(November 30, 2016 at 9:54 am)Little Rik Wrote: So you can read my mind and know for sure that yoga does not give me peace of mind?I can read your posts and know for sure that you're delusional.
Quote:You are the one who came up with the story that only religious peopleI was pointing out that your attempt to treat atheists as a monolithic block is not sensible.
act like a monolithic block because they follow dogmatic beliefs.
Quote:Don't atheists keep on saying that the consciousness is a product of the brain and with the physical death is all over?Probably. So does scientific research.
Quote:It is real that a brain devoid of oxygen and blood can not possibly create NDEs that is why I follow logic while Ton doesn't.And... your statement makes no sense. It's beautifully ironic, though. Your lack of self-awareness makes you seem charming every now and then.
Quote:Oxygen deprivation......You do understand that blood is what brings oxygen to the brain, right?
And the blood deprivation?
Ok, then.
In this case please tell me whether a brain devoid of blood and oxygen is capable of creating clear and sharp visions and experiences such as the NDEs and whether these experiences can be remembered very well after years and years considering that they were created as you say by a brain that was not dead?
Second, you are aware that human memory is not a recording that can be reliably accessed time and again, but that we reconstruct our memories every time we recall them so that the "clarity" and "sharpness" of those NDE experiences is bullshit? That eyewitness testimony is the least reliable kind of evidence there is, especially when it's being given by someone whose brain was oxygen-starved at the time?
I'm kidding, Rik. I'm pretty sure you're not aware of either of those and will remain unaware of them regardless of how many times it's brought to your attention. But that's okay! You don't have to accept reality for it to continue to work as it always has.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould