Heidegger

What’s the cure? Use the eliminative determinism of Mr. Hitler & co: either
eugenic pre-determination or for a final solution total elimination of
whomsoever’s brain is so infected. But mass lobotomies would also work to get rid of
this genetic brain defect since Nietzsche’s proclamation, God is Dead
apparently fell on deaf ears. And then we (humankind?) could all sit down like neutered
bunnies forever quieted in front of their of super TVs in the heavenly utopos
enjoyed by Jud & co., the superman elite of correct thinkers.
Bernard

In a message dated 2/12/2007 8:36:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
crifasian at sbcglobal.net writes:
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> By Polly Toynbee
>
> GOD IS A BRAIN DISORDER.
>
>
> Since the beginning of time, humans have imagined themselves visited by
> strange beings - spirits, ghosts, angels, gods and now aliens. For
> believers, the
> timeless universality of these other worldly experiences throughout
> history
> is proof that God exists. They say it shows beyond a doubt that we are
> born
> naturally religious, born with an instinct to worship a supreme being and
> filled with intimations of heaven glimpsed by a few specially sensitive
> people.
> So it must be true.
>
> Everyman (BBC1) this Sunday risks putting itself out of business once and
> for all as a religious based programme. It solves the mystery of such
> experiences, and, potentially, finds the root of all world religions at
> one remarkable
> and controversial stroke. What if all mystical experiences could be
> explained by a particular malfunction of an identifiable part of the
> brain? What if
> these same experiences can be reproduced in ordinary people by stimulating
> that part of the brain? Its a programme to set atheists punching the air.
>
> Yes! Proof at last God does not exist! Dr Michael Persinger, Professor of
> Neuroscience at the Laurentian University in Canada believes he has found
> God-and its a brain disorder. He takes an ordinary woman, who has never
> had any
> odd experiences, and puts her through his brain test. With electrodes
> stimulating one part of her brain, she too reports seeing grey beings, a
> face speeding
> towards her, a sense of extraordinary well being and a vaguely sexual
> sensation. It mirrors so many of the descriptions we hear from those who
> believe
> they have been visited by other spirits. The results match those in oxygen
> deprivation tests which reproduce, under laboratory conditions, those
> out-of-body
> and near death experiences where the dying think they have glimpsed
> heaven.
> It is always a long dark tunnel, ending in a bright light, with
> angel-like
> creatures accompanied by a reassuring euphoria. It is, I’m afraid, the
> same
> pleasurable experience summoned up by those who indulge in sexual
> perversions
> with near-hanging and asphyxia.
>
> We shouldn’t be surprised. After all, many epileptics, who have clearly
> diagnosed brain lesions, report many of the same visions and
> hallucinations
> during a fit as mystics. The programme includes speakers who suggest that
> biblical
> miracles, such as Jacob’s ladder of angels or Paul’s conversion, reflect
> some of these explainable brain functions precisely. If the three wise
> men were
> to be alive now and saw the Star of Bethlehem, they would doubtless
> interpret
> it as a UFO.
>
> Alien abduction experiences are now remarkably common - and painfully
> convincing to those otherwise normal people who have experienced them.
> Two sane and
> sensible ordinary women talk in this programme about their regular alien
> abduction experiences and how difficult it is to live with them. How can
> they
> make others believe what is so real to them? In a sense, the experience
> is
> real. They have seen and heard these things so often, always at night,
> always
> carried out by shadowy aliens. Vaguely sexual sensations are an important
> part
> of it with both women believing they have had eggs taken from them to
> create a
> hybrid new race.
>
> Dr Persinger points out that women and men have had these visions for
> centuries, describing them in the Middle Ages as incubi or succubi-devils
> who
> perform unwanted sexual acts on people in their sleep. In the Middle Ages,
> the
> alien abductees would have been burned as witches. Now I suppose, we
> should be
> sending them to a psychiatrist. Even if their brain malfunction cannot be
> corrected, they might be more at peace with their visions if they could
> realise
> what they are- phantoms of the mind. It is clearly distressing for these
> people
> to feel they have been selected as messengers by space godfathers -
> especially when the nature of the message is so vague.
>
> It leaves them with a sense of urgency that the world needs saving [Just
> like the religious evangelists-LB]-but quite how or from what remains
> incohate.
> Orthodox religions have always found ways to accommodate new scientific
> discoveries. So what will they do with God as a brain malfunction? I
> suppose they
> will relocate God in the brain and say he was always in our heads,
> scientists
> have merely proved his existence, or something of the sort.
>
> Meanwhile, atheists will smile and wait for the day when religious
> apocalyptic visions, which have given rise to so much dangerous
> fanaticism, are put to
> rest with a medical cure.

We don’t have to wait to see the elimination of apocalyptic religiousity.
The experiment was already tried throughout large populations in the 20th
century. We saw the results.

Posted on Monday, February 12th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
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