Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch

What do you think about this? Scientologist were flown down to Haiti to heal people with touch. We all know how stories can tell half truths so who knows if they are really doing any good. Look like they are just annoying everyone else who feels their jobs are more serious and probably look at them as a joke or in the way.. I probably would to, not that I don't think we can't heal with our hands though..

www.breitbart.com...

Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology "volunteer ministers", claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems. Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince's General Hospital.

Absolutely ridiculous. Look I believe a lot of things many people may shake their heads at but the human race is NOT at the point of healing each other with their hands. Not saying it can't be done but not right now. It's stupid and silly. Why don't they PROVE it works in a controlled environment.

thiis is such a scam. you cant heal somebody by touching them. B.S.

reply to post by SuperSlovak


Well a hug can and does work wonders - but it ain't gonna do jack for crush injuries.

They are a bunch of idiots and I just hope they stay out of the way when the real work is getting done - or they could be worse than a nuisance and deserve touching in that special way that often makes front teeth fall out!

I read in another article that they are handing out antibiotic pills to any one with any wound, I'm no medic but I hope that is OK...

edit:

Does he know Scientology? "Yes, it's a French organization," he said.

Oh dear - I hope that does not mean he mistook the wack jobs for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (doctors without frontiers)

[edit on 24/1/2010 by Now_Then]

You can heal with your hands. But most likely not scientologists.
It's all about believing You can. And probably being spiritually attuned.

reply to post by SeeingBlue


Sure, that's all these people need. More delusions and visions of grandeur to add to the panic and mass disruption that exists in Haiti at the moment.

I wish religion would just stay the hell out of these areas, they are doing more harm than good. These people needs resutls, not hope or faith.

God or Xenu or Allah isn't going to get them medical attention, food, water or a place over their heads.

~Keeper

Originally posted by spaz490
You can heal with your hands. But most likely not scientologists.
It's all about believing You can. And probably being spiritually attuned.

I would argue the opposite.

It's not about believing YOU can heal someone else, but it might be about the the other person believing it can be done.

Power of thought/belief.

It's not about the one doing the act, but it is about the one receiving it.

IF it works...

WOW this is great, so we should see the real power soon?

No they will just say, the stars are not right and they have to many theanens to cure.

Sound like a good gig though? get some rich stupid to send you on vacation to the 3rd world to touch a lot of children, Hmm are you sure it's not NAMBLA?

Kind of makes you miss the days of Tom Cruise spouting off nonsense.


This is so ridiculous, I dont know where to begin.


Actually, I think Im not going to begin at all.

If people could be healed by touch.....

(wait for it)

Viagra would be out of business.

Not only that, but I have heard that if a woman kisses a frog, the frog will turn into a prince.

But seriously, if your being touched by a qualified surgeon, then sure.

Besides, what ever happened to the power of positive thinking?

And if touching is the cure all, were exactly is everyone being touched? And whose doing the touching, ET?

As a compliment to REAL medical procedures, sure.

Scientology; they tell you how to think. Then you pay them $300.00. I'll pass.

Originally posted by SeeingBlue
What do you think about this?

I think chicken bones would work better.

sniffs air around this "yup thats smells like bs" but if it makes them feel metally better jog on because these people are gonna need a lot of mental strenght to get through this disater

Look, I have no choice but to think you people are all quite wrong, and I don't think I'd feel any loss at all if you all ignored me.

My mother healed all six of her children with touch all her life.

Now perhaps it's a touch only a Mother can have, or perhaps it has something to do with white blood cells (or whatever is in them) or some other healing aspect of the human body (it does regenerate and heal itself) being triggered by the endorphins brought on by a mother's touch (or any warm caring, reassuring touch), or maybe it's something completely unrelated and barely understandable buy our severely detached "civilization", but it's undeniable fact in my life, that touch heals.

I don't know about these Scientologist's malarkey (I find it hard to subscribe to any religion really), but I certainly can not denounce something so connected to nature, and thus "natural", as utter impossibility. Digression: What exactly is the meaning of the word 'natural' in your opinions?

Since she died, I've haven't ever felt the same physically. Perhaps it's the lack of actual reassuring touch over our lifetimes that eventually wears us out physically. Or perhaps it's in completely denying our emotional existences that life eventually fades.

Because I'm "in tune" with what society is like today, I could, of course, tell you I know what a lot of you were thinking while reading this...I simply choose not to, as those thought process' seem completely contradictory in this context.

Pack me away in the ignore file, if you please, but I dare you not to.

EDIT: Structure and junk. and...

I know I hardly qualify to tell you this, and I'm sure it's not right for me to say, and I mean no disrespect, but almost every second of reading this thread, made me want to say "grow up" (like I'm completely in tune with natural happenstance or sompm...hyeah right). Is that...wrong?

[edit on 24-1-2010 by lagnar]

reply to post by spaz490


That has never been demonstrated to be true, so using it in the field is disgusting.

reply to post by lagnar


Got any evidence to support your claims? No? Weird! The world can not be expected to learn without evidence, especially in medicine. You'll have to try harder than that if you want people to listen to you.

reply to post by SeeingBlue


Are you saying Benny Hinn is now a Scientologist?

reply to post by davesidious

I couldn't care less if you believed me or not. I don't even know you, so why would I, right?

I'm not a target of name-calling, btw...wasted effort really. I'm fully convinced I'm in dire need of electroshock already, not that I deserve the luxury of being ten again. :/

Sometimes, and until we realize we're one as an interconnected species, in the most personal of experiences, proof can only come individually. If you've been denied that [so far] - which admittedly is the case in more and more lives in recent decades - I can only empathize within the position of having not been.

I am truly trying to be kind to those less fortunate, in my opinion, but inevitably, I am left with only pity.