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There was another thread today about an athiest who had such a terrifying NDE that he later became a minister. I thought Freepers would be interested in the unusual experience of A. J. Ayers, the most famous atheist of the last half of the 20th century who also had such an experience and how it affected him. Ayers was a remarkable man ( the story hints at his unusual love life) in many ways. Philospher, developer of language theory, writer, poet and more. Even those who disagreed with him found him charming, kind and very likable. The debate still rages, did Ayers really change after his experience? I think so.
1 posted on 02/04/2004 5:20:17 PM PST by catonsville
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As he got older, Freddie realized more and more that philosophy was just chasing its own tail.

I loved this line. Thanks for the post.

89 posted on 02/06/2004 7:02:37 AM PST by MarMema
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So you see, I tend to believe tales of people having near death experiences, of going to hell and being called out by female voices only to see their flesh being consumed.... I too had an indicative experience 10 years ago with my pneumonia, when I felt no pain all of a sudden and it was all calm, no fever, and I was floating along a dirt road, with bill boards on the left of pictures of starving Somalies ... with my cynical father's voice immitated, saying: "we surely are making too many children.", and I replied nothing, just astounded, almost feeling like to acknowledge.... and then I was all of a sudden swept around into a field nearby, and a dying brush of herbs lay there, a hand popping out the background picks it up and violently hits me on the head.... and there, I wake up, in fever and pain... knowing I went through near death, but not knowing to this day, WHO THIS VOICE CAME FROM (IT WAS SATAN WANTING ME TO LISTEN TO MY DAD! TRYING TO TELL ME TO AGREE AND GO TO HELL), and then, as I hesitated, I was honored to see the hand of God smacking me on the head with the last shrub of herb alive that I had not tended upon, but instead was made to think that making too many children was bad...

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97 posted on 02/13/2004 12:11:23 PM PST by JudgemAll
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