‘Breatharian’ couple survives on ‘the universe’s energy’ instead of food

Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 4 months ago to Science
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I do not even know where to begin to analyze if this is true, fake, mystic or what. I know there are a lot of things I do not understand about how the universe works, but this just seems so off the track as to be something one would think would be a scientific goldmine. The claims are a bit off the wall, but I do not want to be closed minded to new data.


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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    DOBRIEN
    I'm amazed at how few people realize that the tenderest, tastiest steak is the rib. The rib eye or Delmonico steak puts all the others to shame. Your choice is eating at its finest. So, according to Breatherians, we don't need vitamins. They must have a special connection with the universe or are pretty good slight of hand artists. The only time I got plugged into the universe was an Ojibway sweat lodge which convinced me that I was a Peregrine falcon.
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  • Posted by Animal 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Would you require someone to objectively observe and report that I can't put a 1959 Coupe DeVille Cadillac up my nose? Or would you dismiss it as a ridiculous notion?

    The idea that a biological being can maintain life solely on the "energy of the universe" or some other such bullshit is precisely as absurd as my claiming I can fit 4,000 pounds of Detroit iron into my nasal passages.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 4 months ago
    In one experiment in food deprivation, several people were kept starved with no food for three days. On the 4th day, they were willing to kill for one slice of bread.
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  • Posted by dansail 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People with faith are primed to believe this story while people without faith are primed to flatly deny this story. It would be good to have facts about who OBJECTIVELY watched and recorded their input, but even then with hard facts will those denying the story accept their findings?
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me too. Got cut off last night so I'll rewatch tonight...right now I have to clean off the driveway and deck...leaves and seeds all over the place, can't even walk around and more thunderstorms on the way.
    Catch ya later...
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well...you may have some insight there...maybe they are living off BS! You can run pigs behind cattle if you feed the cattle grain. The pigs eat the BS and thrive!
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 8 years, 4 months ago
    It tried to be a Breatharian about 50 years ago but found out later I was just stone out of my gourd..
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In order for this to happen you would have to go outside not only the laws of biology but of Physics. If you have a 120 pound woman and she gives birth to a baby and placenta with a combined weight of say 12 pounds.....that additional mass had to come from somewhere!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As for subjecting kiddies to BS, I do not for the life of me believe that a human fetus can develop into a healthy baby and be successfully born with only oxygen and an occasional fruit snack for nutrition.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 8 years, 4 months ago
    Well, they do both teach -"breatharianism" - so there is the PR element. Realistically, if not active, about 1200 calories a day could sustain someone, that soup broth and the juices might be a little more hardy than they admit.

    Just think, the NAZIs may have invented this 70 years ago, Auschwitz wasn't torture and starvation, they were introducing the world to a healthier lifestyle!
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 8 years, 4 months ago
    "Castello, 34, who lives between California and Ecuador with her husband..."

    Between California and Ecuador? Would that be Mexico? Guatemala? Costa Rica? I have an enquiring mind. I want to know.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 4 months ago
    Lying Pinheads. Thank goodness the kiddies aren't subjected to this BS. ....although truth be told....these people aren't either because they are shysters and are selling their plan to the ignorant and foolish. I suspect the kids are how they explain going to the grocery store.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 8 years, 4 months ago
    Come on. There really is no way to analyze this, beyond the fact that somebody is lying. Either they 1) really are eating or 2) they really aren't eating, and the article is just pretending that they are still alive.

    I would expect that people in this forum would be the least likely of all to fall prey to this sort of charlatanism.

    There's really no other way to say it than: There is no magic.
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 4 months ago
    don't let Bezos know about this, he'll buy all the universes energy.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The evil unclean watchers. 9:36 of video to 9:44 shows images of a purse like tool in the hands of these watchers from Sumarian Stella. It is the same purse depicted at Gobekli Tepe 7000 years earlier. Would love to know what it is and does.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi OUC,
    I am sure you know this but for clarification an example of the collectivist socialist starvation for the "greater good". This is the philosophy of altruism at its worst and it is what the deep state and their eugenic attitude is capable of. The term Holodomor refers specifically to the brutal artificial famine imposed by Stalin's regime on Soviet Ukraine and primarily ethnically Ukrainian areas in the Northern Caucasus in 1932-33. ... The Soviet Union is formed with Ukraine becoming one of the republics. ... Between 1932-1934.
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