(February 24, 2016 at 7:09 pm)Living in Death Wrote: Truth is, NDE's don't offer anything in the way of realistic propositions. Remember; this is somebody whose brain was effectively shutting down. That doesn't really act as a very valid source. Even if it were all true, what is it offering in the way of life after death? What is it really offering of anything?
Science is always growing, and although I agree it's the best way to measure empirically, it's not infallible. When we have new ways to measure, things will change, as they have throughout history.
NDE's are experiences that don't fit into the current paradigm, but because we need to make sense of our world, we will form various conclusions to explain it. The whole idea that everything can be explained is a desperate attempt to remain sane. Personally I don't think we as humans have it all figured out. Especially the more I learn about government corruption for example, we have people that believe the government story, and then we have whistleblowers that expose the government is lying. However because the government is the voice of authority, anything that disagrees is a conspiracy theory. On top of that people say they couldn't get away with lying so what they say must be the truth, yet everyone who says they are lying is a liar. The same thing happens when people talk about what they experience when leaving their body. The first assumption is that is must be delusional, because science says it's nothing, and consciousness can't exist outside the brain.