What Religion are You?

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Think about what I said:

New pathways' being formed isn't random. If it were, our thoughts would be too.

As I suggested, I believe the spirit / consciousness leads and the body follows / accommodates.
 
CrazyNutz said:
Right, it's not random. The pathways form as you're learning a new skill for example. As you practice said skill over, and over the pathways become more refined.
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I knew you'd say this and was tempted to cover it too at the time.

The spirit / consciousness is the instigator. You direct your life and actions; the pathways facilitate but don't instigate.

This is why I have a problem with how some (most?) psychologists view psychological disorders. From my POV they're putting the cart before the horse by "blaming the brain". Essentially IMHO, we're not slaves to the pathways we've created; we're the creators.
 
Monkey Man said:
we're not slaves to the pathways we've created; we're the creators.
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Your conscious thoughts program your subconscious.

Your subconscious then carries out this programming, without any input or even awareness of your conscious mind.

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Yes, but both are divisions / categories of the overarching life-force / spirit / awareness / consciousness / essence I'm talking about - the real you.

This cannot be quantified, measured, weighed, photographed etc. but as I said, IMHO it's the driver of everything in your life including the manner in which you experience events.
 
adamant said:
Elephants don’t stop to ponder the meaning of life even though they have huge brains with several times more neurons than ours.
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To be fair, I read a book written, I think back in the '50s or '60s, that famously documented their visiting the bones of lost family members in what were called "elephant graveyards".

It should probably also be put out here as a general principle for the thread, seeing as it's been alluded to, that brain size doesn't necessarily determine intelligence levels.

On a "micro" level, some of the smartest people ever have had "small" brains and the converse is also true.

On an inter-species level it's mind-boggling how intelligent even the smallest insects and arachnids can be. Is a human proportionately-cleverer than a tiny jumping spider by brain volume? I'm guessing we'd have to be a kazillion (scientific term) times smarter if brain volume or mass were the indicator.

That reminds me:
Anyone know how a spider knows how to spin it's species-specific-designed web? Nobody's seen a spider's mom or dad teach this to one. Genes cannot pass on the ability to recreate a specified design of something just because a parent could, at least as far as we know. Always wondered about this one.
 
Monkey Man said:
It should probably also be put out here as a general principle for the thread, seeing as it's been alluded to, that brain size doesn't necessarily determine intelligence levels.
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adamant said:
Neurons alone cannot explain our consciousness. Elephants don’t stop to ponder the meaning of life even though they have huge brains with several times more neurons than ours.
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Let's stipulate that science can't explain these things. Fine. Christianity might "Explain them" (Except "God's way's are higher than your ways"), but that doesn't then mean that there is sufficient or rational evidence that demonstrates the truth of it all.
 
I'm pointing this out, not because I don't think others aren't free to decide whether Christianity is true, but because it doesn't follow that Christianity is true just because Christian apologists have good critiques about the secular worldview.
 
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