9.24.2007

Carrot Juice, Sunbaths, and Bare Feet...

If Dr. Jerry Lee Hoover has it right, then I'd rather have cancer than the allergies that have been bothering me the last couple of weeks. I've seen the effects of cancer in my family and many of my friends' families. It's a spirit-breaking, heart-wrenching disease, and I don't mean to diminish it in any way. However, not only does Dr. Hoover make it sound fairly easy and plausible to beat cancer, but he makes it sound downright enjoyable. In fact, he promises that any cancer patient will begin to see the effects of his program within just two weeks.

On his website, www.cancernaturalcure.com, he explains that because 'God created us, he knows what is best for us to use when we are sick. God’s medicine is the herb of the field and not chemical drugs.' Evidently, instead of all the money that is spent on cancer research and treating cancer with drugs, chemotherapy, etc., we should be taking a quick trip to the produce section and hanging out in the back yard all day. Hoover's biggest piece of evidences are a 1979 study (28 years old...) that states about 75% of Americans that died (1.5 out of 2.1 Million) that year did so due to a diet-related disease and a follow up study of 200 people that underwent a "spontaneous remission of cancer". 87% of them had switched to a vegetarian diet. Therefore, the biggest factor in healing your body from cancer is eating healthy.

Under the Cancer Cure section of his website, he lists a few tips on how to fight cancer. Generally they follow the theme of eating healthy and purifying your immune system and bloodstream. "Cancer will not develop where there is a pure blood stream and the body’s immune system is functioning at its optimum." Eliminating high fat and high sugar foods, as well as in-between meal snacks, eating a 'totally raw diet', and drinking a glass of carrot juice daily, anyone is on their way to beating cancer. Beyond your diet, it is also important to reduce the stress in your life. The best ways to do this, according to Dr. Hoover, are to take daily sunbaths, getting fresh air by exercising outdoors, getting 7-8 hours of sleep per night, and spending 10 minutes a day outdoors with our bare feet on the soil.

Dr. Hoover's Testimony section has one feel-good story about a woman who was given less than a week to live. Once she was convinced into seeing Dr. Hoover, she was in little to no pain and walking over a mile every day. Her doctor was astounded at how she was able to turn around without any medication. For some odd reason this story is Dr. Hoover's only available testimony.
On another section of his website he offers a free e-book. In the book are chapters on how to cure AIDS, Anemia, Arthritis, Cancer, Diabetes, Headaches, High Blood Pressure, Osteoporosis, and others. Personally I'm hoping there is a cure for the hiccups. The fact that he offers all of this information free of charge to the general public is pretty remarkable. I would imagine with cures to all of these common maladies he'd be able to make quite a bit of money with this kind of information.

9.17.2007

Holocaust Hoax??

The Holocaust during WWII is certainly one of the greatest tragedies that comes to mind in the history of the world. As such, it has generally been taken for granted that all of the statistics involved are accurate, and anyone who would question them is certainly an anti-Semitic fool. The number 6,000,000 was drilled into my head by school books and school teachers for many years. I've never even considered that the Holocaust could possibly be a hoax. Certainly I've heard rumors about it, but I've never taken them seriously or researched the possibility at all. It would be equivalent to questioning the terrorists attacks of 9/11/01 (a la 'Loose Change').

As such, it surprised me to find such interesting and thought-provoking evidence on Dr. E. R. Fields' website (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/wasthere.htm). Obviously anyone can get something on the Internet, so it is important to analyze where you are getting your information from, and how credible it is, but Dr. Fields' website seems to pass most of the tests. First, he is registered on a .org domain. I don't know a lot about domain registration, but from what I can tell you generally need to be fairly legitimate to garner a .org domain. Additionally, he cites many legitimate publications such as The World Almanac, New York Times, International Red Cross, etc.

The most striking thing I saw on the website was the discrepency between dozens of documents and experts on how many Jews were living in the area, and how many Jews were put to death in concentration camps. At the end he listed two dozen sources that told of the Jews put to death during WWII that vary from 135,000 to 9,000,000. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, and I haven't done nearly enough research to make a certain claim on it, but I would lean closer to the 135,000 side than I would the 9,000,000. I don't think that the Holocaust was a hoax, but there isn't a lot of hardcore evidence to show the 6,000,000 supposed murders.

9.10.2007

Unidentified Flying Officers...

While I was searching around for some information on those who believe we aren't alone in this vast wasteland of a galaxy, I ran across quite a few interesting sites. My favorite is www.nationalufocenter.com. This website is evidently run by ex-U.S. Air Force pilot Ret. General George Filer. General Filer first began believing UFO's when he reportedly chased one around the skies of London while flying for our Air Force. I thought this was ironic after considering a very similar story that was part of the reading in 'Claiborne Pell, Senator from Outer Space'. Cecil B. Scott Jones, who was on Senator Pell's staff, began believing in UFO's while he was a Korean War fighter pilot. Those stories concern me because I have a friend currently abroad with the Air Force, and I'm beginning to fear he's going to return raving about Martians.

General Filer's site is maintained on a weekly basis, providing the most up-to-date information on UFO spottings worldwide. After flipping through for a few minutes, it seems to have been updated very religiously for at least the past year. Each week there is a new report on where the UFO's have been sighted and often times there are pictures of the reported spaceships. This week he lists nearly twenty U.S. states and five foreign countries as recent UFO sighting areas. It's strange to me how North America seems to be getting the bulk of the UFO's these days, as Canada, multiple U.S. states, and Mexico were all referenced as recent sites. I guess aliens can only speak English and Spanish, so they avoid Russia, Germany, etc.

Speaking of aliens, General Filer dedicates a section of his website to the extra-terrestrial beings. In it he provides an article written by another Air Force officer, Ret. Lt. Col. Donald Ware. His curiosity began at age sixteen when he saw seven flying saucers appear over the White House. While in the Air Force he met six additional people who claimed to have seen UFO's up close and personal. The more articles I read, the more it seems like your best chances of seeing an alien is to enlist in the armed forces. Or maybe the armed forces just addle your brains the minute you get to boot camp.

9.04.2007

This one time at band camp...

Alright, so it wasn't really at band camp. I never even went to band camp. Just this morning in my theology class my professor tried to hand one of our classmates a copy of the Qur'an, but he wouldn't take it from him with two hands. The professor grabbed his left wrist and extended his arm to try and hand him the holy book in his left hand, but the student wouldn't accept it. It turns out that part of the Muslim faith is that you don't hold the Qur'an with your left hand. I didn't really understand why, but evidently it is something impressed upon Muslims at a very young age. There are many seemingly silly rules in almost every religion that don't appear to have a real practical reason in today's world, but are still followed fervently by most of the religious of the world.

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