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jollyreaper2112

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5. religion and faith can be a comfort

Reply to tinrobot (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 11:11 PM

Feb 2013

And there's no way to medically test for that. At the same time, there are many unscrupulous false priests and soothsayers who will take advantage of people in a time of weakness and vulnerability.

I confess to being violently hostile to this sort of thing on principle. It's too open to abuse.

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Voicing the Unvoiceable: Why energy healing is so Un-PC [View all] BridgeTheGap Feb 2013 OP

Emotion is "un-PC" get the red out Feb 2013 #1

Feeling feelings: Squinch Feb 2013 #3

peer review jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #2

Not everything has to be peer reviewed. tinrobot Feb 2013 #4

religion and faith can be a comfort jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #5

EVERY human endeavor, including science, is open to being abused. BridgeTheGap Feb 2013 #6

Exactly jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #7

The article had nothing in it about religion. tinrobot Feb 2013 #8

it's the terminology jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #9

I'm not real sure about how well science and psychology BridgeTheGap Mar 2013 #10

Now that you've admitted Dorian Gray Mar 2013 #11

my feels jollyreaper2112 Mar 2013 #12