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<blockquote data-quote="kristianjohnsen" data-source="post: 65908" data-attributes="member: 441">Re: You&#039;re welcome.I&#039;ll offer this to the thread as I don&#039;t want to get into the religious debate:I recently listened to a show about biological science on the radio.&nbsp; The researcher that was inteviewed made a really good point:The way we are taught in school, think about how our bodies function, etc, we constantly say things like &quot;the brain is our most important organ&quot;, &quot;the human brain is x amount of lbs&quot;, &quot;humans HAVE a brain that is more powerful than that of a rabbit&quot;, etc.The point she made was that we don&#039;t HAVE a brain, we ARE a brain.&nbsp; I AM a brain, but I HAVE a body attached to it.&nbsp; The brain is who we are and it&#039;s very powerful, but we must remember that whatever we experience of the world around us is just signals reaching us from our sensory organs.If someone has received a convincing piece of input (perceived or factual) about a revelation of God or whatever, it&#039;s going to seem as convicing to them as gravity seems to me when I drop a hammer on my foot.&nbsp; Whether the input is coming from real signals from real sensory organs, from a book, or whether it&#039;s just imagined doesn&#039;t matter to the perceiver once he is convinced.I learned to accept this a long time ago. &nbsp;I&#039;m just thankful every day that I get to live in a country that allows me to feel the way I wish to about these issues - and I can post about it on the web without fear - or I can freely choose not to.I can only imagine the feeling of powerlessness one must experience if one is forced to either believe or pretend to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kristianjohnsen, post: 65908, member: 441"] Re: You're welcome. I'll offer this to the thread as I don't want to get into the religious debate: I recently listened to a show about biological science on the radio. The researcher that was inteviewed made a really good point: The way we are taught in school, think about how our bodies function, etc, we constantly say things like "the brain is our most important organ", "the human brain is x amount of lbs", "humans HAVE a brain that is more powerful than that of a rabbit", etc. The point she made was that we don't HAVE a brain, we ARE a brain. I AM a brain, but I HAVE a body attached to it. The brain is who we are and it's very powerful, but we must remember that whatever we experience of the world around us is just signals reaching us from our sensory organs. If someone has received a convincing piece of input (perceived or factual) about a revelation of God or whatever, it's going to seem as convicing to them as gravity seems to me when I drop a hammer on my foot. Whether the input is coming from real signals from real sensory organs, from a book, or whether it's just imagined doesn't matter to the perceiver once he is convinced. I learned to accept this a long time ago. I'm just thankful every day that I get to live in a country that allows me to feel the way I wish to about these issues - and I can post about it on the web without fear - or I can freely choose not to. I can only imagine the feeling of powerlessness one must experience if one is forced to either believe or pretend to. [/QUOTE]

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