Is it your thinking that that in any way negates what Snakespirit posted here?
Leroy, as I said earlier, my post was serious. It was posted before your comment about none of the posts being serious. I would like to have had an open discussion with you about experiences similar to NDEs. If your responses had shown an interest in my comments and questions (even those directed at the OP), both of us might have learned something.
I hope that you return to SDMB and that your future posts are more reflective.
His(lekatt’s) “information” was not rejected because he shared it in an obnoxious manner-it was rejected because it was demonstrably false. We examimed all the so-called evidence he provided carefully, and found most, if not all, of it to be worthless. He gave us opinion pieces and called them scientific studies. He told us of bad dreams and told us, without any evidence to the contrary, that they were NDEs. He talked of heart attacks that were diagnosed by no one but him. He ignored all solid evidence presented to him time and time again. He openly disdained the scientific method, while at the same time he claimed to provide scientific evidence. His anecdotes were not equal to valid and verified scientific studies.
No, actually I further provided you with a references to Neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, but that is not the point.
The point is that there are literally thousands of papers out there with results which force conclusions exactly like that one: that mental or experiencial entities can be correlated with PHYSICAL ones.
No, they are not, if you believe they are feel free to report the situations to a mod.
Czarcasm was speaking as a poster, not a mod. He was not personally attacking you either. You are wrong on both counts here, and if you believe you need to leave over this, you’re deluding yourself.
well, now that I have been disabused of the misconception regarding partner Meat’s last name, and still reluictant to believe that somewhere in the late fifties, a Mrs. Loaf gave birth to a baby boy and decided to display a commendable, if outre, sense of humor in giving him his first name, do any of you guys know what, in fact, WAS the name they called him in kidergarten? (I’m guessing he took “meat loaf” later on,but who knows?
further hijack:props to Steinman, I always attributed the songs to the singer, and “objects in…etc” alone is an image worth the price of admission by itself.
Am I missing the monthly straight dope face to face party where we all hang out, and therefor care about our hurt feelings and what people who we will never meet think of us?
if there really is a party, I want immediatlely to require pictures with posts, cause I bet there’s a woofer or two out there (maybe me…).
what I’m groping for is a better understanding of what exactly is encompassed by “personal attack” around here.
I don’t understand why:
“your dumb argument might be appropriately produced by a cretinous illiterate bigot”
idiffers in a venue where all that we are IS our argument
from:
“you, sir/madam are a dumb cretinous illiterate bigot”
therefor rendering the first permissible, the second verboten.