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Greyphantom · 25-03-2005, 10:56 AM

I am not so phased by it... sure I agree with some of the points made and believe that pharmaceutical companies are money grubbing whore mongering sons of motherless goats... but they do provide some benefit to mankind... if holistics were the biggest power in the field how long before the same mentality occurred there...??? Personally when someone starts ranting on at me about this kind of thing I switch off and walk away however if someone wishes to discuss these issues I am more than willing to listen but usually with a sense of healthy scepticism... I make my own choices and follow my lifes path... the article is too general...

"Chef I`m in the same boat as you mate,what with me being a Reiki master and healing others through universal energy etc just like you and everything should/could/can be intune with the cosmos,if they are trying to ban supplements then what next "alternative healing therapies" which more and more people are using because they are getting more from them than doctors & medication and not having to suffer any sides effects from drugs."

OSC the very field that is open to the most fakery and fraud is the one that you are in, as I am sure you are aware... sometimes people charge huge amounts for what amounts to arm waving.. they make incredible claims and offer some fantastic cures... I recently started practicing Taijiquan... a friend of mine had been trying to get me into it for years but I kept puting it off due to all the arm waving new agers going on about some pretty unbelieveable stuff... but for various reasons I started looking into it more and soon found the what Taiji was actually about, I then started training with a real teacher (well two of them) and found it to be a very scientific field (albeit very different from the western view on science)... there was no hocus pocus and certainly no mysticism and now I wish I had taken it up much earlier... but the scope is there for the rip-off merchants to abuse... and there are plenty... a perfect example is what happened in Australia in 2002/2003 with the alternative therapy companies...

I guess my point is no field is safe from charlatans and abuse and once money comes into the equation too many succomb to the human condition of greed... I have signed the petition against the banning of supps... stupid idea...

Hope this isnt too rambling... cheers..

25-03-2005, 10:56 AM	#8 (permalink)
Greyphantom Getting HUGE! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: London Posts: 1,869	I am not so phased by it... sure I agree with some of the points made and believe that pharmaceutical companies are money grubbing whore mongering sons of motherless goats... but they do provide some benefit to mankind... if holistics were the biggest power in the field how long before the same mentality occurred there...??? Personally when someone starts ranting on at me about this kind of thing I switch off and walk away however if someone wishes to discuss these issues I am more than willing to listen but usually with a sense of healthy scepticism... I make my own choices and follow my lifes path... the article is too general... "Chef I`m in the same boat as you mate,what with me being a Reiki master and healing others through universal energy etc just like you and everything should/could/can be intune with the cosmos,if they are trying to ban supplements then what next "alternative healing therapies" which more and more people are using because they are getting more from them than doctors & medication and not having to suffer any sides effects from drugs." OSC the very field that is open to the most fakery and fraud is the one that you are in, as I am sure you are aware... sometimes people charge huge amounts for what amounts to arm waving.. they make incredible claims and offer some fantastic cures... I recently started practicing Taijiquan... a friend of mine had been trying to get me into it for years but I kept puting it off due to all the arm waving new agers going on about some pretty unbelieveable stuff... but for various reasons I started looking into it more and soon found the what Taiji was actually about, I then started training with a real teacher (well two of them) and found it to be a very scientific field (albeit very different from the western view on science)... there was no hocus pocus and certainly no mysticism and now I wish I had taken it up much earlier... but the scope is there for the rip-off merchants to abuse... and there are plenty... a perfect example is what happened in Australia in 2002/2003 with the alternative therapy companies... I guess my point is no field is safe from charlatans and abuse and once money comes into the equation too many succomb to the human condition of greed... I have signed the petition against the banning of supps... stupid idea... Hope this isnt too rambling... cheers.. __________________ Greyphantom The Ghost who Grows!!!