Photoshop!

As far as news and "utter bollocks" yes, they do indeed print "tripe". Remember the other tabloids on the checkout counters, There was the one that always seemed to have the "alien in a closet" and the other had every celebrity dysfunction, divorce, affair or hidden crime you could imagine. I think the alien one is still there, I seem to remember a horrible picture of Hillary on it claiming she was on her deathbed, too bad, really.

I agree, to the poit you can apply "well known" data to a occurance, however, again I raise the Wright Brothers as an example of how science and knowledge of specific things (in this case how birds fly) brought about the "scientifically impossible". Based on all our discussion here, it is pretty certain no definitive research has been done, and they cannot produce anything more than anecdotal statements. Based on your lexicon, the phrase I would use would be "active mind" as that as what I was aiming at, using the colloquial term.

It was the same channel, they did Angkor Wat right after the Gobeki Tepe one.

I suppose bare chested everyone in a sweat lodge, we had members of the Shasta tribe next to us that built theirs every summer...didin;'t ever partake..but he was a shaman and came to do the chasing evil spirit ceremony, that didn't work either...

Hmmm...bare chested witches...better than what you ran into on the East Coast..

Yes they did, that was when peyote became a mainstrem drug in the 60's and 70's....

Just a joke...:) I have chickens, they moult every couple of years, look like crap when they do...

Sorry, I'm busy at 5PM; I'm meeting Elvis, JFK and the Arcturian Ambassador to the 3rd Galactic Empire for supper and beers.

It's in the bloody Sun (and reprinted in the New York Post) for crying out loud. These people don't even exist. Talk about fake news -- this is as fake as it can get!

It was originally published in the Sun. The Post apparently can't even bother to invent this stuff themselves.

Yes, but you can't possibly go weeks without at least water, yet breatharians claim they can!

I just got a call from the Sun newspaper reporter who wrote about the breatharian couple. Are you available around 5 PM to do an interview and pics? She seems to think that your ability to fit 4,000 pounds of Detroit iron into your nasal passages is too good a story not to print in next weekend's edition of the paper.

I'll just tell them that I have a claim on "the universe's energy" and now they have to pay me for it or else they are stealing my property.

I have often said if I could break the habit of eating it would be a tremendous financial benefit. I tried it once when my truck was buried by a landslide and it took three days to dig it out and return to civilization. With no food in the truck and my efforts directed toward freeing the truck instead of searching for food (did find one snake and ate it) I was very glad for the first opportunity to purchase food and begin my life of consumption again. Living off the energy of the universe had left me depleted, fainting and weak after difficult digging and rigging to free my truck and return to 'civilization' and food. I don't believe for a moment that they have devised a method for not introducing nutrients and energy into their bodies. There is no organism no matter how large or small that does not require sustenance. Failing to meet these needs results in the shut down of the organism and its eventual demise. Before I even consider believing this fantastic claim I would want to be in charge of observing and controlling their intake.

Nope. No Bernadette, no deal.

Does that work for purple, too?

Talk about fake news. Here it is.

Many of the faux explanations come from simpletons...they might be great at finding and carefully digging these sites but when it comes to integrated thinking...well, don't hold your breath.

Only if a very young Bernadette Peters is riding around in it.

What if the Cadillac is pink?

The original post said "I do not want to be closed minded to new data." What data? It is well known that if you don't eat or drink you starve to death, and it is well understood why. This "breatharian" hoax has been resurfacing in tabloids for years.

Taking such claims seriously in the name of an open mind is no different than having an "open mind" towards any faith healers, miracle mongers, psychics, purveyors of the paranormal, and run of the mill mystics and supernaturalists.

If some "breatharian" making vague claims about "energy from the universe" preventing him from starving, or any other such mental cases, want to be taken seriously then let them submit their practices to objective observation and experiment, if they can find anyone willing to waste the time -- instead of publicizing fantasies to the gullible and the credulous drawn to mystery. Meanwhile, any publicizing of these absurdities as something to be taken seriously wastes everyone's time other than for "here is another example of a hoax being circulated".

The original post in this thread was a serious question. For an Ayn Rand forum, the importance is the principle at stake: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ope...

He who has an "open mind" quickly has it filled with garbage. Objectivity rejects the arbitrary as cognitively worthless, and rejects arbitrary variations on what you already know to be false and worthless as worse. An objective person has an active mind, not a mind open to anything.

As for "breatharians" it doesn't take much to find the history, including "breatharians" who have starved themselves to death: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/201...

"In any case, people have died trying to follow Breatharian belief systems. Just Google “Breatharian” and “starve” and it won’t take you long to find examples, including people in Switzerland, Australia, and Scotland, among others. Castello and her husband might be looking just fine and appearing healthy, but real people starve themselves to death in pursuit of the supposed spiritual and health benefits of existing on 'prana'...

"Breatharianism would be very easy to prove. All a Breatharian would have to do would be to submit to 24 hour observation for however many days it would take scientists to be convinced that they were thriving without food and water. Given that human beings can only survive around a week without water and start to show signs of dehydration after only a day or two, it wouldn’t necessarily have to be that long a period of time. If the claim is that the Breatharian can exist on water alone, the time would have to be extended to weeks, but the principle remains the same. No such successful test has ever been carried out

"This all brings us back to newspapers that credulously print such utter bollocks, to borrow a term from my British friends, given that it was a UK tabloid that appears to have originated this story. We lament the problem of 'fake news' now, and it is a problem. However, it is not a new problem. I remember like this about Breatharians thriving without food coming to my attention periodically every so often since my days on Usenet, which means going back nearly 20 years. The only difference is that now such stories can travel faster than ever, thanks to social media. I know to some extent why tabloids print pseudoscientific misinformation like this: clicks and eyeballs. That doesn’t make it any less irresponsible. At least 25 years ago, Weekly World News was so obviously fake that few people who read it weren’t in on the joke. As for Bretharianism, like spoon bending, it’s utterly ridiculous but never seems to disappear."

I guess northern natives prefer just raising your temperature ttopeyote.It was quite an experience. The women, called "Wind Witches" were all bare chested and breathed rapidly making a "Hoo - hoo - hoo" sound. It was very creepy . My friend and co-worker at the time was a Native American and fellow named Harry Hill who was an expert with a device called a "Whoopee Stick." Tell you more anon.

You might laugh, but I guess it was a form of hypnosis. The first thing I remember when awakening was being thousands of feet high and spotting a small animal in a park and tucking my wings in and diving. I don't know if Peregrines moult.

What politicians do is feed people BS. Especially Jekyll and Hyde RINOs