Comments on: The power of cynicism http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/ "We're all naked underneath" Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: baino http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-235 baino Fri, 11 May 2007 07:05:39 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-235 :) I have absolutely no comeback. So I'm going home to do a rain dance. :) I have absolutely no comeback. So I’m going home to do a rain dance.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-234 Grandad Fri, 11 May 2007 06:48:05 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-234 Baino - See if there is an Australian Hydrologists Society. I'd say their members would be very boring? Baino – See if there is an Australian Hydrologists Society. I’d say their members would be very boring?

]]> By: baino http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-233 baino Fri, 11 May 2007 01:59:03 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-233 I have a massage therapist and a physio as friends. They're at opposite ends of the 'healing' spectrum but an aromatherapy massage helps me sleep better . . . a sports massage just hurts. Who cares if it's in the mind . . . if it can help prevent you becoming a Medicare number and being swallowed by the system - just do it! Grandad can you come to my homestead please, I need you to find the right place for a water bore. I have a massage therapist and a physio as friends. They’re at opposite ends of the ‘healing’ spectrum but an aromatherapy massage helps me sleep better . . . a sports massage just hurts. Who cares if it’s in the mind . . . if it can help prevent you becoming a Medicare number and being swallowed by the system – just do it!

Grandad can you come to my homestead please, I need you to find the right place for a water bore.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-232 Grandad Thu, 10 May 2007 17:11:38 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-232 Dario. I have a background in the physical sciences. I know about gravity, radiation, electromagnetism and all that stuff. There is no way on earth that water divining can work. It is all a load of crap. <em>Yet how does it work for me?</em> I can find buried pipes and the like without any foreknowledge of their existence. I can prove this by digging down to establish that they are there. There is no placebo effect at work here. One one hand I know it cannot work, as there is no logic or science behind it. On the other hand, I know it works, because I have proved it. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Dario. I have a background in the physical sciences. I know about gravity, radiation, electromagnetism and all that stuff. There is no way on earth that water divining can work. It is all a load of crap.

Yet how does it work for me? I can find buried pipes and the like without any foreknowledge of their existence. I can prove this by digging down to establish that they are there. There is no placebo effect at work here.

One one hand I know it cannot work, as there is no logic or science behind it. On the other hand, I know it works, because I have proved it.

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

]]> By: Dario Sanchez http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-231 Dario Sanchez Thu, 10 May 2007 16:14:36 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/2007/05/10/the-power-of-cynicism/#comment-231 Given the grounding in biochemistry I got this year, I think that homeopathy is all a placebo effect. And my sister went to a psychic, and nothing she predicted for me came true. Reiki may be slightly more believable. Anyway, it's your life, if you give up something just because people laugh at you, by that logic, I would have given up on life many moons ago. Given the grounding in biochemistry I got this year, I think that homeopathy is all a placebo effect.

And my sister went to a psychic, and nothing she predicted for me came true. Reiki may be slightly more believable.

Anyway, it’s your life, if you give up something just because people laugh at you, by that logic, I would have given up on life many moons ago.

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