Saturday, April 07, 2007 . 4/07/2007

I thought my dad was smarter than this. He actually thinks Noah existed and lived to be 900 years old. Since he is nigh fucking impossible to reason with when it comes to Biblical shit such as this, I just told him that he needs a reality check BADLY, then walked off. He then told me that I'm the one that needs a reality check, as if I was the crazy one. Oh well. He'll know whether Noah, Jesus etc existed or not when he dies. Or not, since, you know.. you can't really "know" anything once you're dead. He'll just cease to exist, and I won't get the satisfaction of thinking "Lol, my dad died and he's probably thinking 'Oh shit' right now".

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Belief in Reincarnation Tied to Memory Errors

People who believe they have lived past lives as, say, Indian princesses or battlefield commanders are more likely to make certain types of memory errors, according to a new study.

The propensity to make these mistakes could, in part, explain why people cling to implausible reincarnation claims in the first place.

Researchers recruited people who, after undergoing hypnotic therapy, had come to believe that they had past lives.

Subjects were asked to read aloud a list of 40 non-famous names, and then, after a two-hour wait, told that they were going to see a list consisting of three types of names: non-famous names they had already seen (from the earlier list), famous names, and names of non-famous people that they had not previously seen. Their task was to identify which names were famous.

The researchers found that, compared to control subjects who dismissed the idea of reincarnation, past-life believers were almost twice as likely to misidentify names. In particular, their tendency was to wrongly identify as famous the non-famous names they had seen in the first task. This kind of error, called a source-monitoring error, indicates that a person has difficulty recognizing where a memory came from.

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