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NATHAN talks about Religious Healings
Nick:
Damn good thing he was not an amputee. ;)
Seppuku:
--- Quote ---My grandmother had MS, she was not healed though she was faithful.
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Same for my grandmother and her Alzheimers and people prayed for her too. She was always a good Christian woman and very kind and loving.
Faith healing could well be a placebo effect and not only that, but coninscidences people convince themselves are miracles. Add things like reconstructive memory combined with personal beliefs, what people believe happened can also be inaccurate.
For example, had this cancer patient been going through chemotherapy? And radiotherapy? My friend was given the all clear after going through it and my aunt is going through it right now. Another aunt of mine received the all-clear after she had breast cancer. This is all through treatment, not faith healing. I think we'd need the data to test whether or not it was the faith healing that saved Lola's mom's friend.
Faith healings can be fraudulent, imagine a magic show. Also it's interesting to see what the mind can conjure up when somebody 'believes' something.
JohnKurwa:
--- Quote from: Seppuku on June 15, 2012, 08:30:21 AM ---
--- Quote ---My grandmother had MS, she was not healed though she was faithful.
--- End quote ---
Faith healing could well be a placebo effect and not only that, but coninscidences people convince themselves are miracles. Add things like reconstructive memory combined with personal beliefs, what people believe happened can also be inaccurate.
For example, had this cancer patient been going through chemotherapy? And radiotherapy? My friend was given the all clear after going through it and my aunt is going through it right now. Another aunt of mine received the all-clear after she had breast cancer. This is all through treatment, not faith healing. I think we'd need the data to test whether or not it was the faith healing that saved Lola's mom's friend.
Faith healings can be fraudulent, imagine a magic show. Also it's interesting to see what the mind can conjure up when somebody 'believes' something.
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Yeah, I think the placebo effect is a good point (as it is a proven fact that generic medicaments actually can heal) I think this might have an influence.
Yep, "reconstructive memory (mixed) with personal beliefs" applies pretty good in my opinion.
I think it is a shame that the technical progress and the effort of medicine and research are denied.
also the point of why can't they help other people in hospitals which was brought up earlier seems extremely important to me.
nogodsforme:
Every religion claims to have done healings, including Scientology, and animistic religions like Vodun. Are all of these religions true?
Nick:
Besides NATHAN seems to have been taken over by the demons. He is no where to be seen. I guess demons won that battle.
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