(January 25, 2015 at 10:19 am)Riketto Wrote: People think that it´s all about "the last hallucinations of the brain before the light goes out for good" and about "drugs".If you did not have an NDE, yet believe that they are more than just a function of the brain, you have proven Maria wrong. Or did you not understand what she is saying? And need I even point out that Maria has essentially invalidated any opinion she has on things she has not experienced by claiming that one cannot believe without having direct experience?
I can´t influence people who haven´t had their own NDE, because they are sceptics. Human beings don´t believe in anything before they´ve experienced it themselves. I wouldn´t believe in anything either before I´d been through it myself. So I understand their scepticism. But they are WRONG!!!!
From Maria (ex atheist)
http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/NDE_Experienc...7s_nde.htm
Need I go on, or is that sufficiently embarrassing for your case?
"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