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A study links life-changing religious experiences, like being “born again,” with atrophy in the hippocampus
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...part-of-brain/
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The Ugly Truth (05-30-2018)
guno, thanx for the link. Interesting article.
It kind of boils down to "Is it causation or correlation?"
I think your remark "Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain" is reversed in its veracity.
Note that a key factor is the shrinking of the hippocampus as one ages, viz. "They evaluated the MRIs of 268 men and women aged 58 and over ..."
The article lends more credence as to why older people tend to become more superstitious, i.e., "religious".
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It has also been proven that Christians live longer, healthier and happier lives.
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
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