RE: Left brain believes (theist), right brain disbelieves (atheist)
January 10, 2015 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2015 at 5:22 pm by Simon Moon.)
Yep.
A pretty famous case, but not the only one.
This does brings up some interesting questions for theists.
What happens to his soul? Does he now have 2? If it is still one, does the theist portion protect the atheist portion from eternal torture? Or does the atheist portion damn both sides?
Other hard questions for other situations.
Sometimes there will be twins developing in utero, but one will reabsorb the other. These are called 'Chimera'.
If the soul enters the body at conception, what happened to the other soul?
Does the living twin have both souls?
I have an interesting case in my own family. My Aunt had brain damage from a fall. It completely reset her personality and some of her memories.
She went from being one of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet, to raving paranoid bitch. My uncle, as sad as it was, could no longer tolerate her (no one in the family blames him) and divorced her. She was no longer the same person he fell in love with.
If the soul is everything that makes you 'you', what happened to her soul?
This leads to an even bigger question.
If damage to the physical brain can cause someone to no longer be the same person, what makes people believe that there will be anything that is 'you' to continue in an afterlife after the ultimate damage to brain occurs (complete non function at death).
A pretty famous case, but not the only one.
This does brings up some interesting questions for theists.
What happens to his soul? Does he now have 2? If it is still one, does the theist portion protect the atheist portion from eternal torture? Or does the atheist portion damn both sides?
Other hard questions for other situations.
Sometimes there will be twins developing in utero, but one will reabsorb the other. These are called 'Chimera'.
If the soul enters the body at conception, what happened to the other soul?
Does the living twin have both souls?
I have an interesting case in my own family. My Aunt had brain damage from a fall. It completely reset her personality and some of her memories.
She went from being one of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet, to raving paranoid bitch. My uncle, as sad as it was, could no longer tolerate her (no one in the family blames him) and divorced her. She was no longer the same person he fell in love with.
If the soul is everything that makes you 'you', what happened to her soul?
This leads to an even bigger question.
If damage to the physical brain can cause someone to no longer be the same person, what makes people believe that there will be anything that is 'you' to continue in an afterlife after the ultimate damage to brain occurs (complete non function at death).
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
