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Hegel's God


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Sci, 2020-12-17, 11:27 PM

Hegel's God

Robert Wallace


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...Hegel begins with a radical critique of conventional ways of thinking about God. God is commonly described as a being who is omniscient, omnipotent, and so forth. Hegel says this is already a mis

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Questions and Thoughts about Past Lives and Verification


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-12-17, 04:05 AM

A NYT piece from October in which they mention the work of Jim Tucker:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/paren...-kids.html
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[color=#000000][size=medium][font="Georgia"][size=medium][size=medium][size=medium][size=medium]Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist and director

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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?


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Steve001, 2020-12-16, 10:15 PM

How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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[color=#323232][font="Georgia, serif"]It is a central dilemma of human life—more urgent, arguably, than the inevitability of suffering and death. I h

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Leslie Kean's new Netflix documentary


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-12-15, 07:47 PM

Leslie Kean's recent book has earned itself a documentary for Netflix (in the US at least, though she claims it will be premiering globally on January 6th) based on her book and other research similarly titled 'Surviving Death': https://twitter.com/lesliekean/status/13...8958887937

You can also

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Debate and Discussion about NDEs with Dr Jan Holden and Steve McRae


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-12-15, 02:09 PM


Very interesting and lengthy discussion (nearly 2 hours long), with some criticisms of materialism/physicalism from both sides. Steve McRae seems to be quite open-minded but he does not believe in the supernatural/paranormal apparent

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Hume’s Syndrome: Irrational Resistance to the Paranormal


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Sci, 2020-12-14, 07:28 PM

Hume’s Syndrome: Irrational Resistance to the Paranormal

Michael Grosso


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One of the obstacles to progress in psychical research is irrational resistance to the phenomena. Among eighteenth-c

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I could really use some help on this.


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Hehexd1, 2020-12-14, 04:46 PM

Hi.
Hope you're all having a great day, cuz I'm definitely not.
Recently, I've done some internet digging on NDEs, and stumbled upon this.
[url=https://www.academia.edu/10060970/Occams_Chainsaw_Neuroscientific_Nails_in_the_coffin_of_dualist_notions_of_the_Near_death_experience_NDE_](PDF) Occam's

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Blade Runner: Deckard is a....


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Sci, 2020-12-13, 08:44 PM

Replicant right?

Also, I love how this was ad libbed by Hauer:




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So at the end of Sopranos...


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Sci, 2020-12-13, 08:40 PM

Tony's dead right?




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Whitehead's Process Philosophy's value to Virtual Reality design


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Sci, 2020-12-11, 08:11 PM

Primer on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy as a Paradigm Shift & Foundation for Experiential Design



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