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[Little Rik]

Your big problem is that you still believe that the consciousness can not become a witness entity as soon as the brain is off or dead and therefore everything that is perceived during these NDEs are only hallucinations maybe coming from a brain that is not off or dead yet.
Keep on sticking with the Sacks of this material world.
Maybe one day you may get somewhere but i guess not very far in your search for the truth. Good luck to you.

What a surprise. I list the unfounded claims, and you shift the burden of proof. How about you find some foundation for your claims before telling me what I think.

What this has got to do with my point only God knows.

Counter to your statement that "this clearly prove that the brain was off." You can't claim the person was brain dead, because dying is a process not an instant on off switch.

It is all about what is important and what it is not.
As your father would teach you or show you what really matter at the same time he wouldn't be interested to show you or give you what it is not important or bad for you.
Is to allow you to see and remember a number would be on any help to you or to those idiots who bet on whether you will see it or not?
As i see God is not in this stupid business.
At the same time in certain circumstances he may allow some individual to see things that will help someone in trouble or other individual to understand that the real McCoy is well outside the power of the brain.

No, you don't get to claim that only the important stuff gets through. Take your dropping baby story just above. How is that important? Does the guy now know not to drop babies? Did he think dropping babies was ok before? Do you know how stupid this sounds? You should actually do some real thinking instead of letting the emoticon do the thinking for you.

How can you say that these experiences are terrible?
As i said in previous post my understanding is that God will let you believe whatever you like.
For a Christian he may dress or better say be perceived like Jesus and for everybody else he will be perceived in whatever figure they like most.
This however has nothing to do with bad or terrible.
You get what you deserve so the figure has absolutely nothing to do with a bad feeling.

How is "hot, needlelike pierce, excruciatingly painful, for a brief moment on the top of my head" or "black ink had been poured over my eyes" not a terrible experience?

What kind of stupid god is this that he'll let people confirm their delusions? Nevermind the killings done due to religionous differences. But no, god wont even correct someones beliefs. Such a being isn't worthy of the title of God.

And you have the evidence that what you are talking really relate to a real NDE and not to an hallucination?
I have seen people coming out an LSD trip telling me about having been in the outer space and having ride on top of an angel.

There it goes again, "I can't prove this but you can't prove me wrong, so I'm right." Shifting the burden of proof.

I believe that an NDE is given to someone in order to learn something.
Not everybody is ready to learn.
Some people are not.
I know one in particular but i want tell you his name.

The bullshit is strong in this one.

By the way, there is an interesting article about your "friend" Mr Shermer written by Pim van Lommel.
http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/Research/vonl...sponse.htm

I find the article amusing on how it argues a strawman on what Sherman has criticised. Not to mention, they show that the BRAIN IS NOT DEAD. You should read the article yourself.

To make it shorter let us see what Pim van Lommel say.
It say...........The current concept in medical science states that consciousness is the product of the brain. This concept, however, has never been scientifically proven....... it also say..............In our study all patients had a cardiac arrest, they were clinically dead, unconscious, caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain because of inadequate blood circulation, breathing, or both. ...........
Uhm, the brain doesn't work whether is dead or not so how it is possible to experience an NDE other than when the consciousness take over?
You still haven't explained this point surgen.