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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Replying to @visakanv and @Modern_Meaning
there is also something about controversial beliefs that make you feel powerful vs. powerless maybe
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to synthesize: feeling like a witch is fun as long as you live in a society that doesn't burn witches
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witch is a great choice; in a lot of times in history a magician was someone who had access to secret knowledge the normies couldn't understand
societies need some basic level of openness otherwise yes, they will kill you for that sort of thing
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