It's getting personal with this one....... this has been brewing for a while.
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Agreed. It's an effect whether it's predicated on illusion/distortion or not.
It's absurd how many expensive "treatments" exist that do nothing placebo doesn't do, but are touted as "scientific" in some way while placebo is not.
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As to the former point, you'd have to be crazy as most people understand it to feasibly have any knowledge of that. And then, who would believe you?
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Honestly I lean towards a solipsistic view of reality, sorry ;) 'Receiving' transmission, like any phenomenal activity is entirely subjective & of the nature of pure appearance, no other, only Self. So in all cases call it what u will. On this basis is any sensory input placebo?
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(Was this one meant for me?)
All I was saying is that people would denounce any attempt at telling them a truth that disagrees with their experience, so stuff like energy transmissions will remain off the mainstream unless something BIG happens.
I have no ontological position.
Just talking to the group generally, I lose the thread sometimes. :)
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Yeah, well, hopefully someone else has more interesting opinions than me.
I only categorically refuse to believe what I'm told, and doubt most of the things I "believe" about reality as well, so I rarely bring much to the table when it strays into this territory. :P
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I also don't believe placebo is very important to the discussion - just that it gets unfair treatment compared with far less robust (but more scientistic, in the dogmatic sense) concepts, which I think was roughly Monica's point as well.
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