/int/ - certified time wasters

>>12784
>it isn't a legitimate and bonafide medical degree that clears someone of practicing pseudoscience
No realyl, go ahead. Tell me where a comma is missing and how the meaning is changed, I insist.

>>12786
Minor typo, it's over.

>>12786
Well maybe not punctuation, but syntax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

>>12788
At least now it's grammatically correct. Interesting article though, can't really see how it's applicable to what I wrote but at least there's that. It's alright, I misread things too at times.

>>12785
A "Heilpraktiker" is some kind of voodoo doctor job that, legally, is "practicing healing methods who is not an approbated physician or psychotherapist" and the training is laughable because you don't need any kind of degree or medical experience whatsoever, so any bricklayer or meter maid can do it.
They also don't acquire any actual medical knowledge, but after passing the exam, you can prescribe drugs (though I think not narcotics) like a real physician.

ALL THAT ASIDE.

I think rotationplasty should be banned because it is an offense against god's design, and people with irreparable damage between the knee and the ankle should just get an amputation and use crutches like normal people, instead of turning themselves into mutilated freaks.

>>12791
They should be put down like horses. Stalin did the right thing when he had all the most hideous amputees removed from premises after the great patriotic war. Their sight did nothing but spoil victory for the population. Who wants to see a human maggot with no legs or arms crawl down the street on his way to work? It's disgusting and dispiriting.

>>12790
Why is Germany the powerhouse of medical quackery? A people that have this international reputation of being very pragmatic are actually mostly the worst stereotype of hippies. There was a house not far from where I lived where these 'yoga retreats' were held. In practice it was just home rental+spiritual guest in the form of a yokel who had really perfected this crafted image of being someone mystic and in touch with nature. He would sell liters upon liters of extremely expensive tiny essential oils bottles to these foreigners who'd gush at the pristine and oh so lush nature around them! The forests and the beaches! Tricked, the whole area was as artificial and non-natural as a protected region could be but this crafty hustle definitely helped the local economy.

>>12791
Classic brick, unsuccessful in dragging something through the minefields of linguistic autism, he falls back on shadow boxing imaginary statements.

In comparison to other medical fields (and all of which are at their core social sciences), psychiatry still carries greater issues of falsifiability. The reason why I call psychiatry an almost pseudoscience and not actual slander it as one is that in careful reading, the profession presents itself accurately and unlike homeopaths, they don't lie about is and isn't scientifically backed. As previously stated :DDDDDDD, psychiatry is a medical profession and it carries all the patina associated with medical science. In this country, I would say psychiatry is even seen as more prestigious work than a good chunk of other medical professions. And as a side note, this nation of mine received only one medical Nobel and it was in the branch of Psychiatry.
Psychiatry departs from other medical branches in that by its very nature - from necessities in demarking the lines between the sick and the ill, by the hidden nature of mental illness and especially that, unlike with a knee tumor, a mental diagnosis is generally unfalsifiable. They can be questioned and often are, professionals will come away with different diagnoses and debate them like any other medical professional but without the same ability to put their personal theories to the knife as they would a dispute related to the existence of tumors in your knees would. In regards to the anti-Christian horrors of rotationplasty, I'll say that it's generally the practical application of psychiatry that rests on more sturdy ground. As I understand it, the theoretical understanding of bipolarity has been entirely overhauled since the 1940s but lithium is still the go-to cure. Politicization definitely harms this field, and renders any discussion of it very difficult. The pseudoscientific side of psychiatry reveals itself when the ideological will defends irreversible practices as the default and obvious solution to an increasingly commonly diagnosis with the certainty and smugness of a literate man telling a superstitious peasant that human activity has indeed impacted the world around us.
>Maybe in 30 years, when the dust settles, people will look at it more soberly.

>>12793
I think no country has been hit as hard by the hippie movement as Germany.
The susceptibility to being the most righteous (or at being perceived as such) at any time, plus the culture of sheepism (which is still exactly the same as it was 100 years ago), coupled with a mindset of going in the opposite direction of nazism in the younger people at that time (being those who are in power right now), plus those people being directly influenced by left-wing ideas (with communism being ironically not natural and mystic at all) plus homeopathy being rediscovered in Germany (ironically by the nazis) certainly were major factors in all the new-age bullshit being able to gain such a strong foothold here. Chernobyl finally broke those people's - or those already on the way's - minds entirely.
And that's just the leftist-green side, there's a whole side of "völkisch" hippies who use new age techniques to lessen the jewish influence and remove toxins from their bodies they get from chemtrails and such.

Germans are, at their core, a very passionate people, which is that when they (i.e. the leadership telling them to) set their mind on something they go all in.
80 years ago it was being the best at world domination, today it's being the best at environment stuff.
God, imagine what could be if the Germans ever got a sensible government.

Reading Phillip Dick's biography today:
> The boy was five years old when his parents separated on the initiative of Dorothy, whom the psychotherapist assured that the child would not suffer because of the divorce (Dick would complain about this all his life).

>>12773
Psychotherapy includes psychoanalytic schizery and recognizes it as a valid method, which doesn't add trust to this discipline. However, other methods such as CBT and Gestalt therapy seem more reasonable.
So I think that it might be a good thing but you should take it with a grain of salt.
t. going to psychotherapist this Sunday. I hope this won't make me as obnoxious as that one German.

>>12794
I paid 10$ for an online course about modern religions. Next lecture is "Druids, redwoods and green magic: ecological religions". Gonna listen about my sweet Germies.

>>12793
Like with any other medical field, the purpose of psychiatry is to prevent early death, and improve quality of life.
The lack of a comprehensive theory / model is only relevant in so far as this lack hinders the development of treatments. You do not need the germ theory of disease to observe that washing your hands before surgery increases survival rates. Refusing to wash hands because there is no model, despite demonstrable benefit, would be idiotic.

Confirming that there is a tumor in someone's knee by putting them to the knife is well and good, as well as studying tumors, their classification, cause and development. But the relevant question remains: whether or not to cut it off. To make that decision, all you need to know is whether the tumor is causing the patient pain, and if it's going to kill them.

As for the question of whether this or that procedure is good or bad, in the absolute sense, and what people will think of it in 30 years, that is also irrelevant. Is it good to treat syphilis with mercury? Is it good to treat a broken femur with amputation? Depends on whether you're asking 30 years before or after a better treatment was developed.

All this limp wristed epistemological navel gazing is just a cowardly excuse for fence sitting. Nobody's going to wait until there's a rigorous model of the human mind, or even 30 years for some kind of hypothetical better method, when they can just get their genitals rearranged and move on with their lives contributing to the linux kernel or whatever those people do.

The only thing politicized about this issue is the question of whether you want to prevent people from getting the only so far known viable treatment, because of a bunch of abstract idealistic faff, be it dishonest appeals to perceivedly unsatisfactory scientific standards, or honest appeals to muh culture & muh god.
With the smugness of someone who has to chime in on an issue that has long reached overwhelming consensus among people it is directly relevant to, because it became the latest subject of media spectacle for people to vacuously comment on from the sidelines.

>>12795
>>12777
A psychologist is a propagandist pretending to be a scientist. They're a lot like economists in that way.
A psychotherapist is a rent-a-friend for the socially alienated upper middle class. You could classify them as a professional entertainer / performer.
A psychiatrist is someone you have to trick into giving you drugs for an illness you self-diagnosed on the internet. So they're basically a government official responsible for granting licenses for government controlled stuff, about similar category as a driving examiner.

Also, gotta roll my eyes when someone uses the word "irreversible procedure", in some kinda hysterial emotional appeal disguised as deep goncern.

An appendectomy is an irreversible procedure, so fucking what. Getting dental fillings is irreversible.
shut the fuck up lmao

>>12778
Did you lose a bet or are you really that retarded involuntarily? My high serotonin will not kill empathy for mentally crippled people like you.

>>12767
>ever changing concepts.

It's not like concepts change in all sciences but whatever. It would be worrying if concepts not change at all tbh.

>>12798
>The lack of a comprehensive theory / model is only relevant in so far as this lack hinders the development of treatments. You do not need the germ theory of disease to observe that washing your hands before surgery increases survival rates. Refusing to wash hands because there is no model, despite demonstrable benefit, would be idiotic.
Shitty examples. A proper analogy would be more akin to miasma theory and wearing a plague mask filled with herbs to protect oneself from germs.

>Getting dental fillings is irreversible.
Irreversible in which way? Fillings can fall out.

You are being very silly again, I suspect you stopped taking your pills? Not that I would read your posts, maybe you wrote it somewhere lol

>>12802
Some tooth material needs to be removed to fill them.
Teeth don't grow back
Retard

>>12802
Neopenis also can fall out.
horrible joke, sorry you had to see this

But seriously, it can fall out. Because it's basically a tube made from leg skin attached to surgically reworked vagina.

Today was a pleasant day. I added the books I've recently read onto my list and worked on my powerpoint presentation a bit.

I went to the city to pick up the books I've reserved. I boarded the bus and I ran into the professor who taught my Chinese philosophy this semester. He was going to university to conduct an examination. We discussed the progress of my research regarding hydraulic society and so on.

At the library I spent some time looking at this Japanese textbook I wanted to borrow to satiate my curiosity but I realised taking it home would be pointless, because while it's made for use by Sinologists, it's in essence nothing more than a collection of glossaries and texts with translations to help you ease into reading about Chinese topics in Japanese.

Also talked about random stuff with the librarian and asked her if she would be so kind as to read my translation of a Chinese short story if I were to produce it. She seemed intrigued by the fact that I picked something modern and relatively "obscure" in Hungary.

On the way home I decided to grab a bite to eat and then went home. Thought some more about the powerpoint. I should be done with it by Sunday I think.
Things are going well. Tomorrow I'm going to the central library to study and read.

Btw pls take the Troondiscussion to the "Let me show you how retarded I am" thread. The both of you.

>>12803
Your teeth have been rotting away before that, and preparing the already rotten teeth for getting fillings is still not making fillings an irreversible process.
The irreversible process started when you drank too much sweet shit and brushed not enough.
You thirdies really need EVERYTHING laid out to you in the simplest way....

>>12794
Germans are cucked enviro-green leftist homos.

Muh environment bullshit is a form of cuckery. They want
It also leads to eating soy, which makes the enviro-green weaklings even more . Once they eat the soy, it permanently aters their hormonal balance, and there is no way they will ever go back to normal, the hormones in soy basically change the gender of their !!

But will soon get a sensible government and do away with the leftist-green government. ✔️ The are waking up.

Then, the can be stripped from their citizenship and voting rights, and sensible policies will be introduced, like

- no more support for corrupt Russian break-away province, stop wasting our
- no more EU-bullshit, DEXIT, end return of the DM
- no more environment-retardation with fucking bike paths everywhere, good roads ️️
- stop propaganda in , feed children healthy
- deport all the
- end the in , no more homosexual pedophiles teaching so-called sex-ed even in kindergartens. Castrate the child fuckers! Kinderficker kastrrieren ‼️‼️‼️‼️(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

It's only natural that the next wave of German fascism will come with emoji spam. Dialectical.

>>12809
Idiots love using emojis, what did you expect?

>>12809
Emojis are a more advanced form of communicating, transmitting information directly through visual images. He is a man of future.

>>12810
🤡🤡🤡

>>12811
I unironically think this has a truth to it that cannot be denied. 🔬 ✅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlJveN9IkI

>>12809
The right wing German "alternative" media(entrepreneur) bubble (which is quite big) loves to use emojis.

>>12813
Here it's usually manicurist entrepreneurs and hookah bars who use emojis THAT heavily

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>>12813
Good thing I avoid all so-called "social media" (as any reasonable person does).

>>12815
No, it's not a good thing.🙅‍♂️
Social media are what philosophers of the past dreamed of -- the noosphere 🌐, the demigodly entity 🪬 which unites people🧑‍🤝‍🧑 into a collective consciousness.
You avoid it because you're misanthropic lifehater😠.
Go to therapy. 👉👨‍⚕️

https://translate.yandex.ru/?source_lang=en&target_lang=emj
Useful feature

Adding random 火鍋 hanzi 漢字 to my post 解放 to make 心理 it seem like it's a vaporwave 政治 album.

Ban identity affirming irreversible surgery

>>12819
Going on EC and seeing posts directed to the public that read like the complaints of a scorned lover.

>>12820
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>>12815
Darling, tell me again that you only have a smartphone because of your family and otherwise would have banned that devilish device from our existence. 💦💦💦

>>12831
great song nigga

This thread lacks German posts. I will do my service now. Won't happen again, I promise.

>>12830
Do you have any actual arguments or will you just continue being smug for no reason?

>>12823
Poor examples.
Unnecessary circumcisions are committed almost on every male in Muslim & Judaic countries, USA and South Korea why?. There are lot of negative side effects, and the only ones who benefit are medical industry.
As for cosmetic surgeries, they more often bogdanoffy people than make them more attractive.

>>12834
I don't think there is a need to argue about your moral integrity and general superiority.

>>12835
>As for cosmetic surgeries, they more often bogdanoffy people than make them more attractive.

Proofs? My guess would be that we don't notice many of the surgeries performed on people because they are rather minor. The extremes are just more visible. Just think of all the nose jobs you probably never noticed because they simply fall in line with beauty standards instead of deviating from it by overdoing it.

>>12839
True, well-done plastic surgery is just for evening out irregularities, but those that overdo it, overdo it horribly, and often so unnecessary.
Take Emily Blunt, a beautiful woman, with really attractive armpits and a beautiful smile.
There was absolutely no reason at all for her to get lifted, she's only 40 or something.
On the other hand, Salma Hayek and Monica Bellucci most certainly had something done, but you wouldn't notice.

I did some more editing and research today. Found two potentially promising books. Started assembling the bibliography.
Finally got a frame for the Chinese calligraphy I have. It will look nice on the wall once I find a spot for it.

My father was cleaning out some stuff at my mother's request. We found an old iPod among the masses of cables and I took it into my care out of utter fascination. The battery holds an okay charge, but the hard drive is fucking dead because I can hear it click when I try to restore it.
Looking it up, it wouldn't be all that hard to just fix it myself. Just need to pop it open, pull out the drive and then insert an media-card interface thingy and then an SD card ultimately. Seems like a fun little summer project. I wonder if my father would find it cool that I fixed it on my own.

I stayed home and did work here because I washed my hair and I didn't want to risk catching a cold in the wind if I fail to dry like a random spot or curl.
Though I do realise that this is a cope on my part mostly. The reality is that there were no groceries at home and I didn't want to eat out, so I just made do with some coffee and two slices of bread.

My sleep was very troubled for the past two or so days. It's not even that I had odd dreams. I sort of enjoy having odd dreams because whenever I happen to remember one it always gets me in an interpretative mood. Why way my brain fascinated with this?
No, this is just rolling around and feeling like I'm in an oven on a ship.
Maybe it's the winds.

Got a letter about Erasmus scholarships. Gonna read it tomorrow. I'm still determined to spend some time abroad for my own sake.
I'm honestly feeling motivated. It's about me. I need to do something small every day instead of waiting for a manic phase to save me.
It feels like I'm nearing a breakthrough of sorts. It's time to re-read Zarathustra.

Though I also realised that apparently nobody notices my joy because nobody knows I was in despair. Like I'd be a jumbled mess from stress and they'd tell me "Ach, Ernst really is in control all the time. He never looses his cool."

I also got a new short story idea. It's funny. Absurd. I have it jotted down. I will probably write it someday.

>>12840
>really attractive armpits
What?

>>12838
What is this projection? Are you actually able to make any kind of sense or did the app abuse fry all your braincells already? SAD!

>>12842
I think you understood me just right and if you really don't then this is your problem, not mine.