Tong Ren - Hitting Voodoo Dolls with a Hammer
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Just when you think you've seen it all... A Massachusetts acupuncturist, Tom Tam, has invented a new treatment method he calls Tong Ren, claiming to cure terminal cancer and other serious illnesses by hitting dolls with a hammer. The dolls are plastic acupuncture figurines inscribed with acupuncture meridians and points.
The hammering supposedly focuses "intent" on the proper acupuncture points on an energetic equivalent of the patient's body and harnesses universal consciousness for healing.
Battlefield Acupuncture
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Instead of getting narcotics for pain relief, wounded soldiers are being stuck in the ear with little needles.
Polterheist
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I'm guessing it's that second part. Even dumber, when the family returned to their home, they found the would-be robber suffering dehydration (more on that on The Star Online). Or maybe he was already on the brink of it when he robbed the house, which is why he thought it was haunted. Beats me.
Of course, we hear ghost stories all the time. As I (and lots of others, of course) have long been saying, there is no credible evidence of ghosts. None. Zip. Like with UFOs, if you want to convince me of this, I want real evidence. Not a blurry photo, or video of a spider crawling on a surveillance camera. Evidence.
Encouraging, But...
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When the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) issues a "Class 1 recall" of a device, service, or medication being offered the public, that's serious. It means that they believe the item has a reasonable probability that it will cause "adverse health consequences or death."
Now, I don't think it took concentrated investigative powers of perception for the Administration to determine that anything called a "Vibrational Integrated Bio-photonic Energizer" - made by manufacturer VIBE Technologies of Greeley, Colorado, or the "HLX8" device made by Nebion of Los Angeles, California, might not perform as advertised. The VIBE device is sold to treat cancer, infections, and depression, while the HLX8 claims to treat: cancer - breast, bone, lung, and pancreatic, carpel tunnel syndrome, migraine, premenstrual syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, shingles, sports injuries, sprains, and ruptured discs - an obviously wider range of ailments. Recalls were issued on both company's products.
Happy Day!
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Fortunately, Utah "Prophet" Leland Freeborn has predicted that President-elect Obama will be prevented from taking his seat in the Oval Office due to a disaster. I say "fortunately," because this is as dependable as one of Sylvia Browne's predictions, though I see that she's now charging her followers a fee to know how wrong she is. Mr. Freeborn is known as the "Parowan Prophet," and he's read 2 Peter 2:13 - that's a book in the Bible - that warns the naïve, apparently, about "riots." I fail to see where riots in response to Obama's election come in, but Leland seems to. These riots, according to him, will encourage the remnants of the "old, hard-line Soviet guard" to fire nukes on the USA, taking out about a hundred million of us, which has to get our attention. The verse reads, in the King James version:
[These natural brute beasts] shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you.
Umm, okay, but no cigar. Maybe the "New Revised Standard Version" of this book makes more sense?
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