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Scientists reduce belief in God by shutting down the brain’s medial frontal cortex
http://www.psypost.org/2015/10/scientists-reduce-belief-in-god-by-shutting-down-the-brains-medial-frontal-cortex-38516 ^

Posted on 10/16/2015 6:56:11 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton

Someone I know just sent me this extraordinary article, very alarming to say the least:

"New research involving a psychologist from the University of York has revealed for the first time that both belief in God and prejudice towards immigrants can be reduced by directing magnetic energy into the brain.

Dr Keise Izuma collaborated with a team from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to carry out an innovative experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation, a safe way of temporarily shutting down specific regions of the brain.

The researchers targeted the posterior medial frontal cortex, a part of the brain located near the surface and roughly a few inches up from the forehead that is associated with detecting problems and triggering responses that address them.

In the study, half of the participants received a low-level “sham” procedure that did not affect their brains, and half received enough energy to lower activity in the target brain area. Next, all of the participants were first asked to think about death, and then were asked questions about their religious beliefs and their feelings about immigrants."

http://www.psypost.org/2015/10/scientists-reduce-belief-in-god-by-shutting-down-the-brains-medial-frontal-cortex-38516


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KEYWORDS: brain; faithandphilosophy; magnetic; magneticstimulation; tms
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To: mrsmith

That’s “The Country of the Blind”, a short story Wells wrote originally in 1904.

Yes, the man, a mountaineer named Nunez, trying to conquer the summit of Parascotopetl, slips and falls and finds himself in the country of the blind et al.

The crazy people want now to try and render us all to their level. Sheer madness.


41 posted on 10/16/2015 8:00:39 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Sounds like someone found their old copy of “Illuminatus!” in the attic.....except it was a drug rather than magnetism.


42 posted on 10/16/2015 8:02:17 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

So libs already have their medial frontal cortex shut down?????? That is what i got from the article.


43 posted on 10/16/2015 8:04:36 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: exDemMom

Wow is that deep. What could be the other reason.

I don’t think fear of death is it.

Even when I didn’t believe very much, i didn’t fear death. I wouldn’t know I was dead so why would i be afraid?

And just because science “thinks” they found a way to shut off the part of the brain that makes you believe doesn’t prove there’s not a God. It might prove moreso there IS a God.

There’s probably a way to shut down the part of the brain that tells you you’re hungry. Doesn’t mean there’s not hunger. You just shut off a part of God’s great machinery.

I dont smoke pot but this would probably be a great discussion to have after smoking lol


44 posted on 10/16/2015 8:04:59 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

That’s what it does sound like.

It’s going to get to the point where normal people will have to realise that we cannot inhabit the same areas of the world as the crazy people.

I’d be willing to split the world with them, normal people on one side, the crazies on the other and we just live segregated like this and we leave them alone and they leave us alone.


45 posted on 10/16/2015 8:05:36 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: GraceG

Well yes that’s how I read it also. Of course the Liberals being generally crazy, seem not to realise that this means they’re actually suffering from brain damage, because their medial frontal cortex is impaired.


46 posted on 10/16/2015 8:08:15 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Have no fear, only 25% of psych first time studies are replicated. Why? Could be that college kids were used as subjects. They have little cognitive ability beyond what has been programmed into their brains. Garbage in, garbage out. Which is also why the Bible tells you to train your children in the way they should go because one day public schools will try to erase everything you taught them and rewrite their memories while they are at it. Besides, the questions were probably loaded, too.


47 posted on 10/16/2015 8:12:24 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Lucy Hamilton
> Notice not only can they stop one believing in God, but they can make you pro-”Immigrants” too.

WTF?! What new Hell is this?

What I got out of that was that if your brain is impaired or or influenced by government experiments you are more likely to support illegal immigration or be an atheist

48 posted on 10/16/2015 8:19:52 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Lucy Hamilton
> Notice not only can they stop one believing in God, but they can make you pro-”Immigrants” too.

WTF?! What new Hell is this?

What I got out of that was that if your brain is impaired or influenced by government experiments you are more likely to support illegal immigration or be an atheist

49 posted on 10/16/2015 8:20:01 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: huldah1776

Of course this is why Liberals in general are so fanatically against homeschooling, because the children aren’t subjected to the propaganda and brainwashing.


50 posted on 10/16/2015 8:20:06 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: jsanders2001

Who decided these experiments should be conducted?


51 posted on 10/16/2015 8:21:04 PM PDT by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jsanders2001

That about sums it up.


52 posted on 10/16/2015 8:21:04 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton
Is this not proof of their reprobate minds?

Mentally defective to be oblivious to our Creator!

53 posted on 10/16/2015 8:26:34 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Is this supposed to demonstrate the SOUNDNESS of LIBERAL IDEAS—that they can make you believe them by SHUTTING DOWN YOUR BRAIN?


54 posted on 10/16/2015 8:34:59 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: Lucy Hamilton
This report needs to be edited. Everywhere the word "God" is mentioned, it should be replaced by the word "Allah."

Then the report needs to be fed back into the internet and especially posted in Muslim communities around the world.

That will teach those "scientists" to engage in propaganda.

55 posted on 10/16/2015 8:35:13 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Just remembered this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3242857/posts
FR HTML school. :)
Have fun.


56 posted on 10/16/2015 8:35:14 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

I’m 67, been listening to the msm try and do this for a couple of decades or more, doesn’t seem to work very well with those who are well grounded in the Word from an early age. I made that decision when I was only 14.

Nor have they succeeded in changing my mind on illegals who steal our jobs, commit crimes, and use our safety net systems to the point US Citizens are having a hard time accessing them when in true need.


57 posted on 10/16/2015 8:43:42 PM PDT by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: savagesusie
Obviously you are not aware of why cannabis was criminalized in the first place. You also are not aware of the history of this most useful plant since the beginning of recorded history.* See Gen 1:29! It was the oil in the engine of world wide trade until the steam age. You also are not aware of how beneficial this plant is to our health and well being. It regulates blood sugar, as well as increases circulation. It has prevented untold billions from blindness. It relieves stress, pain, and can cure insomnia. Some people take it purely for it's side effect of a feeling of well being. Is that justification to persecute or murder them?

All you know about it is what has been drilled into your head.

If "they" wanted it legalized, it would have been done long ago. It has taken decades of masses of people rejecting the laws of man to get it legal again in just a few areas of this nation.


"I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. " George Washington to William Pearce, 24 February 1794

Would you have the nazi drug death squads kill GW, or TJ? It used to be illegal to NOT grow hemp! Every farmer had a percentage of his land that HAD to grow cannabis!

This plant is truly a divine gift of a Loving Creator! Take care how you judge your neighbor.

58 posted on 10/16/2015 9:01:19 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: dp0622

BookMark


59 posted on 10/16/2015 9:14:58 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Isn’t there a passage on the line of “would even deceive the elect, should not the days be cut short”?


60 posted on 10/16/2015 9:23:47 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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