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>>16119204

>>16094652
>I don’t think they are happy living confined either, not that they would be able to tell you that.
Some owners don’t even take their dogs for walks. The dogs are essentially living in a Plato's Cave scenario. They don’t get to choose, they are imprisoned.

>>15821001
Never because chemotherapy type bullshit makes a lot of money

>>15355806
Science helps you accurately predict the movements of the Shadows
Philosophy lets you escape the cave
One who has seen the light outside the cave cares not for the accolades of those who can predict the Shadows

Is synthetic Vitamin D a scam? I've been taking Vit D pills for quite some time and I haven't noticed any changes. Is it possible the synthetic Vit D doesn't metabolize in body as well as a Vit D from natural sources like Sun?

>>14753966
>>14755415
You're welcome.
>>14755457
>>NDE
>that's just a DMT trip, you dumb shit
It's demonstrably not. See this post >>14754862. Furthermore, see this study which thoroughly refutes the idea that DMT = NDE: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc937961/m2/1/high_res_d/31-1_4_Potts.pdf
>>14754994
This is the kind of NPC defense mechanism that I was talking about in this post >>14753966. No charitability towards the NDE experience, no open mind, no curiosity, just the most lame attempt at rationalization for preserving their current beliefs ever and not having to some reading on the subject. Yawn. But, I don't blame you. Looking into the NDE literature can be life-changing when you realize that there really is an afterlife, and some people just don't want to go through that. It's comfortable to not challenge your beliefs. And reading the book mentioned here >>14753966
can be brutal experience for skeptics who have dismissed the NDE without reflecting about it before. The great irony, though, is that "skeptics" do not realize that they react to the NDE in the same way that those in Plato's cave react to those who come back from having escaped it. They don't WANT to hear about the light world who's existence if self-evident to those who have experienced it.

>>14730389
No. Consciousness may be mysterious, but the near-death experience is more than just mysterious as it is screaming that it is not caused by the brain. Not only is there plenty of scientific evidence that the brain couldn't possibly create it, such as people accurately reporting things during OBEs (see the AWARE study and the book The Self Does Not Die, for instance), but there is also the fact that the near-death experience convinces EVERYBODY who has it, even extreme skeptics, neuroscientists, and ultraantitheists, that the afterlife is real.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/202204/does-afterlife-obviously-exist

NDErs are representative of the population as a whole, all are convinced, so 100% of the population agrees that the afterlife is real once they have an NDE themselves. Hence, as this article points out,

>"[A]t least some NDErs were equally as skeptical of the existence of an afterlife or of the idea that NDEs are or can be indicative of an afterlife as we may be now, and at least some of them also shared the intensity of that skepticism, and at least some of them also shared whatever justifications we may think or feel that we have for that skepticism. And yet, the NDE thoroughly and justifiably convinced them that there really is an afterlife for experientially self-evident and realer than real attributes of the experience."

The NDE is literally the allegory of the cave of the modern times. These people have experienced an unmistakable higher reality in the light of the NDE world, and when they come back to tell the people still living and immersed in this world, they are met with disbelief, ridicule, and even hostility. How comical is it not that the skeptics do not see the irony in that?

>>10739289
>Is it scientifically true that the universe is real
No, but abstract Forms like Mathematics or Beauty are. Material world is just a shadowy pseudo-reality that participates in the Forms.

>>10600073
and psychotic delusions can be shared with other people.
How do we know everything we experience isn't wrong? And we're incapable of seeing/comprehending the truth as those in Plato's cave could not.

If it seems implausible, just remember we've already proved this is true over and over again. e.g. Few decades ago everyone believed cigarettes didn't cause cancer. People might call you crazy if you insisted. We now know they do cause cancer.

The world in your immediate vicinity you can observe directly, and only you can decide/interpret what it is you're seeing. But beyond that we're hopelessly dependent on each other to communicate what people see and everyone but you has a say in interpreting what is is they see or in other words interpenetrating reality. Leaving you with the false choice of either believing in another person's version of reality or not.