Text 18630, 72 rader
Skriven 2007-08-06 22:04:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MANNY ROTHSTEIN
Ärende: Re: Carnivore Sex
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-=> Quoting Manny Rothstein to Jim Weller <=-

 MR> If you are expecting rationality from "ethical" vegans, you are
 MR> barking up the wrong tree.

I have encountered a group even nuttier:

Breatharianism is a concept in which believers claim food and
possibly water are not necessary and that humans can be sustained
solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism) or by the energy
in sunlight.

Breatharians have seldom submitted themselves to medical testing,
so currently there is no evidence to support their claims.

Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve) was probably the most famous advocate
of Breatharianism during the 1990s. She claimed "I can go for months
and months without having anything at all other than a cup of tea.
My body runs on a different kind of nourishment."  Several
interviewers found her house full of food, but she claimed the food
was for her husband. In 1999, she volunteered to be monitored
closely by Australian TV show Sixty Minutes for one week without
eating to demonstrate her methods. Greve claimed that she failed
because on the first day of the test she had been confined in a
hotel room near a busy road, saying that the stress and pollution
kept her from getting the nutrients she needed from the air. "I
asked for fresh air. Seventy percent of my nutrients come from fresh
air. I couldn't even breathe" she said. On the third day the test
moved to a mountainside retreat where she could get plenty of fresh
air and live happily. After Greve had fasted for four days, Dr.
Berris Wink, president of the Queensland branch of the Australian
Medical Association, urged her to stop the test. According to the
doctor, Greve's pupils were dilated, her speech was slow, she was
"quite dehydrated". Towards the end of the test, he said, "Her pulse
was about double what it was when she started. The risk if she went
any further was kidney failure."

Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in
2000 ("presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece
of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle"). She also won the
2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for Living on Light.

Jasmuheen claims that their beliefs are based on the writings and
"more recent channelled material" of the Count of St Germain.  She
claims that her DNA has expanded from 2 to 12 strands, to "absorb
more hydrogen". When offered $30,000 to prove her claim with a blood
test, she said that she didn't understand the relevance.

Wiley Brooks is a purported breatharian, and founder of the
Breatharian Institute of America. Wiley claims he has been a
breatharian for 30 years, 20 of those years giving seminars on the
topic. Wiley has stopped teaching in recent years, so he can "devote
100% of his time on solving the problem as to why he needed to eat
some type of food to keep his physical body alive and allow his
light body to manifest completely." This comes after much
controversy over the years. In 1983 he was allegedly spotted leaving
a Santa Cruz 7-Eleven with a Slurpee, hot dog and Twinkies. He
told Colors magazine in 2003 that he periodically breaks his fasting
with a Big Mac and Coke, explaining that when he's surrounded by
junk culture and foods, consuming them adds balance.

[extracted from Wikipedia}


Cheers

YK Jim


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