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    Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
Post: RE: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Weste...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMyDbY9VE58
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-12-30, 10:10 AM
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    Thread: Is Google's LaMDA AI sentient? There seems to be strong evidence to that effect
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A Russian mathematician "AI" expert and creator of internet uncensored platform Bastyon Daniel Sachkov: "it's all hype. It's NOT artificial intelligence, there CAN'T be artificial intelligence, intell...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in General Consciousness Science , 2022-07-25, 05:05 PM
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    Thread: Is Google's LaMDA AI sentient? There seems to be strong evidence to that effect
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This engineer was on Tucker Carlson last night, calling LaMDA a "person" and a "child". There is something ridiculous about this guy.... I dunno.... . Watch the program yourselves. It's "Tucker Carlso...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in General Consciousness Science , 2022-06-23, 07:19 AM
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    Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
Post: RE: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread

A great interview with Jeff Long on Randy Kay channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czffzAHafw
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2021-08-22, 06:38 PM
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    Thread: The longer you live, the less likely your soul will survive death? (aware of aware)
Post: RE: The longer you live, the less likely your soul...

Smaw Wrote: (2021-05-24, 09:27 AM) -- See I do agree with you. I think maybe, AwareofAware in this might be putting too many eggs in the NDE basket? There's definitely a question to be asked about wh...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2021-05-24, 09:51 AM
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    Thread: The longer you live, the less likely your soul will survive death? (aware of aware)
Post: RE: The longer you live, the less likely your soul...

Smaw Wrote: (2021-05-24, 07:22 AM) -- I'm pretty sure actually, not to say that I agree with him, that elderly people do report less NDEs than younger ones. There's certainly lots of reports from hos...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2021-05-24, 09:13 AM
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    Thread: Opposing Hell
Post: RE: Opposing Hell

Early Christians were reincarnationists. There are passages in the Scriptures that clearly indicate belief in reincarnation. https://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/history/early-christianity.html
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Spirituality , 2021-03-17, 08:03 AM
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    Thread: Opposing Hell
Post: RE: Opposing Hell

I'm surprised at how close my views are to yours.
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Spirituality , 2021-03-08, 07:05 PM
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    Thread: Do you believe in God?
Post: RE: Do you believe in God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyq8CeQLTQ
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2021-01-24, 10:37 AM
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    Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
Post: RE: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread

I think it bothered him for the same reason NDE's use to bother materialists: they destroy their world view. He was brought up as a total materialist, and an evidence to the contrary annihilates his c...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2021-01-23, 07:59 AM
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    Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
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A bizarre NDE my friend had. My friend, a known jazz pianist, overdosed a few years back, was driven to a hospital and fell into a cardiac arrest for 4 minutes. Meaning, the doctors declared him clini...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2021-01-20, 08:05 AM
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    Thread: Near-death experience of physician Bettina Peyton
Post: RE: Near-death experience of physician Bettina Pey...

10 tim Wrote: (2020-12-21, 06:00 PM) -- Personally, I don't like social engineering (representative percentages), Laird. Of course I'm not suggesting you do but it wouldn't bother me if the whole fo...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2020-12-21, 07:38 PM
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    Thread: Near-death experience of physician Bettina Peyton
Post: RE: Near-death experience of physician Bettina Pey...

tim Wrote: (2020-12-21, 01:41 PM) -- Hi, Ian. I found her presentation to be overtly dramatised, sentimental, too emotional for my liking without trying to be disrespectful to her. She could have foc...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2020-12-21, 02:57 PM
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    Thread: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia
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Stan Woolley Wrote: (2020-12-19, 02:01 PM) -- It’s closer to 56 1/2 that he talks about NDEs. It’s very encouraging that in December 2020 he’s still positive about the research and doesn’t seem to be...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2020-12-19, 02:47 PM
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    Thread: Is Skeptiko forum website suspended?!!
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I't's back on.
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    Thread: Is Skeptiko forum website suspended?!!
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I just ran into it. Hope it's not censorship, like everywhere else these days.
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    Thread: An interesting NDE by an extraordinary man.
Post: RE: An interesting NDE by an extraordinary man.

tim Wrote: (2020-01-21, 07:30 PM) -- Thanks for posting that, Enrique. I personally wouldn't know how to make more than a brief comment about such an NDE, other than I think it's unlikely that he's m...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2020-01-22, 08:15 AM
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    Thread: An interesting NDE by an extraordinary man.
Post: An interesting NDE by an extraordinary man.

This is one of the most interesting NDE’s I’ve seen, not because of the experience itself, but but because of the extraordinary qualities and biography of the experiencer. Coronel of the Russian airfo...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2020-01-21, 11:33 AM
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    Thread: Commentary thread for tim's "NDE's" thread
Post: RE: NDE's

Mediochre Wrote: (2019-12-23, 03:28 AM) -- It'd be nice if there were english subtitles or something. -- Russians don't usually subtitle their Youtube videos, and I don't have time to subtitle this o...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-12-23, 08:18 AM
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    Thread: Commentary thread for tim's "NDE's" thread
Post: RE: NDE's

Obiwan Wrote: (2019-12-22, 11:25 PM) -- Hm. That sort of thing has been claimed before even from the distant past IIRC. I think it’s very difficult to know how much weight to give to non-veridical ex...
Posted by Enrique Vargas in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-12-23, 08:14 AM
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