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
Not to worry. A properly fitted, custom tin-foil hat will repel 99.99999% of any pesky anti-deity magnetic energy waves. Nonetheless, I've read that to be absolutely safe, any metallic dental fillings should also be replaced with non-radio-wave-resonant material. You know, for that extra 0.000009% protection.
Maybe by stimulating the frontal cortex associated with belief in God, one can enhance the powers of the apostles. They were able to heal the sick and restore sight to the blind. That would be something.
Probably just makes you susceptible to virtually any kind of suggestive proposition. Not just religion or immigration.
Sounds like a hoax...
Is your sister bipolar? SSRI medicines can flip a biplar from depression into mania, and manics lose their sense of shame etc.
not a problem for ordinary folks.
That's what I said in a post the other day. And who's paying them? Where do they get the funding? Is it funded by taxpayers?
i think we can imagine why they are conducting these experiments. I would venture to guess its to create a device capable of converting the God fearing, gun-clinging, patriots into zombies so they can run roughshod overthe Constitution and take all of our rights. All to pave the way for the great Muslim takeover and declaration of the Caliphate. Their power will later be stripped from them and they will find out they were just useful idiots used to remove roadblocks to the NWO.
They are working on it. Be prepared and be aware.
Maybe they can use it to convince us we are all queer.
Surely there’s more of us than there are of them.
Remind me again who is the current President?
Note the deliberate effort to choose controversial subjects - helps with further funding? Being this is England, why not try to diminish belief in the BBC? Or the new Labour leader’s belief in state socialism?
So - Medical science under the guise of diagnostic testing has been preparing the formerly God-fearing population for the rise of Secular Socialism and the advent of Anti-Christ.
That's a comfort.
Stands to reason. When brain damage results from chronic drug use, people tend to become more leftist in orientation. Not surprising that it works the same way when the damage is inflicted by other means.
So when brain damage is made by a device they become more liberal?
It does appear that brain damage is essential to being a Liberal, and now that damage can be done intentionally.
Never work...
...and some poor slob would be stuck cleaning the brains off the headphones from when the leftists' heads exploded.
I KNEW IT! I JUST KNEW IT!
I have always suspected those headphones everyone wears today were mind altering. Now, here’s “positive” proof that the government was involved in this dire scheme to “de-god” our young people.
Those headphones contain MAGNETS! MY GOD! Think of it...millions upon millions of them being transformed by being seduced by rap music! What are we to do???????
/Sarc
I don’t have a “prejudice against immigrants”.
I prefer anything for Americans FIRST, then once they are all taken care of, THEN take care of the ‘immigrants’.
I will take that one step further.
IF you work for the federal government, no holidays of any sort taken off, since the ‘government’ by design, was to be no respecter of any religion. It was to be neuter.
So now we know what happens to liberal progressives
From Jeremiah
Ah, no, I don't think I ever saw her manifest what might be called a break from reality that would involve restraint or constant oversight. But then considering the gap between our ages and the lack of our social overlap, our relationship was never intimate such that I knew much of how she dealt with life's stresses.
However, it did seem that if the drugs were meant to lift her spirits from incapacitating depression, it/they also erased some inhibitions that might have colored her values judgment.
Our Dad was a quite moral and ethical Protestant minister, and my mother also quite prim, and I more closely identified with their interpretation of what a godly life might be, than did my sister's sense of restraint as altered by medication. I cannot say more, and by all means my sister's bearing was not anti-social or lawless.
The issue we're talking about here is possible displacement of understanding what and who God is, and how that might affect one's behavior. I think one might say, that the Prozac might not have brought a large change on widening of boundaries, but it may have greatly diminished a sense of shame if those boundaries were overstepped.
That would mark a distinctive difference between the willingly pious lifestyle of one's parents, and a deportment which the drugs might allow giving oneself permission to behave in ways that are not unlawful, but depart from one's childhood training without suffering inner conflicts and guilt.
That is why I'd prefer to be depressed, and I have been, than take mind- and spirit-altering chemicals that might cause one to lose one's moral and ethical bearings rather than learn to conform to them through experiencing and developing aversion to unacceptable consequences. I want to become closer to the God of the Bile, rather than acclimate to declining social mores through chemically-induced blindness.
This explanation is rather lengthy, but am I making sense here? Does the word borderline come to mind? Does probing the outer reaches of God's mercy and graciousness arise from a blurring of His Biblical standards?
It was conviction of my guilt for ignoring or abandoning those standards that convinced me of sinfulness, of Christ's righteousness, and God's certain judgment that bought me to the Cross-experience and salvation. I have unallayed concerns for my sister, and pray that she may be prepared to join her kin in the heavenly congregation.
So I guess we should conclude that, if you don’t believe in God, you have a low functioning posterior medial frontal cortex?
In other words, atheists have defective brains?
</ sarcasm>
On a more serious note, sounds like a serious R&D project for the re-education camps that liberal/leftists have in mind for those of us who think or express politically incorrect views.
“O’Brien smiled slightly. ‘You are a flaw in the pattern,
Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out. Did I not
tell you just now that we are different from the persecutors
of the past? We are not content with negative obedience, nor
even with the most abject submission. When finally you
surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not
destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture
his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all
illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one
of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet. But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out. The command of the old despotisms was ‘Thou shalt not”. The command of the totalitarians was ‘Thou shalt”. Our command is ‘THOU ART”.
No one whom we bring to this place ever stands out against
us. Everyone is washed clean. Even those three miserable
traitors in whose innocence you once believed—Jones, Aaronson,and Rutherford—in the end we broke them down. I
took part in their interrogation myself. I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, groveling, weeping—and in
the end it was not with pain or fear, only with penitence.
By the time we had finished with them they were only the
shells of men. There was nothing left in them except sorrow
for what they had done, and love of Big Brother. It was
touching to see how they loved him. They begged to be shot
quickly, so that they could die while their minds were still
clean.’”
George Orwell, “1984”
How prescient, the man.
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