Posted on 03/03/2005 11:52:45 AM PST by Born Conservative
note to self - refuse Michael Jacksons heart
Do you have a link? I didn't find it when I searched.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=heart
Um, maybe these folks all: (1) feel better with a healthy heart; (2) had a taste of death and now seek to enjoy life and value the important things in life, such as family; and (3) pursue healthy lifestyle and exercise because their doctors told them to do so.
Not to state the obvious, or anthing.
They also thought the world was flat, the moon was made of green cheese, cargo pants were a good idea, and Jimmy Carter was a fair alternative to Gerald Ford.
hmmm, maybe I have precognition?
Or it's a case of "deja vu all over again." (Yogi Berra)
Again, no offense
"For years, efforts were made to keep secret the identities of organ donors, so emotionally explosive was losing one life to save another. But now, they can WRITE LETTERS TO ONE ANOTHER"
How in the heck do they do that?
Through a psyhic?
Sorry!
PSYCHIC!
bump for later
I am sure that they meant in cases of kidney transplants and such, where the donor is still living.
(Still, they REALLY could have made that more clear!)
Although I can't speak from experience (yet), I am skeptical that a recipient takes on the traits of the person who donated the organ.
Rupert Sheldrake interview (excerpt):
"DJB: In your book The Presence of the Past you offer the suggestion that memories are not actually stored in the brain, but rather they may be stored in an information field that can be accessed by the brain. If this should prove to be true, do you believe then that human consciousness, our personal memories and sense of self, may survive biological death in some form?
"RUPERT: Well, certainly the idea that memories aren't stored in the brain opens the way for a new debate or new perspective on the question of survival of death. Most people assume memories are stored in the brain, simply because this is the mechanistic paradigm that's very rarely challenged. There's hardly any evidence for memory storage in the brain, as I show in my book, and what evidence there is could be interpreted better in terms of the brain as a tuning system, tuning into its own past. So that we can gain access to our own memories by tuning into our own past states. The brain is more like a TV receiver than like a tape recorder or a video recorder.
"If memories are stored in the brain then there's no possibility of conscious, or even unconscious survival of bodily death, because if memories are in the brain, the brain decays at death, and your memories must be wiped out through the decay of the brain. No form of survival in any shape or form, even through reincarnation, would be possible in such a scenario. That's one reason why materialists are so attached to the idea of memory storage in the brain, because it refutes all religions in a two line argument. But, in fact, there's very little evidence they're stored in the brain.
"So if they're not stored in the brain then the memories won't decay at death, but there'll still have to be something that can tune into them, or gain access to them. So could some tuning system, could some non-physical aspect of the self survive death and still gain access to the memories? That's the big question. I regard it as an open question."
I'm no doctor, but I speculate that these minor personality changes may be more likely due to micro-strokes.
These are the worst of doctors. If they can't explain it, it doesn't exist.
Don't you want to play the piano ?
"Now I love football, baseball, basketball. You name it, I follow it," said Sherman, a psychology student at Arizona State University."
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