"I am proposing a simple starting point for a plausible explanation of human consciousness: (A) neurons possess minute levels of consciousness, and (B) 86 billion of them together produce consciousness as we experience it." That's an interesting approach. It seems that working neurons are necessary for consciousness. It doesn't explain OBE, where the consciousness leaves the body but
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I can understand one person in isolation coming up with such an obviously dumb idea. But a church as big as TSCC? What does it mean? It means that the Q15 are "yes men". There's no mechanism for due diligence. Did anyone consult experts in human development or child psychology? There's no point if the prophet prays and makes a decision based on feelings, and everyone else follows the
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Joe was a product of his culture. America is still to some extent the land of the hustle. He played a hell of a game, though. Fortunately, criminal narcissists of his caliber are few and far between.
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Charley Sheen doesn't abuse drugs. Drugs abuse Charley Sheen. But that's his business. Joseph Smith used and abused millions of his followers, but they overlook that. If some people can do no wrong, then other people can do no right. Worship means you can never be Christlike.
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"how do you affect subconsciousness?" I propose another way: through being. Being is a group of habits. Being happy, for example. In theory, people know they should be happy in the now. But then, sh!t happens. Happiness is a habit that needs to be cultivated. It takes 6 weeks to acquire a new habit, which means anyone can be happy in 6 weeks. Christ (as an archetype) is an example
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"Shoot the messenger", anyone?
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Be careful what you wish for. Just because Mormonism pounds the marriage/family thing into you doesn't mean it's right for you. Marriage is a control mechanism, like everything else. Meant to control you. Once you have a family and a mortgage, you're stuck being a cog in their machine. That's by design, but it works because most people are okay with that. Some other little tidbits I've learned
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Actually, hundreds of scientific studies (overview here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396089/) prove that prayer does heal people for real but not every time. Even if the names of people are on slips of paper, like with the temple prayer rolls, double blind studies show that it works. I really hate when the Mormons are right. But still, a church that has sold its soul for money
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"Provide one and only one factual evidence..." No need for straw men. The BoM narrative itself is factually impossible. Instead, careful analysis shows that it sprung from Joe's imagination as well as bits and pieces of 19th century Americana.
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"I sometimes feel as though my husband growing up LDS and having super TBM parents are really the root cause of this issue" It is. Almost everyone who grows up LDS puts up a front and then does whatever they want (within reason). It's called survival. You're stuck with the consequences.
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Fatuous Jeffrey is why the church is doomed. Seeking truth by ignoring truth is imbecile. Going on about about the virtues of willful stupidity is just weird. It's a leadership problem. A creative problem solver is by definition unfit to be a GA. It's not that the church can't be redeemed. Some of their mystical ideas are aligned with science: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC339
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TSCC can't survive a sustained onslaught of truth. I give it 20 years.
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Maybe he was in the crapper. Time is different on Kolob.
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"She got upset and..." And felt bad for hurting your feelings? Said she'll cool it off now knowing how you feel? Or does she want what she wants, when she wants it? Yeah, marry that and see what happens. Having said that, a woman's mind is a mystery to man. There could be things going on (woman things) that you don't understand. But from here it doesn't look good. At the very l
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The biggest cause of your stress is probably being 20. It happens to everybody. You have the Internet so you can easily research ways to beat stress. Exercise and meditation come to mind. Stress is a reaction to threats that are built up in your mind. If and when these threats actually materialize, the outcome isn't what you expected so all the time you spent worrying was wasted on nothing.
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Steve Jobs pushed the golden ratio pretty hard in Apple product design. This is good timing since I have a serious hankering for pie.
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I want to shroom with you.
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Should it?
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I was content when I was active. Like a pig in sh!t, and that's what it was. Contentment might not be suited to our age. Is it okay to be content in a world gone mad?
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The guys who know how to make good rockets are all retired. We've been relying on Russia for that for a while now, which has become really awkward lately.
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Awesome. But if consciousness is non-material and non-local then a true understanding could be the key that leads to utopia. Someone has to fiddle with the lock.
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">> The facts out there, with modern science and medicine we have a pretty good idea how our bodies and brains function... <<" I think that was the consensus in the 20th century too. And the 19th, and the 18th, and the 17th...
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When will these dumb sh!ts learn that you don't have to close your mind to open your heart?
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From the KSL article: "Church officials were making arrangements to have Scadlock's body sent home to Utah, Kally Scadlock said."
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Maybe they can build another mall with the money they saved.
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I'm still skeptical. Can TSCC really be that depraved and that stupid at the same time? If it's true it will absolutely go viral because it's just so surreal.
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I see a constructive argument going on. Henry and Tal aren't really that far apart. They're just coming from different angles. This is why lay people don't trust scientists, BTW. They see them arguing and think it's some kind of pissing contest. I guess it kind of is, but it's in defense of truth rather than ego. But, back to the thread: "What I am proposing is that consciousness IS an em
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Just had my cat fixed. He didn't even belong to a cult.
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I don't think that's the kind of science we're talking about. But you can explore your own consciousness and return and report.
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Stewie Griffin fought his way to the egg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvpbzRf99-8
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