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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...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
Post: RE: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
sbu Wrote: (2024-03-25, 03:58 PM)
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I believe the alternative to truth-seeking is faith. Why is it so pervasive to scrutinize the subtle suggestions we have that death is not the end?
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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I know we discuss things like NDEs and stuff here which is linked to the topic of death. But I don't really think anything at all about death itself. Sometimes I think of life as like a conveyor belt,...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-22, 05:06 PM)
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But I don't think anyone can guarantee what their response would be when the time comes, and at least accepting this fear as a part of one's self seem...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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I recall something a friend once said that how no one can really predict how they will react in a life or death situation such as being drafted into war as a young man for the sake of old men's politi...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-21, 05:57 PM)
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My impression in life is that most people in our society at least do in fact have a repressed neurotic dread of a personal annihilation in death, a prevale...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
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First or all, I'd like to say that we are all in the same boat as everyone else on the planet - we know we are going to die and we can't be certain what will follow that, if anything. I do remember th...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
Post: RE: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-20, 09:02 AM)
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When I very first got into PSI related topics, NDEs whatever, I had horrible panic-disorders in regards to my mortality. A growing pain I guess that hits everyon...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
Post: RE: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
I'm freaked out of losing consciousness/loss of control. So I hope in death or if I have an NDE before then, that it's comforting and relaxing. I had hypoxia-induced visions one time when I lost consc...
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Thread: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
Post: Death Anxiety (but not what u think)
I apologize ahead of time if this is in the wrong forum. Perhaps “Member Introductions”? Even tho been here for years , so who knows, but feel free to move it !
Two random thoughts , I thought May ...
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Thread: Free will and obesity
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Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:19 AM)
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I've known about obesity being a disease for a long time, I thought more people knew about it.
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I did, but I thought that was verging on certain forbidden poli...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-16, 07:47 AM)
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Not that QM is Lovecraftian, but that what QM tells us about the world seems to suggest more and more that root reality is seemingly unknowable or uncomprehendib...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:03 AM)
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This is what made me suspicious of it. Now I'm very much of the idea that quantum mechanics can undermine a lot of different ways that we percieve the world, but...
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Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
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It's sort of a bait-and-switch: "Here's this spooky example of intuition, but we reject spooky explanations, so here we provide a rational explanation based on subconsc... uh, no, wait, it's just a co...
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Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
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True, but the main scenario in the article - leaving a cafe before it gets shot up - seems to fit the second category. How, based solely on subconscious cues in the local environment, is one supposed ...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
Post: RE: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of natur...
Brian Wrote: (2024-03-11, 02:15 PM)
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When physics comes to a full stop, maybe we should start thinking from non-physical angles. I know they don't prove anything but they might come up with intere...
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Brian Wrote: (2024-03-11, 12:51 PM)
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Even classical physics is stuck as evidence shows the universe must have started in a low entropy state and physicists don't understand how
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Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-10, 05:24 PM)
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Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism? (https://www.essentiafoundation.org/does-quantum-mechanics-beckon-the-end-of-naturalism/reading/)...
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Thread: Free will and obesity
Post: RE: Free will and obesity
David001 Wrote: (2024-03-08, 12:26 PM)
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Surely there is a vast difference between claiming that we have no free will - as in the materialist conception of reality, and claiming that everything we d...
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Thread: Free will and obesity
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sbu Wrote: (2024-03-08, 10:13 AM)
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Yesterday, Novo Nordisk, the company that produces Wegovy, surpassed Tesla in value, becoming a significant topic in local news. This development piqued my intere...
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