(September 15, 2019 at 10:54 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: If a majority of people believes something, then perhaps there is evidence of it you are unaware of. I used to think that the Earth is flat and that everybody else believed it was round for no good reason, and that the burden of proof is on them. That was incredibly arrogant of me.
And while I'm totally open to that, where is it?
There's no saying that as a society we can't have the conversation... but it's sort of hard to have a conversation about such a topic when we have no evidence for the idea we're talking about, isn't it?
(September 15, 2019 at 10:54 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, it's not just according to me, it's according to the Book, one of the most respected Croatian newspapers. If it were obviously wrong, why hasn't another journalist written an article debunking that story? And it's not just that story. The Maria's Shoe story is probably more famous in the English-speaking world.
Okay, well I'd have to see the news story specifically to talk more about it.
(September 15, 2019 at 10:54 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, I've published a few papers about linguistics in peer-reviewed journals, all of them being at least partly about my alternative interpretation of the names of places in Croatia, so I certainly know something about how science works.
That's pretty cool!
But I'm just saying that, as far as proposing the idea that there is a soul, you would have to actually produce some evidence that consciousness exists outside of one anecdotal piece of evidence that doesn't actually prove anything.
Are you from Croatia? My best friend growing up here in the states was Croatian. We spent many a night finding ways to steal a bottle of his dad's homemade rakia.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.