Posted on 07/31/2013 7:44:10 AM PDT by Heartlander
Additional question:
9: How can any mature brain believe liberalism?
Is it the same for Liberals too?
“I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.” (Psalm 139:14)
“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”
― Winston Churchill
Here's a good place to start in answering that question...
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian JaynesMost profound book (by far) I have ever read...and read and read.
Great story with lots of interesting “bunny trails” to follow. Thanks for sharing this.
On dreaming, I find that my brain "problem solves" in my dreams. This happened quite a bit when I was in IT, and writing code. I would see "solutions" in my dreams. Fortunately, they were vivid enough that I could remember them, and implement the next day!
As for timing, I've always been able to wake myself up at a certain hour, even from a dead sleep. If I had an early morning plane to catch, or some other meeting, I could "wake myself up" just by thinking of the time before bed.
Man is a living soul and spirit, created in the image of God. God is spirit, and gave man a spirit. The body will die, but the spirit and soul are in another realm, and live on. He is a spiritual being more than a physical being.
Science will never be able to explain this - any more than it can explain what it means that “God is spirit.”
The spiritual realm is another dimension beyond the measurable, quantifiable one of science.
Science does well, as in this article, to acknowledge what it cannot understand........
Never say never.
Had an odd thought the other day while reading a book on string theory. It posits some additional number of dimensions beyond our familiar four in which much of the “missing matter” necessary to make quantum mechanics and relativity agree is located.
So I was wondering if some of the issues involving spirit creatures, human consciousness, etc. may also involve these other dimensions, which would explain their seeming mysterious nature. The processes exist, they’re just taking place in dimensions we are presently unable to access or perceive.
Which doesn’t mean that inability is necessarily permanent.
8 Things We Simply Don’t Understand About the Human Brain
I have 9 things.
#9 I don’t understand why our current President doesn’t have one!
Then there is the question - what goes wrong in the brain to cause liberalism?
“#9 I don’t understand why our current President doesn’t have one!”
Oh, that’s simple. Marxists don’t have brains. They can’t. So if you see a Marxist, then you know they don’t have a brain. That’s why Obama doesn’t have a brain.
I believe there are definitely other dimensions. I think C.S. Lewis thought there may be 5 more than the 4 we know of.
And in the next life, we may be able to operate in all of them.
Here and now though, I believe we are limited by God’s design to only being able to measure/quantify the four.
Of course I may be wrong. I’m sure I’m wrong about a lot of things. I’m just unaware of what they are......
If God wanted mindless robots, He could have made His life much simpler and easier.
However, He gave us the freedom to follow, or not.
We all serve His needs whether sinner or believer. Those who believe understand and receive His blessings. Those who not believe, go through this life wondering what it all means.
“Um, Abby something.”
My favorite movie.
I used to see some ironic wisdom in that quote and it’s various adaptations. However, I have come to realize that it is confused in message by assuming [somehow] that it takes a compassionate heart to be a liberal when liberals actually are very heartless in that they will promote widespread suffering and misery if it enables their political lust for power.
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