Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet 1020
prostoalex writes "Scientific American is reporting on scientific work done to map the euphoric religious feelings within the brain. As a result, it's now quite possible to experience 'proximity to God' via a special helmet: 'In a series of studies conducted over the past several decades, Persinger and his team have trained their device on the temporal lobes of hundreds of people. In doing so, the researchers induced in most of them the experience of a sensed presence — a feeling that someone (or a spirit) is in the room when no one, in fact, is — or of a profound state of cosmic bliss that reveals a universal truth. During the three-minute bursts of stimulation, the affected subjects translated this perception of the divine into their own cultural and religious language — terming it God, Buddha, a benevolent presence or the wonder of the universe.""
This is the closest to God you can ever get (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Angry religious leaders @ 9.
Proof! (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, Jebus, curse these rotten, immoral Satanic Scientists to the ever-lasting hell they deserve!
Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations (Score:3, Funny)
Three words: (Score:4, Funny)
Magic helmet (Score:5, Funny)
Elmer Fudd: [singing] I am going to kill the Wabbit!
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Oh, mighty hunter, twil be quite a task. How will you do it? Might I inquire to ask?
Elmer Fudd: [singing] I will do it with my spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Your spear and magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: [singing] Spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: [singing] Magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: Magic helmet.
I guess they came to the wrong conclusion... (Score:5, Funny)
I think they discovered a G-something, but not exactly God.
Re:Slashdot.. not just for tech.. (Score:3, Funny)
Not funny.
No Euphoria Here... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to see this work from a distance (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine if you could get a machine that could give a whole room full of people the feeling of god at the press of a button. Has amazing potential for abuse. What if it fit in your pocket and worked within a proximity - then everyone around you would feel your presence! hmmm, I wonder if my wife would then show me respect? Probably not :-(
I wonder how it would apply to sales, getting a job, meeting the oppsite sex, a president negotiating with another one. Certainly would add value to face time.
Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, Christianity is the belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who was his own father, can make you live forever if you eat his flesh. [pizdaus.com]
What's not to like?
Newbligatory (Score:3, Funny)
And if not, why not?
Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Interesting but metaphysically inconclusive (Score:2, Funny)
Big deal (Score:3, Funny)
Non-religious people are clinically disordered (Score:2, Funny)
I don't think the problem is that those people with these religious sensations, it is with the people that don't. Clearly, non-religious people are depressing the world, describing something as beautiful and intense as a walk in the park and reducing it to something mundane. Thanks to the "god helmet", we can finally hunt down these mutants that are wrecking society and adjust their thinking.
Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations (Score:3, Funny)
There is no need to read the bible to make fun of a religion worshipping a naked guy affixed to a torture device and hypocrit enough to preach "tolerance" while being against gays, people who like to fuck for fun and people who don't share the same beliefs.
Re:This is the closest to God you can ever get (Score:3, Funny)
Monotheism due to Fleeing Isrealites (Score:3, Funny)
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