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Originally posted by dominicus
Isn't the whole NDE thing an intellectual surgery for most atheists?? Specifically since most NDE's speak of a God.
reply to post by mmariebored
I have an anti-liar agenda, to be correct. I don't like to see people controlled by people posing as some higher-power authority, and this is what religions do.
Isn't this what your doing now? Posing as a higher authority by saying that others are posing as higher authority. Its the big paradox some dont see.
Subjective proof is proof also, just for that 1 person. If a bunch of people share the same subjective proof, doesnt it make it objective?
What if there really is a religion that does know "it" and really is teaching the true path to experience God and be free to see things that are real, beyond the imagination???
Wouldnt that suck for all those who were bashing it and by doing so missing the point?
No. No it does not. Because that is like saying that everyone who believed the earth is flat, was right.
What if we all just talk to each other like each other's opinion is what it is, an opinion.
"It would be bad" ONLY if we had an unfair God who created us with a brain but did NOT expect us to use our brain, INSTEAD, made us to deny the brain he gave us and believe only what we're told by people claiming to be speaking for him. That would most definitely "suck", as you put it. I wouldn't even want to go to "Heaven", in that case.
Fortunately, I don't believe this is the case. But this is merely my opinion. I do not, in any way, have delusions of grandeur, superior authority on the matter based on some one time experience. No, this is my public forum opinion as one human being speaking to other human beings who also have opinions.
Originally posted by dominicus
........based on some one time experience ....what if your one time experience becomes your "all the time," never ending reality, and others share it, and its a better and a higher form of being than the previous reality??
we can speak human to human using opinions all day. But I'd rather find absolute truth, and if God is as real as all these NDE's are saying, I want to meet the maker. Opinions mean nothing and are worthless if truth and God are real, and there is someone speaking the truth.
Its a very credible concept to say there could be a person or group of people that really "know" about these things we are discussing.
"Credible" is a strong word to use to define a group of people who had a similar dream.
Originally posted by pause4thought
reply to post by mmariebored
"Credible" is a strong word to use to define a group of people who had a similar dream.
Except they were clinically dead.
The same/similar experience, yes. Dream, no.
Originally posted by Memysabu
I dont believe it at all.
Chemicals left over cause the experience.
Brain activity does not cease at the second of death.