The morals of an atheist

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

How do you know they're up there?

Well, they aren't. They are dead, goners, non-existent.

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

How'd you know?

Edit: And don't link me to some bloody Susan Blackmore site. If I wanted tips on anything from her, it would be hair styling.

Because I know about the brain.

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

How do you know they're up there?

You're getting dangerously close to Angelica-territory.


uh-oh.


this might belong on that list.

gue_barium wrote:

You're getting dangerously close to Angelica-territory.


uh-oh.


this might belong on that list.

Nah, I'm on a late night beer kick, that's all.

I eat babies for breakfast...


then again I'm agnostic not an atheist.





my ex-sister and i used to go round after round on this. she'd insist that because i did not believe that Jesus Christ was my Lord and Savior and that he died for my sins that i could not possibly have any morals or values. :rolleyes: of course i'd tell her that she was fucked in the head. at least for the last few years my other siblings and i have enough sense to not have anything to do with her.

Bu2 wrote:

We're all in it to survive, aren't we?

There is a class of civility that has survived many ages. If I may call it "class".

The human shmigamoofaloon relies on stimulus. All good thinkers search out new stimuli. Some are more haphazard in that progress than others.

Ahnimus wrote:

I don't need to know all about it. Do some reading on brain damage, that should be enough.

That's like me "proving" Shakespeare was a raving homosexual, based on psycholinguistic analysis of Sonnet 20.

gue_barium wrote:

was that an oral sex reference?

Psycholinguistic. Not cunnilinguistic.

Anyway, I'm off to listen to some mad Chrisjun evangelists on my short wave radio. May as well.

gue_barium wrote:

Sorry. I wanted to see your educational superiority prevail over the crudeness of ahnimus's neo-light science.

Language is the bomb.

No offense ahnimus.
You're quite a thinker.

Neo meaning New. New-Light science? I don't get it!

Let's see, damage to Broca's area causes something called Broca's aphasia where a person cannot speak or make out words.

Damage to Wernicke's area causes receptive aphasia where a person cannot hear musical sounds, even a water-fall, or knock at their door.

Damage to the angular gyrus causes a person to lose association between sight, sound, touch and so on. They can see a pen, but can't make the association that it is a pen, if they are holding the pen, they don't know that they are holding the same object they are seeing.

Damage to particular halves of the brain can result in some strange disassociations where the subject thinks half of their body belongs to someone else.

Cortical blindness, which is damage to the visual cortex, also known as Anton-Babinksi syndrome, causes a person to not be able to see, but their brain confabulates, so they think they can see, they don't know that they can't see.

Damage to the frontal lobe, the executive inhibitory feature of the brain, causes a person to act as if they are uninhibited all the time, kind of like being totally drunk.

Severing the Corpus Callosum, the fibre that connects the two hemispheres, causes a person to split in two. There are essentially two people controlling opposite sides of the body. It's also called Split-Brain and includes a Split-Consciousness.

Damage to the anterior cingulate sulcus in either hemisphere removes any sense of authorship (Free-will) over the thoughts, emotions, and actions of the opposite side of the body/brain.

Look it all up, or check out Brain-Mind.com and the Brain-Mind lectures on video.google