Near Death Experience - Daniel Dennett

The entire video:
http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/the-science-studio/daniel-dennet

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• Daniel
• Dennett
• near
• death
• experience
• NDE
• religion
• atheism
• god

[Blodhosta]

What unsympathetic hatemongers rates this down? Here's a man who almost died and is happy he didn't. He's not giving an argument - he just speaks of a personal tragedy that was luckily avoided with the help of fellow human beings. The only reason to dislike that is if you hold an ideological idea higher than the well-being of your neighbour, and want him to die for challenging it. Humaneness is rarely highest priority for dogmatics, but this is little short of militant fundamentalism.

[silverstream314]

@Blodhosta A vote bot hit my videos a year ago.

[ComradeAgopian]

Every experience is different . Some years ago I was in a very bad car accident , and I could recall my second grade teacher . I had not seen her in some twenty odd years ,but during the accident there she was in my consciousness clear as can be .

[silverstream314]

Interesting. She must have quite the impact on you.

[tattooskin72]

It was brilliant to hear about a near death experience from someone that is actually in touch with reality :)

[silverstream314]

That's exactly what I thought ;)

[markhajones]

nail on the head.. "Thank Goodness" humans need to stop thanking "god" Humans are awesome, thanking "god' all the time undermines what we have achieved as a species.

[toobsucker]

He said nothing about flat lining at all. He never died

[Boutdonow14]

What I like about this guy is that he comes across refreshingly genuine.

[INMATE2468]

@TheMessianicTruth your right he wont.. cause he will be dead..

[fearfulmatrix]

@markhajones

I think you're onto something there. I believe that is true.

[yoadrienneaz]

If God did not exist, why would one care if they lived? Why would you "thank goodness?" In the scope of everything in this universe, why on earth would there be one reason to get up in the morning, or care to be good?

[bayman115]

I think from the time you die until Jesus comes again, it will bd instant. Any when your about to die I think god nurtures you and makes you feel loved, and let's you know that everything will be fine :) that's what I think. I used to be worried about not going to heaven, like if I wasn't a good enough person to 'get in'. I'm praying now because I want to :)

[keats27]

@Blodhosta They're people who expected something different...Angie Fenimore, another NDEer just said today, all I can tell you is what I experienced...she was responding to someone who said, well, here's what happened to me. The thing is, she was right--we have to take Dennett at his word,not expect what we want to hear--at the same time, even though Dennett was near death, NDE generally refers to people who had a conscious experience at a time when their vital signs say they shouldnt--not this

[bitphr3ak]

@TheWayandWordofLife - One word: Dimethyltryptamine (aka DMT)

There is no need for a supernatural explanation, 'near-death' can create an array of physiological changes in the body. One suggestion is that the body releases large amounts of the psychoactive drug DMT, which is responsible for the 'outer body' experiences for people who have had these 'near death' experiences.

So I dispute your claim that people have genuinely left their bodies. It's all in the mind, like most of our ideas.

[TheWayandWordofLife]

So what, you didn't die for over seven minutes, so it's rational that you would not leave your body, but nearly millions of people have genuinely left their body, and have gone to the other side of the vail. Many atheists have done so, and come back dramatically changed, and become very strong in their faith and relationship with God. Maybe you didn't have a near death experience because you work so hard to disprove God, that God did not feel you were worthy of the experience! May you find t