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- toddy5k, on 05/06/2008, -2/+64Wouldn't it be easier to heal the cities by sticking these needles into a few choice douchebags?
- BruisedGhost, on 05/06/2008, -4/+37oh yeah that will work real well I'm sure, and after that we are going to give the city a seaweed facial and a bikini wax. Then Godzilla is going to come and rearrange all of the buildings to make the city more feng shui
- sgiffy, on 05/06/2008, -5/+30Daily dose of stupidity: Check!
- controltheweb, on 05/06/2008, -1/+20Google Earth is another attempt to get people to see the city in a holistic way. (He should put a giant red balloon with a huge letter on it on the upper end of those needles.)
- omnithought, on 05/06/2008, -3/+18Oh my god! That guy stuck a stick in the ground! My life has changed! I BELIEVE!!!
- PhildoVT, on 05/06/2008, -4/+19***** hippies
- Digger1218, on 05/06/2008, -1/+14I don't mind that the guy wants to stick giant needles in the ground, but I think its ***** stupid.
- JoshuaLowe, on 05/06/2008, -2/+13This is how it all started in Pompeii.
- jbmcb, on 05/06/2008, -1/+12Next we'll be jamming huge magnets underneath crumbling bridges to speed the "healing."
- belebih, on 05/06/2008, -4/+15What kind of pseudo-scientific ***** are they gonna use next? Running homeopathic medicines through the sewers? Giving the city colon cleansings? To quote George Carlin, “People are ***** goofy!”
- doctechnical, on 05/06/2008, -3/+12This would be fascinating, if it weren't for the fact that acupuncture is *****. There's no difference between an acupuncturist putting needles in someone, or an untrained person just sticking them in randomly.
- BeforeSputnik, on 05/06/2008, -2/+10"The praises don't stop. Swing a cat and hit 10."
What the hell does that mean?! - tekproxy, on 05/06/2008, -2/+9Well if he needs a giant needle I guess this energy should be large enough for us to quantify in some way... Oh wait! We can't. Just another crazy.
Portland sounds like a pretty hip city, except for the fact it seems filled with credulity and ignorance. They need a massive dose of reality, just make sure the public sex is protected as free speech. - sodoh, on 05/06/2008, -1/+8I am not sure why you are getting buried, you are in fact correct.
The Japanese did in fact do this during the occupation of Korea. Sometime after the Japanese left as part of mending relationships with Korea the Japanese actually listed all the locations they did this and helped remove the needles.
It even got a mention on the US show Ripleys believe it or not. - inactive, on 05/06/2008, -2/+9Yeah this is god damn ridiculous
- BeforeSputnik, on 05/06/2008, -1/+7I kind of enjoyed the article. A good travel-brochure-type ad for the city of Portland, which I suddenly have the urge to visit. Naked people running around, guys trying to pump beer through a fountain, toy bike races down a big hill, it'd be like college all over again!
- variant5, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5Archives of Internal Medicine, Sept 2007
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ ...
"...ten 30-minute sessions, generally 2 sessions per week, of verum acupuncture (n = 387) according to principles of traditional Chinese medicine; sham acupuncture (n = 387) consisting of superficial needling at nonacupuncture points; or conventional therapy..."
"At 6 months, response rate was 47.6% in the verum acupuncture group, 44.2% in the sham acupuncture group..." - mcphatty, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5Sir Douchington of Doucheburgh
- kwazyhulk, on 05/06/2008, -1/+6I can just hear the comments in China..."It's always stupid round-eyes that take eastern ***** too far."
- TsuruchiBrian, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4This will be an important scientific experiment to see if the placebo effect works on buildings.
I'm all for art, but pretending that this eastern "medicine" BS is real is just retarded. In the west we have better medicine. That is a fact. In a way it is sad that our medicine so frequently involves drugs that have nasty side effects and invasive surgeries, but it's better than...... dying.
For thousands of years Chinese people where using rhino horns and tiger penises to "cure" impotence. It is almost certain that these were just placebos. All Chinese cures for anything are placebos. This is not ancient Chinese secret remedies, they are well understood psychological phenomena. Also, Viagra is about a million times more effective than tiger penis, doesn't cost $50,000, and doesn't require the death of an endangered species. - taosbob, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5In Asia this is a very common understanding of the nature of qi and fengshui. Certain regions are deemed to be lacking in vital energy and in need of this kind of surgery. One such area in Korea (Unju-sa Buddhist temple) had 1000s of stone pagodas during the Koryô period (918-1392 CE) sited there to buttress the deficient qi.
- mcphatty, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4its art.. best not to question its stupidity.
- inactive, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5i knew a deep tissue massage therapist who was into something similar minus the hype: apparently there is a natural gird pinpointing sacred sites (some ancient some relatively unknown) and his mission was to travel to these sites and meditate in an effort to heal the planet based on the deep ecology theory that the earth itself is a living breathing organism suffering from a good deal of stress - of course his efforts were done without drama and with his own money so i would tend to give him more credibility
- 7fields, on 05/06/2008, -2/+6Acupuncture defines pseudoscience.
- Klainmeister, on 05/06/2008, -2/+6I don't even understand what that first reply is trying to say. These are privately funded projects and add something to the scenery that is unusual and strange. I'm surprised there are such rude and disgruntled people on digg right now. This is the same type of nay-saying that the Eiffel tower received....
- rationalist, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4The Department of Redundancy Department thanks you for your comment.
- BOFH2, on 05/06/2008, -2/+6how much are the taxpayers paying for this?
- BXRWXR, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5Magic.
- Klainmeister, on 05/06/2008, -4/+7Man, i don't understand all the bashing going on here. An artist is making a project in a city that is more than welcoming to this type of expression. I'm from Oregon, and Portland specifically and we love our quirkiness. I think it's more of an artist project than an actual 'healing'.
Jee whiz, support a little culture and stop being so grouchy. - TigerFist, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3http://sacredsites.com/americas/united_states/inde ...
- stonebear, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4It's not supposed to be erotic. It's about liberation; the freedom to be who you really are, regardless of what other people think of it.
- lennybird, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3douche canoe
- publiclurker, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4Except around here, not all of those naked bodies are as fit as you remember in college.
- doctechnical, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3And improve the milage of the cars travelling on the bridge. Brilliant!
- rationalist, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3A giant needle punctured the volcano?
- MadHarvey, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3B...Batman? Is it you?
- oldcyborg, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Some people will do anything to keep from having gainful employment..... This dude is one of them....
The famous internet saying would be "It just doesn't scale" hehehehehe
Cyborg - Yage2006, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2I'll say something .
Your prone to the placebo effect. - Yage2006, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2I am sure it ill prove to be just as useless on people as it is on cities.
Seriously how many people still believe in this ***** ? - Enlefo, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2LOL, spoken like a true Portlander.
- akkibaba, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2If the guy is paying for it thought donations from stupid people, I have no problem with this garbage. If he's getting city money in any form, that's not cool at all.
- NucleaRR, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3Was it me or did the article start down one path, then turn right, then stopped, then went 180°, thru the rabbit hole....
- york2600, on 05/06/2008, -2/+4Everything has to be the hippies right? Just can't be people having a little fun
- plytheman, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3Dugg for mentioning Zoo Bombers. I'm almost as far from Portland as you can get (masshole) but I just started getting into the whole freak bike scene and these guys are pretty nuts. http://www.zoobomb.net/video-index.html for a little video taste of their insanity.
Now I just need to learn to weld so I can start hacking together some mutant bikes of my own... - rationalist, on 05/06/2008, -2/+4False dichotomy.
- inactive, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3+1 for honesty
- rbusta, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3Smog? This was an article on Portland not [generic over-hyped California city here], did you not read it?
- chicagodj, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2I dont know but he better start sharing.
- BOFH2, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2While I do not buy in to his ideals I do like the fact he did it with his own money.
- Leg0z, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2I love Portland and everyone should come and visit sometime. Just don't stay, especially if you're from California.
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