
Red Scare
Wizard
- Mar 1, 2022
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Yes, still don't believe in an afterlife. I am not sure how doing lsd would make you believe in an afterlife unless you mistook your hallucination as some kind of OBE, and evidence of some place existing that your consciousness goes to after death. This is absurd. Having hallucinations depends upon having a functional brain, so when you die there doesn't seem to be any reason to assume you go to a hallucinogenic psychedelic dream land.you never took DMT? LSD? Psilocybin?
I have. They tripped out, on psychedelic drugs. Some of them believed their trips to be significant or that they had a spiritual experience. This is not evidence of anything. I also think it's highly unethical to give these drugs to cancer patients and allow them to delude themselves and think that it means they are going to die and go to heaven.OP, look up psilocybin which has been used with terminal cancer patients.
It is the same with therapists who are starting to give their patients mdma and shrooms. They allow their patient to believe when they have a so called spiritual experience, that it was actually them talking to Jesus or whatever. Sure these drugs can be therapeutic, but not like that. I think a therapist has a responsibility to explain to them it is a hallucinogen and they might hallucinate, but that it's not real. It's not ethical to let them believe they talked to Jesus, and become delusional.
There has never been evidence of reincarnation, no reason to think we reincarnate at all. No evidence of a soul, or anything like that.Buddhism says that reincarnation is a misnomer, as we do not have a memory of our past lives (most of us) so even if the 'soul' reincarnates it doesn't mean much, as every life is a new storyline so to speak.
Again, there has never been any evidence that we reincarnate. Ever. There is no evidence to support the belief in reincarnation.After death - the general stuff I read in the past talks about white light, being greeted, a life review...But the Tibetan Book of the Dead contains specific guidance on how to get a better reincarnation and get off the wheel of incarnation faster. My mum told me my late grandma saw a white light and family members who had passed on, greeting her as she was dying of cancer. She was in a hospice.
I find it more realistic to think that they were on drugs, or that the brain releases endogenous dmt. So maybe you go on one final trip, but then that's it. When the brain dies, consciousness ends.
No there aren't. Children had vivid imaginations, there has never been any evidence that someone said they remembered something and described it in vivid detail, and then that was corroborated by scientific and historical evidence.There are documented cases of children remembering past lives and literature out there.
Hypnosis and so called recovered memories have been debunked by science over and over and over again. Look up false memory syndrome.You want to possibly look up Dr Brian Weiss MD. He is quite comforting and his story is interesting. He was giving hypnotherapy to a patient when she 'regressed' into a past life memory that helped her feel better. He was a scientist and is one, and a doctor, and became convinced of the veracity of past lives and now teaches about them.
No they aren't. There is no evidence that is the case.Scientists are beginning to agree that this whole world is a simulation - like a very sophisticated computer game.
False.That is what neuroscience and Hinduism teach us, as well as quantum physics.
But this does not negate that there is an objective reality that we each perceive and experience through the subjective lens of consciousness. Even if this were a simulation, the parameters of such are that it is indistinguishable from a material universe.That this world is an illusion created by our minds, through the experience of the senses. It's a matrix of experience. E.g. the documentary with David Eagleman on the brain shows how the brain creates our experience of reality rather than vice versa.
That is the first thing you said I agree with.When climate change hits (sorry it's not cheerful!) then we will be the lucky ones as we have researched exit methods. Watching people die of thirst/starvation is less fun than exiting peacefullly.
Careful. There are a lot of trans people here on this forum (including out site admin) and what you said might offend them.Do remember tho if you try hard enough you will find scientists will tell you that you can change your gender 72 times a week and there's real sickos out there.
But yes, there have also been scientists and doctors who once thought lobotomies were a good thing. That doesn't negate the fact that science and the empirical method is still the best method we have for answering questions and arriving at conclusions regarding our natural world.
That's how science works. People have hypotheses, and then when enough experimental data has been acquired, you can call that a theory. At any time though, more evidence could be found that overturns what we thought we knew, it's not a bad thing. It just means we are learning more.All I've seen is you go on about is scientists, pre Galileo there was a set consensus that was monolithic then within a year a total 180 shift in the consensus.
There's nothing saying that this isn't a simulation, and you live in the matrix. There's nothing saying that god didn't make it all in 7 days, there's nothing saying this isn't all a turtles dream, floating threw outer space. There's no evidence it will all just end tomorrow without warning. There are a lot of things it could be, we could say what if this, what if that. In the end we rely on the evidence evidence, and so far all the evidence we have ever gathered is that we live in a material universe, the Big Bang happened, we evolved, and as far as we can tell no other universe or dimensions exist, or that consciousness depends upon anything but the brain. When the brain dies, consciousness ceases to be. How can you perceive anything without consciousness? There is no evidence we possess any kind of soul or spirit, and that consciousness depends on that instead of a brain, nor that this spirit leaves the body at the time of death to enter any afterlife.I'm not sure there is scientific evidence 100% about any afterlife yeah but I don't think there is any 100% saying there's not either. Imo you saying there isn't an afterlife Is based off feelings of your own too as I can't see how it's proven one way or another. My feeling is always that there is an afterlife
This is not based on feeling, but on the available evidence.
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