Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

Luminati_sl said:

What's funny is that I actually make far more money than you doing nothing but playing video games. Also LOL if you think what you're doing is meaningful at all. You are literally incapable of doing anything meaningful. You're a complete waste of life and a complete detriment to the advancement of the human race. You are like human sodium fluoride.

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fanaskin_sl said:

The angle I could never really find a debunk too was that flouride(or calcium) deposits build up in the pineal gland over time, and that gland is responsible for spirituality or whatever the fuck new age thought.
That it doesn't kill people so much as kill the part of their brain and make them more zombie like somehow.

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hodj_sl said:

That's because there's nothing to debunk. The Pineal Gland is an endocrine organ that is the subject of vast amounts of urban mythology.

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Luminati_sl said:

A zombie basically just means someone that has little, if any conscious thought.

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fanaskin_sl said:

well not literally a zombie, just if you fuck up that specific organ it makes you more passive(lack of excreted hormones?) to in general make a population more passive (maybe it have something to do with adolescence?) maybe it prolongs adolescence and keeps people childlike and less aggressive longer? But i'm not an expert so I have no idea how plausible that scenario could be or how to disprove it.

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The pineal gland (also called the pineal body, pineal organ, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis, conarium or the "third eye") is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. It produces the serotonin derivative melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and seasonal functions.[1][2] Its shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and it is located near the centre of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join.

Nearly all vertebrate species possess a pineal gland. The most important exception is the hagfish, which is often thought of as the most primitive type of vertebrate.[3] Even in the hagfish, though, there may be a "pineal equivalent" structure in the dorsal diencephalon.[4] The lancelet amphioxus, the nearest existing relative to vertebrates, also lacks a recognizable pineal gland.[3] The lamprey, however (considered almost as primitive as the hagfish), does possess one.[3] A few "higher" types of vertebrates, including the alligator, lack pineal glands because they have been lost over the course of evolution.[5]

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The pineal gland was originally believed to be a "vestigial remnant" of a larger organ. In 1917, it was known that extract of cow pineals lightened frog skin. Dermatology professor Aaron B. Lerner and colleagues at Yale University, hoping that a substance from the pineal might be useful in treating skin diseases, isolated and named the hormone melatonin in 1958.[18] The substance did not prove to be helpful as intended, but its discovery helped solve several mysteries such as why removing the rat's pineal accelerated ovary growth, why keeping rats in constant light decreased the weight of their pineals, and why pinealectomy and constant light affect ovary growth to an equal extent; this knowledge gave a boost to the then new field of chronobiology.[19]

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The secretory activity of the pineal gland is only partially understood. Its location deep in the brain suggested to philosophers throughout history that it possesses particular importance. This combination led to its being regarded as a "mystery" gland with mystical, metaphysical, and occult theories surrounding its perceived functions.

Ren? Descartes, dedicating much time to the study of the pineal (Pine-cone-shaped) gland, has called it the "principal seat of the soul."[34] He believed it to be the point of connection between the intellect and the body.[35] Descartes attached significance to the gland because he believed it to be the only section of the brain to exist as a single part rather than one-half of a pair. He argued that, because a person can never have "more than one thought at a time," external stimuli must be united within the brain before being considered by the soul, and he considered the pineal gland to be situated in "the most suitable possible place for this purpose," located centrally in the brain and surrounded by branches of the carotid arteries.[34]

Baruch de Spinoza criticized Descartes' viewpoint for neither following from self-evident premises nor being "clearly and distinctly perceived" (Descartes having previously asserted that he could not draw conclusions of this sort), and questioned what Descartes meant by talking of "the union of the mind and the body."[36]

The notion of a "pineal-eye" is central to the philosophy of the French writer Georges Bataille, which is analyzed at length by literary scholar Denis Hollier in his study Against Architecture. In this work Hollier discusses how Bataille uses the concept of a "pineal-eye" as a reference to a blind-spot in Western rationality, and an organ of excess and delirium.[37] This conceptual device is explicit in his surrealist texts, The Jesuve and The Pineal Eye.[38]

Numerous spiritual philosophies contain the notion of an inner Third Eye that is related to the ajna chakra and also the pineal gland, and to which is attributed significance in mystical awakening or enlightenment, clairvoyant perception, and higher states of consciousness. This idea occurs historically in ancient, central, and east Asia; and also in contemporary occult theories relating to yoga, Theosophy, Pagan religions, and New Age spiritual philosophies.

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Sebudai_sl said:

Most of the time you're wagering chips, not money.

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