Faith Healing Discussion w/ James Randi 2/5
BackJREF DVD #148 Show: People Are Talking with Host Tom Bergeron discusses Faith Healing with James Randi. Randi's book "The Faith Healers" shows how fake all these healers really are. Many people put their lives in these Faith Healers hands and Randi discusses how dangerous this kind of thinking is. A Radio show host who claims to be a healer is also a guest and debate with Randi.
Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: April 9, 2008 at 9:04 am
Author: JamesRandiFoundation
Length: 0:10:02
Rating: 5.00
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Video Comments:
LaoDecmius (Monday 24th of November 2008 11:51:03 AM)
This guy is scared shit of Randi, lol
mariokartin (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 06:03:06 PM)
Homesexuality is an illness? When was this video?
bobd007 (Saturday 15th of November 2008 02:37:09 PM)
Homosexuality was classified as a mental illness until political pressure in the 1970's changed the diagnosis.
Homosexuality is a mental disorder triggered by early childhood development abnormalities/poor parenting/molestation, etc.
There is no "gay gene", there may be a predilection towards homosexuality, but it needs the proper psych. triggers to manifest itself.
Similarly, you may have a predilection towards violence/murder, it doesn't mean you will ever act on them without the triggers.
mariokartin (Monday 17th of November 2008 04:45:35 PM)
You are speaking as though Homosexuality is a bad thing... "poor parenting, abnormalities, etc". I know several gay people who have had great parents and perfectly normal childhoods.
freethink15 (Sunday 23rd of November 2008 08:54:15 PM)
homosexuality have been proven to biological. you are born liking men... just google it.
bobd007 (Monday 24th of November 2008 09:10:33 AM)
You have no idea what you're talking about, what you said is factually incorrect.
There is no proof that anyone is born gay, there is tons of proof about the causation of homosexuality and thousands have converted back to hetero.
Just because the media doesn't report it doesn't mean it's true, if what you said was true the activists and the media would be screaming they have the science to prove it they don't.
I don't care what people do in their bedrooms, it's a shame that they suppress info.
laserofjustice (Sunday 21st of September 2008 09:11:28 AM)
At least he admits he's a hypnotist in this clip- probably as James Randi would eat him alive if he didn't!
laserofjustice (Sunday 21st of September 2008 09:10:40 AM)
Indeed- though i don't know if he charges stacks of money for people to become brainwashed and lose their friends and familly.. There is a nugget of truth in that many illnesses are made worse with stress. Though, homosexuality isn't an illness and is also found in the animal kingdom.
kev3d (Sunday 21st of September 2008 01:06:26 PM)
True, a positive outlook is usually a good thing, though it wont always help, depending on the illness. But suggesting positive thinking is one thing, suggesting some form of transcendental supernatural "healing force" is not only unsupported by science, it can be harmful if such advice is taken over real medicine and therapy. This is what really torques me about the "Secret" cult, spouting their (non)"Law of Attraction" when no such law, as it is described, exists in nature.
laserofjustice (Sunday 21st of September 2008 01:14:59 PM)
I agree totally. There is no supernatural healing force, there is evidence of the benefits of relaxation techniques such as you'd learn in yoga (I don't hold with the religious aspect of it myself, but found the physical and mental exercises useful).
Medical science has taken decades of research, trial and error, whereas most "healing force" beliefs are based on blind faith and rigid superstition. I can see the appeal of the fantasy of "healing force" but I need empirical evidence.