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[brynndragon]

I suspect this is going to happen every time I post something even vaguely related to chinese philosophy or medicine, so I want to nip it in the bud right here. If you can't admit to yourself that maybe, just maybe, you don't have the cultural background to have a freakin' clue what the hell you're talking about when you say that traditional chinese medicine and/or philosophy is Bad(tm) because it's "unscientific", then please don't say a damn thing. There have been a lot of dinkum thinkums all over the world in all time periods and deciding that they were wrong just because they didn't/don't work with your favorite methodology is far more narrow-minded than I want to deal with in my journal. I'm sick and tired of normally intelligent people acting like "holier than thou" skeptics who worship at the altar of Science! without any more thought to their dogma than any other fundie in my LiveJournal, and I'm not going to tolerate any more of it. If you couldn't be arsed to say anything when I was trying to determine if I could reconcile TCM with my scientific background and can't get the fuck over yourself enough to say "Hey, maybe if this person who I like and is my friend thinks this thing has merit, maybe it actually does have some merit and I shouldn't just shoot it down out of hand" then you should rethink whether or not you ought to be here.

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[benndragon.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting here going "these two things that have do so much for health and well-being were thought up seperately by people a hell of a lot smarter than I am. There must be some way to put them together and get Voltron something even more powerful than they are seperately that can be used for the good of humanity!"

Yes, I secretly want to be a superhero. I'll settle for helping people feel better and inspiring/working with people who can make actual break-throughs (because cancer research is not where that's going to happen, I tell you what).