Question about Pam Reynolds famous Near Death Experience

[Angrboda]

You're quoting a comment posted, basically anonymously, in response to an announcement about a video of a talk by Sam Parnia? Are you brain damaged or something?

[bennyboy]

I think "experience" should be the end of the thread. Someone says they had an experience-- okay.

[Jehanne]

Pam Reynolds was in the same category, someone who claimed something beyond the natural World.

It snowed where I live this morning (eastern Iowa); I saw a snow plow that went down my street at least 2 times around 6 AM CST, but after that, none have come back, as large portions of the empty street remain unplowed.  Does anyone here doubt my claim?

Not really, but it's not on the same level as "soul" or "NDE". There are no additional ramifications if I believe or not. If you claim did have more serious implications (like alien snow plow abduction) then I'd certainly be questioning your claim.

My claim is, of course, completely verifiable, at least with respect to the snowfall.  And, if my City did not plow, that would be in the news, and so, the absence of evidence with respect to my other claim is evidence for it.  Kind of like the secular historians of Jesus' day who took no notice of him, or his supposed "miracles"!

[LadyForCamus]

Something stinks in here...

[Jehanne]

You're quoting a comment posted, basically anonymously, in response to an announcement about a video of a talk by Sam Parnia?  Are you brain damaged or something?

Professor Sam Parnia was interviewed by Robert Lawrence Kuhn on his Closer to Truth series; that's where I am getting my information.  Dr. Kuhn holds a PhD in the neurosciences, but after that, got an MBA, and now, I believe, is an investment banker; Wikipedia has all the details, of course.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

No, some of Mr. Walton's companions claimed they saw an alien saucer.

Boru

Pam Reynolds was in the same category, someone who claimed something beyond the natural World.

It snowed where I live this morning (eastern Iowa); I saw a snow plow that went down my street at least 2 times around 6 AM CST, but after that, none have come back, as large portions of the empty street remain unplowed.  Does anyone here doubt my claim?

No.  Claims regarding mundane experiences (snowfall in Iowa in January) can generally be accepted without much ado.  If you were to claim six feet of snow in Dar es Salaam, I might have an issue with your claim.


'No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless it is of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact that it tries to establish.' - David Hume.  In the case of alien abductions, NDEs, OBEs, cryptids and the like, it is much more reasonable to accept that the testimony given is either honestly mistaken or deliberately fraudulent than that the events actually occurred as reported.

Boru

[Angrboda]

You're quoting a comment posted, basically anonymously, in response to an announcement about a video of a talk by Sam Parnia?  Are you brain damaged or something?

Professor Sam Parnia was interviewed by Robert Lawrence Kuhn on his Closer to Truth series; that's where I am getting my information.  Dr. Kuhn holds a PhD in the neurosciences, but after that, got an MBA, and now, I believe, is an investment banker; Wikipedia has all the details, of course.

I was referring to the OP, not you.

[Astreja]

Something stinks in here...

Just a soupçon of Essence de Sock?

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[Abaddon_ire]

Something stinks in here...

Just a soupçon of Essence de Sock?

If I had a dollar for every "What do you skeptics think of this NDE?" I've seen on multiple fora...

The familiar "Trojan Crank" gambit...