water can't read

i watched this DVD last night called "what the %#^@&$ do we know?" i thought it was supposed to be about quantum physics. i rented "the elegant universe" a few months ago and thought it was very interesting. anyway, someone recommended this other one to me when i was drunkenly babbling about string theory one night. sure enough it starts off talking a bit about the subatomic world and blah blah blah. typically science docs are pretty cheesy anyway, but this one is ridiculous. there is a story about a deaf bitch [(and i mean bitch like she's a total asshole, not like the general term for a female as made acceptable by hip hop culture) played by the deaf ball girl character on Seinfeld] who takes anxiety drugs and caught her hubby fucking some other chick (i don't know if the other chick was deaf or not) and she's got this annoying roommate and there's this smug black kid on the quantum basketball court talking about going down a rabbit hole... you catch my drift? it's corny, and it's supposed to go along with all this testimony about some theory that these smart looking people are yapping about. now, i was questioning the "experts" from the get go because the film makers thought it was a good idea to not say who any of them are or give any of their credentials until the end of the movie. totally stupid move because i started thinking they were all quacks about 15 min into it. actually, i still kind of do. but anyway, this movie turns into this new agey stuff about how when you have an emotional reaction to an outside stimuli there is a part of your brain that releases these chemicals (peptides) and they go off into your body and connect with your cells and make your cells take on the attitude of the emotion your released. weird, right? so it goes on to say that your body get addicted to these emotions because your cells start producing more receptors for these certain peptides that you've been feeding them and things snowball from there... you create situations for yourself that will cause your brain to release, say the self pity peptide, so that your cells get their fix.

okay, so normally i'm all about subscribing to stuff like this. i think biofeedback shows promise as an effective way of managing minor psychiatric 'problems' without turning to pharmaceuticals. i'm all about yoga, and even some reflexoloy (i swear to christ, a masseur did this to me and it totally cleared up my sinuses). the brain and the body are both able to effect and even control the other and there are so many things that are still not understood and blah and yadda and everybody knows this shit. but this 'what the (*&(#$^% do we know' theory (which i don't think has a name at all), i don't know. i don't buy it. watching it creeped me out. the whole thing felt like culty jargon, like maybe it was made by a bunch of scientologists. i know a tad about scientology and i don't really think that's what it was, but it was still something evil and it was trying to make me believe in what it believes in and religion has always creeped me out.

there is no point to any of this, but there was one part of the movie that was talking about this japanese dude who took pictures of water molecules and them subjected them to somewhat emotional stimuli and them photographed them again and the molecules were all different. like, one was blessed by a buddhist monk and it turned all fancy and beautiful. that is interesting because there could be some truth to the energy that certain people emit (auras are bullshit, but this could be something a bit more subtle, yes?) but then he wrote words on labels and left those labels facing the water over night and took pictures in the morning. he claims that this too changed the shape of the water. WHAT THE FUCK? i'm sorry, but water can not read PERIOD. so i'm going to try to find some links about this stuff, then i'm going to work.