BTS: Is it possible to falsify an NDE?
I suppose some things aren't scientifically falsifiable, yet can nonetheless be true.
Maybe some things just are, despite the fact that they defy any attempts at human rationalization or systematic explanation.
We do, after all, have limits to our conscious cognition. I don't expect my dog to be able to understand nuclear physics, or a person afflicted with Down's syndrome to elaborate on differential calculus.
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I don't automatically discount stories like this.
Nor do I. I know people that have had their lives changed by NDEs, and I am in no position to say their experiences are false.
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my still-in jw wife thinks that i'm crazy to have just bought a new top-of-the-range mazda mx-5 2l roadster (miata, eunos for other countries).. i'm 58 years old.
too old for a 'fun car', i'm told!
i used to sell subaru's, so i've driven a lot of very fast, responsive 4 wheel drive cars.
but I am holding on to the air-cooled version for as long as I can out of tradition. The air-cooled cars feel much lighter and smaller than the 996/997.
Sorry, what I mean are the old school air cooled ones. That is what I want.
Worst Ferrari?
Owning a Ferrari seems to be like being married to a high maintenance super model. Smoking hot, but a pain in the ass. Would you agree?
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Rape is condoned in the Bible.
In the case of an unbetrothed virgin, who was seized in a field and raped: her father had to be compensated by the rapist with the monetary value of a bride price, and the rapist got to be married to her and not allowed to divorce her for the rest of her life.
Rape is not condoned in the Bible, and the previously cited passages demonstrate it. In those times, an unmarried woman had few prospects but misery and starvation. It was a male dominated society, not very different from what the middle east looks like today. A violated virgin was "damaged goods" on the marriage market and would never be able to have a husband support her. For the violator to be forced to marry her without possibility of divorce was in order to guarantee her for her economic loss.
You are anachronistically looking at these laws through 21st century eyes. The social idea of marriage was very different back then. Marriage was far more an economic arrangement than it is today. Marriages were arranged, and love or personal desire had little to do with it.
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my still-in jw wife thinks that i'm crazy to have just bought a new top-of-the-range mazda mx-5 2l roadster (miata, eunos for other countries).. i'm 58 years old.
too old for a 'fun car', i'm told!
i used to sell subaru's, so i've driven a lot of very fast, responsive 4 wheel drive cars.
Porsche's are great driver's cars, especially water-cooled 911's - the noise just enthralls you!
I just love those cars. One day.....
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we are celebrating xmas this year for the first time.
it's kinda weird because, even though we're doing a xmas tree, decorations, gifts, we're more or less taking the christ out of christmas.
so how about the rest of you non-christian heathens?.
Tis true, the people need their opium, so let them have it!
But seriously, philosopher Miguel de Unamuno compared the typical modern atheist to an intestinal parasite who denies the existence of sight or hearing because it gets along without them. Atheists enjoy the ideals of human freedom and dignity while elaborating theories to explain the foundation for them away. Christmas (Christ's Mass) celebration is just a very tiny (and obvious) example of this feeding on the host.
We have remarked before that the parasites which live in the intestines of higher animals, feeding upon the nutritive juices which these animals supply, do not need either to see or hear, and therefore for them the visible and audible world does not exist. And if they possessed a certain degree of consciousness and took account of the fact that the animal at whose expense they live believed in a world of sight and hearing, they would perhaps deem such belief to be due merely to the extravagance of its imagination. And similarly there are social parasites, as Mr. A.J. Balfour admirably observes,[10] who, receiving from the society in which they live the motives of their moral conduct, deny that belief in God and the other life is a necessary foundation for good conduct and for a tolerable life, society having prepared for them the spiritual nutriment by which they live. An isolated individual can endure life and live it well and even heroically without in any sort believing either in the immortality of the soul or in God, but he lives the life of a spiritual parasite.
http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/4/6/3/14636/14636.htm
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we are celebrating xmas this year for the first time.
it's kinda weird because, even though we're doing a xmas tree, decorations, gifts, we're more or less taking the christ out of christmas.
so how about the rest of you non-christian heathens?.
I don't see why atheists couldn't. They are very adept at integrating all the good ideas and using all the good things a judeochristian culture has produced while simultaneously undermining it. Yet when the host organism dies, so do the parasites.
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my still-in jw wife thinks that i'm crazy to have just bought a new top-of-the-range mazda mx-5 2l roadster (miata, eunos for other countries).. i'm 58 years old.
too old for a 'fun car', i'm told!
i used to sell subaru's, so i've driven a lot of very fast, responsive 4 wheel drive cars.
It doesn't have the stunning looks of Italian sports cars though.
It also doesn't have the maintenance issues. Mazda hit a real home run with that little roadster.
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Darthfader, technological progression never ceases over the long term.
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the only thing god can know for certain, is what we know for certain:.
we think, so we know we exist.. .
1. Postulate: Existence is defined as "having boundary conditions".
You will have to define your terms better. There is more than one definition for existence.
Additionally, you will have to justify your postulate.
Also, I do not appreciate being referred to with initials that stand for who knows what.
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