Cool. Do you have any sources? I've been reading up on Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist who has done brain scans on Tibetan monks during meditation: the feeling of self-lessness, unity, oneness, ("one united shoulder"), as well as the suspension of the awareness of time ("he has put eternity in their hearts") has to do with the brain's ability to shut down the processing of incoming sensation which gives you your sense of time and bodily self, oneness, or distinction. I particularly remember the old "oneness" "moment" during the good songs at the District Assembly at Landover stadium, Maryland, where the dark distance gave the air a misty quality. That, and 10k people cannot sing on key or in time, so they slow the song waaay down into a sort of chant. This other neuroscientist, Michael (M. A.) Persinger, focuses on the right temporal lobe as a sensory processing area that is susceptible to electromagnetic disturbance of so many minimum Teslas, although every individual has a different sensitivity. The effects are too many (and too cool) to list but include the idea that the left hemisphere speech-processing center receives "voices" from the creative right hemisphere and interprets them as external to the self. The left hemisphere can also receive impressions that it interprets as a "presense" external to the self, such as in a haunting or a 'being next to God' experience.
Posts by rmt1
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10Brain Science Teaches You How to Fade Away As a JW!!!!
by metatron inso, you feel trapped as jehovah's witness and want to get out, but don't know how?
you keep agonizing about your witness family.
and "friends" ( trust me, very few witnesses are really your friends, since their friendship is entirely conditional on meeting attendance.
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Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century
by MegaDude ini am going to challenge you today to revise your thinking, and to reconsider some fundamental assumptions.
assumptions so deeply embedded in our consciousness that we dont even realize they are there...
speech by michael crichton
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In a sober moment, right now, eating a carrot, it occurs to me now that what stings the most is that people who can find even the least bit of scientific absense of data, fact, consensus, truth, take that as carte blanche to utterly disregard any idea that the consideration of more long term ways of living might be of use now, before such an absense of scientific consensus were to go away. It appears to me that it kills or hurts a number of people to consider the idea of thinking deep future, which subsequently instinctively causes me to ponder whether or not they voted bush or whether or not they are NRA, or whether or (carrot done, now a beer) not from an evolutionary standpoint they represent the Darwinian instincts to take what they need from those who might now only be anticipating a democratic distribution of resources: this is what my Darwinian instincts make me wonder on an instinctual level. I do sympathize with the sensation that the media has jumped onto some kind of Gore-wagon. I don't like hype and cathexis and I can see how some are convinced that the simple concept of 'thinking about how one's consumption requires X resouces and produces Y waste' has turned into some kind of self-flagellating child-sacrificing jihad fatwa upon the last beleaguered bastions of rationality. If perchance anyone has dealt with Greek tragedy, one of the cornerstones of Western modes of performing "truth," one may have come across the idea that true knowledge is epimethean, epitaphic, hindsight, tragic, and de facto useless except for warning the next character, telling the story, foregrounding how history repeats itself. Premonition, promethean foresight, is what can get someone off the track that leads to tragedy. Those who demand a scientific consensus for even considering the utilities of changing certain aspects of lifestyle are, at least in the rubric of Greek tragedy, falling into the trap of Oedipus, and do not have the self-knowledge to evade the fall. However, in the Darwinian sense, it is entirely possible that those who cannot consider this idea of taking stock are the ones who will take stock in a far more physical way. (beer) This is what occurs to me after having run into human nature a few times.
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&ssheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html
there is a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 .
by bob carter .
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This guy does not appear to know about or understand the thermohaline cycle. starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation
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HAS AN EVOLUTIONARY LINK BEEN DISCOVERED?
by badboy inscientists have claimed to have found the missing link between fish and land animals on ellesmere island ,canada.
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NPR had a piece on this. The oldest scientist in the party was fairly absolute that this *IS* the ancestor of tetrapods; another scientist did not believe so but was firm that it represents a "cousin" (his word) of whatever missing link 'did' perform the same service. I'm happy enough that JWs will have to squirm around this one, again again again.
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No Natural Affection
by misspeaches ini was talking to jh about this the other day.... this year will be the 3rd memorial i will have missed.
i've faded not disphellowshipped or disassociated.
to date i have not recieved an invitation to come along to the memorial for any of them.
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"I often wondered how the WT and Awake mags could have articles about the Pharisees, and not see the clear connection to the philosophy of the organization. They operate on the same principles as the Pharisees." Projection (dictionary.com): "Psychology. 1. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others: “Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projectionof clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field” (Alex Shoumatoff). 2. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt." Evolutionary Psychology (http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/epfaq/ep.html) offers some explanation for the phenomenon of how *normal* people DO have natural affection for their genetic relations. Google "Hamilton's Rule".
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Ghosts, Demons, or Imagination?
by ButtLight inok, its happened again!
but not to me this time, my 12 year old son.. last night he fell asleep on the couch, so i left him there and went to bed.
he wolk up about 3 am, and walked upstairs to his bedroom.
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Lucky! I'd pay good money to have an authentic supernatural experience. After 25 years of JWs with demons under your fingernails, I can't find a one. That being said, you may or may not want to look up M.A. Persinger from Laurentian University. He does work on the haunting capacity of the right temporal lobe. Warning: he is reductionist, but his research at least gives a bottom line for seeing at least one way in which the brain might interact with spirit forces, should they exist. And now for the question at which anti-reductionists love to look askance, Does your kid have any sources of electromagnetic radiation near the head of the bed?
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Ironic hypocrisy of Bethel "service"
by MinisterAmos ini normally let people make their own decisions with a very hands off approach, but after reading the "living together in bethel" (or whatever the name of the piece of crap book is) i need to vent a bit.. anyone here is very familiar with the "quit your job or at least cut way back" talks that we were subjected to seemingly every other week.
after all, good dubz need time to prepare, attend, pioneer etc.
a good friend of mine left her job at an insurance co. to pioneer.
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http://www.nathanielturner.com/slaveryandtheamericaneconomy.htm It would be nice to see some figure for the value of branch slave labor adjusted for inflation, growth and shrinkage. And then pay it out to apostates..?
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Why European women are turning to Islam
by Dogpatch inhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/p01s04-woeu.htm
from the december 27, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/p01s04-woeu.html
why european women are turning to islam
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Ossification of western religion? Incentives for the marginally invested to explore alternate spiritualities? Happened in Rome. Daring demonstration of rhetorical ownership of spiritual authority? (Granted, nothing like 9/11 happened in Rome.)
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Shunning someone is one of the worst things anybody can do, JW or not
by JH in.
i guess that being shunned doesn't affect everone equally.
i never did mind being shunned by jw's because i don't have any family or friends there, but being shunned by anyone you care for is cruel.. how did you cope with being shunned?.
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Being shunned by my elder father (who'sinvestinginthefuturewithrealestateandrentalpropertychucklechuckle) causes zero major concern, but I sympathize with my mother who because of this is unable to have meaningful contact with her first-born son. So although I am the shunned, the worst effects go to an innocent party. (i.e., "just a sister," not invested in patricentric hegemonies.)
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Apostates protesting conventions = Something I laughed at
by free2beme insorry if there are those apostates here that do this, but you were often the butt of a joke and nothing taken serious.
i personally loved the ones who wore paper bags over their head, as they were often people still afraid of getting in trouble.
it is not like a political rally with people saying "make love, not war.
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Rome did not have a permanent policy of persecuting Christians; human-torches and being thrown to lions flared up under just a handful of emperors. Nevertheless, the negative cathectic awe that """pagan""" Romans had for this new cult largely stemmed from the Christians' willingness to BE persecuted, to be tarred and feathered as it were, to BE laughed at, ridiculed, thrown to lions, et al. The apostates who picket conventions are no different from the Christians in their whole ones and twos who lived up to their principles by becoming a laughing stock to the many for the one chance of saving one soul. JWs who laugh at the apostates are rationalizing and repressing a potent, profound concern that the apostates are not doing this for their health, and must have a very good reason for risking resources in time, reputation, and legal concern. Any scripture that Brooklyn can quote from Peter, Paul and Mary about their philanthropic and beneficient motivations for suffering ridicule can be (at least) tested on apostate picketers. If an apostate could reasonably expect that shouting "get out of Babylon the Great" could be correctly interpreted by at least one JW, even if only an adolescent who has no physical means of escaping the situation, they would.