On 07/15/2013 10:49 PM, salyavin808 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: >> On 07/15/2013 02:34 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: >>>> On 07/15/2013 12:49 PM, salyavin808 wrote: >>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: >>>>>> The obvious next step, although it costs a bit more, is for those who >>>>>> feel that they are "afflicted" by various planets to hire someone to >>>>>> DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. >>>>>> >>>>>> Although I have never been really into astrology except as enter- >>>>>> taining bullshit, for some reason I still remember the opening >>>>>> paragraph of an article I read back in 1967 in Haight-Ashbury. >>>>>> It was in a short-lived but interesting mag named "Innerspace," >>>>>> and its subject matter was usually...uh...psychedelics. But in >>>>>> this one issue, someone wrote an article whose opener still >>>>>> sticks in my mind, probably verbatim. It read: >>>>>> >>>>>> "As all astrologers and competent bullshitters know, the malefic >>>>>> influence of the planet Saturn has been long established. Given >>>>>> its well-documented ill effects on the planet Earth and its people, >>>>>> we believe that the only reasonable thing we can do as a species >>>>>> is to band together, person with person, nation with nation, and >>>>>> create an international project to send up rockets armed with >>>>>> nuclear missiles and blow the big, greasy sonofabitch out of >>>>>> the sky." >>>>>> >>>>>> :-) >>>>> Quite right, those pesky planets have bossed us around for >>>>> too long! >>>>> >>>>> My first thoughts went to astrology too actually. Specifically >>>>> Tony Nader's book of "discoveries" in which he has a diagram >>>>> of the brain linking to the planets (some of them anyway) so >>>>> why not - if palmistry surgery proves effective* - offer brain >>>>> surgery to re-align the parts of the brain so that any negative >>>>> influence from having, say, venus in the first house at birth >>>>> could be shifted to effectively having it in the second house - >>>>> which I'm sure we all agree is much better - by simply moving >>>>> some of the pituitary gland to the median oblongata. Simples. >>>>> >>>>> I can see a potential market for it. People buy yagyas after >>>>> all..... >>>>> >>>>> *And even if it doesn't! >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Most palmists would have a laugh at the article because changing the >>>> palm lines through surgery won't change destiny. Palmistry, for some >>>> reason, does reflect a lot of life events. Plus it once had a line of >>>> good looking young Playboy Mansion women lining for me to read their >>>> palms. You and Turq can eat your hearts out. :-D >>>> >>> Homeopathic Accident and Emergency >>> http://youtu.be/HMGIbOGu8q0 >> Yup, that's about the level of understanding most naysayers have. FYI, >> alternative physicians say conventional medicine is FOR traumatic >> injuries and good at it. >> > > Q: What do you call alternative medicine that has been proved to work? > > A: Medicine. > >
Yes, "medicine" can be all kinds of things including herbs, vitamin supplements and even homeopathic remedies. Perhaps "armchair scientists" ought to actually study about medicine rather than just worship at the shrine of big pharma supported medicine.
