What Happens to Your Brain When You Stop Believing in God

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What Happens to Your Brain When You Stop Believing in God:
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that's what happened to him so it happens to everyone?  vice website LOL
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I presume they've replaced one form of indoctrination with another.
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do you have any reason to think what is written is misleading or untrue? sounds like you are criticizing only because it's possible to criticize, not because you have a cogent argument. 
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"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people". 


-Karl Marx
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the title is naturally misleading, deceitful
                                      What Happens to Your Brain When You Stop Believing in God:
it should have been       What Happens to HIS Brain When HE stops believing in God:
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do you have any reason to think the stuff in the article doesn't happen to most or all people when they stop believing? even if one of the religions out there is true, the brain still acts the same way as described in the article when someone stops believing the truth. even if christianity is true, for instance, moreover, there are thousands of others that are false, and the descriptions in that article are much stronger, like how people stop believing in the same way as they do with santa. 
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why should I believe her?  she not a doctor or anything.  it's an anti-religion article guised as some kind of fact or study.  No data to analyze no links to anything.  And you believe this stuff?  Are you really that naive? 

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it sounds completely credible. the article describes the way people stop believing in santa, and draws parallels to religion. the article has lots of statistics. it looks like you're just against the article because it's not friendly to religion, not because it's untrue. are you too dense to realize that? at least, you've given no convincing or substantive arguments to think otherwise. 
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What is the incentive in making this when you are a liberal Christian? 
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just stimulating discussion/debate
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just stimulating discussion/debate
So no change of mind just taking the devil's advocate approach?

I really would've hoped you would have seen the different standards you have with theism and politics. 
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I'm against the article for the reasons I have already stated, I do not take such things on faith as apparently you do, I want to see the study and stats for myself so I can make up my own mind, lemmings however require no such thing.
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What is the incentive in making this when you are a liberal Christian? 
hahahaha, ouch, well played



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hahahaha, ouch, well played
What do you mean?

The very little I know about n8 I knew he made a forum topic about this. 
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the article has research, stats, and good arguments. you have none of those things. case closed. 

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you know more than I about him, seemed a pretty good call out by you, I got some enjoyment out of it anyway.
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you know more than I about him, seemed a pretty good call out by you, I got some enjoyment out of it anyway.
Weird. You engaged with more of his conversations but you don't really remember the bare minimum. You are a conservative. I think you are a theist as well. That is my labels I stuck on you. 

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yeah? hmm "a radiology professor at the University of Utah who studies religion in the brain." where's his stats or research in the article? "Anderson tells me, people who develop Parkinson's are much more likely to lose their faith." cite?   I could go on but there's no need, or point.
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you are free to thing whatever you will, read my posts in the religion forum so you can make an informed opinion.
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you are free to thing whatever you will, read my posts in the religion forum so you can make an informed opinion.
Oke doke.


You said it is more likely an intelligent designer than a strawman (I consider it to be). 

Stephen C Meyer mention and said he had a powerful argument.

I'll come back to it when I can. 
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Why didn't you like to state your Religious affiliation?

I think you do heavily imply with C Meyer that you are a Christian because I only hear Christians mention him as a person who makes good arguments for God not atheists because they are not in the know in the next champion of theistic arguments. 
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theist; a person who believes in the existence of a God or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe.

Why didn't you like to state your Religious affiliation?
because I don't have one

there is a facebook page about intelligent design, yet you are not allowed to talk about religion so.....


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Do you believe in God? 
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believe; accept (something) as true; feel sure of the truth of.           no
believe; hold (something) as an opinion; think or suppose.              I suppose it's possible

I hope that it's true but I can't say I believe it to be so.

how about you?
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I hope that it's true but I can't say I believe it to be so.
So your a deist not a Christian? 
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that would probably be more accurate, however, while intelligent design seems the most plausible that does not mean that designer is still around, alive or in existence.  Though if something could create on that scale it's most likely still in existence, how active or involved I have no idea.  Last I knew someone came up with an 11 dimension theory, so I believe that is also possible and it all could be related or otherwise linked together.

if the topic is true, does the brain activity change when you no longer enjoy a hobby that you use to?  a food?  how about before and after a divorce?
does parkinson cause a loss of faith or is there a loss of faith because of contracting parkinson disease?
people go to and away from religion because of illness and traumatic events, which is why I find this article so silly and anyone who would accept it as fact overly naive.
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people go to and away from religion because of illness and traumatic events, which is why I find this article so silly and anyone who would accept it as fact overly naive.
How about children born into an atheist family?

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VICE?, HAHAHHAHAHHAAH
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tbh I don't think it has anything to do with religion, but rather things you like or are passionate about.  There is a really good feeling being around other happy and loving people but when feelings are gone or fade changes seem pretty obvious, but that isn't exclusive to religion I don't think.  Similarly the presence and then absence of extreme emotional pain probably have the same effects.  They are measuring nothing more than emotions, what causes them is irrelevant to whatever they think they are measuring.  There is no test that I know of that measure emotions with such specificity.