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Jul 27, 2010 5:04 PM CST Faith healing
bamabulldog08
bamabulldog08bamabulldog08tuscaloosa, Alabama USA24 Threads 972 Posts
Just want your opinions. I submit that the belief is lunacy. Its funny that many of the best known faith healers could not perform one healing under clinical conditions. Its also funny that a study was done on laying on of hands and such. It was found that not only did this not help but the mortality rate was higher for patients who were prayed over and such....
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Jul 27, 2010 5:07 PM CST Faith healing
bamabulldog08: Just want your opinions. I submit that the belief is lunacy. Its funny that many of the best known faith healers could not perform one healing under clinical conditions. Its also funny that a study was done on laying on of hands and such. It was found that not only did this not help but the mortality rate was higher for patients who were prayed over and such....
I know,if Benny Hinn tried to push me down,I'd slap the BeJesus outta him!rolling on the floor laughing
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Jul 27, 2010 5:10 PM CST Faith healing
bamabulldog08
bamabulldog08bamabulldog08tuscaloosa, Alabama USA24 Threads 972 Posts
Conrad73: I know,if Benny Hinn tried to push me down,I'd slap the BeJesus outta him!
I have no doubt you would, yet look at the number of people who flock to him. This is a great example of christian gullibility.....rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
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Jul 27, 2010 5:17 PM CST Faith healing
seosamh
seosamhseosamhBallina, Mayo Ireland5 Posts
In response to: Just want your opinions. I submit that the belief is lunacy. Its funny that many of the best known faith healers could not perform one healing under clinical conditions. Its also funny that a study was done on laying on of hands and such. It was found that not only did this not help but the mortality rate was higher for patients who were prayed over and such....


Its strange how it persists if it is as negative as you say. In my experience, I dont think its a good idea to discount things. Must be a mindset. Each to ones own. Of course there are charlatans. Id like to think there was something in it. confused
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Jul 27, 2010 5:19 PM CST Faith healing
afterbam
afterbamafterbamP.A., Pennsylvania USA18 Threads 2,006 Posts
always when my heart 's broken, faith fixes it...uh oh
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Jul 27, 2010 5:19 PM CST Faith healing
theoldestdear
theoldestdeartheoldestdearReading, Berkshire, England UK2 Threads 507 Posts
Conrad73: I know,if Benny Hinn tried to push me down,I'd slap the BeJesus outta him!


just dont employ histrionics, emotionalism and hysteria nor exaggeration, embroidery and myth making to resolve your differences as he may well win
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Jul 27, 2010 5:20 PM CST Faith healing
theoldestdear
theoldestdeartheoldestdearReading, Berkshire, England UK2 Threads 507 Posts
seosamh: Its strange how it persists if it is as negative as you say. In my experience, I dont think its a good idea to discount things. Must be a mindset. Each to ones own. Of course there are charlatans. Id like to think there was something in it.


that is what there all are
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Jul 27, 2010 5:20 PM CST Faith healing
bamabulldog08
bamabulldog08bamabulldog08tuscaloosa, Alabama USA24 Threads 972 Posts
seosamh: Its strange how it persists if it is as negative as you say. In my experience, I dont think its a good idea to discount things. Must be a mindset. Each to ones own. Of course there are charlatans. Id like to think there was something in it.
Foolish superstitions persist in the world as well. Are you saying you give them credence as well?
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Jul 27, 2010 5:22 PM CST Faith healing
bamabulldog08
bamabulldog08bamabulldog08tuscaloosa, Alabama USA24 Threads 972 Posts
afterbam: always when my heart 's broken, faith fixes it...
Well should your heart ever be physically broken I wouldn't turn to faith to heal it!!!!
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Jul 27, 2010 5:24 PM CST Faith healing
seosamh
seosamhseosamhBallina, Mayo Ireland5 Posts
Well I cant say, as I havent been to any of them let alone all of them. I ll accept whatever proves itself to me. But there again I could be wrong
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Jul 27, 2010 5:26 PM CST Faith healing
theoldestdear: just dont employ histrionics, emotionalism and hysteria nor exaggeration, embroidery and myth making to resolve your differences as he may well win
Kick in the right place and an Uppercut!laugh
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Jul 27, 2010 5:27 PM CST Faith healing
seosamh
seosamhseosamhBallina, Mayo Ireland5 Posts
bamabulldog08: Foolish superstitions persist in the world as well. Are you saying you give them credence as well?


I dont give credence to anything that I havent experienced. I keep my mind as open as I can. I am only human after all.
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Jul 27, 2010 5:27 PM CST Faith healing
bamabulldog08
bamabulldog08bamabulldog08tuscaloosa, Alabama USA24 Threads 972 Posts
seosamh: Well I cant say, as I havent been to any of them let alone all of them. I ll accept whatever proves itself to me. But there again I could be wrong
Personally I require evidence, repeatable, verifiable and falsifiable...
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Jul 27, 2010 5:29 PM CST Faith healing
Boban1
Boban1Boban1bigplace, Central Serbia Serbia144 Threads 5 Polls 18,789 Posts
bamabulldog08: Just want your opinions. I submit that the belief is lunacy. Its funny that many of the best known faith healers could not perform one healing under clinical conditions. Its also funny that a study was done on laying on of hands and such. It was found that not only did this not help but the mortality rate was higher for patients who were prayed over and such....


they are less bad as the pharmaceutical industry grin
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Jul 27, 2010 5:29 PM CST Faith healing
seosamh: Well I cant say, as I havent been to any of them let alone all of them. I ll accept whatever proves itself to me. But there again I could be wrong



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Jul 27, 2010 5:32 PM CST Faith healing
theoldestdear
theoldestdeartheoldestdearReading, Berkshire, England UK2 Threads 507 Posts
afterbam: always when my heart 's broken, faith fixes it...


“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.”
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Jul 27, 2010 5:38 PM CST Faith healing
afterbam
afterbamafterbamP.A., Pennsylvania USA18 Threads 2,006 Posts
theoldestdear: “A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.”


heart beating

help
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Jul 27, 2010 5:38 PM CST Faith healing
seosamh
seosamhseosamhBallina, Mayo Ireland5 Posts
Conrad73: http://www.randi.org/jr/


Its a bit like the quantum. Now you see it, now you dont. Some people are still stuck in Newtonian physics and cant quite allow their egos to step outside for a moment.
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Jul 27, 2010 5:40 PM CST Faith healing
seosamh
seosamhseosamhBallina, Mayo Ireland5 Posts
afterbam: always when my heart 's broken, faith fixes it...


Im going to move on from here, because I agree with you x
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Jul 27, 2010 5:40 PM CST Faith healing
afterbam
afterbamafterbamP.A., Pennsylvania USA18 Threads 2,006 Posts
bamabulldog08: Well should your heart ever be physically broken I wouldn't turn to faith to heal it!!!!


spiritually...broken heart
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