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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkgj5J91hE


    Eben Alexander: A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the Afterlife
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    This guy



    The professor called his case one of the most convincing in part due to the documentation of his condition by medical science



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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    My view (agnostic) is that there are many possibilities. I think it's called 'Having an Open Mind'.
    No, it is being unable to make decisions and analyze your own beliefs. You leave them vague. An open mind that refuses to make judgements can make no distinctions between the true and false, the important and the trivial.

    If anything can be true because it is possible, then truth has no value.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    No, it is being unable to make decisions and analyze your own beliefs. You leave them vague. An open mind that refuses to make judgements can make no distinctions between the true and false, the important and the trivial.

    If anything can be true because it is possible, then truth has no value.
    Want a little tyrant

    This guy has major issues

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    Both this neurosurgeon and the professor have more education and research hours than us combined


    I think I will place more trust in their conclusions than most posters here




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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Fischer



    John Martin Fischer (born December 26, 1952) is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and a leading contributor to the philosophy of free will and moral responsibility.[1]

    Fischer received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1982.[1] He began his teaching career at Yale University, where he taught for almost a decade before joining the faculty at the University of California, Riverside.

    In June 2011, Fischer was elected Vice-President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association and became President of the Pacific Division in 2013.[1]



    Quite an education huh



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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    No, it is being unable to make decisions and analyze your own beliefs. You leave them vague. An open mind that refuses to make judgements can make no distinctions between the true and false, the important and the trivial.

    If anything can be true because it is possible, then truth has no value.
    hahaha ... 'Beliefs'. Some things are 'provable' and some things are just 'possibilities'. I have No Problem having an Open Mind to 'Possibilities'.
    You seem to be stuck in the 'True/Not True' universe.
    2,000 years ago, you would become furious that anyone would believe the Earth was NOT flat. Anyone that mentioned it might be possible the Earth was round would send you into a ballistic rage. You couldn't accept 'maybe' as an Answer. You remind me of the Spanish Inquisition. Whoever didn't accept the 'Accepted Truth' of the time was tortured and killed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    hahaha ... 'Beliefs'. Some things are 'provable' and some things are just 'possibilities'. I have No Problem having an Open Mind to 'Possibilities'.
    You seem to be stuck in the 'True/Not True' universe.
    2,000 years ago, you would become furious that anyone would believe the Earth was NOT flat. Anyone that mentioned it might be possible the Earth was round would send you into a ballistic rage. You couldn't accept 'maybe' as an Answer. You remind me of the Spanish Inquisition. Whoever didn't accept the 'Accepted Truth' of the time was tortured and killed.
    Silly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Silly.
    Not really. You would be the perfect Inquisitor. You would LOVE that job. No room for 'alternate opinions'.

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Alexander_(author)



    Oh what a blubbering Buffoon I am


    See what happens if I get all relaxed and start to talk only side stuff


    I never researched my self this neurosurgeon


    He does have reason to CREATE this story


    He has great schooling but got in trouble for medical procedures


    He performed a surgery in an unsanctioned location


    Happens to me when I begin to fail to research everything and everyone related to a story

    This man had financial reasons to concoct his story


    He had nicks in his practice history


    That would certainly change his income

    Looks like a couple of years later he got sick and nearly died from an infectious disease


    And survived


    It also seems his dr disagrees with him on his brain state at the time


    This man had many reasons to lie


    Damn


    Sorry folks


    I’ll go start an apology thread in the name of all that’s decent


    A mistake left to fester out of pride is nothing more than a lie

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
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    The professor called his case one of the most convincing in part due to the documentation of his condition by medical science
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    This is a talk with questions after


    By a well respected scholar on the subject


    He mentions this neurosurgeons case



    The neurosurgeons story has been accepted by the field due to his documentation and noted respect in his field

    When he came out of the comma he had no memory of this world and the life he had lived before the illness


    He could not even understand language

    A few days after he could speak and understand speach


    His adult son told him he needed to write it all down before he researched anything about this type of experience


    He did


    After he recovered he delved into the subject


    He then saw all the patterns in other reported experiences


    I think he experienced being in the string theory structure




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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkgj5J91hE


    Eben Alexander: A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the Afterlife
    Theosophical Society4,695,605 viewsAug 27, 2014
    Post 36 is where my mistake of not fully researching this man began



    I edited every post I could find that would still let me edit it with this phrase



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    Sorry folks



    My apologies


    I hope the facts prevail and crush my mistake

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
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    Here Is a link to my apology thread


    Feel free to come here and swing away at me


    Please don’t further distract this awesome thread
    No need to feel bad you had the character to admit a mistake.

    Besides, the nature of consciousness is still a legitimate scientific and philosophical topic. It's not like you were posting Kraken conspiracy theories

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    No need to feel bad you had the character to admit a mistake.

    Besides, the nature of consciousness is still a legitimate scientific and philosophical topic. It's not like you were posting Kraken conspiracy theories



    A mistake like this left to set


    Is just a lie made out of a small ego


    It’s amazing how truth fixes all



    I now feel awesome


    And not ashamed


    I did my best to make it right

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