Scammers taking Advantage of Freedom Fighters
This is what I am seeing now very frequently. Freedom minded people get disillusioned with the Government and the Corporate Establishment, and then they think that everything that opposes that is Legitimate.
This is the biggest illusion and stupidity that people can believe, and this happens every single time. When 1 boat sinks, people jump into the other boat which is also leaky.
Scammers are constantly taking advantage of people, and what better way there is to scam people than to sympathize with them and offer a "solution" to their problem.
So just because the Government is horrible and Corporations are corrupt, that doesn't mean that everything 180 degree opposite to it is the truth and the solution. In fact most of the time it isn't.
It takes a lot of wisdom, intelligence and knowledge to find the real truth, and separate the needle from the bullshit.
Ponzi Scheme
Are you tired of paying in 20-30% into your Social Security ponzi scheme, where you probably take out 50% of what you paid in due to "austerity measures" and go into retirement at 70?
Don't worry because these scammers are the solution:
You can just go there and double your Bitcoins, or lose them forever. It's your choice. I mean it's totally not a scam, they have even a HTTPS certificate and a chatbox, so it must be legit, right? What could possibly indicate that that is a scam? Well it probably is, very high probability!
I mean there are scammers everywhere, crawling out from under every rock, scammers in Government, scammers in private sector.
So don't be a gullible fucking idiot, if you are then it's your loss, but don't be, because it's really irritating to see people taking advantage of a just cause, a righteous movement.
Bitcoin was supposedly to liberate people from financial opression, yet it looks more like a ponzi scheme funding platform, not to mention the tons of scammers from forums and even the international corporate ponzi schemes where those people can't even be arrested since they entrench themselves in 3rd world countries bribing all the politicians there basically and running their international ponzi from there.
Medical Scams
You know there are a lot of scams in the medical establishment. The fluoride in the water. Mercury in vaccines. The Swine/Bird flu scams, they were all scams.
So I can totally understand that people are fed up with the medical establishment, rightfully so. So what is the alternative?
Well people are now falling for the other side of the scam, going into faith healing, and homeopathic quackery.
Really? I mean what the hell do you think that is? It doesn't work for once, and they ask money for it. So by definition it's a scam.
There have been no conclusive proofs whatsoever about the effectiveness of these "medications", I mean anyone can just test this, take a sample of 50-100 people test out those "products" on them and see how many people get better.
This is more like a "gambler's fallacy" than anything else, you know how in the casinos they show you the top 10 winners, but forget to show you the other 9999990 losers. The numbers speak for themselves, it's a fucking scam.
A casino doesn't advertise itself as "making you rich", but these quackery medicine salesmen do promise you to "get healthy", so that is 100% fraudulent and very very dangerous to health.
I mean if you suffer from a serious illness, I really don't know what to do? Perhaps find a real doctor with a proven track record, maybe it would cost you a lot, but there is no other way. Or ask the top 5 doctors in your region about their medical advice, and make up your own mind based on their advice + backed by real scientific data. Read some scientific/biological journals and things like that.
And then you would be at least informed, extract the good information from the disinformation, there are ways to do that. But to just fall for "1 pill that will make your dreams come true" types of scams is just really childish.
You can't be that stupid to fall for anything that overmarket's itself and underdelivers, but it has a cult-like userbase that will defend it with their lives. That is irrational insanity.
Conclusion
So I have a lot of respect for people who have exited "the matrix", but please don't fall into other scams. Skepticism is the key. Don't be a gullible idiot, do your own research, learn a lot, don't fall for "too good to be true" things and be vigilant.
Sometimes I am even skeptical about cryptocurrencies, I mean making 1000-2000% profits here might sound "too good to be true", it is true, but is it supposed to be this good? I don't know.
So staying vigilant and rational is imperative. Otherwise people will never escape the lies, they will just fall into another pitfall.
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Great post! Keep it up!!
I agree that many scammers are around to play their trocks on all of us. Sometimes it is hard to identify the scam though. Some are quite obvious, some are not. Also, it is sometimes hard be skeptic all the time, it doesnt give me positive energy, maybe it gived me just the opposite. So, yes, always question whatever is presenter to you, but I sometimes also close my eye a little. For instance, is crypto a scam? Is maybe even Steemit a scam? I dont ask myself that, I close my eyes so to speak. Sometimes that is better and easier.
Yes what I mean is healthy skepticism, not extreme one. Like not every single thing is a scam, you can believe that usually people are good. It's only certain times that they are bad, and in certain conditions, especially involving money.
I don't think cryptocurrencies are scams, they have unlocked an entirely new way of viewing money, it's an innovation undoubtedly. Steemit is also not a scam, since it does have massive amounts of network value, and I hope they will rollout new improvements later on, but it has plenty of room to grow.
Asking for money for something that sounds too good to be true is a good sign of a scam. Nigerian princes want nothing to do with you. lol
At least I get something for steemit posts unlike YT that just hides your dissenting comments when you log out. If I make 50 bucks on steemit, I will get it in ones and throw it in the air and swim in it. lol
Plus they could share your information with advertisers or governments. At least here you sell your data for money, and you only sell as much as you want.
Yeah, I'm really enjoying steeming. So much better.
Wasn't sure what homeopathy was so I googled it...wow...that is dumb. lol
ho·me·op·a·thy
ˌhōmēˈäpəTHē
noun
the treatment of disease by minute doses of natural substances that in a healthy person would produce symptoms of disease.
Ummm....no thanks. lol
It's a huge scam industry, they run ads in radios and low watchcount TV channels to fool gullible old people.
It's essentially based on the placeboo effect, and they always have plausible deniability because the healing is always based on their BS + the client's faith. So when the client goes complaining to his consumer protection, they will just say that he didn't had enough faith, and get away with it.
After my initial shock of the sheer insanity of the definition alone, my second thought was placebo too. I always wondered if there is a way to magnify the placebo effect as a way to do some real healing--of course without scamming people out of their money.
Faith works wonders and its free too--at least if is suppose to be.
Well the placeboo could be a real thing by itself. I mean most ilnesses could be caused by stress for example, like high blood pressure and things like that. So if people believe they get better then stress could be lowered ,so some ilnesses could go away this way. That is how I would explain placeboo.
But like regrowing an amputated arm with homeopathy is just ludicrious. So for serious problems, there is no solution in faith.
But technology can fix that with high tech prosthetics and things like that/
The placebo effect is actually pretty amazing and complex. Research has supported the theory that it isn't necessarily all psychological--though nearly every system in the body is regulated and controlled by the brain. There are measurable physical effects in some cases.
There is also a nocebo effect were patients experience real side effects from a sugar pill just as if they took the real thing after being warned of the side effects.
In the past doctors would sometimes prescribe a placebo when they really insist on getting something because it would be more harmful to them if they didn't. The medication is called 'obecalp' which is placebo spelled backwards. lol
There are major ethical concerns in even trying to research it though. The AMA has a policy that they have to tell the patient that it is a placebo and that ruins the effect. Beyond that, there is a genetic component as well. Half of the world is completely non-responsive to placebos. Placebo effects are also usually short-term and not useful for chronic illness .
I do think there is something more profound going on like maybe the old cliche of mind over matter. Who knows, you might actually be able to regrow an arm if you could actually convince yourself 110% that it would work, but convincing yourself that way is nearly impossible. I can't prove it, but it is interesting anyway. lol
Yes but that would require like 100% control over your body which you don't have. Like you dont control your heartbeat, breathin, digesting and such....
So the human body is pretty "sandboxed", just like how in a computer the OS doesn't have control over the low level firmware of the processor, and things like that.
It's definitely not easy, but there have been monks that could actually stop their heart momentarily supposedly. They regularly slow it down through meditation though.
Even low level firmware can be hacked and manipulated. Like overflowing the right buffer with the right data and you can pretty much do as you please.
The brain's plasticity means there really is no 'hard wiring' that can't change just by thinking. In some ways it is easier than hacking firmware code. You can literally remove half your brain and the half that is left will take over all the functions of the half that was removed automatically in a few weeks. They will be essentially back to normal within say a year or so. We haven't scratched the surface yet of the wonders of the brain.
I don't know if this is entirely relevant, but check out this optical illusion on YT:
Before you do it, pause the video and look at the image at 4:50.
This illusion will affect you for months after you do it once FYI. It is no joke, it worked on me. lol
Even I have doubts occasionally about crypto.. 😕We just can't tell how things will be after 5 or 10 years. As you say We have to be vijilant and rational
A lot of people are continuing doing homeopathy, and the practice goes a long way back. These are not technical arguments, but two major points that will tell you that you are way over the line in being bombastic about it.
It might actually be that you are taking the bait yourself in this case.
Yes my friend, the likeliness of it even rises as I see the emotional lauguage you are using.
Have some trust in people. Homeopathy has both people investing their career on it, and regular customers. And satisfied customers.
Now here comes the reality that you didn't take into account:
The pharmasutical industri is one of the strongest industries in the world in three cruicial fields; turnover (money power), lobbyist (corruption power) and regulations (violence power over compeditors).
When you look at the combination of turnover and regulations this leads to having the power to define what documentation is. Yes, nothing less. So when you are referring to homeopathy "never been documented", you are acctually using the pharmacutical industry's defnition by it and condemning a compediting industry. You are by that biting right on the bait of a industry you yourself has indentified as fraudsters in your own post. Now, who is being fooled? :)
Let me take on the technical part. It's really not complicated at all, you just have to get your head around it so to speak.
The pharmacutical industry is highly regulated. Poor pharmacutical industry has to prove extensively that their products work to be able to hit the market. Well, thats exactly what they want. As they are the ony industry in the health market able to pay for this kind of insanely expensive documentation because of the simple fact that they are the only industry that has patented substanses . With the patent at hand they are able to overprice the product so it can pay for the documentation (AND the lobbyists, and maybe even some studies to shitmark compediting, undocumented, better solutions than what they have to offer). (Because if you really have the best product and solution, then why do you need to lobby the government for advantages over other solutions?)
Such studys are really expensive and technically not possible to pay for in conjuction with treatments not patentable. You have to bare in mind the insane amounts of money in the phamasutical industry.
So, homeopathy will probably never be "documented" in pharmacutical term, frauster terms. But does it work? Let that be up to the customers to decide. Nobody is forcing anybody, and the homeopaths don't offer no cure - no pay. Means, there is a possibility that it wont do the trick for you.