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Dr. Jeffrey Long's two cents on consciousness surviving death:

Started by manga, April 26, 2017, 11:31:07 PM

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Quote from: Tank on April 27, 2017, 06:49:28 AM
Quote from: manga on April 27, 2017, 05:48:30 AM
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Quote from: manga on April 27, 2017, 04:01:27 AM
to everyone on here, I fear afterlife, and I hope it is not true, so I am asking in the hopes that I will no longer believe it

Why do you fear an afterlife manga?
"Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With a chair."

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Dear Manga, I earnestly wish to know where you're coming from better. Did you grow up in a protestant church? What has caused you to start questioning things like the afterlife? I really want to know about how old you are, because I feel like that might make a difference in how I put things to you. Do your friends and family know what you're going through? See, I know I'm not the only one who is very curious about your back story, which is why I will ask you again, in my nicest, most entreating voice, to pretty please go over to the Introductions section and take a few minutes to tell us a little bit about you. We really do want to know.  :poke:
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Davin

Quote from: manga on April 26, 2017, 11:31:07 PM
Dr Long has the largest database of 1600 NDEs, and he claims that all of the OBEs he has tested yield 97.5% accuracy. One example is a man who had cardiac arrest, was able to see a nurse clean his mouth with specifically a pink cloth, he was able to identify which doctor out of 3 was shining a light in his eyes, and he saw a nervous looking woman staring from behind curtains at the procedure. He was able to identify the woman was blonde, and that was all true. Dr. Long also states that only 1 in 1000 report any awareness during anesthesia. How then, did he have 20 out of 200 cases where people under anesthesia were able to have OBEs? Dr. Penny Sartori, another researcher and medical doctor, says that she has had cases of hallucinations which are fragmented, and they are confusing, while NDErs and OBErs have clearer than normal perceptions and visions. According to Dr. Long, 76% of experiencers claimed that they had more vivid visions than real life.
Like with all other dishonest charlatans, you have to focus not just on the hits, but the misses. In most cases, when you read through the NDEs, you'll see them talk about hundreds of things... then get a few things right. You'll see dishonest people like Long go to great lengths to talk about the "hits" and never mention the "misses" even though there are far more misses than hits.

Quote from: mangaDoes this prove the afterlife?

No. Not even close.

There was a study done where researchers put images on the tops of shelves in ORs and then interviewed survivors to see if any of them could tell them what images they saw.

Given that the images were fairly unique, I would have been impressed if even just one person were to get it right.

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/aware-results-finally-published-no-evidence-of-nde/
QuoteHowever, apparently there were no cases of cardiac arrest patients who were able to see, remember, and report the hidden images.

So here we are, no reliable evidence for NDEs. NDEs are experienced by pilots who are no where near death. When you read even the best NDE interviews there are far more misses than there are hits. And yet, you are stuck on this.

You need to be more skeptical.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.

manga

Quote from: Davin on April 27, 2017, 04:00:18 PM
Quote from: manga on April 26, 2017, 11:31:07 PM
Dr Long has the largest database of 1600 NDEs, and he claims that all of the OBEs he has tested yield 97.5% accuracy. One example is a man who had cardiac arrest, was able to see a nurse clean his mouth with specifically a pink cloth, he was able to identify which doctor out of 3 was shining a light in his eyes, and he saw a nervous looking woman staring from behind curtains at the procedure. He was able to identify the woman was blonde, and that was all true. Dr. Long also states that only 1 in 1000 report any awareness during anesthesia. How then, did he have 20 out of 200 cases where people under anesthesia were able to have OBEs? Dr. Penny Sartori, another researcher and medical doctor, says that she has had cases of hallucinations which are fragmented, and they are confusing, while NDErs and OBErs have clearer than normal perceptions and visions. According to Dr. Long, 76% of experiencers claimed that they had more vivid visions than real life.
Like with all other dishonest charlatans, you have to focus not just on the hits, but the misses. In most cases, when you read through the NDEs, you'll see them talk about hundreds of things... then get a few things right. You'll see dishonest people like Long go to great lengths to talk about the "hits" and never mention the "misses" even though there are far more misses than hits.

Quote from: mangaDoes this prove the afterlife?

No. Not even close.

There was a study done where researchers put images on the tops of shelves in ORs and then interviewed survivors to see if any of them could tell them what images they saw.

Given that the images were fairly unique, I would have been impressed if even just one person were to get it right.

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/aware-results-finally-published-no-evidence-of-nde/
QuoteHowever, apparently there were no cases of cardiac arrest patients who were able to see, remember, and report the hidden images.

So here we are, no reliable evidence for NDEs. NDEs are experienced by pilots who are no where near death. When you read even the best NDE interviews there are far more misses than there are hits. And yet, you are stuck on this.

You need to be more skeptical.

Those are good points, but do you think it is possible that even though Long says that during anesthesia only 1 in 1000 are aware that he could be wrong? I mean, could it even be that these patients can hear things, and then their brain in an OBE fills in the gaps? I know that G force pilots can have OBEs when their blood to the brain is lacking. Do you think that even if these reports were to be accurate that there would be a natural explanation?

Biggus Dickus

Quote from: Father Bruno on April 27, 2017, 02:01:12 PM
Quote from: manga on April 27, 2017, 04:01:27 AM
to everyone on here, I fear afterlife, and I hope it is not true, so I am asking in the hopes that I will no longer believe it

Why do you fear an afterlife manga?

You understand there are folks here who question not only your sincerity, but your motives based on what you have posted and how you have replied to some of our questions and/or responses.

Have you seen or read the following thread posted in the introductory section which was addressed to you, and if so what are your thoughts?

Hello Manga


"Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With a chair."

Davin

Quote from: manga on April 27, 2017, 09:25:52 PMThose are good points, but do you think it is possible that even though Long says that during anesthesia only 1 in 1000 are aware that he could be wrong?
I don't understand what this means or how it is relevant.

Quote from: mangaI mean, could it even be that these patients can hear things, and then their brain in an OBE fills in the gaps?
It's very likely that these patients have seen operating rooms of all kinds. When they are told they've been through surgery, they reference those memories (from TV shows, movies, and anywhere else), since they have none of their own. For some people, those act like their actual memories because the brain wants to tie everything together to make sense. These are things that we know the brain does, it does not require that they actually remember anything from the time when their brains were inactive, and nothing reliably points to OBEs being anything more than that.

Quote from: mangaI know that G force pilots can have OBEs when their blood to the brain is lacking. Do you think that even if these reports were to be accurate that there would be a natural explanation?
I don't understand the question. Nothing points specifically to OBEs being actual out of body experiences, any attempts to validate them (like placing a picture on a shelf in easy view of a floating spirit and seeing if any OBE experiencers saw it), have failed.

I think that it would first have to be demonstrated that OBEs are a real thing first. Once that is established, then we can look to see what is really going on.

I'm not saying that these people are not experiencing something, but when my friend was tripping on acid, I didn't trust that the moon was actually in the back of his head and "like my head is twenty feet deep and it's just sitting back there" any more than I trust these stories are accurate representations of reality.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.

manga

Quote from: Dragonia on April 27, 2017, 03:02:07 PM
Dear Manga, I earnestly wish to know where you're coming from better. Did you grow up in a protestant church? What has caused you to start questioning things like the afterlife? I really want to know about how old you are, because I feel like that might make a difference in how I put things to you. Do your friends and family know what you're going through? See, I know I'm not the only one who is very curious about your back story, which is why I will ask you again, in my nicest, most entreating voice, to pretty please go over to the Introductions section and take a few minutes to tell us a little bit about you. We really do want to know.  :poke:

Ok, I'm 15, my family is originally from Ukraine, but of Turkish origin. I think they moved from Turkey to Ukraine many generations ago, so they practice Christian faith now. I was brought up in North America, so I attended a Catholic school. I remember I totally believed in God, and Catholicism. I used to pray every night, and I used to go to Church every so often. In my eyes, God created the earth, the first people were Adam and Eve, if a person is good during their lives, he or she goes to heaven. If they are bad, they go to hell. I remember I used to fear hell, as any typical Catholic practicing Christian would. I think all throughout elementary school, I didn't give much thought into it. In my first year of high school (last year), I went to a science museum with a school class. I had learned about the concept of evolution, but had barely considered it. At the museum, we looked at the evolution of a sloth, and other animals. Then, we were told about the Earth being billions of years old, and how the first life likely appeared on earth, based on current science. I thought to myself, "wow, this makes a whole lot more sense than that idea that two people randomly ended up here, and so on". I remember, from that, I already realized that the bible had issues. I thought to myself, "If I can't trust the whole bible, why would I trust any of it?". At that point, I kind of didn't believe that there was a creator anymore. However, I was somewhat nervous to acknowledge this. I had a few unknowns still that I could not explain. I thought that the majority of evidence for religion was lacking, and being maybe a little rebellious at that age, I decided to try atheism. I would say I was 80% there, and I kind of just pushed the last 20%. At first I was completely scared, as I still felt I was being watched, and that I may be in trouble, but I thought, "those are just my fears", so I kind of ignored them. One day not too long ago, a religious friend sent me a video of Howard Storm, the atheist who apparently died, saw hell, was tortured, and then when he came back he became a minister, as Jesus told him to do so. This scared me. I didn't even know about NDEs. I thought that there was no evidence of afterlife, so I pretty much rejected it. Suddenly, this seemed like it could be true. I became religious again and prayed for forgiveness. That totally scared the living daylights out of me. However, I researched the topic more, and found many explanations for NDEs, including G force pilots having OBEs when they lose blood supply to the brain, and some have pretty realistic hallucinations. However, then, with further reading, I found Dr. Long's work, which claims all these amazing statistics, and now I slightly fear again that Howard Storm, as well as Ian Mccormack, Don Brubaker, and other former atheists who claim to see hell actually saw it. The part of NDEs that I find unexplainable is that so many people claim to see things so clearly and that everything feels "more real" than real life. There are reports of blind NDErs, and reports of people going to places far away from their accidents, and verifying what took place. One man was able to visit his next door neighbour, who had a crying baby. He claims he could talk to the baby, and found the baby had a broken arm. When he woke up, he told his neighbours the news, and it was in fact true. Other people have been able to retell exactly what doctors did and said. Penny Sartori did a test where she asked patients who were totally out during their close brushes with death to try and guess what happened during their operations, and she claims they all got everything completely wrong, yet these NDErs tend to get so many things right. There are even cases of people healing after these NDEs. There seems to be some scientific explanation, but I feel that there are still very many grey areas here, and I do not know if these NDEs and OBEs can be dismissed just like that. I guess I would take comfort in knowing these are fake, because there are quite a few where atheists and Christians who do not go to Church end up in hell, and I really fear that. I would be so happy if I knew for a fact that there was no life after death, then I could enjoy my life more again.

manga

Quote from: Father Bruno on April 27, 2017, 09:37:35 PM
Quote from: Father Bruno on April 27, 2017, 02:01:12 PM
Quote from: manga on April 27, 2017, 04:01:27 AM
to everyone on here, I fear afterlife, and I hope it is not true, so I am asking in the hopes that I will no longer believe it

Why do you fear an afterlife manga?

You understand there are folks here who question not only your sincerity, but your motives based on what you have posted and how you have replied to some of our questions and/or responses.

Have you seen or read the following thread posted in the introductory section which was addressed to you, and if so what are your thoughts?

Hello Manga

I was not aware of that, I just posted something on this forum about my background, and I will post it in your section

solidsquid

Quote from: joeactor on April 27, 2017, 12:11:31 AM
Quote from: manga on April 26, 2017, 11:31:07 PM
Does this prove the afterlife?

Yes. It is definitive proof. No need to post anything else. Ever. Again.

I agree. Definitive proof. I'm convinced, case close. No need to talk about it anymore.

Magdalena

Quote from: solidsquid on April 27, 2017, 10:24:41 PM
Quote from: joeactor on April 27, 2017, 12:11:31 AM
Quote from: manga on April 26, 2017, 11:31:07 PM
Does this prove the afterlife?

Yes. It is definitive proof. No need to post anything else. Ever. Again.

I agree. Definitive proof. I'm convinced, case close. No need to talk about it anymore.

:snicker:

"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant

Magdalena


"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant


Magdalena


"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant