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Originally Posted by sapiens
Though modern medicine stands up to controlled studies while the others you list generally do not...
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I didn't say they did.
But I truly believe it is small minded to say science proves this and everything else is wrong.
There have been many studies of people getting placebos told they are one thing and what the reactions should be and the subjects who are without doubt show those reactions.
I firmly believe that if someone believes something will help them and they have no doubts, that thing will help them. Even if it is only psychologically, although I firmly believe it can be both.
And while you have argued and showed Snopes debunking the 10% myth, I still believe there are powers in our mind that we have no idea exist within ourselves. I believe there is nothing the body and true belief can't "cure".
As I stated does that mean I believe the cancer or heart disease or whatever disappears?
No, it may, but I firmly believe those factors can slow the growth the decay and perhaps add years onto life. At the very least it can make it less painful.
So why don't we see more of it, we do see cases that "science and medicine" cannot explain, but not many?
Because we are a doubting society that always has some form of "show me it's truly working" in the back of our mind, and the littlest doubt can bring bigger doubts and the disease spreads.
In other words, I believe it takes 100% of your total mind, soul and body to believe that help is truly helping, for it to be effective. So if I see accupunture isn't helping me as fast as I thought it would, I set doubt into myself and the effectiveness starts decreasing. I believe that is the same for chemo, radiation, whatever,
When one truly thinks about life, our bodies and everything, we truly have no answers because when we believe we do, there comes along something to prove what we have thought to be true wrong. In the grand scheme of everything we truly know very little.