[permaculture] purified water

Toby Hemenway toby at patternliteracy.com
Fri Oct 3 20:25:05 EDT 2008


negiliblek wrote:
> To believe the water we drink is entirely broken up into other 
> molecules before it courses through our body is rash notion even for a 
> scientific view.
>
And no one has said that. "Much of" and "a lot of" are the qualifiers I 
used, never "entirely." Please, don't attribute non-existent absolutes 
to my statements; I try hard to be careful with language and not say 
more than I can produce evidence for, and to indicate when I am 
guessing. Also, the reason I repeatedly use phrases like "from a 
scientific view" is because I realize that Western science is only one 
framework. I've been cured of a deadly serious illness by Chinese 
medicine that Western science is virtually powerless to treat. I find 
the internal consistency, practical use, and explanatory power of 
Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Steiner's approach to chemistry, 
and some other non-mainstream views to be at least the equal of Western 
science. But I'm far better trained in science than I am in those other 
studies, so I only feel qualified to comment from a scientific point of 
view.

Toby



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