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Thread: Bono on Jesus
Post: RE: Bono on Jesus
| From my scripture studies as a child - yes, a very long time ago - I seem to remember that several aspects of the teachings of Jesus appeared to move the message away from judgement and sin and punish...
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Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
Post: RE: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model f...
| Here's my take, for what it's worth.
Firstly, the Near Death Experience might be a special case. It might constitute a kind of snapshot of afterlife conditions for the benefit of the experiencer bu...
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Thread: Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup presents new high quality UAP/UFO theory
Post: RE: Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup presents new high...
| I'm not really a follower of UAP phenomena but I find the Kastrup speculations interesting for a couple of reasons. Anyone who has followed my posts over the years will know that I often bring up the ...
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Thread: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
Post: RE: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
| Penrose is a big fan of Gödel and based his book (The Emperor's New Mind) partly on Gödel's theories. Yet Penrose remains a materialist although quite an open minded one.
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Thread: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
Post: RE: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
| It seems to me that if one accepts the notion of the immaterial mind then the afterlife is a natural assumption. Why would the immaterial cease to be because the physical host has expired - literally ...
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Thread: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
Post: RE: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
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Larry Wrote: (2024-01-06, 06:13 PM)
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"I find this man interesting because he is at once an extremely knowledgeable chemist and also a devout christian fundamentalist to the extent of being a biblic...
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Thread: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
Post: RE: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
| Here's a follow-up discussion of the above debate at Harvard. It is interesting because Tour has support for his position on OOL research from another scientist in the field who is not religious, inde...
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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...
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2023-12-31, 04:47 PM)
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Any statistics on this based on surveys? My observation is otherwise, where the "spiritual not religious" category has been growing. And this evangelical/f...
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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...
| I think that the learning experience is something we are all going through. I get the impression that NDEs serve the purpose of giving the experiencer a glimpse which can then be shared with the rest ...
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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...
| It seems to me that the history of NDE research points to the fact that a prior religious (or atheist) belief does not rule out that believer from having such an experience - although it might influen...
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Thread: Atheist defends the Soul: Substance Dualism with Michael Huemer
Post: RE: Atheist defends the Soul: Substance Dualism wi...
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-12-21, 08:04 PM)
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And I didn't say Science was a belief system, I said the Materialist faith is a belief system ...
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Very important distinction.
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Thread: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
Post: RE: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
| I did a forum search on Jim Tour and this thread popped-up. Hope it is not too old to be revived.
I find this man interesting because he is at once an extremely knowledgeable chemist and also a dev...
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Thread: There are no aliens
Post: RE: There are no aliens
| Sci, those two examples perfectly justify my intuition that such beings are manifestations from other realities rather than physical visitors from across the Galaxy or mythical creatures roaming the f...
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Thread: Banned from skeptiko.
Post: RE: Banned from skeptiko.
| I'm sorry to be the sole negative voice but I feel the need to relate the circumstances of my own reasons for abandoning Skeptiko and becoming one of the founders (albeit non-administrative) of this f...
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Thread: There are no aliens
Post: RE: There are no aliens
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-12-01, 10:20 PM)
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I'd put aliens visiting utilizing technology born of deeper understanding of the universe over Turing machines becoming conscious by running the right...
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Thread: Christopher Fuchs is revolutionizing how we understand our quantum reality
Post: RE: Christopher Fuchs is revolutionizing how we un...
| Just to add a little more context, this is from an Aeon article (https://aeon.co/essays/materialism-alone-cannot-explain-the-riddle-of-consciousness)of a few years back:
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
Post: RE: Near death experience - did he really mean tha...
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2023-11-23, 11:33 PM)
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You're right - James' words apparently were "If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enoug...
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
Post: RE: Near death experience - did he really mean tha...
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Typoz Wrote: (2023-11-22, 12:15 PM)
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Apologies for selectively quoting a tiny fragment of your interesting post.
The 'nothing before he was born' is, I would say, an assumption, a proposition to f...
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
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Larry Wrote: (2023-11-21, 04:09 PM)
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In discussing these matters with my son in law who is an ardent athiest, he has stated to the effect of: I would love to believe that I would get to live foreve...
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
Post: RE: Near death experience - did he really mean tha...
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Silence Wrote: (2023-11-20, 09:10 PM)
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Curious. As I read the rest of your post, I did not see anything that might explain the bold above. I understand his intellectual position but are you sugge...
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