[extropy-chat] Cults/drugs

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/17/06, Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:

> If they were *just*  cutting their balls off I would never have noticed
> them--at least no more than Heaven's Gate.  I got into this battle when
> they tried to destroy part of the net--Kobrin's famous rmgroup.  Later they
> ran the longest denial of service attack in history.

I don't deny that they are often a nasty bunch of people.

...
> >I am pursuaded, but you are brainwashed etc
> >The fact that two people can come to conflicting conclusions given the
> >same data means that there is likely no objective position.
>
> If two people come to conflicting conclusions given the same data, you
> *can* tell with fMRI if one of them is using the reasoning parts or the
> emotional parts of their brains.
>
> If a lot of people are using the reasoning parts of their brains on some
> subject that may come to _define_ the objective position.  If two people
> are arguing about religion, I would be surprised to find either one of them
> had the reasoning parts engaged.  :-)

Yet, from the above, I strongly suspect that if we had both our brains
scanned it would be your emotion centres that lit up - not mine. I
have almost no emotional investment in Scientology either for or
against.

Dirk