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The delicate brain and religion
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 (February 18, 2010 at 5:30 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I don't consider those religious experiences for the record. I know it's some strange Catholic thing to think random patterns are somehow divine... I think that's pure superstition. Same for fantastical illusions. I love how fr0d0 arbitrarily selects his evidence for spirituality.  
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Nothing arbitrary about it Syn, although I have no expectation of your discernment.
 (February 18, 2010 at 5:57 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Nothing arbitrary about it Syn, although I have no expectation of your discernment. It's a very logical and objective process that I really can't be bothered to discuss right now. Just take my word for it that there is a God. And he's Jesus. He reveals himself to me by ways of deductive reasoning and logic. Trust me.
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
When you get the basics Tav we'll move onto the meaty stuff ok. I promise
that would definately help explain the bible belt in the US, good read
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari  RE: The delicate brain and religion
February 18, 2010 at 10:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2010 at 10:22 pm by theVOID.)
(February 18, 2010 at 7:53 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: When you get the basics Tav we'll move onto the meaty stuff ok. I promise The meaty stuff is rather meaningless unless the existence of the Christian God is first established  (February 18, 2010 at 10:13 pm)tackattack Wrote: that would definately help explain the bible belt in the US, good read What, the rednecks imbred epilepsy?
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H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe  (February 18, 2010 at 3:18 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Scientists have been able to induce religious experiences and sensations in people by applying a weak magnetic field over their temporal lobes which makes me wonder if there are certain areas of the planet where the magnetic fields are configured in such a way as to make the people living there more susceptible to religious thoughts and delusions than others living in more magnetically stable areas.The earth's magnetic field is comparitively weak to that of a CRT television or monitor. Should you not take this into account in your hypothesis?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis Faith is illogical - fr0d0 
I doubt the report is representative. There is a medical procedure called MRI where people are enclosed oin a gigantic magnet and viewings include the brain. So their whole brain gets under this strong magnetic field and I have not read any scientific papers saying hallucinations is a big side effect.
 RE: The delicate brain and religion
February 22, 2010 at 12:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2010 at 12:32 pm by Puck.)
One thing we must all remember is that the magnetic lines of flux that are emitting form the earth are not static. Not only do we have pole reversals which occur infrequently, but we also have isolated areas that change polarity a little more frequently. With that said, it would be expected that geographical areas of higher than normal religious delusions would move around the globe periodically.
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