Breatharianism

Breatharianism. Or Inedia. Has anyone ever heard of this? I came across it for the first time ever today.

Basically, people who subscribe to it, or believe in it, or whatever the correct words are, believe that they can live without food or water. That they can reach a state of consciousness where their bodies can survive without food or water.

Now, I am not by any means bashing a religious-type belief system. And I hope I don't get in trouble for posting something against a belief system, but I just can't seem to wrap my mind around this at all. To live without water??? I just don't see how that is even possible for a human body.

I have included two links below that I found with a quick Bing search.

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/breatharian.htm

http://www.breatharian.info/

 

They're either lying or they're dying.

http://www.skepdic.com/inedia.html

 

I agree. From the little I read, a lot that truly hold to it are dying. The ones that claim to be doing it (based on what I read) will not submit to any type of testing, so there is no way to prove or disprove them. Except for the fact that (to my knowledge) humans cannot live without water.

This came up because there was someone who was working temporarily at a place of employment where I know some people and the woman talked about it so constantly that it became a bother and hindrance for the other employees.

 

On my obscure supplemental bucket list:

No. 243: Eat a box of Ho Ho's in front of Ellen Greve.

 

The general rule of threes: Humans can survive three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. Unless you're drinking your own urine or eating fingers, you ain't going to last much longer.

 

So it *is* possible to survive at Applebee's!

 

Dick Gregory wonders what took you so long to get here.

 

There was one addition to the rule of threes I was taught at SERE school -- "and not one minute without hope."

 

But by all means you SHOULD bash this particular religious-type belief system.

The fact that someone really believes that it's true doesn't change the fact that that person is an idiot.

 

I'll stick with basic biology and the laws of thermodynamics.

 

People have a right to believe what they want.
I have a right to think they are stupid and to call them stupid.