sounds high to me for 1 million, but what a screaming deal if i suddenly died! incredible return. that would probably be my last sad thought on earth. kaching! and then…darkness…
more likely i see the term expiring, and then dying days afterward.
Participantto say on average that atheists are smarter than believers is the same as saying on average religious people are dumber than atheists. the data does seem to support that religious people have statistically significant less iq points, on average…
but individuals obviously vary for all kinds of reasons. theres plenty of very smart believers. my wife, for instance is very smart, and was a very devout catholic for many years. lots of reasons. tradition. strong family indoctrination. devastating losses int he family. ritual comforts. others…i would never mock anyone personally for believing. on the other hand, some believers in my exerience have no problem pitying nonbelievers, which to me feels like a form of mockery.
i do think it plausible that smart people ar emore likey to lose the faith with age. need data on that.
Participanteverybody wants to go to heaven
but nobody wants to die.
hell, no one is that dumb….Participant[quote=zk][quote=Blogstar]What does “science and religion are compatible” really mean anyway?
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I think it means that science can’t prove absolutely there’s no god. Of course, science can’t prove absolutely there’s no santa claus, either. But you never hear anybody say, “santa claus and science are compatible,” because nobody over the age of 10 or 11 really cares all that much whether santa claus is real.
So, what “science and religion are compatible” really means, is, “god, while it is an absurd proposition, can’t be proven absolutely not to exist. And we don’t want all the believers out there to hate us, so rather than pointing out the absence of scientific evidence for god, we’ll just say “science and religion are compatible.” Because it’s technically true, and therefore we’re maintaining our standing in the community while not technically lying.[/quote]
we watch ELF every year and I ahve a pretty emotional reaction to it. i doubt i would feel as strongly as i do if there were not at leats some chance that santa claus exists. you can just feel the power when you watch it i defy anyone to watch it and not feel anything.
Participanti think what it means is that there’s no reason people cannot be polite to one another, or at least not burn questioners at the stake, or put them in the stockades, or the rack, or insert long pikes into their rectums so that the point comes out of their mouths, or drown them, or put them in boiling oil, or coat them with tar, or one of any other number of tortures
Participantgiven what a bunch of phony ass phonies mankind is, we are all cryptojews now.
Participanti take my inspiration from the cryptojews. real thing. they were jews who on the surface switched oevr the christianity to avoid death during the spanish inquisition. on the surface, they sang about how they loved jesus, etc. but deep undercover, they kept what they were told in secret whispers was the true religion going, the g-d of our fathers, the one that worships the one true G-d.
Centuries later, they find these cryptojews scattered around the globe, not really sure why they are keeping certain jewish practices, not even aware theya re jewish necessarily, that marker being driopped over the centuries, but just doing certain rituals, because successive generations were informed that this or that prayer or act must be done and to be silent about it.
cryptojews! we should all be so slick…survibg phonies who deep down reject the violent oppressors.
Participantreminds me of Richard Pryor. He told the story of his wife catching him with another woman. He denies anything is going on, and asks his wife, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” The story is in his filmed comedy performance, “Live on the Sunset Strip.”
which makes me think, it doesnt matter how many tapes of cop beatings or murders we get, people will beleive the polcei are essentially good and only lie on or hurt bad guys….
Participantin many areas of society, you ahve to be able to say you believe in something that is obviously false. this is another aspect of social training provided by religion, similar but slightly different than saying one thing and doing another. By saying the truth, you are basically signalling that you are not willing to play the game. don’t do that. it is necessary to the survival of any society,a nd its members, that they be able to swear up and down something is true that all evidence points to the contrary thereof.
Participantanyone read THE SUN? sucha beautiful magazine. here’s a poem from this mmonth’s isue:
STORM ON GALILEE
What’s instructive is not
that he walked on water
but that he seemed so unharrassed
by the possibility of complete
and utter catastrophe. Yes,
it could all fall apart, he seemed to say;
yes, the storm could turn your little ship
into a sudden coffin–yes. Faith , he told us then,
is not trusting things will one day be better.
Faith is trusting things could never be better. No matter what.by teddy macker.
this months issue has a n article called enigma abou a guy’s dad that ismaybe the best magazine article ive ever read…
Participantyoung black dude and my wife are grappling and wrestling. Dude has a gun and is trying to grab her with the other hand.
DUDE: if you don’t get int he car I’m going to shoot you.
MY WIFE: Well, then, i guess you’re going to have to shoot me, cause im not getting in the car.
DUDE: Well….ummm…gimme your money.
MY WIFE: here’s ten dollars.
(dude runs off, never caught)…
not really a saint, just a badass…
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