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Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-01, 06:22 PM)
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People have tried to find ways to hand wave the suffering in this world with different mythologies such as Karmic Justice or God's Plan, I see the mod...
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Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...
David001 Wrote: (2024-04-01, 10:35 AM)
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I agree that the evidence for souls selecting their next life is not that large - mainly I suspect because it is difficult to get evidence of what happens du...
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Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-04, 05:30 PM)
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Yes, I recall an US Air Force veteran once saying that the idea people have soulmates is ridiculous because it implies some poor child ending up disab...
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Thread: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
Post: RE: Chemist James Tour: "Life Should Not Exist"
Kamarling Wrote: (2023-12-19, 09:47 PM)
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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 ex...
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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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Have you ever challenged him to make good on his claimed determination to strictly follow scientific reason and logic, and consider some (in fact a large b...
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
Post: RE: Near death experience - did he really mean tha...
Silence Wrote: (2023-11-21, 05:10 PM)
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I'd be curious to hear what he has to say on the topic of annihilation. Meaning, is it something he simply and stoically accepts as his fate or is it somethi...
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Thread: Near death experience - did he really mean that?
Post: RE: Near death experience - did he really mean tha...
sbu Wrote: (2023-11-21, 03:17 PM)
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Definitely continuity. As I said I don’t believe any non-suicidal person really hopes for annihilation. They might express that view for provocative reasons like ...
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Thread: Fine tuning?
Post: RE: A strange dream
David001 Wrote: (2023-10-14, 03:08 PM)
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I presume this is your argument - correct me if I am wrong
The obvious problem with your argument is that it permits anything to happen. I mean we might liv...
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Thread: Intelligent Energy with RJ Spina
Post: RE: Intelligent Energy with RJ Spina
Ninshub Wrote: (2023-09-01, 11:58 PM)
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RJ Spina has just published another book, this one for deprogramming your subconscious, so he's making the online interview rounds again.
This is the latest ...
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Thread: UFO crash retrieval appears to be absolutely real
Post: RE: UFO crash retrieval appears to be absolutely r...
nbtruthman Wrote: (2023-07-31, 03:03 PM)
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I get that this sworn testimony before Congress by credible individuals that crashed alien vehicles and even alien bodies have been secretly retrieved and ...
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Thread: Foreign Accent Syndrome
Post: RE: Foreign Accent Syndrome
Reincarnation, Part Two: Cases of Xenoglossy, with Walter Semkiw : The New Thinking Allowed Foundation (https://www.newthinkingallowed.org/reincarnation-part-two-cases-of-xenoglossy-with-walter-semkiw...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-07-06, 01:06 AM)
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I'm guessing I'm not the only person here who thinks paranormal phenomena are real and is kind of deflated by the info that Max gave us. The consolation her...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Merle Wrote: (2023-07-02, 03:23 PM)
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Understood. But Wikipedia is also a huge collection of links to scientific studies on what seems like a limitless number of subjects. If anybody is interested i...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-06-27, 03:05 PM)
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Also looks like Sam Harris is agnostic about Survival? Or maybe he's against personal Survival but not an Idealist-esque "unified with the Ur-Mind" ty...
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Thread: Intelligent Design (ECP forum rules apply)*
Post: RE: Intelligent Design
nbtruthman Wrote: (2023-06-26, 06:55 PM)
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I find it a little discouraging that there is so little interest here nowadays in Intelligent Design. I have followed this field and have observed that wit...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Ninshub Wrote: (2023-06-22, 02:55 AM)
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I can relate. Maybe less now but I definitely know that experience.
I very much wonder how much less hard that would be (to slip into that mode) in we were...
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Thread: Banned from skeptiko.
Post: RE: Banned from skeptiko.
Ninshub Wrote: (2023-06-21, 02:22 PM)
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I wouldn't personally criticize Alex myself. I think it's clear, or that's what I'm getting at from glancing at his answers, is that it's always been about hi...
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Thread: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fallacy and is it unfalsifiable?
Post: RE: Is the Filter Theory committing the ad hoc fal...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-06-18, 04:40 PM)
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Yeah on the one hand belief in the afterlife seems to be doing fine, even in places where it dropped I think it seems to be coming back.
I do wonde...
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Thread: Why God Exists | Fine-tuning, Beauty, and Discoverability
Post: RE: Why God Exists | Fine-tuning, Beauty, and Disc...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-05-22, 08:36 PM)
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This makes me think of the visceral power of the stage play, that IMO can surpass even the highest CGI budgeted movie (though I enjoy those too!).
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Thread: Why God Exists | Fine-tuning, Beauty, and Discoverability
Post: RE: Why God Exists | Fine-tuning, Beauty, and Disc...
Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-05-22, 05:25 PM)
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Ah I've had a similar discussion many times with friends who majored in the arts! It seems unfair to say there is a pure, clear hierarchy of works tha...
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