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To: Zeroisanumber
WHAT A GROSSLY UNSCIENTIFIC SET OF PRESUMPTIVE ASSUMPTIONS!!!

WHERE was your platform, perspective OUTSIDE of DEATH AND LIFE

from which you performed your

thoroughly logical and rigorous

EXPERIMENTS

to disprove the above.

Oh, that's right--you're still alive--so, you don't know

DIDDLY SQUAT SCIENTIFICALLY about such on which to base your presumptive assumptions.

You don't even seem to have the benefit of the scientific studies of subject controlled research into such reports.

Yet you pontificate so emphatically.

Sad.

Haven't heard of God building a lot of mansions for the arrogant in Heaven.
197 posted on 02/04/2004 7:39:46 PM PST by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Quix
WHERE was your platform, perspective OUTSIDE of DEATH AND LIFE from which you performed your thoroughly logical and rigorous experiments to disprove the above.

Near death experiences haven't just happened to those who are dying. A body of scientific evidence has shown that similar experiences are had by people who have engaged in "huffing" which prevents the brain from absorbing enough oxygen to continue functioning properly, creating vivid halucinations. More recently a study which showed that pilots undergoing high-G training sometimes experience a hallucination very similar to reports of NDE. Loved ones, Jesus (or Bhudda, Muhammed, God, etc.), and a tunnel of light are reported in about 10% of the cases in which a trainee "blacked out" from high-G stress. Again, we see that the brain is deprived of oxygen and the body put in a stressful situation.

As much as the public seems to really really FEEEEEL that NDE's are really really true, they remain in the same category as acid trips and peyote dreams. Hallucinations, nothing more.

On a personal note: Why would you want to believe in NDE's? Wouldn't true knowledge of the "really real" afterlife totally nulify the basis of faith? Doesn't it just seem like some daytime TV huckster's wet dream?

Well, whatever, just quit slobbering on my posts.

Haven't heard of God building a lot of mansions for the arrogant in Heaven.

You've

been

to

heaven

?

Whutz

it

like

?

216 posted on 02/04/2004 8:08:54 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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