[A New Age fundie for a change]
Manek, 70, advocates staring at the sun only near sunrise and sunset. Start with just 10 seconds, he says, and add 10 seconds each time. He says sun gazing suppresses hunger and has allowed him to go more than a year without eating solid foods.
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Is there a difference? ;-)
One of my Wiccan friends likes pronounce "New Age" to rhyme with "sewage".
(From what I'm told, Wiccans generally view New Agers as poseurs, but are often too polite to say so. My friend... isn't polite. :-) )
The only thing he's going to do is blind himself. And while a year of drinking soup might get boring, it's certainly feasible.
Still, he's harmless enough, not like the fire and brimstone Bible bashers.
Hmm, but couldn't anyone go a year without solid food? Would be boring but you'd survive if you had the right kinds of non-solid food. And when you don't fill upp your stomach it will gradually shrink, making you less hungry.
Still, he's harmless enough, not like the fire and brimstone Bible bashers.
For now, perhaps, but continuous exposure to a world that doesn't support them causes most delusions, perversely, to grow and increase in complexity in order to oppose the ever increasing evidence against them, and the delusional person's perception of this conflict often leads them to eventually become violently defensive.
Ah yes, Breatharians, people who believe they can exist on Prana globules.
Fuckin' nutcases, the lot of 'em.
It's also interesting how, paradoxically, such ludicrous new-age type aspirations to transcend things like solid food only arise in places where there's no shortage of the stuff and no harm in eating it. Why doesn't the ability to survive without solid food evolve in places where it would actually be useful, like famine-struck third world countries where there is no damn solid food to go round?
I refused to believe these clowns existed. Now I met a New-Ager who thinks that neutrinos from the sun expand our earth. The same guy talked to me in the first place because he wanted me to evaluate a conecpt for a perpetuum mobile of the first kind.
Klaus: No, it only blinds you if your mind is not in the Proper Meditative State to absorb the light...
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In his favor, light is heavily refracted and diffuse at sunrise and sunset owing to the greater distance it has to travel through the atmosphere, reducing the amount of damage done.
Ah yes. Breatharians. They exist and are batshit crazy. Look them up.
All your life energy can be derived from the sun without those pesky photosynthetic intermediaries.
This particular guy is of course a total fraud who wants your money...
Manek has discovered that he can photosynthesize!
Either that, or it's the Bahubali experience all over again.
I figure grass will block the feet from taking root. Protip: Stand in a mud puddle.
Worshipping the sun... hmm....
Sounds like this guy is just like every other religious person worshipping the sun, but at least he doesn't give it silly names like "God", or "Jesus", or "Krishna", or "Allah" like the rest of them do.
Batshit insane, perhaps, although I hear he's actually managed to do this. Not a fundie, however. I don't see him being intolerant of anyone or pushing his religion on others, at least not in this quote.
Staring at the sun is only bad if you do it through a telescope.
As wicked awesome as human photosynthesis would be... well, no. And the "solid foods" assertion is dubious. All you need to do is put your salad in a blender, and it's not longer a solid food.
I'm surprised he isn't blind already.
Dave
Yes. That's exactly it. A "bunch of new age cocksuckers" are voting it down. You nailed it.
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