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Scientists reduce belief in God by shutting down the brain’s medial frontal cortex
http://www.psypost.org/2015/10/scientists-reduce-belief-in-god-by-shutting-down-the-brains-medial-frontal-cortex-38516 ^

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


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KEYWORDS: brain; faithandphilosophy; magnetic; magneticstimulation; tms
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1 posted on 10/16/2015 6:56:11 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton
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To: Lucy Hamilton

http://www.psypost.org/2015/10/scientists-reduce-belief-in-god-by-shutting-down-the-brains-medial-frontal-cortex-38516

Notice not only can they stop one believing in God, but they can make you pro-”Immigrants” too.

WTF?! What new Hell is this?


2 posted on 10/16/2015 6:57:21 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

That’s what the Communists did to those “insane” enough to believe that Communism wasn’t the greatest thing since sliced bread.


3 posted on 10/16/2015 6:58:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Facts are what one believes to be true. Everything else is an opinion to the belligerent.

Immigrants should assimilate or be removed.


4 posted on 10/16/2015 6:59:09 PM PDT by soycd
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To: dfwgator

Yes, looks like they’re back.


5 posted on 10/16/2015 6:59:16 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

I have not been able to find out how long these effects lasted, or if there was any follow-up beyond the initial questionnaire.

If there were any lasting effects, the experiment was unethical.


6 posted on 10/16/2015 7:00:32 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: Lucy Hamilton
The magnetic godless leftists will be forever losers...

Romans 8:38-39

'For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'

7 posted on 10/16/2015 7:01:09 PM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Start taking out parts of the liberal brain and it will break down even sooner.


8 posted on 10/16/2015 7:01:24 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Lucy Hamilton

That’s probably how the Mark of the beast is going to work!


9 posted on 10/16/2015 7:01:43 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Destroying the physiological operation of the brain does not nullify the existence of the Almighty.

10 posted on 10/16/2015 7:02:17 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Well, there is nothing new about Hell. It has remain the same since God created the Earth.

So that explains alot of the Liberal Zombies they had their medial frontal cortex shut down. Now is there a reverse method of restarting their frontal cortex?


11 posted on 10/16/2015 7:02:42 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Lucy Hamilton

So when brain damage is made by a device they become more liberal?


12 posted on 10/16/2015 7:03:09 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Sounds like BS to me. You’d want to know how they felt both before and after the treatment, yes?

Nevertheless, this’d be a funny argument against atheists and libs, “Part of your brain is not working, that’s why you think that way.”


13 posted on 10/16/2015 7:05:42 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Allah too or just God?


14 posted on 10/16/2015 7:07:30 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Lucy Hamilton

We put leftists in deep sleep and have headphones playing the Bible in their ears for hours on end. Then we mix in praise and patriotic music plus readings of the Constitution and quotes by the founders. Then its back to Bible recordings and repeat the cycles many times over. Guaranteed to cure a diseased leftist mind, heart and soul.


15 posted on 10/16/2015 7:07:46 PM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: Lucy Hamilton
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.

This research seems to prove that our Liberal brethren have underdeveloped posterior medial frontal cortex.

16 posted on 10/16/2015 7:09:20 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Lucy Hamilton
Reminds me of a passage in 1984 when O'Brien used a machine on Winston Smith's brain.

For a short time, he believed everything O'Brien told him. Two plus two equaled five, O'Brien had six fingers on each hand, and he loved Big Brother.

We are so close to when fiction becomes reality...

17 posted on 10/16/2015 7:09:25 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: ZOOKER

Like Bono sang, “And it’s true we are immune. When fact is fiction and TV reality.”


18 posted on 10/16/2015 7:10:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ColdSteelTalon

lol.

of course there’s NO WAY to affect the brain in a way that makes you believe in God more and realize that illegals spilling across the border, including tons of MS13, is a disaster in the making.

Maybe we FReepers will one day be forced to undergo this Therapy!!

It’s funny. It was an atheist at my old job who helped me regain my faith.

He said “just because humans have the capacity to believe in God doesn’t mean there isn’t one”

Sounds crazy, but at the time i was a deep intellectual who thought that we just believed in God because we were smart enough to understand death and believe in a God out of fear.

He made me realize that was nonsense,.


19 posted on 10/16/2015 7:10:38 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: MNDude

That’s what I thought, the Mark to be in the right hand or the FOREHEAD.

I think we are in the realm of the Anti-Christ system here, wanting to turn us into Godless, unfeeling zombies.

Exceptionally disturbing.


20 posted on 10/16/2015 7:13:03 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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