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The experience can be simulated in a laboratory.

Just meditate or take psychoactive drugs.

no

I didn't realise Dr. Johnson was overweight.

>>3549135

he was a big ol country boy.

>>3549097
>taking that quote seriously
Go to bed.

>>3549150
This.

But also, you're wrong, OP. The feeling religious people feel is that of awe, and it's pretty much identical to the feelings a scientist might get simply contemplating the universe or looking at the stars or anything, really.

Hell, you can have "religious" experiences in anything. I recently watched a lecture by a music theory teacher who loved classical music. He said exactly that: the feelings he gets from listening to, say, Beethoven's ninth, is exactly the same as the feeling a mathematician might get from solving a seriously challenging problem, or, as you're saying OP, a religious experience.

This notion that religion somehow has the sole right to the feeling og awe and wonder is one that really annoys me. They're humans too, and anything they feel non-believers can feel with other things in just the same way.

>>3549176

right right.

Maybe all the best feel is the same thing. Like there is the feel which is the best feel; The best possible feel for a human to feel.

And we call it bunch various names.

Maybe different people like different feels, and they all have their favorite best possible feel.

>>3549191

Woah man.

*One* superior feel... that's an awesome thought.

>>3549191

Maybe its the same chemical produced in the brain...
but with different mixture, and like cocktails or cooking the ratio of the mix is important...

>>3549176
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>>3549199
not sure if just trolls or actually getting teenage-stoner level in here. Either way, I'm out, guys. Peace.

>>3549176

And you know all this, how?

>>3549367

Because they're humans. Again, any emotion they are capable of feeling, I can feel also about anything that I'm passionate about. There isn't anything special about religious people. They just get that "spiritual" feeling about one thing whereas other people, myself included, get it elsewhere.

>>3549359
>being old
>being straight edge

>>3549191
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>>3549210

What the fuck is this kind of pseudo-philosophy?

>>3549210
>chemical produced in the brain...

>>3550329
the 14 year old stoner variety

>>3549097
>In this moment . . .
>Not being openly Euphoric over every-bodies closeted depression.

>>3549097

>I don't think anything beats the weird shit that is the religiousexualectastic experience

But science is religion, seems like someone hasn't read up on his Stirner.

>>3550347
>But science is religion, seems like someone hasn't read up on his Stirner.

This is bullshit and not what Stirner says...

>>3550364

Let me rephrase it so that your inferior intellect can handle it: believing in science as an ideal is being religious.

>>3550376
Not who you responded to, but I find it funny you try to be patronizing while saying something so ignorant. It just shows you yourself are insecure about the argument.

>>3550364
No; pretty much every competent philosopher of science says this.

>>3550398

It would probably take me about 10 minutes to find the exact quote, do you want me to do that for you to prove how not insecure I am?

>>3549097

NEUROSOMATIC EUPHORIA IS NOT CONDITIONAL TO RELIGION.

WHAT OCCURS IN YOUR BODY, AND MIND IS DIRECTLY UNRELATED TO RELIGION, OR IDEOLOGY, OR DOGMA. TO ASSUME OTHERWISE WOULD BE ABSURD.

YOU ARE "STUPID" & IGNORANT.

>>3550404
<3

>>3550404

>>3550404
always wondered what is the deal with this fucking weirdo
constantly posting in caps, constantly posting underage lolis and constantly posting a conceptually recondite rigmarole

>>3550414
2Deep4u ;)

>>3550414

Just another way to "stick out" and be remembered I guess.

>>3550414
BECAUSE "CAPS LOCK" IS "CRUISE CONTROL" FOR "COOL"