Information request!
Posted on: February 5, 2009 - 3:11pm
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Information request!
First, i ask sorry for my bad english and ignorance regarding this subject!
In my country(Portugal) there is a religion(evangelical christians!) that my mother and brother belongs, which belives in Revelations and Visions. My concept of reality regarding this issue, is that it is a delusion and has scientifical explanation(biochemestry and psychology!?), or with the evolution of the human species, and the consequent evolution of the technologies and scientific knowledge, more and more accurate awensers will apear ! If possible, i would be thankful for information regarding scientific studies/documents regarding it, or where to find them?
Best Regards,
Novar.
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I would say you're correct in thinking it is a hallucination. I tried searching for it, but all I could get were religious people claiming to have had them. I suspect Deluded or Hamby will be able to scare something up. Speaking of Science Freaks, has any one heard from BobSpence?
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Well, I'm a little short on time this afternoon, but I did write an article about NDE's (near death experiences) which touches on some of what goes on during a particular kind of hallucination:
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I could say that "there is will be a war, and many people will die!", or "there will be an natural disaster and many peole will die" or even that "someone will pass by a bad moment."(break a leg or something!), and i could call it a "vision/revelation/prophecy", by my personal analysys it would be sometinhg not acurate to say ,that happens commonly, as an "universal truth" and that depends of the individuals "interpretation of reality". Is this rational/logic?
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That may be what's known as "confirmation bias", where people ignore when a prophet is wrong, and only remember when he was right. I'm not sure what confirmation bias would translate to in Portugese.
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I think i understood the concept you refered to, by the meaning of the phrase. In any case i will reseach it!
Thank you very much!
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Such a revelations are better to ignore. They can be a result of a catastrophic syndrome. Every great change, crisis or tension in the world brings a lot of doom prophets, who are obviously false, as the time shows. These visions are a result of the fear, and the people dependent on the old state of things are afraid of changes.
Furthermore, unless there are specifics, like names of places and people involved, there is no easy way to verify them, or rather identify an event with it's prophecy. Which war? Which leg? Which disaster?
I know about some revelations about a political and global events which later got fulfilled, I can give more info on this, if I'll be asked. However, an original, related "explanation" for them is not a scientific explanation and involves a tons of incomprehensible woo-woo.
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theyr woo-woo makes me sick! they want me believe in it without scientific evidence... The last article taht i have read (sciam i think!) describes theyr neurological dynamic resemblant to a individual that likes gambling. It is quite anoying to live with them!
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