RE: When you prayed did it ever work?
November 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2012 at 3:13 pm by Cyberman.)
(November 5, 2012 at 2:43 pm)Drich Wrote: The reason this argument fails or does not apply to this topic, is because Miraculous healing do indeed happen, and are documented. In both instances for me the doctors told me to Thank God for the miracle, because their was nothing medically that could explain what had happened.
Saying there is documentation and providing the documentation are not even remotely the same thing. Tacking on a personal anecdote does nothing. Even if the story happened as you relate, all it shows is that the doctors in question are as deluded as you are.
(November 5, 2012 at 2:43 pm)Drich Wrote: Unfortunately because these occurrence can not be reproduced on demand the medical community at large dismiss these events simply because they have no way of verifying the incident. I was told by my doctor that the medical community is driven on what can be bottled or sold as a therapy. It has no interest in promoting something redirects money or faith from that system. Even holistic medicines are shunned because by at large these remedies can not be regulated to the same degree 'medicine' is regulated.
Congratulations, you just gave birth to a deliberately unfalsifiable position, no different to the invisible cheese bicycles on the Moon. They too can be defined to be just out of detection range.
Plus, holistic medicines are not shunned because they can't be regulated (what the hell is 'medicine' anyway?). Holistic simply means whole body, indicating that the whole person is treated as a system rather than targetting the specific symptoms. Herbal remedies and nutritional supplements may indeed be beneficial in some limited way, or at least not too harmful. They mustn't be confused with snake-oil scams such as homeopathy and similar; these are not shunned because of regulation but because they don't bloody work and have been known to be harmful, not least because they have prevented people from seeking real treatment.
However, we can test this stuff. Next time you have a splitting headache, perhaps from trying to cram too many directly contradictory positions into your head at once, instead of taking an analgesic, try praying or drinking water instead. Anything else would make you a hypocrite.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'