The Brain Gym
Posted on: April 26, 2008 - 3:15pm
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The Brain Gym
I just heard about this on the Skeptics Guide podcast. Apparently it's more popular in the UK and they even have this bullshit taught in fucking science classes! It's extremely irrational - check out this_link if you want either a good laugh or to become even more sad at the extent of human stupidity.
Faith is the brush that paints pictures of ghosts upon the canvas of fear to be hung in the gallery of ignorance.
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I'm a bit familiar with some of these exercises (in fact, there's a similar brochure lying on my table) and as far as I know, they may work. It's not exactly as I know, but even my driving school lector advised me to do one of such exercises. It just feels a bit dumb when doing something seemingly senseless, but so it is to run in a circles for a purpose of sport.
No matter how it looks like, it employs some parts of the brain at the same time and the purpose is to train them to work together. Brain is an easily programmable thing, and also can be trained as a "muscle".
Just try to draw numbers of 6 and 8 by your both hands at the same time, it isn't easy, is it?
Anyway, I'd like to have a good laugh too, can you perhaps tell me more about that Skeptics Guide podcast?
I believe with the advent of acid, we discovered new ways to think and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts of mind. Why is it that people are so afraid of it ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply? Because they are afraid that there is more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they are afraid to go in and they don't want us to go in there either because if we go in, there we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control."
It's on itunes - called "skeptics guide to the universe." It's by the James Randi Educational Foundation.
Faith is the brush that paints pictures of ghosts upon the canvas of fear to be hung in the gallery of ignorance.
What the fuck? It took several PhD's to come up with advice like "drink water"? I won't say that these techniques absolutely don't work, because drinking water, stretching, and deep breathing tend to have a meditative effect and are somewhat beneficial to concentration. But how can you patent such advice as if it's rocket science?
Luminon believes it. Surprise surprise.
These are no different to throwing salt over ones left shoulder when cooking, knocking on wood when you're saying something rather positive or many many other silly superstitious traditions that people have. What a complete and utter load of bollocks.
Organised religion is the ultimate form of blasphemy.
I don't see how this is particularly irrational. I mean, at worst it reads like someone giving off-hand advice on how to do better in the classroom.
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Click link for more. The skeptics guide explained it better.
Faith is the brush that paints pictures of ghosts upon the canvas of fear to be hung in the gallery of ignorance.