Chumley, its not only bearded gurus from India who accept the evidence for the afterlife.
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-I know that.
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http://www.victorzammit.com?/ See far left column. Quite a list of names who are not exactly spiritualists.
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-Check this out:
http://www.aaskolnick.com/dammit/(Here you'll find quite a list of names in the left column
also..!)
B-man
Gee and that proves what exactly? I think Victor refers to people like this as losers and defeatists or simply hard core close minded sceptics.
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-Why is it that Zammit resorts to ad-hominem attacks and name-calling
when dealing with these skeptics? Such behavior is typical of a DEFENSIVE position, or so it seems to me..!
So I'd say, whatever abuse he's gotten from Skolnick - well, he
asked for it. (Let that be a lesson on how NOT to win an
argument.)
You know, if you're REALLY convinced you've got a good argument, you PITY your opponents - you don't get angry. (I'm sure you've noticed this simple life fact, haven't you NSD? I hope so anyway.)
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I have no time for such people.
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-Then why get angry with them? (Like Zammit does, the poor insecure
schmuck...)
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I consider myself to be an open minded sceptic who believes that there is something really going on that we aren't all aware of. I would not want to mix with people who make it their mission to tear down every bit of research into the paranormal, sometimes just for the. They contribute nothing positive, only negativity. I far prefer open minded sceptics who are not necessarily believers, but like paraspychologists who are willing to consider all the possible reasons for phenomena occuring (normal and paranormal) and not draw any conclusions unless they have fool proof data. They are reasonable.
Quite frankly if you could prove to me somehow that there was no afterlife, then I would say 'Ok why I am wasting my time living, life sucks! Because I am breathing the same air as close minded sceptics!'
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-Anger again. (Watch that blood pressure, bro..!) AND...
-what if it's the AFTERLIFE that sucks?
It's a distinct possibility, you know. Most ancient
cultures considered it a gray, miserable existence
in a "netherworld" of one form or another (Sumerians, Greeks,
Chinese, early Hebrews, Vikings, Aztecs, Incas, Eastern
Woodland Indians, and Eskimos - just to name a few!)
About the ONLY ancient culture who held forth a "blissful"
afterlife was the Egyptians (from whom we get the entire
concept of "heaven", with some input from Persian
Zoroastrian beliefs.) Who is to say that the Egyptians
were right, while all the other ancient cultures were
wrong?
And I'd say that the afterlife WAS something that the ancients
may have been more knowledgeable about, than people are
today... most of their beliefs would have been (at least related
to) shamanic exploration, NOT the proclamations of money-and-power
hungry professional clerics (as modern religions tend to be!)
Maybe oblivion doesn't sound so bad after all? THINK about
it!
B-man
P.S. Please note that the Egyptians (who pioneered the "blissful
hereafter" idea) were also the first people to hone PRIESTCRAFT
- with full-time, paid professional clergy - into a freaking SCIENCE.
(In fact, the Roman Catholic clerical system is a direct descendant
of Egyptian priestly hierarchy, did you know that?)
After all - who's going to part with 10% of their income (or more - WAY more, depending on how greedy the "Church" is) just to be told
that they are going to spend the rest of eternity stumbling
around like a zombie in a gray wasteland, irrespective of how "good"
(read: OBEDIENT to authority) or "bad" (read: DISOBEDIENT to authority) they might have been in life..!
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