Holy Joy
August 30th, 2006 | 
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I’m sorry, but this image of a nun laying in an MRI machine while having some kind of a religious orgasm .. is too much for me to take. I’m losing it.
The “ramped-up electrical activity in parts of the brain“Â is the result of “feelings of profound joy and union with a higher being”? How about the result of feelings of extreme claustrophobia? Ever been in such a thing? Well I can almost envision anyone praying when you’re in one, but “feelings of profound joy” while every unpaired proton and neutron in your body is being spun around? You’ve got to be kidding me!
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Posted in In the news, Religion
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Hey Paul!
Tja… ik doe het maar even in het nederlands hoor 😉 Ik zag je comments bij Paool en vind dat je echt ontzettend leuk schrijft. Je hebt humor!
En nu ga ik de rest van je blog eens even lezen. Want ja….. ik kan natuurlijk best wel engels 😉
Groetjes,
ReZa
ps: mail = reza@rezaonline.nl
shiiiiiit en net nu ik niet meer in de ctscan mag ff….heb ik weer…… 😉
@paool: A dirty mind is a joy forever …
Echter: Een MRI gebruikt magnetische velden, een CT-scan daarentegen gebruikt ionizing radiation (xrays), dus ‘t is nog maar de vraag of ze daarmee ook van die brain-orgasms mee kunnen vaststellen (opwekken?)
“nuns who were asked to remember the most intense mystical experience they had ever had.”
So like, if I eat too much chocolate, I can have mystical experiences. And how about special brownies?!? Did anyone ask those nuns what they brew there?!?
More importantly, how is this research going to help brain damaged people worldwide?
@deannie: I wondered about that too!
IÂ hope they’re not using tax payers’ money to help nuns locate their G-spot (God-spot, as the article refers to it).
Although it is kinda interesting to learn that they finally found it and that it resides in the brain.
I bet quite a few people have been looking for their G-spot in all the wrong places for a very long time!
Or do only nuns have their G-spot in their cranium?
These are the things I want to know! (NOT!)
@deannie: “help brain damaged people”
You’re referring to those nuns, right?
Nobody!
They’re beyond help.
(Okay, that’s not very nice. Let’s just say ‘pay back’ for some of them who haven’t been very nice to me!)
*sigh* You know you are going to burn in hell now, right? Luckily I happen to believe that hell is simply man’s common grave but since you clearly have had the unique pleasure of gaining an education at the hand of a nun, I can only imagine you believe Hell is some burning place of torture. Poor you!
I must admit here two things:
1. Referring to my education: my sisters were educated by nuns. I was actually educated by their male counter ‘parts’. We called them ‘brothers’ (no, they were not black), I guess the proper English name would be monk. And yes, they were traditionally long-black-robe dressed.
2. Despite it being a monk-run Catholic school, we did NOT start class with prayer. Moreover I have had an EXCELLENT education: we’re talking here about the equivalent of, I think, middle school. The reason I don’t say high school is that graduation from this school was considered UNsufficient preparation for college. (So, indeed, I never attended college). Nevertheless, upon graduation (I had to pass both written AND oral tests, administered by teachers of a different school, in 15 subjects) I could speak 4 languages, was taught the first principles of calculus and knew Archimedes’ law by heart, something that I STILL do, to this day!
So, it’s not quite fair of me to blame either nuns or monks for anything.
Oh, and I was never abused either.