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Only a bit boring?

It seems to me like someone coming up to a group of friends who are chatting and starting to give them a religious sermon.

The original poster does seem quite happy that such a possibility is well into the future.

I'm gonna get deleted here.

So, not even a tiny bit sinister?

When you think how useful it would be to MI5 to be able to accurately read a person's intentions?

Post harmless. A bit boring.

I agree, Elegran. I'm sure this post has been sent out to many sites and forums.

Yes, J it is just an over-verbose religioso burbling on. They come in various denominations and faiths but most are harmless. No need for anyone to bristle, better for anyone who does not like it to flip to another thread and leave this one to wither.

I still think it seems a harmless post. Until you start reading things into it which may or may not be there.

He might be a she, of course, but from the posts under that name on other forums, I think not.

A Gransnet search reveals that this is his only post here

A Google search threw up several posts by him on Muslim religious forums on subjects like "Description of the Virgins in Paradise" "Belief in the Djinn" and one on the reasons for veiling women. He is banned on one forum.

He sounds to me like a fundamentalist.

Exactly johanna.

Who is the person who started this topic do we know her. I cannot help but feel it is one of those introduced topics. There seems to have been a few recently.

jo4

I suppose being able to accurately read the brain through MRI scanning would be useful in predicting criminal intent in a person.

Oooh, I must come on this thread more often!

I read the original post once and thought 'eh!'. So read it another twice and still can't get all that excited at latest scientific advance in reading people's minds; obviously a long way to go yet.

As for Allah/God etc. well who knows about him? I once read a book by Carl Jung who argued that God does exist, if only as a myth, and is real in the same way that Father Christmas is real.

Actually real or not the 'idea' of Allah/God has certainly had a big effect on human history.

I've read the bible and like the philosophy but still an athiest/agnostic.

You are joking! I would never have guessed!

Yes, but it just depends on the culture you come from. And English is my first language.

Well done jing

As I said earlier, it is true. The lecture I went to showed that if a painful stimulus was applied to a person, if a close friend was present then the same changes showed up on their MRI as well.
The Americanism 'I feel your pain' can be true.

That is a much better version.

I would have entitled it: Remarkable advances in brain reading using MRI imaging.

and would prob have said something like:

"According to an article in the Times yesterday, they can see, through MRI imaging specific reactions in the brain to questions such as, 'do you love this person', or, do you like treacle pudding'. Prof Colin Blakemore says it will be many years before anything really comes of this, but, all the same, it is very interesting. I, being a Christian, think they will never actually be able to read our inner thoughts as well as God can. Do any other Christians out there agree with me?

and apparently all hell would let loose.

What is the point or purpose of the OP?

Actually, neither do I. The final paragraph expresses a belief common to many religions.

Don't see where the proselytisation comes into it.

Don't blame him/her. How do you know it's a 'he'?

Whoever he is, he doesn't want a conversation with us, though, does he?