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How God Changes Your Brain
- Thread starter RCG Trader
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Quote from Gabfly1:
I think you have it backwards. It's the people who turn to the supernatural for solace who implicitly are not content with the world they know. Like the alcoholic who finds sunshine in a bottle and relies on the golden elixir to cope with his reality.
But to return to your point, there is no denying that many people find comfort in one form of delusion or another.
Everyone has something for comfort, and all those things are arbitrary.
Quote from RCG Trader:
Belief in God is good for you, literally.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/285566-1
This is nothing compared to the studies done on Buddhist monks while in meditation.
True. And some of them are real and embrace the beauty in nature and in life, while others are analogous to mind altering substances that distort perception and help to artifically blunt the edges rather than to accept them as part of the human experience. Indeed, both offer comfort. But only one offers the ability to accept both the good and the bad with clarity.Quote from Ricter:
Everyone has something for comfort, and all those things are arbitrary.
Quote from Gabfly1:
True. And some of them are real...
They are all real. And yet all still arbitrary. Drugs are an interesting point, though... they can comfort, but are they arbitrary? Some are manmade, some are not. Hmm, but the decision to take them, that's probably not an instinctual action, thus we can safely say it's arbitrary.
Quote from Ricter:
They are all real. And yet all still arbitrary. Drugs are an interesting point, though... they can comfort, but are they arbitrary? Some are manmade, some are not. Hmm, but the decision to take them, that's probably not an instinctual action, thus we can safely say it's arbitrary.
nothing new here. science has known for some time that religion stimulates Dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is linked to feelings of pleasure.
some of the other things that create this effect are drugs, porn, sex. so believing in a god is similar to a drug.
of course none if this in any way makes what that person may believe real.
Quote from Free Thinker:
nothing new here. science has known for some time that religion stimulates Dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is linked to feelings of pleasure.
some of the other things that create this effect are drugs, porn, sex. so believing in a god is similar to a drug.
of course none if this in any way makes what that person may believe real.
Fair enough.
But let's consider "real" for a moment. Whose definition of that shall we use, yours, or mine? ; )
Music can do this too. And dancing!