(August 6, 2018 at 11:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 6, 2018 at 11:08 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Hugs,
Nobody is saying this guy didn't experience something. But the experience itself proves nothing about the existence of an afterlife.
It's proof enough to him.
Truth is a personal fact that cannot always be demonstrated.
Plenty of people that experience NDE have no question that their experience was real.
How many people do you know that claim their dreams are real?
No one is questioning the experience, but what the experience means. People on psychedelic drugs often report experiences that seem either blissfully or horrifically real to them. But that doesn't mean that trees actually melted or that cockroaches in tails and tap shoes actually danced a buck-and-wing on a platter of oatmeal flambé.
Not questioning whether a particular experience was real doesn't make it 'real' to anyone but the person who experienced it. In other words, if the story above is correctly reported (and I have my doubts), the patient is probably honestly reporting his visions of hell. But such honesty has no bearing whatsoever on whether hell actually exists.
Boru
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