(February 5, 2016 at 1:20 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(February 5, 2016 at 1:00 pm)athrock Wrote: I haven't. Have you?
If so, what can you tell us about them?
I never claimed that i had. But, since you asked, instead of duplicating the efforts of those who have gone before me, I've read studies by qualified scientists and found no reason to believe NDEs are anything more than the effects of hypoxia on a mind struggling to survive.
Indeed, that's kind of the point, isn't it? We recognise unusual occurrences by their very nature of not fitting into the pattern of usual ones. It's a far more efficient system - instead of wasting time rehashing the work presented in those studies which concluded that there's nothing to see, all you need do is focus on the ones for which there's no other explanation other than the god one.
So far, the silence is deafening.
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.'