emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
I was going to post just this article:
Something Mysterious Is Killing Captive Gorillas
about how the research in heart disease killing captive gorilla's in zoos
might help bring the focus on general health back to SCIENCE and not
debating and arguing morals and creating enemies over environmental and health issues.
The moral approach of judging and attacking people back and forth for their politics
has derailed the focus on better sustainable health for people and planet based on science
and CHOOSING to clean up bad habits for our own sake by educated choice, not because of political pressures.
Then I got into a FB conflict online with people who argued that spiritual healing
through prayer was all made up and fake, and didn't know anything about proving
the positive effects by medical science. They assumed I was preaching and proselytizing to
them, and didn't get that I was defending medical research and science backing
the universal process of prayer and the effects on health and curing diseases.
They never heard of any such thing, and one person questioned I might be "fantasizing"
about beliefs and ideas from God as imaginary in my mind.
I looked up online and found this article on that idea:
Reality Check: Why Some Brains Can’t Tell Real From Imagined | TIME.com
So again, my point about medically proving the effects and process of spiritual healing prayer
and the brain, if we can quantify and measure the problem and symptoms in
"schizophrenic people who hear voices and can't tell what is real or not"
then apply the spiritual healing which people have used to cure schizophrenia,
could we measure the EFFECTS on the person, and whether this helps
them to distinguish and to comply/improve with counseling and treatment?
Again instead of arguing whether people are "proselytizing" their religion or politics,
can Science be used to streamline these issues into problems and solutions?
Currently in both cases, of environmental problems and reforms and with
issues of health care and now mental illness/gun regulations, people are
ARGUING that the science/statistics are being SKEWED for politics, on both sides
of these issues. Neither side trusts the studies cited because the media is so skewed left or right.
Could we agree to restructure and conduct studies together, publicly through university, medical
and/or environmental teams set up specifically so that this isn't funded or biased politically.
How do we get politics out of science so we can use science to de-politicize and solve more problems?
Something Mysterious Is Killing Captive Gorillas
about how the research in heart disease killing captive gorilla's in zoos
might help bring the focus on general health back to SCIENCE and not
debating and arguing morals and creating enemies over environmental and health issues.
The moral approach of judging and attacking people back and forth for their politics
has derailed the focus on better sustainable health for people and planet based on science
and CHOOSING to clean up bad habits for our own sake by educated choice, not because of political pressures.
Then I got into a FB conflict online with people who argued that spiritual healing
through prayer was all made up and fake, and didn't know anything about proving
the positive effects by medical science. They assumed I was preaching and proselytizing to
them, and didn't get that I was defending medical research and science backing
the universal process of prayer and the effects on health and curing diseases.
They never heard of any such thing, and one person questioned I might be "fantasizing"
about beliefs and ideas from God as imaginary in my mind.
I looked up online and found this article on that idea:
Reality Check: Why Some Brains Can’t Tell Real From Imagined | TIME.com
So again, my point about medically proving the effects and process of spiritual healing prayer
and the brain, if we can quantify and measure the problem and symptoms in
"schizophrenic people who hear voices and can't tell what is real or not"
then apply the spiritual healing which people have used to cure schizophrenia,
could we measure the EFFECTS on the person, and whether this helps
them to distinguish and to comply/improve with counseling and treatment?
Again instead of arguing whether people are "proselytizing" their religion or politics,
can Science be used to streamline these issues into problems and solutions?
Currently in both cases, of environmental problems and reforms and with
issues of health care and now mental illness/gun regulations, people are
ARGUING that the science/statistics are being SKEWED for politics, on both sides
of these issues. Neither side trusts the studies cited because the media is so skewed left or right.
Could we agree to restructure and conduct studies together, publicly through university, medical
and/or environmental teams set up specifically so that this isn't funded or biased politically.
How do we get politics out of science so we can use science to de-politicize and solve more problems?