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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-21, 05:57 PM)
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My impression in life is that most people in our society at least do in fact have a repressed neurotic dread of a personal annihilation in death, a prevale...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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| When I very first got into PSI related topics, NDEs whatever, I had horrible panic-disorders in regards to my mortality. A growing pain I guess that hits everyone differently and since I was very inte...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-14, 06:05 PM)
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It seems to me the argument is actually noting the way QM seems to be suggest a disorder governed by some kind of higher order. This follows from spec...
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Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
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| I don't think this is an untirely unfair take to be honest. If there is subtle psi effects that may underpin things like intuition I think it's pretty clear that it's not ALWAYS active. Subconscious e...
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Thread: Free will and obesity
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sbu Wrote: (2024-03-08, 10:13 AM)
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Yesterday, Novo Nordisk, the company that produces Wegovy, surpassed Tesla in value, becoming a significant topic in local news. This development piqued my intere...
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Thread: There are no aliens
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| I must admit I do find it funny how I can be such a proponent for so much for so much parapsychology stuff but then when I see aliens it's like "Man, aliens? Naaaaaahhh". Is this how it feels to be on...
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Thread: Why the afterlife to me isn't just evolutionary wishful thinking
Post: RE: Why the afterlife to me isn't just evolutionar...
| This is a problem with researching any PSI related phenomena. Humans grow up with belief systems that they become set in, whether they be religious or atheist ones (without realizing). NDEs, mediumshi...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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LotusFlower Wrote: (2023-10-14, 06:51 PM)
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Kastrup also has his own biases, as he mentioned when he was a materialist, he had zero fear of death because he figured it was just lights out. After he ...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
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Merle Wrote: (2023-06-30, 10:33 AM)
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OK, I read the study you reference. (Sarraf, M., Woodley, M., Tressoldi, P. (2020). Anomalous information reception by mediums: A meta-analysis of the scientifi...
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Thread: Checking for normal things first
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-07-08, 04:56 PM)
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I do think there is something worthwhile in studying things like cold reading and hot reading, because it is hard to gauge how good someone can be at ...
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Thread: Are spirits electromagnetic energy?
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Typoz Wrote: (2023-02-20, 09:56 AM)
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For me, such ideas as electromagnetic energy and frequency, vibration and so on are not to be taken to mean the same thing that they do in physics and mainstrea...
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Thread: Is all this stuff real? or not? The skeptic vs believer within ourselves
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Bill37 Wrote: (2023-02-06, 07:05 PM)
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There should be a forum for the reflective/emotional or psychological aspect of all this... so , without knowing exactly where to put this or if anyone cares t...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
Post: RE: Free will and determinism
| There's certainly been no shortage of these kind of threads that have popped up here and they always seem to go about in the same way. I've mostly stepped away from the whole thing for a while now cau...
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Thread: Aware II results
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sbu Wrote: (2023-01-02, 03:34 PM)
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NDEs are like UFO sightings. Scientific minded persons accept the phenomena as one that warrants further investigation like Sam Parnia. “Beliefers” jumps to concl...
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Thread: Cosmic Cradle: pre-birth memories
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2022-12-28, 05:27 PM)
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The trouble is, any analogy I can think of in which the basic persona of the person remains after physical death, would imply that something like selective...
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Thread: Cosmic Cradle: pre-birth memories
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2022-12-26, 08:20 PM)
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Just another I hope brief enough comment on just one example in the vast array of terrible human situations that presumably were chosen by the soul in the ...
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Thread: Aware II results
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Silence Wrote: (2022-12-23, 03:56 PM)
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Tim, I'm sympathetic to the brain doesn't not equal mind worldview. Yet, if I'm trying to be at all objective your post seems more of an apologetic than a co...
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Thread: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia
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tim Wrote: (2022-11-24, 07:12 PM)
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This thread is entitled the latest from Dr Sam Parnia, so this is it (the latest)...I think. :)
Near death experiences: What really happens when you die? - Y...
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Thread: An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all
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| I watched this video a long time ago and I always found it especially beautiful in a sad way. I've had an interest in philosophy for a long time, especially in the way humans see the world, life and d...
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Thread: Desperation - the scientistic materialists strike back against PSI
Post: RE: Desperation - the scientistic materialists str...
| So I decided to leave a comment on one of the blog posts from the author, since I actually enjoyed a number of the posts he's put up. It's nice getting a sceptic who isn't overly belligerant in his an...
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