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Old 06-14-2010, 09:24 AM
 
Location: Don't be a cry baby!
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Did anyone see this program last night?

God helmet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://science.discovery.com/tv/thro.../index-02.html

To me it proves neither, the existance or nonexistance of god. It was quite interesting though.
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Old 06-14-2010, 07:41 PM
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'Dawkins was reported not to have experienced a religious feeling. The report said:

Dr. Persinger explained his lack of effects. Before donning the helmet, Prof Dawkins had scored low on a psychological scale measuring temporal lobe sensitivity.'

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Old 06-14-2010, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Texas
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It pretty much means nothing. If anything, it suggest ideas of God and other such things are dependent on the brain. Picture 4 has to be a joke. People are programmed for pattern recognition from birth.

There have been similar experiments such as this done in the past. One involved stimulating your frontal brain lobes to ketamine. Sure enough, many people soon after were seeing dead relatives, white lights, Jesus, Allah, Yoda, Buddha, ect.

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Old 06-15-2010, 12:34 AM
 
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Sounds like junk science to me.
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Old 06-15-2010, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Don't be a cry baby!
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I think religiously it proves nothing but scientificly it proves how influenced we are by external forces.
So, a magnetic field created god just like fungus created the devil??
(Those external forces again)

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One of the most concrete studies, published in Science in 1976 by psychologist Linnda Caporael, blamed the abnormal habits of the accused on the fungus ergot, which can be found in rye, wheat and other cereal grasses.

Read more: A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine
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Old 06-15-2010, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Nowhere'sville
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What kinda silliness is this?! I agree... junk science.
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Old 06-15-2010, 10:26 AM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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I read the title and wondered deleted is this god called "Helmet"? Then naturally I thought of this:



I think I am ready to believe in the Schwartz.

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Old 06-15-2010, 11:31 AM
 
Location: NC, USA
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'Dawkins was reported not to have experienced a religious feeling. The report said:

Dr. Persinger explained his lack of effects. Before donning the helmet, Prof Dawkins had scored low on a psychological scale measuring temporal lobe sensitivity.'

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Hummmmm, temporal lobe sensitivity???? doesn't that have something to do with a humans ability to delude themselves?

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Old 06-15-2010, 12:50 PM
 
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Before donning the helmet, Prof Dawkins had scored low on a psychological scale measuring temporal lobe sensitivity.'
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Maybe atheist are on low end of the evolutionary scale as man progesses.

Maybe religon is a means to a greater end?
Does not compute
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Old 06-18-2010, 11:37 AM
 
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I read the title and wondered deleted is this god called "Helmet"? Then naturally I thought of this:



I think I am ready to believe in the Schwartz.
This was my first thought
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