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Thread: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
Post: RE: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
| I'm sorry to hear of this. I enjoyed his company on the forum, reading his points of view and personal encounters with the strange, wonderful things that can happen in this world. The internet can sti...
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Thread: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
Post: RE: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
| I'm sad to see him go as I always held him in highest regard and thought he contributed so much here and at Skeptiko. But I know he was looking forward to moving on and I believe he is well prepared f...
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Thread: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
Post: RE: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
| Didn't intend to come back to PQ but I saw this thread in passing and had to say something. It's sad to hear of Doug's passing. He seemed like a quiet, patient sort of person who opened up a lot tow...
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Thread: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
Post: RE: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
| What brings me some comfort is the fact that, thanks to this forum, Skeptiko, Alex and all of you, Doug assumed survival of consciousness as a fact, he told me that knowing that we are transcendent co...
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Thread: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
Post: RE: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
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tim Wrote: (2019-06-08, 01:09 PM)
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I only wish I'd known, but obviously Doug didn't want us to.
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As I said tim, Doug told me he intended to say his goodbyes himself and didn't get to. But yes a...
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Thread: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
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Ninshub Wrote: (2019-06-08, 03:57 AM)
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Hi everyone,
Unfortunately I’ve got some very sad news to share with all of you. Thanks to Laird reaching out to a neighbor of his because we had not been...
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Thread: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
Post: Our beloved friend Doug has passed on
| Hi everyone,
Unfortunately I’ve got some very sad news to share with all of you. Thanks to Laird reaching out to a neighbor of his because we had not been getting any news for several weeks, we’ve...
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Thread: More thoughts on the simulation hypothesis
Post: More thoughts on the simulation hypothesis
| An MIT computer scientist, Rizwan Virk, has a new book out, The Simulation Hypothesis, making the case that we do not live in a “base reality” (a real world) but, more likely, in a computer simulation...
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Thread: Thanks for keeping it going!
Post: Thanks for keeping it going!
| Just a word of personal thanks for the members who've kept steadily contributing through these past months, to those who have just now and then, and even those that just keep visiting. I myself was qu...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
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Valmar Wrote: (2018-03-13, 12:36 AM)
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That's not quite my perspective. Maybe I described it improperly... I'll try to clarify:
I don't see the ego as lower or less divine than our Self, rather mer...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
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Kamarling Wrote: (2018-02-10, 06:52 PM)
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I'm interested to know if and when researchers such as yourselves feel a little skeptical, at least about some cases rather than others. I imagine that, aft...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| Great interview from two of my favorite researchers, thank you so much. I wanted to comment on what Kamarling touched upon: some NDE's give you uneasy feeling, particularly those with elaborate, intri...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
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Laird Wrote: (2018-02-10, 02:44 PM)
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In that case, let me kick things off with a few of my own!
To Titus:
Correspondents of mine have in the past argued that certain mystical, "nondual" expe...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 4: Rudolf Smit and Titus Rivas
Post: RE: Written interview with Rudolf Smit and Titus R...
| Persistent Philosophical Problems
Vortex: Thanks, Rudolf. Now I have some questions for Titus, again – now concerning the philosophical implications of his research.
Titus, you are a personalist ...
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Thread: Greetings everyone!
Post: Greetings everyone!
| I come here too late, I should have come here several months ago.
But I was at a crucial job determination and was in a severely deep depression mood that time.
Around June ~ July of this year -...
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Thread: Is Evil One of God's Tools?
Post: RE: Is Evil One of God's Tools?
| I don’t see why God also wouldn’t be a little bit evil. I’ve come to the conclusion that either God doesn’t exist, or is every bit as much evil and stupid as we are.
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Thread: The Skeptiko post-trauma thread
Post: RE: Please don't make Skeptiko the main focus of t...
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DaveB Wrote: (2017-09-03, 09:10 PM)
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For example to believe in ψ is to believe that there is a scientific conspiracy to dismiss the evidence for ψ - we probably all believe that is the case.
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Thread: The Skeptiko post-trauma thread
Post: RE: Please don't make Skeptiko the main focus of t...
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E. Flowers Wrote: (2017-08-27, 11:45 AM)
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The problem is... That it's not over yet. We are still receiving people that we knew at Skeptiko and who are being banned. The attitude adopted by David he...
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Thread: Is Evil One of God's Tools?
Post: RE: Is Evil One of God's Tools?
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Jim_Smith Wrote: (2017-08-27, 08:19 PM)
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Despite all the nasty things that happen, isn't the almost infinite capacity people have to love amazing? And also the many different ways and things we can...
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Thread: The question of political / conspiracy theory content
Post: RE: The question of political / conspiracy theory ...
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Skeptiko does not allow members to create threads on NDEs.
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Lol.
*face palm*
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