I'm new to this forum...

[Jose]

Luckie: The change was progressive, not an immediate one.

[Elskidor]

There is something about summer that seems to bring out the extra crazy in people.

Yeah. You know something isn't right when you wake up to read about pedophiles in one thread and a potential mass murderer in another.

[Jose]

Does someone know if there is a kindle version of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion?

[SteelCurtain]

Did you look in the Kindle store? Cause that would be a good place to start...

And please, talk to a therapist about your pedophilia issues. You can't change your attraction system. It is sort of imprinted in you around 13-15. Being attracted to girls is not your fault, but what you do with it is. Before you hurt someone, please, manage that professionally. This is one of the major harms of religion, IMO. It is akin to faith healing. You wouldn't say that God took care of your cancer and never get checkups to check your hormone levels and white blood cell count, right? Deviant sexual attraction is the same thing. You can't fix it. It is there forever. You have to manage it.

[Nine]

Does someone know if there is a kindle version of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion?

There is.

[JesusHChrist]

God delusion was ok, but if you want to see what the other side had to say there are better choices.

[Ben Davis]

The last sentence applies if you see the human being as a body with life. The Bible mentions that the constitution of the human being consist of body, soul and spirit.
The soul is where the feelings, emotions, will, memory, reason and desires reside, while the spirit is where the conscience and intuition reside and lets you judge good from bad.

There's absolutely no supportable evidence for that biblical view. Instead, if we pay attention to the neurologists, the experts in brain function, we find that all the functions you attribute to 'soul' and 'spirit' are in fact produced by the brain. Here's a simple yet useful map.

Let me be clear, irrespective of the mechanism, I'm glad you're attempting to manage your attraction to children because it shows conscience and empathy: you're clearly not a socio/psychopath. However I don't think you've effectively dealt with it, rather you've handed responsibility over to a 3rd party who, in all probability, doesn't even exist. Now if that turns out to be enough, great but I'd suggest that religious methodology would have a lower overall success rate than therapy.

[Jose]

SteelCurtain: Can you tell me what is the difference between a pedophile and a non-pedophile? And how can I talk with a therapist about a problem that I don't have? And I have all the time made social life with people of all ages and none got hurt, how do you explain that?

Ben Davis: It is true that the brain activates those zones according to the impulses received, but the reason why we need a brain to control these functions is because there would be no way to manifest spiritual functions in a material world. I wouldn't see you if you didn't have a physical body, hence the need of material mean (the body) to encompass an invisible but existent soul. We still don't have the technology to connect cables to the brain and see what a person is dreaming or thinking about.

[Nine]

Ben Davis: It is true that the brain activates those zones according to the impulses received, but the reason why we need a brain to control these functions is because there would be no way to manifest spiritual functions in a material world. I wouldn't see you if you didn't have a physical body, hence the need of material mean (the body) to encompass an invisible but existent soul. We still don't have the technology to connect cables to the brain and see what a person is dreaming or thinking about.

Actually we really aren't that far off at all. I can't give you any links right now seems I'm on my kindle but a quick Google search should give you a ton of results. It's mostly not using wires but you get the point I'm sure.

[Ben Davis]

It is true that the brain activates those zones according to the impulses received, but the reason why we need a brain to control these functions is because there would be no way to manifest spiritual functions in a material world. I wouldn't see you if you didn't have a physical body, hence the need of material mean (the body) to encompass an invisible but existent soul.

The evidence tells us that the main reason for brains is to interpret the world around us in order to survive. We've mapped every organ in the human body in far more detail than I think you realise and found no Soul Gland or Animus Cortex. With no evidence to support you, all you've presented is a nonsensical supposition. It's barely even coherent.

Here's something for you to think about: if souls need physical bodies to interact, how do they talk to each other in heaven?