‘Breatharian’ couple survives on ‘the universe’s energy’ instead of food
I do not even know where to begin to analyze if this is true, fake, mystic or what. I know there are a lot of things I do not understand about how the universe works, but this just seems so off the track as to be something one would think would be a scientific goldmine. The claims are a bit off the wall, but I do not want to be closed minded to new data.
The idea that a biological being can maintain life solely on the "energy of the universe" or some other such bullshit is precisely as absurd as my claiming I can fit 4,000 pounds of Detroit iron into my nasal passages.
Taking such claims seriously in the name of an open mind is no different than having an "open mind" towards any faith healers, miracle mongers, psychics, purveyors of the paranormal, and run of the mill mystics and supernaturalists.
If some "breatharian" making vague claims about "energy from the universe" preventing him from starving, or any other such mental cases, want to be taken seriously then let them submit their practices to objective observation and experiment, if they can find anyone willing to waste the time -- instead of publicizing fantasies to the gullible and the credulous drawn to mystery. Meanwhile, any publicizing of these absurdities as something to be taken seriously wastes everyone's time other than for "here is another example of a hoax being circulated".
The original post in this thread was a serious question. For an Ayn Rand forum, the importance is the principle at stake: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ope...
He who has an "open mind" quickly has it filled with garbage. Objectivity rejects the arbitrary as cognitively worthless, and rejects arbitrary variations on what you already know to be false and worthless as worse. An objective person has an active mind, not a mind open to anything.
As for "breatharians" it doesn't take much to find the history, including "breatharians" who have starved themselves to death: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/201...
"In any case, people have died trying to follow Breatharian belief systems. Just Google “Breatharian” and “starve” and it won’t take you long to find examples, including people in Switzerland, Australia, and Scotland, among others. Castello and her husband might be looking just fine and appearing healthy, but real people starve themselves to death in pursuit of the supposed spiritual and health benefits of existing on 'prana'...
"Breatharianism would be very easy to prove. All a Breatharian would have to do would be to submit to 24 hour observation for however many days it would take scientists to be convinced that they were thriving without food and water. Given that human beings can only survive around a week without water and start to show signs of dehydration after only a day or two, it wouldn’t necessarily have to be that long a period of time. If the claim is that the Breatharian can exist on water alone, the time would have to be extended to weeks, but the principle remains the same. No such successful test has ever been carried out
"This all brings us back to newspapers that credulously print such utter bollocks, to borrow a term from my British friends, given that it was a UK tabloid that appears to have originated this story. We lament the problem of 'fake news' now, and it is a problem. However, it is not a new problem. I remember like this about Breatharians thriving without food coming to my attention periodically every so often since my days on Usenet, which means going back nearly 20 years. The only difference is that now such stories can travel faster than ever, thanks to social media. I know to some extent why tabloids print pseudoscientific misinformation like this: clicks and eyeballs. That doesn’t make it any less irresponsible. At least 25 years ago, Weekly World News was so obviously fake that few people who read it weren’t in on the joke. As for Bretharianism, like spoon bending, it’s utterly ridiculous but never seems to disappear."
https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/neverw...
The Wright comments are interesting, in that Wilbur thought it would be 50 years before their first flight.
"That [Einstein] may occasionally have missed the mark in his speculations, as for example with his hypothesis of lightquanta, ought not be held too much against him, for it impossible to introduce new ideas, even in the exact sciences, without taking risk." [quoted in Wheaton, The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave-Particle Dualism]
Einstein was award the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics for his 1905 discovery of quantized light in the photoelectric effect.
There are a lot of fictional and false scenes, exaggerations, and propaganda in that series. They never did show what it was like to be dedicated and working hard on the problems he explored, only a crazy guy running around shouting and flapping his arms.
I just let the universe do the rest.
I'm amazed at how few people realize that the tenderest, tastiest steak is the rib. The rib eye or Delmonico steak puts all the others to shame. Your choice is eating at its finest. So, according to Breatherians, we don't need vitamins. They must have a special connection with the universe or are pretty good slight of hand artists. The only time I got plugged into the universe was an Ojibway sweat lodge which convinced me that I was a Peregrine falcon.
In the past I have purchased Copper River Salmon when in season I recently priced it between. $ 25-$29..95 lb . I passed on it and found raw shrimp deveined 21-25 count for $7.99lb and bought 3 lbs worth. That is a good price for Minnesota!
Your menu sounds very good, too!
Except warmer and safer.
I can imagine how much fun that would have been:)
Food favorites include shrimp, cod , walleye ,corned beef, beef brisket , grass fed ground beef, Ham and most all pork, salad with avocado and pea pods
Pea or lentil soup from the ham bone, Chilli, Spaghetti, Dark meat from poultry....... I am hungry!
In the Carlos Casteneda
Books "tales of power" or "A Separate Reality" on an apprentice to the Yaqui Indian Don Juan (a shaman) they would turn into crows and fly. In their peyote ingested mind they did at least.
I could have gotten cornier with a response which said I got a real good falcon out of it.
You keep chickens? You must be very rural.
1 duck.
2 Chickens.
3 squawking geese.
4 pair of Don Alverzo's tweezers.
5 corpulent porpoises.
6 brass monkey from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt.
7 thousand Macedonians in full battle array.
8 peripatetic, diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity toward procrastination and sloth.
9 dark denizens of the deep, who haul, stall, and fall, around the quo, of the quay, of the quivvy.
If you are only serious about the posts as a contributor or a reader -- SORRY.
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I am sure you know this but for clarification an example of the collectivist socialist starvation for the "greater good". This is the philosophy of altruism at its worst and it is what the deep state and their eugenic attitude is capable of. The term Holodomor refers specifically to the brutal artificial famine imposed by Stalin's regime on Soviet Ukraine and primarily ethnically Ukrainian areas in the Northern Caucasus in 1932-33. ... The Soviet Union is formed with Ukraine becoming one of the republics. ... Between 1932-1934.
PS...listening to something interesting...way off subject here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQ0c...
Talks about Enoch.
Catch ya later...
Hmmm , do you have a name of the show?
I love to learn about them but the narrator stated the pyramids were built to house the dead Pharos and I find that speculation lacking any evidence.
Science channel. Perhaps.
Now I am a steak and potato Texan that manages a restaurant- so don't get this twisted. Fasting is the last thing I plan to do voluntarily. But many religions in the world- Christianity included- talk about the benefits of fasting and reducing their dependence on food. I can believe the benefit of it in small doses. I can believe some folks make a lifestyle of it. The idea that food is unnecessary for life for long periods of time... yeah, don't know about that. I prefer to just be thankful when I get to sink my teeth into a juicy ribeye- and meditate on how good it tastes to me.
My vote - is that it's a scientifically accurate article from The Onion...
I would expect that people in this forum would be the least likely of all to fall prey to this sort of charlatanism.
There's really no other way to say it than: There is no magic.
Maybe people are at least a little tired of politics (one can always hope) and are casting about for the next sensational story.
http://www.snopes.com/breatharians/
Thanks, I needed that.
Long story short, after interviewing a few so-called 'breatharians' -- the subjects admitted to having enjoyed a bag of cheeseburgers on occasion. I interpreted it as a sort of human interest piece of fluff.
As others have chimed in, the very notion of surviving on the universe's energy is pure BS.
What's refreshing too is the Gulch culture where people are willing to entertain and consider outrageous new ideas, neither believing naively nor summarily rejecting.
Just think, the NAZIs may have invented this 70 years ago, Auschwitz wasn't torture and starvation, they were introducing the world to a healthier lifestyle!
Between California and Ecuador? Would that be Mexico? Guatemala? Costa Rica? I have an enquiring mind. I want to know.