Re: [H] Combos vs. Singles

Bravo! I'd be proud to have drawn the line so succinctly and precisely and
to have defended homoeopathy so ably from obdurate confusion with all that
it is not. Thank you, Irene!

John

On 22 December 2011 16:40, Irene de Villiers <furryboots@icehouse.net>wrote:

>
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Wendy Howard wrote:
> > How is it SO much time and energy is expended on perpetually going round
> in the same circles?! Shouldn't the singular failure of this debate to
> advance so much as one step forward in ... what, 200 years? ... be telling
> us something fundamental and axiomatic about this question?! That, to quote
> Einstein, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness
> that created it."?
>
> Whatever level of consciousness produced the problem of combos, and tried
> to piggyback on the valid reputation of a genuine medical system, by
> misappropriating its name without any semblance of similar application, is
> exactly where the thinking needs to change and become honest.
>
> Mixtures are just that. They are not homeopathy. It is fraudulent to
> pretend otherwise.
>
> > Homeopathy does not exist in isolation. It utilises exactly the same
> universal principles used in many systems of healing.
>
> Not so. It is the only system that uses the Law of Similars, which is what
> defines it as homeopathy.
> Pretending anything else does that, is simply incorrect. No combo can do
> that.
>
> > It's one among many, there are all manner of shades of grey in between
> and we don't know the half of it yet.
>
> Not true. Law of Similars is as clear and easy to follow as that other
> natural law - the e Law of Gravity - and equally unmistakeable as a natural
> law. It's not an idea man invented. Homeopathy is by definition the system
> that uses it.
> The objections that occur, are to the misuse of the term homeopathy to
> refer to anything other than this Law of Similars.
> Mixologists TRY to pretend that what they do is homeopathy as that would
> be greatly to their advantage. Fancy having free access to 200 y ears of
> excellent reputation and trying to sell your unrelated product based on
> that reputation! A great selling point commercially - but there's no truth
> in it. Mixologists have no connection or cause to hang on the coat tails of
> the genuine system defined by Hahnemann and called homeopathy.

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