Energy sucking sect vampires
There are a some things that manage to draw all
energy from me in the blink of an eye. For example, accidently skipping to a
page with people proclaiming UrKost as only right way. Not that they did it, but
how, with what arguments. To make it short, the page was about raw food
("Rohkost") and "Veganer" style being the only right way, and being the original
way as lived by the ancestors. Well, they only lived 30 years max. so how good
did it do themselves?
[Excuse the laxness of my explanations and comments, it's just like talking to a wall talking arguing about their point and I currently lack the energy to attack this topic with my usual "bite". I often have situations or subjects that I want to mention but then I feel mentally too tired to do so. But here's this, I pushed myself and managed to write it down.]
[Excuse the laxness of my explanations and comments, it's just like talking to a wall talking arguing about their point and I currently lack the energy to attack this topic with my usual "bite". I often have situations or subjects that I want to mention but then I feel mentally too tired to do so. But here's this, I pushed myself and managed to write it down.]
Don't get me wrong, I'm not generally criticizing
the preference of living vegetarian, although I am critical towards being vegan
as long as it's not necessary because of food intolerances. But if you go to the
main page of the "Bund für Gesundheit". which sounds as if it actually was
an official site, you get to read a very long badgering speech about the badness
of classical medicine (Schulmedizin). You don't have to study medicine to feel
offended by their style, their examples and their arguments. It's hair
raising!
It's much like a sect - and I know this because my ex-boyfriend had plenty experience with a very popular french "raw food sect", but that's a different story - and for me, to read how they proclaim you could use this particular diet to conquer nearly everything that doesn't involve strong physical damage, like diabetes and hernias, is exhausting to read and every purposely misleading written example drained my spirit. Because while reading I could see how people who can't think too good by themselves, get drawn into believing these constructs. Actually I feel to weak to write, but I thought I must mention it.
Just to give you two samples that stuck with me: if you have a hernia you can cure yourself with muscle power and forget the operations. Which you can't, as the ruptured connective tissue (fascia) is maybe supported, but the breach is not healed by muscle training. Trick here: they say if you're not able to work on yourself, you should seek a doctor. Cave! They try to make you feel bad and claim, only the people who are unable to follow the "good spirit" should seek out a doctor. Unspoken and between the lines lies the message that, if you follow what they call "nature's plan" you will have no need to seek out a doctor.
They also claim that bad eating habits of the parents cause their genes to be bad and thus causing karies and cross teeth in children. And they say that doctors preferably operate on healthy persons without reason, because then the healing results would look fantastic to justify more operations.
You see? I just can't tolerate this, it makes me feel awful because it's a big heap of shite. Worst thing: Mostly it's written cleverly, so you don't find the misfit the first time you read it and it sounds plausible. And many people read it and believe in it, because they don't know better or can't detect the faults in argumentation. There was small group of philosophers (sophists? dunno now, sorry) in ancient greek who would create wonderful discussions of their opinions which would be logical in itself, but you could guess there was something foul, without easily pointing out the fault. It's all about the good rhetorics, you know, and about introducing small logical errors that divert and make the whole construction plausible - in itself only! Think of Escher's optical illusions. Same thing. Just better visible.
Sects are a dangerous issue, and there are more or less harmless ones out there. Many things have sect character, and it takes some thinking ability to be "untouchable". Although no one is really immune, and even really clever people can be manipulated to believe in wrong things (know some via friends), by finding their week spot and making it the starting point from where the clear thoughts can be diverted and directed into sect-conform views. But mostly these find their way out at some point, when the discrepancies collect and get more. I won't call this site a sect site, merely a forum with sect like tendencies/ mentality, but I know there is at least one french sect and one german sect with "UrKost/Rohkost" as main topic.
I'll stop here with a quote of this terrible site:
" Vielleicht bekam es auch zu viel Zuckerzeug, Eis oder Limonade und verlor daher seine Milchzähne zu früh oder erhielt schlechte Erbanlagen von seinen sich mit viel Weißbrot und Weichkost ernährenden Eltern." from: http://www.bfgev.de/dggk/4/9.html
It's much like a sect - and I know this because my ex-boyfriend had plenty experience with a very popular french "raw food sect", but that's a different story - and for me, to read how they proclaim you could use this particular diet to conquer nearly everything that doesn't involve strong physical damage, like diabetes and hernias, is exhausting to read and every purposely misleading written example drained my spirit. Because while reading I could see how people who can't think too good by themselves, get drawn into believing these constructs. Actually I feel to weak to write, but I thought I must mention it.
Just to give you two samples that stuck with me: if you have a hernia you can cure yourself with muscle power and forget the operations. Which you can't, as the ruptured connective tissue (fascia) is maybe supported, but the breach is not healed by muscle training. Trick here: they say if you're not able to work on yourself, you should seek a doctor. Cave! They try to make you feel bad and claim, only the people who are unable to follow the "good spirit" should seek out a doctor. Unspoken and between the lines lies the message that, if you follow what they call "nature's plan" you will have no need to seek out a doctor.
They also claim that bad eating habits of the parents cause their genes to be bad and thus causing karies and cross teeth in children. And they say that doctors preferably operate on healthy persons without reason, because then the healing results would look fantastic to justify more operations.
You see? I just can't tolerate this, it makes me feel awful because it's a big heap of shite. Worst thing: Mostly it's written cleverly, so you don't find the misfit the first time you read it and it sounds plausible. And many people read it and believe in it, because they don't know better or can't detect the faults in argumentation. There was small group of philosophers (sophists? dunno now, sorry) in ancient greek who would create wonderful discussions of their opinions which would be logical in itself, but you could guess there was something foul, without easily pointing out the fault. It's all about the good rhetorics, you know, and about introducing small logical errors that divert and make the whole construction plausible - in itself only! Think of Escher's optical illusions. Same thing. Just better visible.
Sects are a dangerous issue, and there are more or less harmless ones out there. Many things have sect character, and it takes some thinking ability to be "untouchable". Although no one is really immune, and even really clever people can be manipulated to believe in wrong things (know some via friends), by finding their week spot and making it the starting point from where the clear thoughts can be diverted and directed into sect-conform views. But mostly these find their way out at some point, when the discrepancies collect and get more. I won't call this site a sect site, merely a forum with sect like tendencies/ mentality, but I know there is at least one french sect and one german sect with "UrKost/Rohkost" as main topic.
I'll stop here with a quote of this terrible site:
" Vielleicht bekam es auch zu viel Zuckerzeug, Eis oder Limonade und verlor daher seine Milchzähne zu früh oder erhielt schlechte Erbanlagen von seinen sich mit viel Weißbrot und Weichkost ernährenden Eltern." from: http://www.bfgev.de/dggk/4/9.html
Posted: Di - April 27, 2004 at 08:29 Uhr
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