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Let’s let Michael Shermer tell it himself:

What does this mean? Had it happened to someone else I might suggest a chance electrical anomaly and the law of large numbers as an explanation—with billions of people having billions of experiences every day, there’s bound to be a handful of extremely unlikely events that stand out in their timing and meaning. In any case, such anecdotes do not constitute scientific evidence that the dead survive or that they can communicate with us via electronic equipment.

So the fellow has never heard of the unseen world? We are supposed to believe this? I guess we must.

Look, stranger things.

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goodusername and keiths, how would you account for Shermer's experience?News
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goodusername:
What a bizarre question.
Denyse is on quite the roll lately. Yesterday:
It takes no great facility with language to see that adjectives are just appended nouns and adverbs are just appended verbs.
If the mindfulness craze is really so cool, why did Anders Breivik use it?
Today:
So the fellow has never heard of the unseen world?
Though she has yet to match her personal bests:
I wouldn’t be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified.
If both [man and chimp] are more than 30 years old, and are normal specimens, how many people will believe that they are 98% identical? What woman, otherwise consigned to being a spinster, would marry the chimp if she didn’t get the man? After all, the chimp is supposedly 98% of a man.
keith s
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So the fellow has never heard of the unseen world?
What a bizarre question.goodusername
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