And don’t you have to be…near death?
Am I misremembering something here, but wasn’t lekatt mod-directed to cease and desist that spiel? Or maybe I’m thinking of another one-trick pony.
If I was his S.O., he’d be near death every time he woke me up with that fucking non-sense.
No, I think you’re correct.
So then how can your opinions on it be valid. Hmm? Hmmm???
Of course this is a classic wooist comeback whenever woo is challenged. “But have you tried it (ear candling, coffee enemas, contacting the spirits of boring dead people)? If you haven’t tried it you don’t know if it works.” :rolleyes:
Well, gosh, maybe he was! Who can tell? Maybe he was only microseconds away from an irreversible coma, but pulled out of it, spontaneously, just that close!
I mean, hell, darn near every one of us is only four minutes away from death, pretty much all the time. (Exceptions for yoga-trained meditators and experienced free divers…)
So, heck-a-mile, I’ll give him a pass on the “near death” part. It’s the lack of medical attention that strikes me. If there was nobody to bang on his chest, how did he find his way back?
Also…why does he find the experience affirming? God said, “Go away from me, I will not have you, you are not for my company, buzz off, giddaddahere, and the horse you rode in on.” If God had truly been loving and caring and welcoming…the Katt would be dead, and we’d never know anything about it. Lucky us.
As long as you feel that “in the top ten” is “nowhere near,” of course. 
He was once asked for evidence that he was near death during that experience, and he replied that the fact that he had that experience was proof that he was near death…otherwise he wouldn’t have had that experience. :rolleyes:
Since this is the Pitt…May the cat eat you, and may the devil eat the cat.
We must now all admit that we miss his particular sort of crazy, just a little bit.
About as much as I miss jock itch.
Eh? He’s gone? Or he’s reformed his ways? Please, may either one of those glorious things be true!
You might want to revise that from gems to gem. He only has one thought, and repeats it endlessly.
God is love.
Trinopus: I very much doubt he’s seen the light… as it were. 
But I’ve not seen his posts for a good few weeks so I assumed he’s selling his crazy somewhere else lately.
Alas, he’s been active on the thread about ghosts.
Emptily, pointlessly, stupidly, uselessly, ineptly active…as usual…but active.
And no matter how much he loves his "NDE"s I suppose it would be in bad taste to wish him many more, wouldn’t it?
Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
The date, by the way, on that article was April of 1998. Over four years before he joined us here.
Enjoy,
Steven
Well, given that it was really just a hallucination upon awakening, and he seems to have enjoyed it so much, it would be no more than kind-hearted to wish him many more.
I wouldn’t wish a real NDE on anyone, as they tend to come with severe medical complications.
It’s the difference between saying, “I hope he falls in love some day” and “I hope he has a heart-attack.” The former is fair and acceptable – and in fact I do hope that for him – but the latter is too harsh.
It would be nice for him to “wake up” some day.
<bolding mine> - actually, for him - I think that would be a fate worse than an actual NDE - I take him at his word on what he believes, and if that were completely ripped out from under him?
Thats the sad part for the ‘true believer’…
It’s true… It might lead him to be a debunker…but, more to the point, to be a rabid, fanatical, obsessed debunker. To out-Randi Randi. To lose as many hours of his life in denying spiritualist crap as he has in promoting it. Either way, a hell of a loss of human potential.
But there is always the hope for a life of intelligent moderation. He really needs something else to focus his energy on. Stamp collecting…