bretharian....interesting

So i was watching this show that i have been wanting to watch for a long time on FX. The show is "Starved" and the episode was about these people who for various reasons are choosing to starve themselves. They discusses breatharianism on the show and i really thought they were making it up. I then decided to check it out today on the internet and found all sorts of information about it. As the show states a breatharian is someone who believes, in general, that one can survive on air and sun alone, or atleast that at one time they could. Food was however just a bad habit that people have aquired over the year, the breatharian institute talks and explains more and more clearly about this on their website (http://www.breatharian.com/ . I was fascinated by this and by their rationales and outlook on things. I myself have gone on a 3 1/2 day juice fast (only had water and juice) and found myself feeling better, cleaner, more aware, and surprisingly with more energy (however i admit that i dont know how much if any of this was psychologically based). I guess the thing that pisses me off the most about the show and the movement is just the reaction it gets from most people. There is really not to much that makes me more angry than hearing people ignorantly put something down. I can maybe understand you just not being interested in hearing about it, but most people when approached with the idea of breatharianism would, without learning about it, put it down and laugh at it. I didnt look at the show as necessarily doing this, however it was somewhat negative about the idea. But i guess just the idea that people are so easy and quick to closemindedly put things down makes me mad. I think the best trait someone can have is to be openminded. Now i myself have been told that i need to be more openminded, and this in the correct sense of the word probally has truth (see middle of blog about grammar, before you call me a hypocrit), but what pisses me off is when others misuse this word. Some people believe that being openminded is nothing other than just having the same views as them, and these people dont even deserve being talked about. There are others however that see there being a contradiction between holding a view at all and being openminded. I could almost contend that to truly, honestly, deeply hold a view you would have to be openminded. The openminded person considers possibility and after trying as hard as they can to unbiasly adresss the stiuation takes some kind of a stance, yes sometimes that stance is a complete IDK, but sometimes it is a well this seems most correct, or even ok this is the right way.