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    Thread: Ancient Magic Rituals with Irving Finkel
Post: Ancient Magic Rituals with Irving Finkel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbd01lKdZk Quote: -- Irving Finkel, PhD, is Senior Assistant Keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and cultures at the British Museum. He is the cura...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-05-07, 06:53 PM
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    Thread: Forum/wiki software upgrades
Post: RE: Forum/wiki software upgrades

Forum software upgraded from MyBB 1.8.37 to security and maintenance release MyBB 1.8.38 (https://blog.mybb.com/2024/04/30/mybb-1-8-38-released-security-maintenance-release/).
Posted by Laird in Forum Questions, Suggestions and Announcements , 2024-05-01, 12:47 AM
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    Thread: Reincarnation cases from Japan
Post: Reincarnation cases from Japan

A new book has now come out concerning newly researched cases of reincarnation, in this instance from Japan. The book is Katsugoro and Other Reincarnation Cases in Japan, by Ohkado Masayuki (White C...
Posted by nbtruthman in Reincarnation , 2024-04-28, 10:52 PM
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    Thread: Reddit's latest NDE thread: claims of EEG being unreliable to detect activity
Post: RE: Reddit's latest NDE thread: claims of EEG bein...

LotusFlower Wrote: (2024-04-27, 08:40 PM) -- https://www.reddit.com/r/consciousness/comments/1cdhyo7/rethinking_death_exploring_the_intersection_of/ Sam Parnia is being referred to as a "woo peddler...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-28, 05:00 PM
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    Thread: Reddit's latest NDE thread: claims of EEG being unreliable to detect activity
Post: RE: Reddit's latest NDE thread: claims of EEG bein...

I think worrying about what Redditors say is a waste of time. There are billions to trillions of present-to-future dollar amounts based on the idea the conscious experience is completely captured in...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-28, 01:32 PM
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    Thread: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on the Question of Survival
Post: RE: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bea...

My feeling was he was trying to separate the cases that are *just* a feeling/dream/etc versus those where you have some external evidence like multiple witnesses, learning someone's death from the ADC...
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

An excellent new article in The Hill goes into some detail on the very current status of the UAP/UFO mystery. This is the occurence of a wave of UAP/UFO sightings that appear to slightly mimic swarms ...
Posted by nbtruthman in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-04-26, 04:04 PM
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    Thread: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on the Question of Survival
Post: RE: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bea...

I guess it may depend on what he means by “intrinsically subjective”. If there are veridical elements, I suppose the experience of them is subjective  but the information would be objective wouldn’t i...
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    Thread: Surveying the landscape => A paranormal, religious future?
Post: RE: Surveying the landscape => A paranormal, relig...

Majorities of Americans believe in ghosts, aliens, the devil: Survey (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4400922-americans-ghosts-aliens-devil-survey/) by Tara Suter - 01/10/24 3:30 PM ET...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-24, 06:18 PM
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    Thread: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Post: RE: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are...

T-Shirt with Stop Sign can possibly make driverless cars stop (https://www.motortrend.com/news/can-a-t-shirt-stop-a-waymo-driverless-taxi-vehicle/) (Changed the title b/c it was needlessly confusin...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-24, 05:32 PM
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    Thread: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on the Question of Survival
Post: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ZhEsWoQnc Quote: -- Abstract: A spontaneous After-Death Communication (ADC) occurs when a bereaved person unexpectedly perceives the deceased person. This ma...
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    Thread: AI megathread
Post: RE: AI megathread

Meta claims its newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-19/meta-releases-llama-3-ai-model/103744538) By AP on ...
Posted by Laird in Other Topics , 2024-04-19, 09:16 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

David001 Wrote: (2024-04-15, 11:36 AM) -- I am less pessimistic than you because I really see science being questioned more and more in the mainstream press and on YouTube. One of the things I lik...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-15, 04:02 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

I was most struck by this Parnia quote from the article; I've never heard him make such a bold prediction before. Quote: -- Parnia, the resuscitation specialist, who studies the physical proce...
Posted by Will in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-12, 07:40 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

Typoz Wrote: (2024-04-08, 10:51 AM) -- The rest of your post made some excellent points. I just wanted to mention something with regard to correlation. What runs counter to that idea of correlation i...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-08, 03:15 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-07, 05:35 PM) -- False. It's just an unproven assumption that qualia can't be emergent as well. Your H2O example is only an example of socalled "weak" emergence (the property of w...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-07, 10:52 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-07, 02:56 PM) -- so nbtruthman, when you can prove how molecular structures can be reduced to quantum mechanics you can claim you have refuted emergence! Until then emergence is a...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-07, 04:34 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-04, 09:52 AM) -- I agree subjective reports also can be empirical evidence if they are commonly reproducible. Otherwise they are “anecdotal” evidence like the evidence for bigfoot...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-04, 02:31 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

Brian Wrote: (2024-04-03, 07:26 PM) -- I'm having problems with the reply/quote function so I'm working around it. @"nbtruthman"#90  wrote : I hear the word "empirical" so many times that I had to...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-03, 08:21 PM
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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) -- 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...
Posted by Larry in Spirituality , 2024-04-01, 07:39 PM
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