Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife
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Yes, and thank evolution for adrenaline.
Thanking god for saving a person is incredibly calloused to all the people that god decided could go ahead and just die. Oh, if I was just more pious this flesh eating bacteria wouldn't be consuming the organs of my child? Sounds fair.
Thanking god for anything is just silly. Should the losing football team be blaming god for supporting the other team? One cannot take credit for the good things that happen without taking responsibility for the bad things that happen in the same situations.
Isn't it odd that you're using confusion and delusion as examples for the possibility of God? I mean, lots of people use the God of the Gaps argument to say "we don't know the answers, therefore God" but you seem reliant on examples in which people can easily be said to be confused.
If you see something unbelievable and completely out of common experience what would be your first instinct? To believe that what you saw is a suspension of the laws of physics just for you at that particular point in time or that quite simply you are under some kind of misapprehension, that you are mistaken? Of course you'd want to double check at least, wouldn't you? What if at that moment you were really tired or even drunk, might you wonder if your experience was attributed to some kind of partial delusion? In your example of drug addicts and alcoholics, you're citing some of the very people I would expect to suffer from that kind of delusion. And in your reply to my rabbit ****ogy, you've fallen back on shadows. Who hasn't experienced seeing a shadow looking like something it isn't? Children do all the time. That argument is literally childish.
And you know, sometimes you see clouds that look like giant fluffy rabbits. By your logic, it just might be a giant fluffy rabbit. That is utterly absurd and you should know it.
Well, in X-Men First Class, young Magneto could only use his powers when he was super pissed, maybe that mother had latent superpowers.
Cute. Testimonial lacking in hard evidence.
As a neurosurgeon, this guy should have realized that whatever he thinks he experienced was most likely his brain interpreting his event in the best way that he could understand. That very same thing has been happening to humans ever since cognitive thought popped out of the woodwork. Usually people attributed things like lightning and other unfamiliar stuff to gods n demons and the like. This is no different except for his delusions are current rather than a few hundred thousand years old.
The overwhelming majority of ancient god observations where near earth objects interacting with each other, we were one of the objects, five other planets were involved, Mars ,Mercury, brand new Venus, Saturn (primary luminary) Uranus and Jupiter. The written carved scratched painted sculpted histories are quite certain of this. Lightening was a whole different scale in many periods of earths recorded history this planet had rings, this planet had a visible axis mundi. No the ancients worshiped the heavens for very mortal reasons, those observations are universal on this planet. They weren't delusional they just lacked any other way to express the wonders and terrors at the whim of celestial gods. The sky is nothing like it once was.
The best ones are of course, but being invisible as well as imaginary, the joke would have fallen flat. Sometimes you just have to work with what you have.