SpaceGazelle wrote:Yep, the placebo effect is powerful.adkm1979 wrote:That won't work unless you believe their praying will help.
Just reposting this so it doesn't get lost at the bottom of the page, I think it is telling.GooberTheHat wrote:Although seriously, I do wear a St George when deployed, simply for my wife's sake. She gave it to me "to keep me safe" and the thought of how she would react if anything happened to me and she found out I wasn't wearing it, well I would rather just wear it.
Evidently not, if we take the earlier assertion to be true. One is a more rational belief than the other, and the religious person has two positives to focus on rather than just one.GooberTheHat wrote:But what if I just believed that the surgeon is really good and he/she won't fuck it up? Just as good a placebo surely?SpaceGazelle wrote:Yep, the placebo effect is powerful.adkm1979 wrote:That won't work unless you believe their praying will help.
equinox_code wrote:I used to be terrified of dying when i was younger. I recall the time dad bluntly explained to me how it worked. "what are those" "gravestones" "what are they for?" "when people die we put them underground. one day that will happen to mum" I cried for a fucking long time. I can still remember the sound of my mum flipping out over my dad's delivery.
GooberTheHat wrote:Just reposting this so it doesn't get lost at the bottom of the page, I think it is telling.GooberTheHat wrote:Although seriously, I do wear a St George when deployed, simply for my wife's sake. She gave it to me "to keep me safe" and the though of how she would react if anything happened to me and she found out I wasn't wearing it, well I would rather just wear it.
Evidently how? Where are the stats to say who believed the surgeon was competent or not?adkm1979 wrote:Evidently not, if we take the earlier assertion to be true. One is a more rational belief than the other, and the religious person has two positives to focus on rather than just one.But what if I just believed that the surgeon is really good and he/she won't fuck it up? Just as good a placebo surely?Yep, the placebo effect is powerful.That won't work unless you believe their praying will help.
SpaceGazelle wrote:You should. I read it twice anyway.GooberTheHat wrote:Just reposting this so it doesn't get lost at the bottom of the page, I think it is telling.GooberTheHat wrote:Although seriously, I do wear a St George when deployed, simply for my wife's sake. She gave it to me "to keep me safe" and the though of how she would react if anything happened to me and she found out I wasn't wearing it, well I would rather just wear it.
igorgetmeabrain wrote:Hmm. I wonder how that might play out as he gets older.
GooberTheHat wrote:I think it has something to say about our fear of death, about what we leave behind as opposed to what happens to us.SpaceGazelle wrote:You should. I read it twice anyway.GooberTheHat wrote:Just reposting this so it doesn't get lost at the bottom of the page, I think it is telling.GooberTheHat wrote:Although seriously, I do wear a St George when deployed, simply for my wife's sake. She gave it to me "to keep me safe" and the though of how she would react if anything happened to me and she found out I wasn't wearing it, well I would rather just wear it.
equinox_code wrote:The only thing that really upsets me when i think about dying is how my mum would react.
SpaceGazelle wrote:You'd hope she would be dead.equinox_code wrote:The only thing that really upsets me when i think about dying is how my mum would react.
regmcfly wrote:I appreciate SG's no nonsense approach to it. It's not as if it hasn't happened before.
revelthedog wrote:I'm not afraid of dying. I never have been. I've wondered in a drug induced haze if the world that i occupy will simply blink out of existence.
Brooks wrote:Prospect of missing out on future cool things because death is a tad irritating.
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