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this ritual likely had a real effect on the person (similar to placebo effect). They probably wouldn't have kept it up for 12k years if they weren't getting som
by mritchie712 2y ago
this ritual likely had a real effect on the person (similar to placebo effect). They probably wouldn't have kept it up for 12k years if they weren't getting some tangible improvement.
- xdennis 2y agoMultiple religions are thousands of years old and they can't all be true.
- llamaimperative 2y agoPlacebo effect absolutely can yield effects for all religions. That's pretty much what's interesting about it: it doesn't matter much what stimulus is producing the effect.
- adrianN 2y agoThey don't have to be true to have an effect on people.
- tgv 2y agoI think it argues against the claim that it must have had a (real) healing effect for it to be passed along. People are quick to call in the placebo effect, as a scientific sounding explanation, but is nobody reminded of faith healing? People get up out of wheel chairs, cast away their crutches and say they've been healed.
- krapp 2y ago>but is nobody reminded of faith healing? People get up out of wheel chairs, cast away their crutches and say they've been healed. That's just common fakery.
- greenhearth 2y agoIt doesn't sound like anything pure religious, but more of a psychotherapeutic technique, probably coupled with some folk medicine too.