what if believing stuff that's really controversial is good for your immune system
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tbc the mechanism i have in mind is just that believing controversial stuff is fun and having fun is good for your immune system
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it's an interesting alternative medicine confounder 🤔 potentially almost all of the benefit of alternative medicine is that it is more fun than western medicine and this could be good and important actually
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going to a hospital? negative fun
learning about herbs and feeling like a witch? extremely fun
food for thought
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tricky bit is that having fun is good for your immune system but having fun *for the immune benefits* probably makes it a bit less fun; you're sort of co-opting the fun into an anxiety loop about your health
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shoulda added this bit earlier
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there is also something about controversial beliefs that make you feel powerful vs. powerless maybe
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heh i feel the opposite for me, the times i've been to the hospital where the high points of my childhood
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whoa really? what was fun about it?
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this seems like a good example of fun as being in resonant relations with the world rather than mute and sterile ones
being hospitalized is an archetype of passive sterility while gathering herbs is an archetype of fragrant vivid resonance