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Theist with Questions
#41
RE: Theist with Questions
Trusting what people claim they see when their brains are dying is illogical.

It's like these silly coworkers of mine trusting elderly nursing home residents with bad eyesight and hopped up on medication that they're seeing supernatural things in their rooms.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#42
RE: Theist with Questions
(March 28, 2022 at 7:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
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Moved this thread from ‘Introductions’ because, as brewer pointed out, it has become a discussion thread.

Boru

thank you staff
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#43
RE: Theist with Questions
(March 28, 2022 at 8:58 pm)Foxaire Wrote: Trusting what people claim they see when their brains are dying is illogical.

It's like these silly coworkers of mine trusting elderly nursing home residents with bad eyesight and hopped up on medication that they're seeing supernatural things in their rooms.

I remember waking up one morning around 5 AM and seeing a little brown male figure at the foot of my bed with oval eyes and a small mouth; he was gazing at me with an evil scowl on his face. I remember thinking, "Wow, I am having a waking dream," after which, I went back to sleep.
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#44
RE: Theist with Questions
I remember waking up one morning, and looking out my window and seeing small grey aliens scurrying arou.... oh wait, that was a movie. My bad.
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#45
RE: Theist with Questions
(March 27, 2022 at 10:21 pm)RBP3280 Wrote: I'm an ex agnostic, turned theist. I'm not a fundamentalist, actually fairly unorthodox. 

My turning point was due to people who have been clinically dead and were resuscitated, as well are recovery of terminally ill that should not have survived but did and most with very few side effects from their injury or illness. 

I'm not here to sway opinions but to hear different beliefs and ask questions. 

I'm always interested in talking to people that have had near death experiences, and especially if they were considered clinically dead.

It's reasonably well documented that you can have an NDE without ever being ND. That either means that god allmighty can't tell the difference between heart burn and heart attack or that all you're looking at are the hallucinations of a panicked brain.
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#46
RE: Theist with Questions
Theist with Questions but I can't see one question mark.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#47
RE: Theist with Questions
(March 29, 2022 at 12:19 am)Paleophyte Wrote:
(March 27, 2022 at 10:21 pm)RBP3280 Wrote: I'm an ex agnostic, turned theist. I'm not a fundamentalist, actually fairly unorthodox. 

My turning point was due to people who have been clinically dead and were resuscitated, as well are recovery of terminally ill that should not have survived but did and most with very few side effects from their injury or illness. 

I'm not here to sway opinions but to hear different beliefs and ask questions. 

I'm always interested in talking to people that have had near death experiences, and especially if they were considered clinically dead.

It's reasonably well documented that you can have an NDE without ever being ND. That either means that god allmighty can't tell the difference between heart burn and heart attack or that all you're looking at are the hallucinations of a panicked brain.

Ketamine.
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#48
RE: Theist with Questions
Carl Sagan once posited the idea that NDEs are really just a sense-memory of the experience of being born. 

Born
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#49
RE: Theist with Questions
(March 29, 2022 at 11:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Carl Sagan once posited the idea that NDEs are really just a sense-memory of the experience of being born. 

Born

Carl Sagan was wrong and he had no proof of his opinion.
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#50
RE: Theist with Questions
(March 30, 2022 at 7:04 pm)RBP3280 Wrote:
(March 29, 2022 at 11:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Carl Sagan once posited the idea that NDEs are really just a sense-memory of the experience of being born. 

Born

Carl Sagan was wrong and he had no proof of his opinion.

He probably was wrong, and he would probably have agreed that he had no proof. 

Sagan did speculation, he did poetic prose, and he did science.  I have never been confused from his writings as to which was which.
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