I need to vent....

[Warlord]

@BU's resident retard and asshole

God you're such a fucking idiot. Change the goal-posts much, pole smoker? That article was perfectly acceptable and valid in your eyes until you realized it didn't support your inane ideas, and now suddenly it isn't valid anymore? God, you're pathetic.

As I originally stated, the study at the university of Southhampton concluded that consciousness survives death. You claimed that wasn't good enough.

I then brought up the research by one of the brightest minds in the medical field, Dr. Robert Lanza, who reached similar conclusions. Despite his highly impressive credentials, you claimed he was only one doctor that felt this way, and therefore his conclusions could be dismissed.

I then listed two more top minds in the field, Harvard neurosurgeons Eben Alexander and Heather Berlin, both of whom concurred with the conclusions reached by the university of Southhampton and Robert Lanza. (And many many more educated men and women not mentioned here.) You then declared all of THEIR research could be dismissed too, because THEIR books were published by major publishing houses, and not peer-reviewed journals! (How stupid is that argument by the way? )

You then demanded that ONLY articles published in peer-reviewed journals were acceptable to you when it came to research regarding consciousness surviving death. And when said article was provided, you deferred to its contents when you thought it served your argument, and then disparaged it when you realized that it didn't.

All the links I've provided have shown how various scientists, doctors, and universities have reached the conclusion that consciousness surviving death is a real possibility. They've also shown why the scientific arguments against consciousness surviving death are neither definitive, nor entirely persuasive.

Having been shut down time after time on your previous arguments, you are now reduced to your final straw man argument by demanding definitive proof that there is indeed life after death, and definitive proof that consciousness indeed survives death.

But that's just intellectual dishonesty on your part, because NO ONE here has claimed that there is indisputable proof that consciousness survives death. The only argument being made is that it is possible, there is evidence being presented by both sides of the debate, and that more research needs to be done before a definitive statement can be made either way.

Method said it was a mystery, I said it was a mystery, Sal admitted it was a mystery, and all the research and links I've provided have shown that stance to be correct.

You're just an insufferable, butthurt retard with a low attention span and poor reading comprehension, whose conclusions are based solely on emotion instead of objectivity.

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BTW, does anyone else find it both ironic and amusing that BU's resident asshole has gone from asking for proof that "NDE's (near death experiences) aren't just memories created by the brain after the fact", to now demanding proof that "consciousness survives after death."

In case you're wondering why he's changed the goal posts, it's because two sections of the article that I provided from a peer-reviewed journal gave a lengthy debunking to his claim that NDE's were created by the brain after the fact. Most ironically, the two sentences he initially quoted in support of his argument actually go on to disprove it. They fall under the headings "Scientific Interpretations" and "Telling Facts from Fallacies."

I recommend everyone following this discussion check it out on their own, just so you can see the kind of stupidity we're dealing with here. Here's that link to it again: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...-00209.pdf

Now keep in mind, when he inevitably attempts to smugly dismiss the article, that (1) it is an article he initially cited in support of his arguments, until he realized that it actually debunked them, and (2) this article appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, the only type of publishing that matters, in his "expert opinion."


Now, argue away Zac. You're impressing everyone. And when you get done with your ignorant lambasting of this article, go ahead and get started on the other nearly 100 other peer-reviewed articles I provided for you in addition to that one.