Why do intelligent People Still Believe in Religion? 29: The Experience! | GinaConspiracy
Religion isn't just a belief, it is an experience What you are experiencing may be a complete illusion or delusion of reality but you are still experiencing it
When a person feels filled with the Holy ghost, that persons body is experiencing a hightened state of sypathetic system arousal, and is experiencing a state of euphoria This person of course attributes this experience to God and points to this experience as evidence of god as nothing but could could possibly cause this feeling Of course when one is first deeply infatuated with someone they feel the same way Psychology has found that many things have the same effect on people, and with the god helmet that causes spiritual experiences when magnetically stimulating the temporal lobe, the rarety and use of spiritual experiences as evidence for god really has little to no impact But people tie the experience to their beliefs
I remember watching the movie Avatar I though it was one of the most amazing things I had ever seen Other people watched it and thought it sucked or they had focused on the fairly clicheic plot line It was hard for me to believe that there were so many critics Had we watched the same movie? Well yes we had, They had watched it on a regular movie screen, I had watch it as my first movie in 3D IMAX
In 2D the brain is fairly passive, there is little experience of interaction This is the reason why using TV as a baby sitter or those baby einstein videos have shown to have a negative effect on childrens IQ, as babies need interaction to stimulate their brains to learn 3D wakes up the brain and makes it feel more interactive They watched the movie, I had experienced the movie Religion is no different
Religion has been so successful because it has figured out ways to experience something and from there you are just naturally open minded to what ever is taught Islam is an interesting example In Arabic, the qu'ron is very poetically written Special Imams are taught methods of recitation of the quron for greater poetic impact The beauty of the verse can completely cover the shallowness and hypocracy of the actual text
When read in another language with the poetic elements removed, the quoron becomes a completely different book Music is another way to experience something that covers the actual message but makes you feel good, many hymns are beautiful to listen to, but if you read the hymn at face value it can surprise you how different it is from how you perceieved in through music A lot of why you like a song is the memories associated with the tune For me lyrics have always be secondary to the music I have asperger's so its hard to get into new music and and I play and replay the same tune over and over again, however I may miss the point of the song because I don't correctly hear they lyrics, and in my brain a lot of lyrics are nonsensical poetry to me which is fun
Now that I no longer listen to country and no longer have positive connotations associated with it, I find myself shocked as to the amount of cheating and destructive behaviors it promoted If we could separate some of our good feelings from some of our held beliefs and look at it logically we might be shocked as to what we claim to believe, but we don't because we don't want the good feelings to be destroyed To an outsider reading the bible it seems shallow, stupid or brutal They probably wont get why anyone would follow it literally, much of the stuff in it is just bad The same is true with when I read the qu'ron, I have no emotional or experience level and no memories attached to it so it just sounds like any other ancient book with a brutal deity who tells you every other verse in hypnotic rhythm that the Allah will not forgive you and will punish you if you don't obey him
Crowd hypnosis and other magic tricks are also used to allow the parishioner to experience the religion Many megachurchs and televangelist preacher use well know illusionist tactics to stimulate people into hyping the experience Other skeptical illusionists are keen to point these tactics out A new book that is next on my reading list is called “Sleight of mind”, showing how neurologists are teaming up with magicians to find out how the brain is tricked Aside from magic tricks used by illusionists there is yet another way to increase the feeligns of the experience
Much of it is just a slight change in language or dialect Konnichiwa Aloha Guten Tag drasvoches comerade Yarrrr matey, she be a comely wench Aye, top o' te mornin to ya Now that I have offended nearly all of my subcribers, with my complete and utter abuse of their language or accent, I will explain why I did this There is a point to it Lanugage and accent are part of our life Another persons language and accent takes us out of our reality
It feels exotic exciting, or just plain fun Its why there are reenacters (harck! Forsooth verily and huzzah!), why we find accents sexy or romantic (Bonjour, ma belle cheri) and more importantly why some elements of religion are so strongly held (verily) The 2 I can think or right off the bat are the king james only group of christians, or the majority of islam in general(Dawahfilms) Islam claims that the only way you can truly understand or appreciate The koran is if you understand arabic However the majority of the muslim world do not speak arabic, much less read it
Ibn Warrik a former muslim professor makes the point that just about every 5th word in the qoran is ridiculously ambiguous and entire schools with overly complex methodologies to determine what the words mean and even they can't agree on most of it Ibn Warrick and a few others have proposed that the actual quoran was actually initally written in ancient syriac which is a cousin language of old arabic, as the book makes a lot more sense with little ambiguity He has had death threats on his life for this Jews love using hebrew, as communally binding them and giving them that sense of spirituality They even resurrected this dead language to be the official langauge of Israel as their languages were so varied
The King James version of the bible was the first version translated into english It is to date one of the most innaccurate translations we have however the people who translated did an excellent job of making it sound very poetic Because of this loyalty to the poetry some people are certain that every other bible is a doctored copy by the catholic church to spread satans lies When you fall in love with a language or culture you really want to be a part of it as much as possible This is why the klingon language was made
However religion can highjack this and instead of falling in love with the culture you fall in love with pieces of the culture tied to a religion Instead of trying to understand the culture, you try to understand the religion and the culture is now a beautiful mystery You assume that the culture was just like yours even if it was completely different Buddhism does this with chants and mantras They understand that repetition or specific unusual phrases can take you out of your normal reailty
Although theirs is to relax you and help focus your mind This is the reason why spells in magic worked, because they got the mind off of reality making things seem supernaturalWhat all of these little tricks are used to get the mind from watching or reading a religion to experiencing it, waking them up to the shallowness, hypocricy or brutality is pointless Mind you this new generation coming us is slated to leave their religion at a rate of 80% before they are 30
This shows that multimedia has seriously weakened the effect of religious experence The kids see it all in their video games and movies They are told that is not real, then they go to church and get told, no this is real, they are going to start questioning it As technology hits more nations more of the young population will begin to question With the rise of the internet atheists are beginning to pop up in many islamic countries to the point that the Saudi Government is beginnging to view it as a potential threat
When high level multimedia is available to everyone, the ability to use old parlor tricks to keep people from questioning will be useless Sadly advertising and politics are getting heavily into the multimedia ring and becoming the new unquestioned religion for many If religions want to keep their grip on their people they had better upgrade the bible or the qu'ron to 3D interactive cinematography and maybe make the 12 disciples giant blue aliens just for good measure
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