RE: Too many near death experiences
November 8, 2017 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2017 at 1:24 pm by Simon Moon.)
(November 8, 2017 at 12:24 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:(November 8, 2017 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You're excluding another possibility. NDEs could simply be hallucinations, which would mean that they were neither fictitious nor lies.
Boru
HehEvolution could have made "black screen's" or a chaotic hallucinations. Evolution is like - "Let's make religious near death experiences instead of non religious to piss off people even more". What a mind****....
Not a mind fuck at all.
When we are badly injured, we have a set of systems that cause: endorphins to be released, blood supply cut off to injured part of the body, mental shock to decrease trauma, etc. All in attempts to assist in our survival.
What worse injury could there be than a dying brain? So, the fact that chemicals are releases that cause hallucinations, is right in line.
The reason why so many people have similar experiences, with variations in details, is that we all have similar brains. The fact that so many NDE have religious content, is due to cultural influences overlaid on top of an otherwise natural phenomena.
Why don't Hindus in India have Christian based NDE's? Curious how Hindus have NDE's with iconography and content based on their religion, huh...
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
