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Poll: Where you stand?
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There is no karma and no future lives so criminals get off the hook
58.54%
24 58.54%
There is karma and nobody who commit crimes get off the hook.
7.32%
3 7.32%
I wouldn't know, in any case I don't care
34.15%
14 34.15%
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RE: Karma poll
(November 3, 2016 at 9:49 am)Little Rik Wrote: Confused again Astr.

No, I'm not confused in the least.  Medically, and particularly neurologically, I know My stuff.  Anyone who comes back from a near-death experience has not suffered sufficient brain degeneration to be permanently dead, and I am quite sure that permanent death causes the brain to break down so thoroughly that no further awareness is possible.

Quote:Consciousness goes in degrees.  
We got different degrees of consciousness all the time.
When you sleep the consciousness may be at a level 0.

This is with a living brain.

Permanently dead brains effectively stay at zero forever, and when the process of brain degeneration becomes irreversible your "soul" simply ceases to exist.
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RE: Karma poll
(November 3, 2016 at 11:13 am)Astreja Wrote:
(November 3, 2016 at 9:49 am)Little Rik Wrote: Confused again Astr.

No, I'm not confused in the least.  Medically, and particularly neurologically, I know My stuff.  Anyone who comes back from a near-death experience has not suffered sufficient brain degeneration to be permanently dead, and I am quite sure that permanent death causes the brain to break down so thoroughly that no further awareness is possible.

Quote:Consciousness goes in degrees.  
We got different degrees of consciousness all the time.
When you sleep the consciousness may be at a level 0.

This is with a living brain.

Permanently dead brains effectively stay at zero forever, and when the process of brain degeneration becomes irreversible your "soul" simply ceases to exist.

You're fairly new, so let me explain how this goes. Twenty pages from now, your patience exhausted at repeatedly making the same point, you will bow out of the thread in disgust. Lil Rik, King Fool in Residence, will continue to insist that NDEs are evidence of an afterlife and Karma, and the same topic will pop up in another thread, just as it did here and as it has in others stretching back to my first awareness of this jackass.

He's a lost cause. If you must persist, do so with the lurkers in mind. You'll never make a dent with Rik.
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RE: Karma poll
(November 3, 2016 at 11:25 am)Crossless1 Wrote: You're fairly new, so let me explain how this goes. Twenty pages from now, your patience exhausted at repeatedly making the same point, you will bow out of the thread in disgust. Lil Rik, King Fool in Residence, will continue to insist that NDEs are evidence of an afterlife and Karma, and the same topic will pop up in another thread, just as it did here and as it has in others stretching back to my first awareness of this jackass.

He's a lost cause. If you must persist, do so with the lurkers in mind. You'll never make a dent with Rik.

Oh, I assure you that I'm doing it primarily for the lurkers. Big Grin
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RE: Karma poll
(November 3, 2016 at 8:12 am)Little Rik Wrote: ..........scientific and peer reviewed............ Wink

You are a total joke Lady.  Smile

How can you expect something spiritual and superior to the physical-material aspect to be scrutinized by
the physical science?

If the "something spiritual and superior to the physical-material aspect" affects the material - read: real - world in any way at all, that effect ought to be at least detectable. That puts it squarely in the purview of science.

If it can't, then there's nothing to bother about and we can ignore it.

Intresting how the "spiritual" and the non-existent look exactly the same.
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.'
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RE: Karma poll
"The spiritual" appears to be a code word for "flights of the imagination that I want to be real."

It's fine to make up crap if you're authoring a piece of fiction, but if you assert that your crap works in the real world and people laugh at you, you have only yourself to blame.
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RE: Karma poll
Well, yourself and karma.  Obviously, getting mocked is punishment for having kicked dogs in a previous life. Honestly, that's getting off pretty easy by karmic retribution standards, to hear rik tell it.
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RE: Karma poll
(November 3, 2016 at 11:13 am)Astreja Wrote:
(November 3, 2016 at 9:49 am)Little Rik Wrote: Confused again Astr.

No, I'm not confused in the least.  Medically, and particularly neurologically, I know My stuff.  Anyone who comes back from a near-death experience has not suffered sufficient brain degeneration to be permanently dead, and I am quite sure that permanent death causes the brain to break down so thoroughly that no further awareness is possible.


From a physical point of view you would be correct but NDEs go well behind the physical aspect.
NDEs go where the physicality end and the spiritual realm start that is why the physical aspect
means absolutely nothing.

In the spiritual realm everything is possible and what seem unreal to someone who only see the physical aspect is natural in the spiritual realm.

You never thought of that Astr, did you? Bird


Quote:Consciousness goes in degrees.  
We got different degrees of consciousness all the time.
When you sleep the consciousness may be at a level 0.

Quote:This is with a living brain.

Permanently dead brains effectively stay at zero forever, and when the process of brain degeneration becomes irreversible your "soul" simply ceases to exist.


Once again you reason from a physical point of view. Shake Fist

Don't forget that the spiritual consciousness is miles and miles in front the physical aspect.

Why betting on the loser Astr? Smile
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RE: Karma poll
(November 4, 2016 at 10:50 am)Little Rik Wrote: From a physical point of view you would be correct but NDEs go well behind the physical aspect.

Not demonstrated.  I believe that NDEs are 100% based in human physiology.

Quote:In the spiritual realm everything is possible and what seem unreal to someone who only see the physical aspect is natural in the spiritual realm.

I believe that "the spiritual realm" is also 100% based in human physiology, and that it ceases when the brain is no longer able to sustain it.

I do not believe in spiritual or supernatural things at all, and I find you completely unconvincing and will not be giving you and your ridiculous beliefs the benefit of a doubt.
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RE: Karma poll
(November 3, 2016 at 1:29 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(November 3, 2016 at 8:12 am)Little Rik Wrote: ..........scientific and peer reviewed............ Wink

You are a total joke Lady.  Smile

How can you expect something spiritual and superior to the physical-material aspect to be scrutinized by
the physical science?

If the "something spiritual and superior to the physical-material aspect" affects the material - read: real - world in any way at all, that effect ought to be at least detectable. That puts it squarely in the purview of science.

If it can't, then there's nothing to bother about and we can ignore it.

Intresting how the "spiritual" and the non-existent look exactly the same.


Wrong again Stim.  Shake Fist

The spiritual aspect affect also the physical-mental aspect.
Even in the past spiritual people were seen as superior beings.
Just look at the representations of saints with the aureola on the head.
Even today you may see people with bright eyes and shiny appearances.
I am sure that sooner or later will invent a machine that will see the purity within.  Lightbulb
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RE: Karma poll
(November 4, 2016 at 11:07 am)Little Rik Wrote: Wrong again Stim.  Shake Fist

The spiritual aspect affect also the physical-mental aspect.

Then it must be detectable, which is exactly what I said.

Great. Now where's the evidence for these physical effects?
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.'
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