Originally posted by buckkyperhaps you should read some philosophy. Many philosophers base their belief on reason. Pascal's wager makes pretty good sense...
Is all religious or spiritual belief based on nothing more than feeling ? I'm not knocking the feeling part of life, but how many out there got involved with a religion because it sounded logical. I get in trouble because of my feeling overload. My personality type is a INFJ according the Meyers Briggs test. People like me get involved with cults and airy fairy crap because of the feeling out weighing the thinking. Discernment is needed.
Here is some research showing magnetic stimulation of a certain part of the right brain can give an artificial religious or spiritual feeling in most people who took part in the study. It seems to show religious feelings are in our brains, not from supernatural forces:
http://www.suite101.com/content/seat-of-religious-feelings-located-in-right-brain-a293335
Originally posted by sonhouseSo atheists must be left brain dominated.
Here is some research showing magnetic stimulation of a certain part of the right brain can give an artificial religious or spiritual feeling in most people who took part in the study. It seems to show religious feelings are in our brains, not from supernatural forces:
http://www.suite101.com/content/seat-of-religious-feelings-located-in-right-brain-a293335
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I took the Right Brain/Left Brain Quiz on the web the following is the result:
The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others.
Left Brain Dominance: (8)
Right Brain Dominance: (5)
Addition: Why am I not an Atheist?
Originally posted by RJHindsHow much do you want to bet he doesn't?!
For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us
who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I
will set aside." (1 Corinthians 1:18-19)
Originally posted by sonhouseThe God Helmet.
Here is some research showing magnetic stimulation of a certain part of the right brain can give an artificial religious or spiritual feeling in most people who took part in the study. It seems to show religious feelings are in our brains, not from supernatural forces:
http://www.suite101.com/content/seat-of-religious-feelings-located-in-right-brain-a293335
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet
Originally posted by RJHindsYou're too scared.
I took the Right Brain/Left Brain Quiz on the web the following is the result:
The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others.
Left Brain Dominance: (8)
Right Brain Dominance: (5)
Addition: Why am I not an Atheist?
Originally posted by twhitehead1."God is, or He is not"
No it doesn't. It is the sort of logic (or lack thereof) typical of Christians trying to justify their beliefs through logic - when in reality hold those beliefs for other reasons.
2. A Game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up.
3. According to reason, you can defend neither of the propositions.
4. You must wager. It is not optional.
5. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
6. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain.