Posted by Gabbix2 on December 31, 2005, at 23:11:13
In reply to Re: Astrology » alexandra_k, posted by Larry Hoover on December 31, 2005, at 20:28:42
> > have you heard about administering placebos and telling people it is asprin / morphene?
> > placebo affect is very strong for True Believers...
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> True Believers in what, exactly? I'm a born skeptic, but I make a concerted effort not to prejudge anything. And I mean that. Anything.
>Indeed you are a skeptic, and it's a a very apparent aspect of your personality I'd say.
I think it's odd that people discount this sort of thing out of hand.
I mean.. we're here were alive on a rock in space, isn't that weird enough? Does that really make any logical "sense"?
I find it hard to imagine just about anything else in this realm to be any more fantastical, or illogical than than the fact that we exist at all.>
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