Debating Near Death Experiences
Feb. 26th, 2011 08:15 pmWolpe v. Hitchens on Near Death Experiences
Wolpe: “Eight million people have reported NDE since 1992 according to Gallup Poll. Many report no longer having a fear of death. Do I say that this is proof there’s an afterlife? My answer is. no…but. Is there something you learn from experience that is not reducible to intellection? Someone who has had a near death experience is saying to us, I actually learned something from the experience that you can’t reduce to this is some kind of trick that we don’t understand. I’m not willing to dismiss it with a few laughs and say that all the million sof people who’ve had this experience and say that it gave them important information about life are wrong and foolish.”
Christopher Hitchens: “How does the 8 million stand up against the people who say they’ve been inseminated by UFOs?”
David Wolpe: “I suspect there’s overlap. .. Does that mean the experience isn’t real to them?”
Christopher Hitchens: “It means their experience is real to them, all I ask is that they keep it to themselves.”
-- JewishJournal.com
We will miss Christopher when he is gone.
Wolpe: “Eight million people have reported NDE since 1992 according to Gallup Poll. Many report no longer having a fear of death. Do I say that this is proof there’s an afterlife? My answer is. no…but. Is there something you learn from experience that is not reducible to intellection? Someone who has had a near death experience is saying to us, I actually learned something from the experience that you can’t reduce to this is some kind of trick that we don’t understand. I’m not willing to dismiss it with a few laughs and say that all the million sof people who’ve had this experience and say that it gave them important information about life are wrong and foolish.”
Christopher Hitchens: “How does the 8 million stand up against the people who say they’ve been inseminated by UFOs?”
David Wolpe: “I suspect there’s overlap. .. Does that mean the experience isn’t real to them?”
Christopher Hitchens: “It means their experience is real to them, all I ask is that they keep it to themselves.”
-- JewishJournal.com
We will miss Christopher when he is gone.