Does god only exist in your head?

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I don't really like using this site because it does seem a little biased 😂 , but what they are saying was in the LA times ( I read that article before, just couldn't find it again) and we talked about it in class at University, so hes not making it up...

Does this mean that because part of your brain is stimulated you have a perception of God that does not actually exist or does it exist thats just the part of the brain that reacts to a religious experience?

I have some ideas but I want to see what sense you guys make of these articles and this idea of a "God Module"

The idea that part of your brain controls religious experience does not negate the possibility of there being a god, but the fact that the same area of the brain is affected by epileptic siezures and the high number of religious epileptics stengthens the argument that ultra religious people do have something funny in their heads. Or what about the same area of the brain when stimulated causing some people to talk to god, while others experience things like visions of allien abduction? Anyway... read, and learn.... post your comments, I want to hear them.

Heh, actually it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was something to that. People talk about "feeling god inside you" all the time, I've always thought it was just some kind of low level hallucination. Like you want to believe it so bad that your mind makes it true.

well like people through meditation begin to exercise certain connections in their brain that they usually dont use... maybe thats the same for like christians or muslims.

That still doesnt really say much for whether those connections are based on some external reality or, like DR said, you believe in it so bad that your mind makes it true, despite any external truth supporting that.

The only aspect of God that exists solely in our head, is our own concept of him.

...or her.

...or her

That's actually quite interesting...

In the case of epileptics, this may be the reason for many of them becoming obsessed with religion. The researchers came upon these cerebral revelations in the course of studying the brain patterns of certain people with epilepsy. Epileptics who suffer a particular type of seizure are often intensely religious, and are known to report an unusual number of spiritually-oriented visions and obsessions.

Uh, no. I have two members of my direct family who are epileptic and both are stolid atheists. Count them, that's both. Are they to be considered exceptions to this apparent rule? Pfffft.......

Scientists, philosophers and atheists have long argued that God and spirituality are constructs of the human mind

I'm an atheist and although I would argue that God is indeed a figment of the imagination, I would not say that it is from a designated part of the anatomy, like the brain. Isn't the brain a totally different thing to the imagination?

Their findings tentatively suggest that we as a species are genetically programmed to believe in God.

No, we are a species genetically programmed to believe in things that allow us to live our lives more comfortably. If we had no faith in anything we would be even more likely to question life than we are now.

"There may be dedicated neural machinery in the temporal lobes concerned with religion," the research team announced at a conference for the Society for Neuroscience. "This may have evolved to impose order and stability on society."

I am willing to bet that this entire team of researchers convene every single Sunday in their custom built laboratory-cum-church.

or it or they or them or they
is there a higher power why were we put here who knows without one thing there can't be another. without animals there can't be trees without trees there can't be air they all had to come about at around the same time could that have happened by just the world antimatter and matter exploding who can say

Originally posted by Chris87
or it or they or them or they
is there a higher power why were we put here who knows without one thing there can't be another. without animals there can't be trees without trees there can't be air they all had to come about at around the same time could that have happened by just the world antimatter and matter exploding who can say

I know I won't be the only member to say What?

asking myself questions and don't have to be a male or female who knows it is supposed be beyond our imageination so how do we know who came up with the concept of god don't we gain knowledge through experience so we would have to experience god to know about him we just say what we here crazy fanatics

Originally posted by Syren
I know I won't be the only member to say What?

No, you definitely won't be...😕

Originally posted by Chris87
asking myself questions and don't have to be a male or female who knows it is supposed be beyond our imageination so how do we know who came up with the concept of god don't we gain knowledge through experience so we would have to experience god to know about him we just say what we here crazy fanatics

Have you ever seen these?

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girls and understanding just don't mix 😛

Originally posted by yerssot
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girls and understanding just don't mix 😛

You bet your candy .ass they don't, byatch 😒

Originally posted by yerssot
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girls and understanding just don't mix 😛

I can understand just fine when people bother to use punctuation 😛

yes, God only exsists in our head. As does our entire perception of reality.

Originally posted by Silver Stardust
I can understand just fine when people bother to use punctuation 😛

That's because I had a smilie there, genius 😛 It looks silly when you have a period and then a smilie.

there is no rule about that, y'know 😛