This is a tough subject for me. I had a good friend that "did everything right" when she had cancer. Healthy diet, exercise, mindset, meditation... Then somehow a doctor was able to convince her to try a "new and improved" and "natural" chemo treatment. I believe that treatment killed her. She seemed to be invincible...
"prayer may be helpful but there are too many unknown variables to feasibly make a randomized clinical trial about it. Which seems like a valid point. But do we have to know why something works in order to appreciate that it can work sometimes? Faith is a leap of faith that may be difficult for skeptics to take"
As one who knows a bit about skepsis - https://cheapthoughts.substack.com/p/what-exactly-is-skepticism - I can report that faith and skepsis are NOT mutually exclusive. In fact, a true skeptic should respond to the challenge of the "leap of faith" by LEAPING - if only to see what happens. Personal experience is the gold standard for all inquiry. As for my own personal experience of faith? I have no need for it, since I have personal experience of the Transcendent.
This is a tough subject for me. I had a good friend that "did everything right" when she had cancer. Healthy diet, exercise, mindset, meditation... Then somehow a doctor was able to convince her to try a "new and improved" and "natural" chemo treatment. I believe that treatment killed her. She seemed to be invincible...
I'm so sorry, my condolences.
Thank you. It's been six years since we lost her.
"prayer may be helpful but there are too many unknown variables to feasibly make a randomized clinical trial about it. Which seems like a valid point. But do we have to know why something works in order to appreciate that it can work sometimes? Faith is a leap of faith that may be difficult for skeptics to take"
As one who knows a bit about skepsis - https://cheapthoughts.substack.com/p/what-exactly-is-skepticism - I can report that faith and skepsis are NOT mutually exclusive. In fact, a true skeptic should respond to the challenge of the "leap of faith" by LEAPING - if only to see what happens. Personal experience is the gold standard for all inquiry. As for my own personal experience of faith? I have no need for it, since I have personal experience of the Transcendent.
Agree, No need to have 'faith' in that which is omnipresent.
Thank you!
Very welcome!
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052504/pdf/ECAM2014-236310.pdf
Thanks, very interesting review of mistletoe use against cancer!