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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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This thread has gone off track again. I am not forcing you to buy the book. If you're not interested, don't read it.
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10-23-2016, 08:06 PM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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This thread has gone off track again. I am not forcing you to buy the book. If you're not interested, don't read it.
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The least you can do is admit you know nothing about the book if you haven't read it for yourself.
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10-23-2016, 08:09 PM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Just read the introduction of Decline and Fall of all Evil by Seymour Lessans.
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As you read, please keep in mind that the Authentic Text, as written by the author and published in his lifetime, was printed in hardback in 1971. Late editions from the 2000s hawked for sale online do not represent the words of the author because of extensive corruptions introduced by the seller. These later editions are the Corrupted Text and are not the writings of the author as published in his lifetime. Beware of the Corrupted Text.
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So...You've read the text?
I asked because I read the blurb on wiki....it sounds a lot like Gurdjieff Ouspensky stuff...are you familiar with that pair?
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I'm not familiar. Can you show me the similarities?
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10-23-2016, 08:18 PM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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So...You've read the text?
I asked because I read the blurb on wiki....it sounds a lot like Gurdjieff Ouspensky stuff...are you familiar with that pair?
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First of all, I have heard of Gurdjieff, but only as sort of a footnote to Russian cultural history - I have never heard of Ouspensky or read Gurdjeff's Wikipedia article, which I am now enjoying immensely. Thank you for that!
I have read the text(s). The original text, as published by the author during his lifetime, is a fair amount of goofiness, but it has some really rather enjoyable literary qualities. The best way I can think of to describe it is as a charming 1970s new-age picaresque artifact that is constantly self-aware. It is very funny and mostly entertaining, to the point that I theorize that the content of its commentary on its time and place outweighs - and was intended by the author to outweigh - whatever actual theoretical knowledge or insights it purports to convey. Read in the context of the late 60s, its outsized claims to end all war by 1980 and reformulate the human sexual relationship based on whimsical handwaving become more of a searing comment on Vietnam and the sexual revolution than any type of earnest "discovery."
Unfortunately, the Corrupted Text has been entirely denuded of these substantial qualities, and reduced to decontextualized nonsense babble. It's a rather turgid slog. This deprives readers of the Corrupted Text from any insight into the author's actual literary virtues.
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This commentary is so completely twisted, it just shows how wrong a person can be.
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10-23-2016, 08:23 PM
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peacegirl, if their own parents want to give children Motrin, shouldn't those parents be free to do so?
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Of course they are free to do so, but they need to be warned of the risks on the label so they can make an informed choice.
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10-23-2016, 08:29 PM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
The reasonance with early 20th century mysticism and theosophian-type esotericism is most evident in the germinal substance "discovery." godfry's reference to Gurdjieff is extremely apt, I think - the more I read about Gurdjieff, the more apt it sounds.
godfry, here's an excerpt of one passage I have in mind. What do you think:
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10-24-2016, 12:42 AM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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peacegirl, if their own parents want to give children Motrin, shouldn't those parents be free to do so?
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Of course they are free to do so, but they need to be warned of the risks on the label so they can make an informed choice.
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"It's your choice in the end but if [your child] loses quality of life due to [Motrin poisoning], you have no one to blame but yourself. I know that sounds harsh but with all the information out there, it is the consumer's responsibility to do their homework. If you accept the risks, you have to accept the consequences." ~ Internet Retard
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10-24-2016, 01:39 AM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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The time you give to this endeavor cannot be cursory.
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This is correct. You'll need to quit doing anything remotely productive, develop The Vapors, bullshit your way onto SSDI and spend your days drinking and studying the work of chronically butthurt aluminum siding salesman. However, you must take care to avoid the author's original writings an instead study the corrupted version cobbled together by a vacuous hack who denuded the original work of all its splendor. Once you've internalized the vacuous hack's musings and developed a first-class alcohol-induced dementia, you'll be spending your days squabbling with strangers on the Internet about how eyes are not sense organs.
This way lies world peace.
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10-24-2016, 02:29 AM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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The reasonance with early 20th century mysticism and theosophian-type esotericism is most evident in the germinal substance "discovery." godfry's reference to Gurdjieff is extremely apt, I think - the more I read about Gurdjieff, the more apt it sounds.
godfry, here's an excerpt of one passage I have in mind. What do you think:
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I'd seen similar snippets in the Amazon source on the book. Every instance of my seeing actual content has led to my not wanting to see any more.
I still am reminded of the bloviating of Gurjieff/Ouspenski...or, that the author is attempting to be the next Rudolf Steiner. Only Steiner is a much better writer.
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10-24-2016, 02:31 AM
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Stop it guys, she has a point! You know, last week I went to my doctor because I have a pain in my elbow. My doctor said he wanted to try this new procedure called porcupine therapy. He tied a leather strap around the hind legs of the porcupine and whirled it around above his head, like a sling, or a lasso. Then he started walloping me right on the elbow with the porcupine. Fuck it hurt so bad! One time he missed and walloped me right on the side of my head. I have terrible side effects. I'm now blind in my right eye and am still pulling porcupine quills out from everywhere. Worst of all, it didn't even do a thing for my elbow. If anything it hurts even worse now. They really need to tighten things up at the FDA. I think it's totally bullshit that this procedure was ever approved.
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Stop it guys, she has a point! You know, last week I went to my doctor because I have a pain in my elbow. My doctor said he wanted to try this new procedure called porcupine therapy. He tied a leather strap around the hind legs of the porcupine and whirled it around above his head, like a sling, or a lasso. Then he started walloping me right on the elbow with the porcupine. Fuck it hurt so bad! One time he missed and walloped me right on the side of my head. I have terrible side effects. I'm now blind in my right eye and am still pulling porcupine quills out from everywhere. Worst of all, it didn't even do a thing for my elbow. If anything it hurts even worse now. They really need to tighten things up at the FDA. I think it's totally bullshit that this procedure was ever approved.
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Com'on, just man up and get over it, just like Peacegirl and her Grandma.
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10-24-2016, 05:07 AM
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Can't do this anymore. You're all out the door!
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10-24-2016, 05:29 PM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Stop it guys, she has a point! You know, last week I went to my doctor because I have a pain in my elbow. My doctor said he wanted to try this new procedure called porcupine therapy. He tied a leather strap around the hind legs of the porcupine and whirled it around above his head, like a sling, or a lasso. Then he started walloping me right on the elbow with the porcupine. Fuck it hurt so bad! One time he missed and walloped me right on the side of my head. I have terrible side effects. I'm now blind in my right eye and am still pulling porcupine quills out from everywhere. Worst of all, it didn't even do a thing for my elbow. If anything it hurts even worse now. They really need to tighten things up at the FDA. I think it's totally bullshit that this procedure was ever approved.
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Too bad about that that consent form you signed, SR71.
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Well I'm not letting him give me any more porcupine therapy, I can tell you that much.
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10-24-2016, 06:08 PM
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I understand porcupine therapists really stick it to you, rather like acupuncturists, but more barbed in application.
Did you check the therapy against reviews at Cochrane Library?
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Can't do this anymore. You're all out the door!
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We're all still here, but you've said this before, and then came back. See you again soon.
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Stop it guys, she has a point! You know, last week I went to my doctor because I have a pain in my elbow. My doctor said he wanted to try this new procedure called porcupine therapy. He tied a leather strap around the hind legs of the porcupine and whirled it around above his head, like a sling, or a lasso. Then he started walloping me right on the elbow with the porcupine. Fuck it hurt so bad! One time he missed and walloped me right on the side of my head. I have terrible side effects. I'm now blind in my right eye and am still pulling porcupine quills out from everywhere. Worst of all, it didn't even do a thing for my elbow. If anything it hurts even worse now. They really need to tighten things up at the FDA. I think it's totally bullshit that this procedure was ever approved.
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Too bad about that that consent form you signed, SR71.
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Doesn't the consent form allow them to come and get you for more treatments?
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10-24-2016, 10:23 PM
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Doesn't the consent form allow them to come and get you for more treatments?
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Pretty much. If you were to read the fine print, I betcha the form SR71 signed authorizes the physician to enter SR71's home or workplace and porcupine-slap him at any time.
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Also, no legal recourse.
That really needles me.
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Stop it guys, she has a point! You know, last week I went to my doctor because I have a pain in my elbow. My doctor said he wanted to try this new procedure called porcupine therapy. He tied a leather strap around the hind legs of the porcupine and whirled it around above his head, like a sling, or a lasso. Then he started walloping me right on the elbow with the porcupine. Fuck it hurt so bad! One time he missed and walloped me right on the side of my head. I have terrible side effects. I'm now blind in my right eye and am still pulling porcupine quills out from everywhere. Worst of all, it didn't even do a thing for my elbow. If anything it hurts even worse now. They really need to tighten things up at the FDA. I think it's totally bullshit that this procedure was ever approved.
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Unbelievable!! Proof has been made part of an exposition in Canada that the conditions for efferent quilling are met when the porcupine is large enough and angry enough to be antagonized!
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10-25-2016, 12:45 AM
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That's true. A teenager named Dave long ago attended a science exposition in Canada and saw a sign in front of a pavilion that read, "Come inside and and let us prove scientifically that porcupines are efferent mammals.” From that day forward Dave became very much involved in porcupine therapy.
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Re: Iffy therapies given thumbs up by the FDA. SCARY! I'm
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Stop it guys, she has a point! You know, last week I went to my doctor because I have a pain in my elbow. My doctor said he wanted to try this new procedure called porcupine therapy. He tied a leather strap around the hind legs of the porcupine and whirled it around above his head, like a sling, or a lasso. Then he started walloping me right on the elbow with the porcupine. Fuck it hurt so bad! One time he missed and walloped me right on the side of my head. I have terrible side effects. I'm now blind in my right eye and am still pulling porcupine quills out from everywhere. Worst of all, it didn't even do a thing for my elbow. If anything it hurts even worse now. They really need to tighten things up at the FDA. I think it's totally bullshit that this procedure was ever approved.
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Unbelievable!! Proof has been made part of an exposition in Canada that the conditions for efferent quilling are met when the porcupine is large enough and angry enough to be antagonized!
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I don't think it was very efferent. Maybe he did it wrong. I didn't really want to look at the porcupine while he was prepping for the procedure. It was kind of freaking me out. Obviously, I wouldn't know, I'm not a doctor. I'm not going to say anything though. From what Matlock said, they can come get me and make me get the treatment again! I hope they just forget about me.
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I don't think it was very efferent.
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I'm not posting in this thread anymore. You guys are assholes.
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