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The Film - 90 Minutes in Heaven

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  • #31
    Originally posted by Littlejoe View Post
    Takes one to know one....
    It do.
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • #32
      If "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" & "Star Trek" become cash cows - what's going to stop mystical experiences (real or alleged) being milked for all they're worth ? Absolutely nothing.

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      • #33
        I don't really find near death experiences to be believable either. The religious who have them always go to where they think they should be (heaven/hell) and atheists who have them seem to go nowhere (also where they think they should be). I don't consider you dead until...you know...you are actually dead.
        Last edited by Jesse; 03-19-2015, 08:08 AM.
        "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

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        • #34
          When I was in the OR for surgery they had me under on Total life support for an hour and a half. and I didn't see nothing. I woke up just fine!!!!.... I was robbed.
          A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
          George Bernard Shaw

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Catholicity View Post
            When I was in the OR for surgery they had me under on Total life support for an hour and a half. and I didn't see nothing. I woke up just fine!!!!.... I was robbed.
            Maybe your foot went to heaven but didn't tell you about it.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Jesse View Post
              I don't really find near death experiences to be believable either. The religious who have them always go to where they think they should be (heaven/hell) and atheists who have them seem to go nowhere (also where they think they should be). I don't consider you dead until...you know...you are actually dead.
              I don't believe that the near death experiences involving visions of heaven are all that credible either (I see them either as misinterpretations of what they actually saw, or as them being deceived by evil spirits, or when I'm feeling exceptionally cynical, as intentional deception on the part of the one claiming to have had the experience).

              However, I do find a subset of NDE's interesting, and those are the ones where the one who suffers an NDE has an out-of-body experience, and is able to verify this by mentioning things that happened several miles from where his/her body was which he couldn't possibly have known about if he/she hadn't been there himself/herself.
              Last edited by JonathanL; 03-19-2015, 03:23 PM.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                It does.
                Fixed it for you. Are you sure you don't want me to write your posts for you?

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