(February 9, 2017 at 9:54 pm)bennyboy Wrote: The sad thing, at least to me, is that NDEs are clearly real. What a truly fascinating thing-- and I think some of the NDEs could really shed light on what it means to be alive, to be conscious, and so on. But since there are so many nuts around the issue, we kind of throw the baby out with the bath water.
I agree, for the most part. While I'm not entirely convinced that these things are clearly real, there does seem to be at least something worth investigating. It might even turn out to be true, in some respect. But all the effort going in to convince people by sheer force isn't exactly a ringing endorsement.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'