Re: Bates - I am tired, I think I'll quit after 2 years

On Jun 25, 12:24 pm, otisbr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Dear Friend,

You are tired?  Perhaps.

But let me suggest this analogy.

I am tired of bushing my teeth -- for two years.

Do you think I should stop?  The choice of  NOT
using preventive measures is the same in each case.

Enjoy,

On Jun 24, 6:44 am, z...@xxxxxxxxx (John Sheridan) wrote:

I just want to make a couple of quick points...

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:14:26 -0700 (PDT), seba wrote:
[...]On the other hand, after
two years of practice, I improved my acuity, so Bates had to know
something.

Not necessarily.  Acuity does not always stay constant for everyone.
As has been said here many times by doctors who know, some people
find that their acuity improves with time, and others get worse.
Your change probably would have happened anyway whether you practiced
Bates or not.

[...]or to see
people who can definitely convince me that this method doesn't work.

It is logically impossible to prove a negative.  Suppose every
swan that you ever see is white.  Does this prove that there is
no such thing as a black swan?  No, you can never say that.  All
you can say is that every swan you have seen is white.

When an idea is put forward, the proponents of the idea must prove
that it is valid.  It is not our responsibility to prove that the idea
is invalid.

stupid analogy. if you stop brushing your teeth, they will decay and
fall-out. if you stop your dumbo prevention scheme, your spectacle
prescription will likely not be adversely affected and it will
probably stay virtually unchanged two years later. stopping the
prevention scheme will simply make your life a little easier by doing
something productive instead of reading Snellen letters all day and
not going around in a fog wearing vision-blurring plus lenses. and if
your prevention scheme includes looking at the sun, like some foolish
Bates advocates suggest, then you will gain a health benefit by
avoiding something that is proven to be detrimental.

Otis -- why don't you follow a prevention scheme? For those folks who
don't know, Otis is significantly nearsighted and none of what he
suggests works for him. why do you try to tell others it works? you
are "proof" that it doesn't!
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