I got part way into Tucker's episode today and the guy mentioned Kabbalah. I had been curious about it, think I saw Charls Carrol mention it but never watched him long.
I figured it was some Jewish heresy like Christian gnosticism but GPT says its accepted in mainstream Orthodox Judaism but is only taught to like 10% of people? Is that right? It just sounds like the typical hidden knowledge type shit, but its very weird to hear that its accepted in mainline rabbinic Judaism. Anyone know about this?
The "prison" is made up, much like all sky grandpas. Pain is nothing more than a signal transported through your nervous system. Suffering is your intepretation of it. Your intepretations are shaped by whatever mommy and daddy shoved into your head during your formative years.
I know God is real because he just told me you’re a faggot.
He's an even bigger one if he has no balls to face me head on.
You suffer when your interpretations are out of line with reality. Like how you're suffering because your interpretation of spiritual life is built upon the logic of a Disney cartoon.
Do I? I'm not the one who has to invent gods to cope with reality.
Look into near death experiences. Not a cursory look at some debunk article, but do a deep dive. I’ve never heard of anyone that’s done that and not come out with a more open view of what lies after death.
In the very least, nde’s and other scientific studies on basic psy abilities like how people are able to affect random number generators and similar will convince most people that a reductive materialist view of the world is not quite right. Personally I had a very reductive materialist view of the world until I looked into such things.
The only catch being that you have to go into it with an open mind.
Studying science is actually a known pathway to finding God. When people actually look at the world with open eyes and an open mind, they naturally find it for themselves.
I agree. Unfortunately so many people don’t have their eyes or mind open. And that goes for some classically religious people as well as some people that I think of as being a part of the religion of science.
I do my best not to judge anyone. Everyone is on their own path
Can you be more specific? Google is likely to feed me trash.
Yes I’ll be glad to. Sorry in advance for the length of this, lol (but I can also provide more if need be)
What introduced me to the topic was this podcast with Dr Jeffrey long. You can watch this or listen on any podcast app. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=na-9wu04l-o It’s about an hour. The host is a bit of a doofus but any interview with Jeffrey long should suffice. He’s done many.
His website nderf.org has many resources including research papers here https://www.nderf.org/NDERF/Research/Research_Overview_Right.htm
Other researchers are Bruce Greyson and Eben Alexander, the latter was a neurosurgeon and had an nde while suffering from severe meningitis of the brain (10mins, I tried to find a short video, he’s done many long form) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XUfT0HvIykA
Researchers that describe nde’s that can be proven as “veridical nde’s” . And by proven I mean they have some sort of corroborating info that’s provided. For example someone will be lying there dead (in the very least, almost dead, and unconscious) and perceive something that is going on around them. Where a specific item was put, an unusual conversation or action, people’s names that provided care, etc. for these at least you can find video of the people involved to corroborate the story.
Pam Reynolds’s is a famous example. here is a (6min) video about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/1k8q0mu/the_neardeath_experience_of_pam_reynolds/
But there are a ton of these with varying amounts of corroboration.
I don’t want to make this a complete wall of text but I think it can be helpful to hear some people’s stories in their own words. I like https://m.youtube.com/@TheOtherSideNDEYT/video
I bounced back and forth between believing and not believing as I read stuff from the pro and con side for a while and eventually decided that the pro won in my mind. Does that mean with 100% certainty that there’s an afterlife? No but in the very least our understanding of consciousness is not completely accurate.
Hope this helps
You went out of your way to gather your sources instead of disapraging me. I appreciate it. I owe those links a check.