Just a suggestion…
Or the power thereof.
You can find a body of evidence that suggests that warts are controlled not in the skin but in the head. Doctors are telling kids to imagine their warts away, and it seems to work. I remember a tv program- it may have been “The Body in Question” with Dr Johnathon miller- which featured a child who was covered in warts, and the dr gave him post hypnotic suggestion that the warts would go away- but only on one forearm. In short order , the suggestion worked. The same is true in reverse, voodoo believers and even “normal” modern folks have the damnedest things happen to them, just because they “believe” it is happening- believing a voodoo spell will kill you, actually DYING because you have liver cancer- but not bad enough to kill you! or damned near dying because you thought you OD’ on antidepressants but which were actually placebos.
There was a news story when I was a kid, of a guy who had accidentally gotten trapped in a reefer car on a train from Chicago to- I think it was St Louis. The reefer was full of beef on the way up. but it was deadheading,. he was found frozen to death at his destination, but the reefer unit on the car had broken down; it was a comfy 74 in the car. Autopsy showed clear signs of death due to exposure.
belief- as i’ve said before– is just trouble. Dying because you believe you’re dying?
This sort of thing explains a good deal, actually. Leftist beliefs that the world is just so, in the face of overwhelming facts, are what allow them to overlook the warts that just won’t go away, and they are using their beliefs to cause us all a cancer that- while it’s not real in the ordinary sense of the word- will kill us all nonetheless.
The power of the human mind to cure itself- or kill itself- or adhere to asinine ideas in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary- is a testament to the versatility of the Creator- and if psychiatry were treated as- you know, an actual science, instead of freudian horseshit and professional handholding for hire, we might learn how to tap into some pretty amazing powers, maybe even cure the mental illness that infests people like Nancy P and the Wingnuthead in chief.
It happens a lot with gunshot victims. “Oh! I’m shot. I’m going to die…” and they do.
All The Best,
Frank W. James
yeah, I’ve seen that- and the drug addled thug with fourteen chest wounds survives.
Course the left dreams only work if everyone, and I mean everyone, believes them. Most slaves yearn for freedom and that breaks the whole model down.
Democrats are pissed the south lost and they have been trying to screw us up every since.
You hear those stories of the wisp of a woman who in a fit of adrenaline is able to lift a car that has fallen on her son, then you read about stigmata, then those Buddhist monks who are able to pull off stuff like slowing their heartbeat down to next to nothing, and the ones who sat in the street in Vietnam and chanted as their gasoline soaked bodies went up in flames. Or the dying person who knows this or that special person is coming and wills to stay alive until that person comes, then expires. Yup.
I believe. I believe I’ll have another Knob Creek, with ice.
“if psychiatry were treated as- you know, an actual science, instead of freudian horseshit and professional handholding for hire,”
That phrase is an excellent description of my feelings about 99.5% of shrinks. There may be some who actually know how to help people, but IMNSHO the vast majority of them are quacks and charlatans peddling modern-day snake oil to people with more dollars than sense.