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Heaven is Real

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Heaven is Real
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RE: Heaven is Real
April 15, 2014 at 8:59 pm
I've been wanting to read that book for a while now, just for a laugh- y'know? But I'm afraid someone will catch me... I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea about me. Tongue

I saw some documentary on NDEs a while back. It's kind of interesting the level of certainty some people have that they were real.
This one in particular seems like straight up marketing BS though. They didn't even get the full story out of the kid when it allegedly happened. It took years.
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RE: Heaven is Real
April 15, 2014 at 9:16 pm
(April 15, 2014 at 8:59 pm)Sedna Wrote: I've been wanting to read that book for a while now, just for a laugh- y'know? But I'm afraid someone will catch me... I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea about me. Tongue

I saw some documentary on NDEs a while back. It's kind of interesting the level of certainty some people have that they were real.
This one in particular seems like straight up marketing BS though. They didn't even get the full story out of the kid when it allegedly happened. It took years.

Years of coaxing and leading questions.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Heaven is Real
April 16, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Atwater Wrote:The International Association for Near-Death Studies sent out a questionnaire in 1992 inquiring about those who considered themselves to be near-death experiencers. How close had they been to physical death when their episode occurred? ... 37 percent had theirs in a setting unrelated to anything that could be construed as life threatening. ... The 37 percenters claimed to have experiences every bit as real, involved, and life-changing as those that happened to people during death or close-brush-with-death crises; and their reports duplicate or parallel the same spread of scenario types and a pattern of psychological and physiological aftereffects.

— P.M.H. Atwater, The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences
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RE: Heaven is Real
April 16, 2014 at 4:08 pm
(April 15, 2014 at 5:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Can you translate that value to a multiple of Axl Rose's annual cocaine budget?

Immediately thought of this:

Quote:Captain America's been torn apart
Now he's a court jester
with a broken heart
He said-
Turn me around and
take me back to the start
I must be losin' my mind-
"Are you blind?"
I've seen it all a million times
- Axl Rose, Paradise City
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RE: Heaven is Real
April 16, 2014 at 4:35 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLceBSD7Cc

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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