Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS | |
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(OP) User ID: 69461631 United States 10/14/2015 12:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | TMS, which is used to treat depression, involves placing a large electromagnetic coil against the scalp which creates electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control. Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice. Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers. Dr Keise Izuma, from the University of York, said: "People often turn to ideology when they are confronted by problems. Volunteers were asked to rate their belief in God, heaven, the devil, and hell after undergoing pre-screening to ensure that they held religious convictions. Dr Izuma said: "We decided to remind people of death because previous research has shown that people turn to religion for comfort in the face of death. "As expected, we found that when we experimentally turned down the posterior medial frontal cortex, people were less inclined to reach for comforting religious ideas despite having been reminded of death." The American participants were also shown two essays written by newly arrived immigrants - one highly complimentary of the US and the other extremely critical. Dr Izuma said: "When we disrupted the brain region that usually helps detect and respond to threats, we saw a less negative, less ideologically motivated reaction to the critical author and his opinions." The research, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, suggests our brains use the same basic mental pathways to solve practical problems such as following directions or ideological issues such as immigration and religion. Lead author Dr Colin Holbrook, form the the University of California at Los Angeles, said: "These findings are very striking, and consistent with the idea that brain mechanisms that evolved for relatively basic threat-response functions are re-purposed to also produce ideological reactions." “Careful man, there's a beverage here!” The Dude |
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(OP) User ID: 69461631 United States 10/14/2015 12:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Source: [link to www.express.co.uk] This is a pretty scary idea and I'd be curious what everyone things about this. If our thoughts can be changed with magnetic fields then it's only a matter of time before TPTB manage to do this remotely on a large scale. Some have said this is already occurring on a smaller scale with haarp, cell towers and scalar waves. Discuss... “Careful man, there's a beverage here!” The Dude |
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(OP) User ID: 69461631 United States 10/14/2015 12:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | probably, magnetic fields are all around us and to think they don't affect our mind, is retarded. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6219294 Yes thats true, but there is also bacteria all around us and it doesn't make us sick normally. Likewise with an MRI, you cant just stand next to a magnet and have it see through you. It's a little more complicated than that. “Careful man, there's a beverage here!” The Dude |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24239850 United Kingdom 10/14/2015 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Won't work because they still are stupid to understand the essential knowledge about mind and how we are connected to everything. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46653289 The only way you can change believe is through drugs and violence. You change the way the brain physically behaves and you change the thought processes. We know this from when people suffer brain damage. It's also what drugs do. Presumably to maintain the revised brain patterns the magnets would need to be worn permanently. |
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(OP) User ID: 69461631 United States 10/14/2015 12:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Won't work because they still are stupid to understand the essential knowledge about mind and how we are connected to everything. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46653289 The only way you can change believe is through drugs and violence. You change the way the brain physically behaves and you change the thought processes. We know this from when people suffer brain damage. It's also what drugs do. Presumably to maintain the revised brain patterns the magnets would need to be worn permanently. I'd tend to agree unless there are examples of Neuroplasticity at work here, which would indicate that changes in thoughts actually do have a physical effect on the neural connections in the brain. This idea asserts that one can literally change the physical structure of their brain by thinking. If this phenomenon is taking place during and after this treatment than the effects would be more permanent in nature. “Careful man, there's a beverage here!” The Dude |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70501090 United States 10/14/2015 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hold this electromagnetic device up to your head for hours all day. At all other times keep it in your pocket or in your hand. Don't let it get more than two feet away from your brain all day. When you sleep at night, put it on the bedside table so it is still within three feet of your brain all night. There's nothing to worry about, it's just a smartphone. No way it can affect you. That's crazy conspiracy talk. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34851405 United States 10/14/2015 11:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The ex-Soviet Union's reeducation camp wet dream. I have to say when I hear about technologies such as this, I always have the feeling that they've already been in use for a long time prior to the technology being revealed to the public. So targeted individuals probably do have military beams from overhead planes, etc, trying to change or wipe their thought processes. |
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User ID: 70214327 United States 10/14/2015 11:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hold this electromagnetic device up to your head for hours all day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70501090 At all other times keep it in your pocket or in your hand. Don't let it get more than two feet away from your brain all day. When you sleep at night, put it on the bedside table so it is still within three feet of your brain all night. There's nothing to worry about, it's just a smartphone. No way it can affect you. That's crazy conspiracy talk. _________ To die would be an awfully big adventure. Go then, there are other worlds than these. Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped. |
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