RealityBaseCamp's Comments (295)

“'The J.C.Team'. "I pity the fool who says this water doesn't taste like wine!"

{Disregard other response. It was misplaced.}”

“I was hoping somebody wouldn't call me out before I could add that. I've had Holy Grail on the brain. Evertime I hear Lieberman speak, all I hear is "Bring out your dead!! Bring out your dead!!" "I'm not DEAD! See!" "but you will be soon".”

“And we wonder why Europe and Canada are zooming by us in progress.”

“Pontious Pilat ??”

“yes. But it also inevitable, isn't it?”

“But be warned - a third of ayurvedic remedies available in the US have toxic amounts of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic in them.”

“If there is even one that exposes their hypocrisy.”

“Thank you, RBC! That is so perfect. Can I borrow it? Fanned!”

“perfectly and so simply said, yet it will fly way over many heads.

thank you”

“Seconded.”

“Yes, that's the one!”

“i don't think he is. he is using anecdote, a valid form of empirical evidence, to verify his belief/hypothesis that there 'may be' life after death, or without death as an end.

yes, both of us say listen to the stories (not only of the NDE but also of the 'experiences' or glimpses beyond this life, if they are related by those having the experience. of course, we ask questions, we want to test the accounts against all else we might know or suspect.

as to 'measurable' evidence, D'Souza never stipulates this as a physically measurable phenomenon. it is experientially measured, like falling out of a tree (not the distance fallen, or the speed, or the friction, or anything else, just the experience of knowing one is falling and has fallen).

As his heading suggests, the author is taking us 'to the edge' of science but still within the realm of empiricism. this is obviously very difficult for many posters here to grasp, and i do not know why. his language is not that muddled.

his jump, as you put it, is certainly more dramatic than the experience of falling, but i guarantee you that every human who has ever lived has experienced the time of passing, far more than those who have experienced falling.

but the subject has been taboo for centuries, and not well discussed until very recently. i think it was a good posting.”

“Ahhhh Science. If it's not repeatable, it's NOT science. I don't care how many "scientists" saw it initially.”

“Do you know what empirical means?

Humans are sentenced to death using empirical testimony, i.e., eyewitness testimony. How do i know i have fallen out of a tree? because i end up on the ground. i 'know' i have fallen, 'falling' is an experience, a phenomenon known only through itself, a complete integration of perception and event.

What happens prior to or after the falling are other phenomena. i did not get the impression D'Souza asked anyone to believe him. he did not ask anyone to believe he makes good decisions, just to listen to his story.”

“Isn't science...a process?
Isn't religion...an organization?
Isn't spirituality...a faith?

It's amazing how much all these completely different concepts are mashed together.”

“Definitely do something with "the herb".”