Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS

From Express.co.uk (Oct. 14):

ATTITUDES towards God and immigrants can be changed by beaming magnetic waves into the brain, scientists have claimed.

A bizarre experiment claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants in experiments some may find a threat to their values.

Scientists looked at how the brain resolves abstract ideological problems.

Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.

Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice.

Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers. [read more]

Talk about the brave new world. Isn’t this just brain washing? I suppose an unscrupulous scientist could a person believe a political leader loves his country and isn’t trying to radically transform it. Or a political candidate isn’t lying about her emails or Benghazi. Just about anything is possible.

The Nazis, Socialists and Communists and any other fascist group would love this technology.

Thoughts on Learning and Education

From the Founding Fathers:

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.” - Benjamin Franklin

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams

The supreme end of education is expert discernment of all things- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.  - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

To other well known Americans:

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

And finally a physicist, a philosopher, and a Christian writer:

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. - Albert Einstein

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. - Aristotle (384BC - 322BC)

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.  - C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

A lot of wisdom in those quotes.