The Believer's Brain

Just found this. The site is very well done, seems even the scientists cannot agree either.
I particularly liked the article of the young woman overcoming HIV with prayer and positive thought.

If I were a male, I assure you I would not have unprotected sex with her! Or sex at all? I would have not trouble at all being her friend. BTW, I am a believer, but I also have a brain

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Originally posted by earthmomma:
BTW, I am a believer, but I also have a brain

Dang right you do. A very nice one at that.

Is that like "have a nice day"? Thanks. LOL

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Originally posted by earthmomma:
If I were a male, I assure you I would not have unprotected sex with her! Or sex at all? I would have not trouble at all being her friend. BTW, I am a believer, but I also have a brain

I believe any male having unprotected sex is at risk for things he knows and does not know.

I admired her courage and attitude. Having a brain, believer or not, does not override common sense.

Hi Skeptik,

I do get the feeling that you change your name more than you change your socks. But, at least this time you have found a good descriptive name. The only problem is that you misspelled it -- it should begin with a "K"!

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill

Doctors have discovered the spiritual part of the brain. When stimulated by a little electricity, the patient has a spiritual event.

DF

Boy you are one sharp cookie, Bloviator!

In my best Cookie Monster voice, "Eeeeeat Meeeee!"

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Originally posted by DeepFat:
Doctors have discovered the spiritual part of the brain. When stimulated by a little electricity, the patient has a spiritual event.
DF

You're right! During my last elective electroshock therapy session, I had a vision...of margaritas and carne asada at Los Cholos. Holy guacamole, it was a miracle!

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Originally posted by Cookey:
Boy you are one sharp cookie, Bloviator! In my best Cookie Monster voice, "Eeeeeat Meeeee!"

Wow, Skeptik,

That must have really taxed your atheist brain to come up with such an intelligent response. Keep up the good work.

Y'all come back now, ya heah?

Bill

You are just jealous that Cookie was funny and you weren't, Bill.

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Originally posted by zippadeedoodah:

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Originally posted by DeepFat:
Doctors have discovered the spiritual part of the brain. When stimulated by a little electricity, the patient has a spiritual event.
DF

You're right! During my last elective electroshock therapy session, I had a vision...of margaritas and carne asada at Los Cholos. Holy guacamole, it was a miracle!

My father was "manic/depressive" and underwent shock treatment when I was a kid. I think he would laugh at the idea of an electrically induced "spiritual event".

Humans have been around for around 200K years, but we have only been practicing religion for 60K years. Thing about evolution is that it isn't perfect and we ended up with a brain big enough to think up religion. Religion is like other things in our life that we feel compelled to do, but we need to restrain ourselves. Some people like to get drunk, some like to cheat on their spouse, etc... We have to just overcome our weaknesses in order to make a better society for all.

My original text had me sticking my dingus into a light socket. My apologies; no offense intended.

In retrospect, my original post may have been a little funnier, but perhaps less acceptable to the "religion" forum.

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Originally posted by Zombie 9tails:
Humans have been around for around 200K years, but we have only been practicing religion for 60K years.

Yup. Interesting find that Neanderthal remains have been found with trinkets of jewelry indicating some sort of hope that the dead would enjoy the stuff after death.