I just wanted to wish the new forum all the best. I've been following the Skeptiko forums for some time and was a bit shocked to see the proposed closure of most of the forum there as I've always enjoyed reading the discussions. I'm not so confident about expressing my personal perspectives
Is the polls feature working? I checked the box to create a poll in a new thread but I didn't see any way to input the questions. What is supposed to happen? I use an old browser so it could be a problem with that.
Same username, don't remember if I ever explained it before. Strange thing I use virtually the same username on all forums if available. So if you see it used somewhere else, its probably me.
Hey everyone. So, this is a post I made on Skeptiko a couple months back for Paul. I was waiting for him to respond to me in order to assess/analyze the case, and tell me what he thought, but he never got back to me.
Here's the case:
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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson is for those interested in doing some personal consciousness experiments. You can get it here: http://www.whale.to/c/Prometheus Rising.pdf
I'm a fairly long follower of Alex's podcast and signed up for Skeptiko Forum not long ago. Love NDE and OBE stories, consciousness research and the general history of religious/mystical experience of us humans. I like Chinese stuff like the I Ching, Taoism etc. Also like Kabbalah. Oh yeah, ancient
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k9!, 2017-08-16, 04:16 PM
It seems to me that having anomalous experiences is not without some risk. For instance, NDErs have very high divorce rates because such experiences change who you are at the core in a very significant way and one's spouse either embraces the new you or they don't.
Could I ask what purpose people feel the Skeptic vs Proponent Discussions Forum should serve?
I thought the reason for the corresponding forum at Skeptiko was that sceptics weren't encouraged to post in some other parts of the site. I hope everyone is allowed to post everywhere here. Also, very f
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