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Thread: Materialist philosopher admits that there are no rational reason to be a materialist
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Brian Wrote: (2024-02-04, 01:54 PM)
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I think that anybody who is being totally honest with themselves has to admit that their position, whichever side of the fence they are on, might be based on ev...
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Thread: Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data
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Max_B Wrote: (2024-01-28, 09:10 AM)
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Pity the poor buggers who have a distressing near-death experience, that doesn't fit into Greyson's NDE scale - because there are no marks available for distres...
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Thread: Psience Quest Interview No. 8: Michael Nahm
Post: Psience Quest Interview No. 8: Michael Nahm
| A big thank you to Dr. Nahm for consenting to this interview.
1. Your website describes your background in zoology and paleontology, and your current work is described as biology. What led you to t...
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Thread: Some wisdom quotes on survival and the afterlife
Post: Some wisdom quotes on survival and the afterlife
| For me it is sometimes good to refresh my mind with another dose of the truth and review some of the very informed opinions of experts with far more experience and knowledge than myself to remind me o...
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Thread: Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup presents new high quality UAP/UFO theory
Post: Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup presents new high qua...
| Noted philosopher Bernardo Kastrup has surprisingly entered into the debate about the nature of the UAP or UFO phenomenon. He has now presented in his website a very interesting, knowledgeable and hig...
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Thread: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
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Kamarling Wrote: (2024-01-06, 06:47 AM)
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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 scien...
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Thread: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
Post: RE: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
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Kamarling Wrote: (2024-01-06, 08:07 PM)
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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 becaus...
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Thread: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
Post: Why Gödel believed in an afterlife
| An interesting article (https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death) just came out going into the reasons why Kurt Gödel, arguably and well accepted as the great...
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Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
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Kamarling Wrote: (2023-12-31, 08:09 PM)
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The thing is that it is difficult to survey these things. People tend to identify strongly if they belong to a faith group or are staunchly atheist. The las...
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Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
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Brian Wrote: (2023-12-31, 04:18 PM)
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I was a new-ager back in the 1980s and I believed there would be a great shift in spirituality but since then I have seen the decline of such abstract DIY forms...
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Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
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Kamarling Wrote: (2023-12-30, 08:57 PM)
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Now, within more restrictive belief systems such as Islam or Evangelical Christianity or Orthodox Judaism, the coming change will be resisted for sure. Perh...
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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'm not saying it isn't worth discussion, of course it is, but I can't honestly see on what basis (after more than forty years of NDE research), a theoretical case could even be made to suggest that M...
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Thread: Atheist defends the Soul: Substance Dualism with Michael Huemer
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sbu Wrote: (2023-12-21, 07:51 PM)
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In the second video he makes himself Noble price worthy in the first 5 minutes by refuting the possibility of other universes as summarized above.
Science empha...
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Thread: Atheist defends the Soul: Substance Dualism with Michael Huemer
Post: RE: Atheist defends the Soul: Substance Dualism wi...
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Pq0ylCXvI
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In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Michael Huemer. This time we discuss two of his recent papers in ...
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Thread: Who is Thoth?
Post: Who is Thoth?
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWq_k2tiYg
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Thoth was among the most complex and mysterious gods of the ancient Egyptian world. His origins lost to time, he would become the deity of ...
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Thread: There are no aliens
Post: RE: There are no aliens
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Ninshub Wrote: (2023-12-07, 12:59 AM)
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I do too. But doesn't B not preclude A? That's my position. Because there is also very good evidence for N&B.
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Oh I think it is possible there are cases t...
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Thread: There are no aliens
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Kamarling Wrote: (2023-12-01, 11:01 PM)
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I do find it difficult to explain physical "nuts and bolts" ufology though but then I'm not a keen follower of UFO phenomena.
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Yeah I'm skeptical about ...
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Thread: There are no aliens
Post: RE: There are no aliens
| I don't know if everyone has watched the video I posted with Emerson Green & Jimmy Akin, but it takes a lot of the usual skeptic propaganda talking points down a peg.
We don't have a definite knowled...
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2023-11-22, 04:57 PM)
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And you also could point out that his ardent rejection of the existence of God is not logically connected to the existence of the afterlife. It could conce...
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
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sbu Wrote: (2023-11-21, 01:28 PM)
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I'm still not convinced anyone seriolusly hopes for "annihilation". It must be a way to mentally come to terms with the prospect supported by the materialist/panp...
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