Bible bombshell: Jesus used cannabis to perform 'miracles'?

Douglas.Curtis said:

LOL, my first thought was the video clip of Gates (in response to the fact vaccines his foundation pushes kill infants) saying how parents will cherish the children who live more than if they hadn't lost any kids.


Yeah, not funny but funny.

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Gypsy Nirvana said:

Hmmm, yes, some people even believe that the mosquito is a Gods way of controlling the human population, by causing all that suffering and many deaths. I have known people with cerebral malaria (that which got Franco).....and they can suffer immensely for a very long time before dying a horrible death. Dengue' fever too is bloody aweful not to even mention Japanese encephalitis....

Yeah, if I was a God cannabis oil would be in every home along with the plants to produce it in every garden, and if we can get Jesus to drop down from his busy schedule to do a promo .....I'd reckon that the Jesus brand would sell the best 'cos you could advertize the company as: 'God and Son anointing oils....meekly serving the discerning believer for 2018 years'....

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Easy7 said:

The whole idea of the enlightenment period was that we don't need superstition lies to answer suffering. Either people can handle the truth and suck it up, or people need myth to cope.

2 trillion galaxies does offer a lot of unknown. So there is going to be plenty of room for myth/error.

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Gypsy Nirvana said:

So suffering is some sort of right of passage to being compassionate?..Hmm yes every time I see someone fall out of a tree I feel compassionate because I have a shared experience of falling out of trees....it reminds me of the broken bones, the hurt and the hospital luckily...

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xet said:

Transcending suffering is the only end to suffering.

Google photo of burning monk.

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Weird said:

transcending our own personal perception of suffering predicated on our own psychological imprint while remaining compassionate to the suffering of those who don't understand this is the middle road



being able to resist self immolation while as noble it was in Thích Quảng Đức's case is not transferable to all it is provisional because of the extremity and finality



thus the comment regarding the middle road

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Gypsy Nirvana said:

Very interesting Weird....

Lets go on an exploration of the frontal lobes of the brain then. Are some brains more seemingly developed than others in this aspect of empathy and empirical thinking being present, and if so is that a development/aspect of human evolution that is found in what sort of populations, ethnic or otherwise?....or as I suspect is it a constant throughout most all societies?

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Confirming some of their earlier conclusions, the authors found that both religious belief and religious practice seem to be associated with networks in the brain involved with social cognitive processing. The robustness of the networks varied on an individual basis, reflecting each subject’s distinct religiosity, and seemed to fluctuate over time in response to changing stimuli. None of the networks they identified were found to be unique to religion.
The MRI results revealed that a stronger sense of intimacy with God correlated with an increase in the cortical volume of the right middle temporal gyrus (MTG). The MTG plays a key role in establishing and maintaining intimate relationships, such as the one between a mother and her child, so the authors reason that its evolution gave rise to the sense of intimacy with God that some devout individuals share.
At the other end, subjects with low MTG volumes displayed little interest in God or religion. (Schizophrenic patients, who often struggle to differentiate self from God and display aberrant religious behaviors, had the lowest volumes.)
They also found a pronounced negative correlation between the cortical volume of the left precuneus, an area involved in empathy and emotional response, and fear of God's anger. Those who felt a stronger connection with God, and thus were better able to relate God to their selves, had larger precuneus volumes and tended to be the most devout practitioners. Individuals with smaller volumes who did not form strong emotional bonds with God typically prayed out of a sense of fear, rather than out of a sense conviction or love.
Because the study only considered adults, the obvious next step would be to analyze younger age groups. Being correlational rather than causal, these findings don't really address the question of whether certain individuals were more predisposed to particular patterns of religiosity because of their brain development. The fact that no region of the brain corresponded with religiosity of upbringing rules out the contention that religious nurture alone contributes to neuroanatomical variability.
The sum total of their results suggests that religious belief may have arisen as a natural extension of evolutionary advances in social cognition and behavior. Over time, the changes in brain volume that enabled humans to show empathy towards others may have also made it possible for some to develop intimate personal relationships with a supernatural entity, thus laying the foundation for the emergence of religion.

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During their varied transcendent states, all subjects showed similar activity patterns in the parietal cortex, which processes sensation, spatial orientation, and language, and is thought to influence attention, among other functions. In other words, whether the thing that makes a person feel connected to something greater involves church, trees, or a stadium full of sports fans, it appears to have the same effect on the brain.
The effect on the brain is distinct from the effect of other forms of relaxation, according to researchers. “We observed in the spiritual condition, as compared with the neutral-relaxing condition, reduced activity in the left inferior parietal lobule (IPL), a result that suggests the IPL may contribute importantly to perceptual processing and self-other representations during spiritual experiences,” the study explains.
These changes in the brain may help explain why, during spiritual experiences, the barrier between the self and others can be reduced or even eliminated altogether. Although we need some separation between ourselves and everyone else for protection and to manage reality, removing the barrier every so often is also valuable.
“Spiritual experiences are robust states that may have profound impacts on people’s lives,” explains Yale psychiatry and neuroscience professor Marc Potenza, in a statement about the work. “Understanding the neural bases of spiritual experiences may help us better understand their roles in resilience and recovery from mental health and addictive disorders.”
Spiritual experiences involve “pronounced shifts in perception [that] buffer the effects of stress,” the study says. The findings suggest that those experiences can be accessed by everyone, and that transcendence isn’t dependent upon religiosity. That makes studying spiritual experiences and figuring out how to use such states for improved mental health easier for scientists. Next, the researchers hope to test a bigger group of subjects of all ages.
Beyond mental health, scientists study spirituality because the human quest for meaning is timeless and universal. By cultivating spiritual experiences in addition to strengthening our intellectual abilities, people can lead emotionally richer lives and develop more open minds, scientists say.
As Tony Jack, director of the Brain, Mind and Consciousness lab at Case Western Reserve University—who was not involved in this study—explains to WKSU, analytical thinking and spiritual, empathic thinking rely on different neural pathways and processes. They don’t happen simultaneously in the brain, but both modes are necessary, like breathing in and breathing out. “You can’t do both at the same time, but you need both to stay healthy and well,” he says.

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Easy7 said:

Real religious experience is rare. It's too phony anymore. Bubblegum religion. Epic lies. Just watch some of the christian channels on free tv and theyhorseshit the feed kids. Being stupid is not being saved.

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DoubleTripleOG said:

I can't wait for the day when science proves we aren't alone in this universe. Then most , if not all religions will have a lot of explaining to do. At the rate we are going, I can see it happening in my kids lifetime.

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Gypsy Nirvana said:

Very interesting Weird....

Lets go on an exploration of the frontal lobes of the brain then. Are some brains more seemingly developed than others in this aspect of empathy and empirical thinking being present, and if so is that a development/aspect of human evolution that is found in what sort of populations, ethnic or otherwise?....or as I suspect is it a constant throughout most all societies?

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DoubleTripleOG said:

I can't wait for the day when science proves we aren't alone in this universe. Then most , if not all religions will have a lot of explaining to do. At the rate we are going, I can see it happening in my kids lifetime.

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