Well, I'm not a religious person, but it is well-known that the power of the mind can do wonderful things.
Also, traditional, big pharmaceutical holding, medicine isn't all that great... I've worked with a few pharmaceutical companies over the years, and the more open minded of my clients would always tell me that most medicines sort of fix something at the expense of something else.
Having said that, it's a but silly not to look at all the options.
Well. As a sick person battling leukemia and lupus, I've seen a lot of praying for healing coming my way. My parents (my dad was Muslim now converted to Christianity) they pray without ceasing and I can tell you that they may say prayer heals but thus far although it makes me feel loved when someone says "they're praying" for me, when I know they say it to fill a void of silence or to make their presence known because so many post it on FB; prayer has not worked for me.
Neither has holistic diets and so many other things that people are always telling me to try.
I believe in something. And I know that whatever put us here also gave men knowledge to treat diseases with medicine. Thus far the chemo drug I must be on for the rest of my life (been on chemo for 3.5 years straight no breaks now) is the only thing that's keeping me alive and the stuff actually has worked! I was dying when I started it and I was told I wouldn't live to meet my newborn baby. From labor my heart stopped due to severe heart failure with an eject fraction less than 10%, subsequently landing me in the ICU where I died twice again, causing me to not meet my newborn baby until he was 4 months old. I was told I wouldn't make it until my doctors found that lupus had invaded my heart and several other organs, causing me to not be viable even for heart transplant. Do you know how scary that is?. Medicine however has worked for me more than any prayer would and that's because of the one reason. Medicine and the knowledge of many doctors that saved my life as a whole and me trying my damnedest to get better as well. A lot of work but because I knew I had to do something to survive instead of relying on faith. I have faith in the doctors that saved my life. I saw them every day trying to keep me alive.
The premise that only prayer heals is ridiculous and I hope that no one takes offense by this.
What Val is doing to himself is deliberately digging his own grave.
Do you know how many people in that religion has diedbecUse of this?, let Wikipedia do the talking;
"In particular, adherents subscribe to a radical form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion.This includes the view that disease is a mental error rather than physical disorder, and that the sick should be treated not by medicine, but by a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health... Between the 1880s and 1990s the avoidance of medical treatment led to the deaths of several adherents and their children. Parents and others were prosecuted for, and in a few cases convicted of, manslaughter or neglect."
Sadly in this case Val is practically screwed. He won't seek treatment, much like many say Travolta did with his autistic kid that died a few years ago. The Church of Scientology actually prevented John from providing proper care for his autistic and epileptic child leading that to open a door for multiple array of issues that ended the kids life, and the Scientologist community actually frowned upon Travolta for even saying anything to the public about his own son because they considered it shameful for their community.
Much like him there's many other that believe that not prayer will heal but in the Scientology foundation, training under certain study courses or getting shocked with some thingy supposedly is what makes you "better" yet my question to them is, a religion founded by a SciFi author, wouldn't that alone be enough for it to tell you to stay away?
Again. Sorry for going off topic. I guess as someone battling illness everyday I take it personally, and makes me feel discouraged for people that have the means for proper treatment to perhaps have better quality of life yet they choose to look the other way because they're hoping for a miracle to give when come on. That's what science and medicine is for!
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