--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: } } A good discussion of NDE IMO: } } http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2012/12/mary-neals-out-of-body-experiences.html } } } } "Those who believe that it is wrong, always and everywhere, } } to believe anything on insufficient evidence believe that } } very proposition on insufficient evidence, indeed on no } } evidence at all" } } Just Neurons Firing? No evidence to suggest otherwise. } And a rather large dollop of bias in the first sentence. } I think people after confirmation of beliefs will enjoy } assumptions like these based on one experience but there } are many of others that confirm a completely subjective } basis to NDE's. } } For instance, a third of people who report meeting } deceased relatives also meet relatives who are still } alive. Bit of a giveaway. So to believe a supernatural } explanation for NDEs on such insufficient evidence at } least is foolhardy. } } I would love to have an NDE but don't fancy the being } near death part of it, and then there's the overwhelming } majority that have heart attacks, car crashes etc, and } *don't* report any mysterious goings on at all. } } It's all neurons firing, unless we are part of a computer } program, in which case I'd expect the programmers to have } a bit of fun with things like the afterlife, I sure as } hell would!
I'm staying out of the Near Death Experience thang. It's my birthday and I'm in a good mood, so what I wish is that more people in the world could get over having a Near Life Experience and just live.
