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End of Life Issues

Dr Hobbitstein

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13. Ben Carson is also a neurosurgeon...

Reply to whathehell (Reply #10)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:24 PM

Jan 2018

He claims a lot of weird shit, too.

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Brain surgeon claims to have experienced life after death [View all] pbmus Jan 2018 OP

It's all in his mind underpants Jan 2018 #1

Lol pbmus Jan 2018 #3

except of course that he didn't die so he didn't experience life after death. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #2

Probably a really spectacular hallucination caused by the disease's effects The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #4

Probably not...The man is a neurosurgeon.. whathehell Jan 2018 #9

Or especially since someone would pay him to write a book marybourg Jan 2018 #17

.. Someone would pay YOU to expose him if that's what actually whathehell Jan 2018 #21

Are you his publicist? marybourg Jan 2018 #24

In your dreams.. whathehell Jan 2018 #25

If he was in a coma, wouldn't that just be a dream? nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #5

He wasn't in a comma...He was clinically dead. n/t whathehell Jan 2018 #7

I don't see that in the article. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #8

You'd need to read his explanation... He's a neurosurgeon, I'm not, but whathehell Jan 2018 #10

"He was suffering from a brain infection [...], which left him at two percent Hav Jan 2018 #11

I don't expect anything.. whathehell Jan 2018 #15

When you are in the process of recovery after your brain was in the shitter, Hav Jan 2018 #18

Um, It depends on how deeply invested you are in NOT believing whathehell Jan 2018 #19

Ben Carson is also a neurosurgeon... Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #13

He:s a retired neurosurgeon whathehell Jan 2018 #14

Pyramids were used to store grain isn't very political. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #16

He's a fundamentalist, I believe.. whathehell Jan 2018 #20

No, but if you're using someone's title (Neurosurgeon) as some sort of authoritative source, Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #23

What "actual proof"? whathehell Jan 2018 #27

Proof of an afterlife, the subject at hand. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #28

Yes, I understand whathehell Jan 2018 #29

Anecdotal evidence is unreliable 99% of the time. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #30

I'll need more than your word for that percentage, I'm afraid. n/t whathehell Jan 2018 #31

those are not mutually exclusive properties. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #32

Whatever whathehell Jan 2018 #33

The whatever is critical to the claim. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #34

Uh huh. whathehell Jan 2018 #35

Alexander is yet another spiritualist grifter. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #36

THANK YOU! Lucid Dreamer Jan 2022 #39

Most Likely The River Jan 2018 #6

I've experienced death. safeinOhio Jan 2018 #12

That is the experience of some.. whathehell Jan 2018 #22

I once heard that only atheists go to heaven. nt Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #26

Anita Moorjani claims a similar experience. The_jackalope Jan 2018 #37

I have experienced spirits. Some people known to me. Three were cats. demigoddess Oct 2021 #38