The most disturbing image I saw in my life

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The admins grow these people in the basement and let one loose to watch the fun.

Way to go, blabbermouth. Now I have to call in a Code Puce to get the lab moved to another secure location. Fuck.

Boru

[Jehanne]

The admins grow these people in the basement and let one loose to watch the fun.

Way to go, blabbermouth. Now I have to call in a Code Puce to get the lab moved to another secure location. Fuck.

Boru

When I first saw it, I thought that it was edible, some spaghetti delicacy that had dried out, and just needed some reheating with some sauce.

[Pat Mustard]

I just saw a haunting image that kept me shocked, scared,  and feeling pain allover my body.
It wasn't a physical pain, but rather... I can't explain it.

Here is the image:



This is your "Nervous System".

This is "you". This is your memories, your whole life, and me too.
How could a person remain an atheist after seeing their actual reality?

There must be a creator that made this pile of flesh for Billions of iterations; with each iteration producing a unique different being.

The soul is nothing but the electricity that set this system to work..just like a switch, on and off.
We humans replicate our creation with every item we create. 

Just like illiterate toddlers, that creator taught us how to live, by making us look in our own creation first.

What about racism?ego?and similar toxic behaviours? wouldn't it be shockingly embarrassing for the racist to see what they actually are? a pile of weak disgusting arteries and nerves connected ?

Imagine the World Wars with all the soldiers looking like the bare nervous system. Wouldn't it be stupid, sinful, worthy of Hell to see nervous systems killing each other?

God exists and someday, we shall rise from the graves to face him.

I've seen worse, much worse in the course of my job. A nervous system is not disturbing.

Oh and if the nervous system is evidence for god, then it's evidence for an incompetent and highly stupid god.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I just saw a haunting image that kept me shocked, scared,  and feeling pain allover my body.
It wasn't a physical pain, but rather... I can't explain it.

Here is the image:



This is your "Nervous System".

This is "you". This is your memories, your whole life, and me too.
How could a person remain an atheist after seeing their actual reality?

There must be a creator that made this pile of flesh for Billions of iterations; with each iteration producing a unique different being.

The soul is nothing but the electricity that set this system to work..just like a switch, on and off.
We humans replicate our creation with every item we create. 

Just like illiterate toddlers, that creator taught us how to live, by making us look in our own creation first.

What about racism?ego?and similar toxic behaviours? wouldn't it be shockingly embarrassing for the racist to see what they actually are? a pile of weak disgusting arteries and nerves connected ?

Imagine the World Wars with all the soldiers looking like the bare nervous system. Wouldn't it be stupid, sinful, worthy of Hell to see nervous systems killing each other?

God exists and someday, we shall rise from the graves to face him.

I've seen worse, much worse in the course of my job.  A nervous system is not disturbing.

Oh and if the nervous system is evidence for god, then it's evidence for an incompetent and highly stupid god.

That’s what I was thinking. If a human nervous system is the most disturbing thing he’s ever seen, Winter’s led a very sheltered life.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

I've seen worse, much worse in the course of my job.  A nervous system is not disturbing.

Oh and if the nervous system is evidence for god, then it's evidence for an incompetent and highly stupid god.

That’s what I was thinking. If a human nervous system is the most disturbing thing he’s ever seen, Winter’s led a very sheltered life.

Boru

Apparently poking a dead cat with a stick was a pleasant experience for Winter.

[WinterHold]

I just saw a haunting image that kept me shocked, scared,  and feeling pain allover my body.
It wasn't a physical pain, but rather... I can't explain it.

Here is the image:



This is your "Nervous System".

This is "you". This is your memories, your whole life, and me too.
How could a person remain an atheist after seeing their actual reality?

There must be a creator that made this pile of flesh for Billions of iterations; with each iteration producing a unique different being.

The soul is nothing but the electricity that set this system to work..just like a switch, on and off.
We humans replicate our creation with every item we create. 

Just like illiterate toddlers, that creator taught us how to live, by making us look in our own creation first.

What about racism?ego?and similar toxic behaviours? wouldn't it be shockingly embarrassing for the racist to see what they actually are? a pile of weak disgusting arteries and nerves connected ?

Imagine the World Wars with all the soldiers looking like the bare nervous system. Wouldn't it be stupid, sinful, worthy of Hell to see nervous systems killing each other?

God exists and someday, we shall rise from the graves to face him.

It's not me, it's part of me.  I am more than my nervous system.  I am my body and I am also my mind.  The fact that you are impressed by the complexity of our bodies is not a warrant for believing in a deity.  Pictures are not arguments.  Incredulity is no defense for believing in the supernatural.  You ask how can we see this and still be atheists.  It's a non-sequitur.  I'd like to ask theists how they can accept such faulty reasoning?  The racism, toxic behaviours, and killings that you lament are a result of such faulty reasoning or the failure to reason at all.  Our brains and our nervous system are wonderful things and they give us the ability to do wonderful things but when we fail to use them or use them in the wrong way we are capable of horrible things.  

We do not replicate our own creation when we create something.  There is a huge equivocation here.  When we create something new, we create it by using existing materials.  The kind of creation you are talking about is creation from nothing pre existing.  It is essentially wishing things into existence.  The two are in no way alike.  

There isn't a god.  It's a fantasy.  But if I were to find myself in from of this god he better clear his schedule because I'll have a lot to say to it and it won't be short.  

It's interesting that you ask us to use our imaginations.  I know of no other way to apprehend your god but to use my imagination.  But, there is a fundamental distinction between what is real and what is imaginary, one that is identified by the primacy of existence principle. It's a principle you unwittingly use and reject at the same time any time you make a claim about your god.  I think you should reconcile that contradiction before you go presenting arguments for your god.

It includes your brain; so it is you.
We can't runaway from it. The Nervous System needs a body to work; just like a firm needs a Manager.

Without the manager; the company would fall.
Without a Nervous System; the body would fall.

That's why a "head shot" kills you immediately.
That's why a severe trauma to the Spinal Chord immobilises you immediately.

The rest of the body is a mere resource feeding the Nervous System.

[WinterHold]

Why would a god need to create sch a mess?  It almosts looks like a system that evolved at random over hundreds of millions of years!

So humans know that they are so weak in their essence.
We need God in every step we make. Us remaining alive with such weak bodies is alone miracle, the Nervous System is so weak because it has a purpose: showing us that there is a creator keeping us alive for a short duration.

[arewethereyet]

It's not me, it's part of me.  I am more than my nervous system.  I am my body and I am also my mind.  The fact that you are impressed by the complexity of our bodies is not a warrant for believing in a deity.  Pictures are not arguments.  Incredulity is no defense for believing in the supernatural.  You ask how can we see this and still be atheists.  It's a non-sequitur.  I'd like to ask theists how they can accept such faulty reasoning?  The racism, toxic behaviours, and killings that you lament are a result of such faulty reasoning or the failure to reason at all.  Our brains and our nervous system are wonderful things and they give us the ability to do wonderful things but when we fail to use them or use them in the wrong way we are capable of horrible things.  

We do not replicate our own creation when we create something.  There is a huge equivocation here.  When we create something new, we create it by using existing materials.  The kind of creation you are talking about is creation from nothing pre existing.  It is essentially wishing things into existence.  The two are in no way alike.  

There isn't a god.  It's a fantasy.  But if I were to find myself in from of this god he better clear his schedule because I'll have a lot to say to it and it won't be short.  

It's interesting that you ask us to use our imaginations.  I know of no other way to apprehend your god but to use my imagination.  But, there is a fundamental distinction between what is real and what is imaginary, one that is identified by the primacy of existence principle. It's a principle you unwittingly use and reject at the same time any time you make a claim about your god.  I think you should reconcile that contradiction before you go presenting arguments for your god.

It includes your brain; so it is you.
We can't runaway from it. The Nervous System needs a body to work; just like a firm needs a Manager.

Without the manager; the company would fall.
Without a Nervous System; the body would fall.

That's why a "head shot" kills you immediately.
That's why a severe trauma to the Spinal Chord immobilises you immediately.

The rest of the body is a mere resource feeding the Nervous System.

None of the systems in the body can work without the others.  They are all necessary.  If the vascular system isn't working then oxygen isn't transported to the other parts of the body and they won't work.  If the lungs stop working, the body doesn't take in oxygen for the blood to carry.  If the GI system doesn't work to transform nutrients from food into what the body needs, the body won't work.  Take out a major component and everything stops.

[WinterHold]

I just saw a haunting image that kept me shocked, scared,  and feeling pain allover my body.
It wasn't a physical pain, but rather... I can't explain it.

Here is the image:



This is your "Nervous System".

This is "you". This is your memories, your whole life, and me too.
How could a person remain an atheist after seeing their actual reality?

There must be a creator that made this pile of flesh for Billions of iterations; with each iteration producing a unique different being.

The soul is nothing but the electricity that set this system to work..just like a switch, on and off.
We humans replicate our creation with every item we create. 

Just like illiterate toddlers, that creator taught us how to live, by making us look in our own creation first.

What about racism?ego?and similar toxic behaviours? wouldn't it be shockingly embarrassing for the racist to see what they actually are? a pile of weak disgusting arteries and nerves connected ?

Imagine the World Wars with all the soldiers looking like the bare nervous system. Wouldn't it be stupid, sinful, worthy of Hell to see nervous systems killing each other?

God exists and someday, we shall rise from the graves to face him.

I've seen worse, much worse in the course of my job.  A nervous system is not disturbing.

Oh and if the nervous system is evidence for god, then it's evidence for an incompetent and highly stupid god.

My mind sees this as a creator who made a creature from mud, so weak, then gave him a shell we call "body", then blew electricity into him turning the mud statue "on".

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't understand calling humans 'weak'. We are remarkably adaptable, can thrive in nearly every climate Earth has to offer, can survive where a bird would freeze or a cat would starve, can construct shelters out of everything from snow and mud to animal skins and dressed timber, and have been known to take on things like mammoths and wild boars and come out on top.

Pretty skewed definition of 'weak'.

Boru