Release a flu to destroy religious fanaticism?

[boofhead]

I doubt this was ever approved (well I hope not). It is a leaked video.

In my mind the people behind this are evil. How would they like it if the religious released a vaccine to make them more religious? They're like Nazis, attempting to use medicine to make the world in their own perverted image.

People should have the freedom to think whatever they like, however not the freedom to act how they like.

I tell you now, if the US ever did this, it would do a lot towards making me dislike them until time immemorial.

[Visna]

Hang on, is this real? Can genes be altered in order to enhance or eliminate spiritual experiences? And what other brain fuctions can become damaged by this? And what effect does genes have on the chemical processes in our brains?

Unless I'm terribly behind on this and those questions have already been answered I'd say a bit more research would be required. But if it works, and it can eliminate religious extremism without any side effects, I say go for it.
I doubt it could work with a flu, though. Flu is a respiratory illness, and for it to cross the blood barrier so to speak, it would have to be pretty potent. An injection would work better.

[xcorps]

Hang on, is this real? Can genes be altered in order to enhance or eliminate spiritual experiences? And what other brain fuctions can become damaged by this? And what effect does genes have on the chemical processes in our brains?

Unless I'm terribly behind on this and those questions have already been answered I'd say a bit more research would be required. But if it works, and it can eliminate religious extremism without any side effects, I say go for it.
I doubt it could work with a flu, though. Flu is a respiratory illness, and for it to cross the blood barrier so to speak, it would have to be pretty potent. An injection would work better.

So next on the agenda is a cure for homosexuality. Then it's a cure to make everyone blonde and blue eyed. After that, only people with the right level of melatonin in their skins will be born.

Gotta love eugenics, amirite?

[boofhead]

Hang on, is this real? Can genes be altered in order to enhance or eliminate spiritual experiences? And what other brain fuctions can become damaged by this? And what effect does genes have on the chemical processes in our brains?

Unless I'm terribly behind on this and those questions have already been answered I'd say a bit more research would be required. But if it works, and it can eliminate religious extremism without any side effects, I say go for it.
I doubt it could work with a flu, though. Flu is a respiratory illness, and for it to cross the blood barrier so to speak, it would have to be pretty potent. An injection would work better.

Apparently this is real, but as you can see some of the audience are a little disturbed by the whole thing.

As far as I can tell whatever is implanted in the flu virus blunts the effects of this so-called ''religious gene''. I'm not a scientist so I don't know if it works, but the guy presenting this forum obviously is.

How would such a virus differentiate between a religious person who does good works, or a religious person who wants to kill? It couldn't.

And why don't the democrats release this flu in the US so their republicans become democrats . If it's good enough for Afghanistan, then it's good enough for the USA.

*The entire idea is NAZI to the core, it's sick in the ing head and completely immoral.

So next on the agenda is a cure for homosexuality. Then it's a cure to make everyone blonde and blue eyed. After that, only people with the right level of melatonin in their skins will be born.

Gotta love eugenics, amirite?

That's how I see it. The US has NAZI doctors behind the scenes working to involuntarily change peoples brains.

[The Dude]

Hang on, is this real? Can genes be altered in order to enhance or eliminate spiritual experiences?

Of course. In the end a religious experience, as we call it, is nothing more than a brain process with a physical allocation. We can change the way the process works and thereby change the way the person observes the world.

Just like you'd alter a computer.

[DaniCatBurger]

Julien Offray de la Mettrie - L'homme machine (Machine Man) - 1748







Divine Freddi Mercury would say: "I am not amused."

[Veliky Kaiser Theos]

Could cut a lot of costs in policing the world and stopping those nasty extremists. Although the measure is itself extreme.

[saglam2000]

Finally a cure for religion, science wins

[(s)AINT]

Finally a cure for religion, science wins

Agreed.

But seriously - I do not trust this. The comparison of the two brains are the same.

Doesn't seem very professional and I doubt this is really.

This will make the conspiracy theorists nuts go NUTS.

[Oberbefehlshaber]

Finally a cure for religion, science wins

Praise be to god.

[Lord Rahl]

I don't know how possible this is but the idea scares me. I mean, release some sort of virus into a population to make them less...religious? What does that even mean? What's next after that? Releasing a virus to stop all religious?

[Sphere]

This hypothesis has been heavily criticized in the scientific community. VMAT2 is involved in many things and this statistical correlation is not terribly impressive.

[(s)AINT]

I thought the DoD was a very religious organization. I mean hell they had the Dont ask don't tell policy and discrimination against gays, atheists and other minorities.


Doesn't add up.

[(s)AINT]

Look at the date too. 4-13-05.

[boofhead]

Look at the date too. 4-13-05.

That's the date of the video, when this NAZI was proposing the idea. Who knows what happened after that. Hopefully nothing. But the fact is that people would still toy with such ideas.

[Sphere]

I thought the DoD was a very religious organization. I mean hell they had the Dont ask don't tell policy and discrimination against gays, atheists and other minorities.


Doesn't add up.

Have you ever met an atheist suicide bomber?

[(s)AINT]

Have you ever met an atheist suicide bomber?

What does that have to do with what I said?

[boofhead]

Have you ever met an atheist suicide bomber?

There have been plenty. The Tamil Tigers followed an atheistic Marxist philosophy. They invented modern suicide bombing.

[(s)AINT]

There have been plenty. The Tamil Tigers followed an atheistic Marxist philosophy. They invented modern suicide bombing.

Let me help you.

[boofhead]

Let me help you.

Many may have been Hindus, but the philosophy they died for was most certainly not. They didn't die for Hinduism, it's not exactly a Hindu thing to do, they died for nationalism.

http://loga.tripod.com/thunuk1.htm

People have also suicide-bombed for communism, like the Viet Cong sappers.

A suicide bomber is not necessarily religious.