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Dutch teenager, 17, woke up after knee operation forgetting how to speak his native language and only knew ENGLISH (and he also forgot who his parents were and thought he lived in Utah!)
U.K. Daily Mail ^

Posted on 02/19/2022 5:01:29 PM PST by simpson96

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To: fightin kentuckian
The large majority of Dutch speak English quite well. And the Dutch have a thing for the American west.

The second language that people speak in these instances where people forget their native language and speak in a foreign tongue are always known by the people prior to their injury.

(Nobody wakes up with fluency in a foreign language that they never knew.)

41 posted on 02/19/2022 6:29:13 PM PST by Captain Walker ("If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of."- J Peterson)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Somewhere in Provo a teenager is trying to order a Big Mac and fries in Dutch...

"I'll have a schmoke and a pancake!"

42 posted on 02/19/2022 6:30:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: max americana

What show was it? I can never get enough of Ghost Adventures lol.


43 posted on 02/19/2022 6:31:48 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Fai Mao
Reincarnation is mathematically impossible.

A few hundred years ago, I though the same thing.

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(Yes, kidding of course.)

44 posted on 02/19/2022 6:33:39 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: fightin kentuckian
The large majority of Dutch speak English quite well.

No, no they don't. They just think they do.

45 posted on 02/19/2022 6:33:46 PM PST by Jemian (War Eagle! It is great to be an Auburn Tiger.)
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To: tired&retired

He had a stroke and had not spoken in over a year. His wife and son came to visit and he started talking, but it was all in German. He never spoke German In his life.

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I knew someone that had a similar story. Although, he actually died. He woke up speaking Navajo, and he had to re-learn English. He didn’t know any of his family or friends. His parents even said he wasn’t their son.

He called himself a walk-in.

“A walk-in is a New Age concept of a person whose original soul has departed their body and has been replaced with a new, different, soul. Ruth Montgomery popularized the concept in her 1979 book Strangers Among Us.”


46 posted on 02/19/2022 6:34:00 PM PST by kara37 ( )
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To: algore

It works like this.

Despite the accusation of a “false premise” I am on the solid scientific ground when I say that 95% of all the people who have ever lived are alive today. To deny that puts you in the realm of believing in a flat earth.

First, the religions that hold a reincarnation doctrine, ALL, every one of them, claim that everyone has been reincarnated multiple times.

According to Hindu/Buddhist theology, all souls were created/born/formed at the same time when the cosmic balance of nothingness was disrupted. We are trapped on the Karmic wheel of reincarnation until we clean our karma of sin and regain that perfect nothingness. Go to Nirvana. So, there should have been a large, not infinite number of souls at first and then a slow reduction in the number of souls available to be reincarnated over time as enlightenment is achieved.

That doctrine is mathematically impossible it isn’t the way that populations work. There are no exceptions to this.

We do not see that. In fact, we see the opposite.

If everyone is reincarnated dozens, hundreds, or thousands of times, and there are so many more people on earth NOW than there were even 100 years ago, where did all the souls come from?

The farther back you go the worse it gets. History tells us that in the year 100 AD there were about 200 million people on earth. today there are about 7.9 billion. It gets worse. Because of domestication, there are more animals too. More dogs, cats, cows, horses, chickens, and sheep than a long time ago. Plus non-domesticated animals like rats, roaches, and mice who came along for the ride. Since many people that believe in reincarnation believe you can come back or have been an animal, how can we all have been reincarnated?

Where do all the new souls come from? It is simply mathematically impossible!

There are only a few answers.

1. Some souls have multiple bodies. In which case, how can you tell it is reincarnation and not simultaneous indwelling? If this is the case, there is no such thing as reincarnation.

2. Some bodies have no soul, in which case the doctrine falls because how do you know your experience is real? It also means that a percentage of the population are, in effect, zombies. Or, there is no such thing as reincarnation.

3. Some souls come from somewhere else, another reality. This just moves the problem back a level but doesn’t solve it. The population should be decreasing and yet we have no evidence, none, from anywhere, except for limited times due to catastrophe, that populations decrease, rather than increase over time.

4. New Souls are being created all the time or there are infinite souls. In which case the Hindu/Buddhist text are wrong, we haven’t all been reincarnated. The question then becomes, if they are wrong about this how do we know they are right the other? We are now at the same place as above where nothing can be proved because not everyone has been reincarnated and the religions that teach that are wrong. If some of us haven’t then none of us have.

It is simply mathematically impossible for reincarnation to occur because rather than starting with a huge number that slowly gets smaller, populations start small and get bigger. And, barring catastrophes, that is always the case. Wherever you go in the universe that is probably the case. It is the nature of life.


47 posted on 02/19/2022 6:49:56 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: CodeToad

It doesn’t make any difference because the population should be decreasing, not increasing.


48 posted on 02/19/2022 6:52:19 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: simpson96

When I was stationed in Germany, one of the sergeants in my unit had a bad accident on a squadron morale skiing trip.

The paramedics came out, and the guy couldn’t speak English, only German... at least for a short period of time.

I don’t remember the guy’s name, but I had been told he had been learning German on base.

This is legitimate but very strange.


49 posted on 02/19/2022 6:58:59 PM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Fai Mao

I don’t know, man.
Did GOD create a finite number of souls?


50 posted on 02/19/2022 7:10:53 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Jemian

Was that a joke or were you serious. I was stationed in southern Holland for 4 years and both my children were born in Heerlen Hospital. When I say the vast majority of Dutch or Nederlanders, as they call themselves, speak English very well I know it for fact.


51 posted on 02/19/2022 7:14:52 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
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To: Fai Mao
95% of all the people who have ever lived are alive today. If everybody has been reincarnated where did all the new people come from?

If reincarnation is possible, then humans logically must have a soul, or the equivalent, which is separate from the physical bodies they reside in. That would be the only way that people could move around from life to life in such a fashion.

If humans have a soul which is separate from the physical world we live in (which it MUST be, in order to be able to move from one time period to the next), then it is reasonable to assume that there is a plane of existence outside of our current physical realm where souls can exist. Example: a man dies in 1980 and is reincarnated in 1985. Where was he for 5 years? Presumably his soul was in that separate plane.

If we then assume the separate plane of existence for souls, then it is also reasonable to assume that there can be more souls existing on that plane than there are currently human bodies on earth. There is no reason to assume a 1:1 correspondence. Since there were originally far fewer humans 4,000 years ago than there are now, the existence of souls in the separate plane, waiting for their chance to be born, is a given.

The conclusion is then, obviously, that there are far more souls in the separate plane than physical human bodies, and thus plenty more to fill the slot when an increase in human beings occurs, above and beyond any souls which might return.
52 posted on 02/19/2022 7:37:46 PM PST by fr_freak ( )
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To: Fai Mao

I am not sure how to respond to someone who thinks I believe the Earth is Flat.

I have heard many different estimates, for example this one which claims the percentage is closer to 7%

https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/

Although I have seen some evidence of soulless people wandering around, that is a scary thought.

if that is the case maybe the eugenicists are correct ?


53 posted on 02/19/2022 7:40:29 PM PST by algore
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To: unlearner
Wait. This is shocking. Dutch males play football?

Probably European footsy-ball.

54 posted on 02/19/2022 7:54:58 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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To: Fai Mao
Reincarnation is mathematically impossible.

Unless you can go interspecies!

55 posted on 02/19/2022 8:00:53 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (“...life is very good without Facebook and that we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: Fai Mao

How so?


56 posted on 02/19/2022 8:07:12 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: Fai Mao

How can you possibly say that? By what variables are you making that calculation


57 posted on 02/19/2022 8:08:51 PM PST by servantoftheservant
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To: Alas Babylon!

How do you say “Cheese-eating Surrender Monkey” fries in Dutch?


58 posted on 02/19/2022 8:08:55 PM PST by Viking2002 (Whatever.)
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To: Viking2002

Kassaende Overgave Aap.


59 posted on 02/19/2022 8:16:15 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: PghBaldy

Oh my.

That certainly is something you would be sure to know.


60 posted on 02/19/2022 8:21:20 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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