End of Life Issues

Voltaire2

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36. Alexander is yet another spiritualist grifter.

Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:13 PM

Jan 2018

So, if we add all this up, we have a neurosurgeon who makes fundamental mistakes about how the brain works, because he is not a neuroscientist or neurophysiologist—and that is a BIG difference. On top of this, he has a history of falsifying records and was in trouble with numerous malpractice suits, so his medical career was effectively over. And when Dittrich checked with other people, many important details in the book turned out clearly false.

This does not seem to trouble Alexander or any of his followers who want to believe him. They, like so many others, are willing to be duped out of their money for the book and make him rich, all while he tells them fairy stories to confirm their beliefs and make them feel good. It wouldn’t be the first time some religious figure separated people from their money—but perhaps the first time it was done by a neurosurgeon in a white lab coat.

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Brain surgeon claims to have experienced life after death [View all] pbmus Jan 2018 OP

It's all in his mind underpants Jan 2018 #1

Lol pbmus Jan 2018 #3

except of course that he didn't die so he didn't experience life after death. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #2

Probably a really spectacular hallucination caused by the disease's effects The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #4

Probably not...The man is a neurosurgeon.. whathehell Jan 2018 #9

Or especially since someone would pay him to write a book marybourg Jan 2018 #17

.. Someone would pay YOU to expose him if that's what actually whathehell Jan 2018 #21

Are you his publicist? marybourg Jan 2018 #24

In your dreams.. whathehell Jan 2018 #25

If he was in a coma, wouldn't that just be a dream? nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #5

He wasn't in a comma...He was clinically dead. n/t whathehell Jan 2018 #7

I don't see that in the article. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #8

You'd need to read his explanation... He's a neurosurgeon, I'm not, but whathehell Jan 2018 #10

"He was suffering from a brain infection [...], which left him at two percent Hav Jan 2018 #11

I don't expect anything.. whathehell Jan 2018 #15

When you are in the process of recovery after your brain was in the shitter, Hav Jan 2018 #18

Um, It depends on how deeply invested you are in NOT believing whathehell Jan 2018 #19

Ben Carson is also a neurosurgeon... Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #13

He:s a retired neurosurgeon whathehell Jan 2018 #14

Pyramids were used to store grain isn't very political. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #16

He's a fundamentalist, I believe.. whathehell Jan 2018 #20

No, but if you're using someone's title (Neurosurgeon) as some sort of authoritative source, Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #23

What "actual proof"? whathehell Jan 2018 #27

Proof of an afterlife, the subject at hand. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #28

Yes, I understand whathehell Jan 2018 #29

Anecdotal evidence is unreliable 99% of the time. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2018 #30

I'll need more than your word for that percentage, I'm afraid. n/t whathehell Jan 2018 #31

those are not mutually exclusive properties. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #32

Whatever whathehell Jan 2018 #33

The whatever is critical to the claim. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #34

Uh huh. whathehell Jan 2018 #35

Alexander is yet another spiritualist grifter. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #36

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That is the experience of some.. whathehell Jan 2018 #22

I once heard that only atheists go to heaven. nt Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #26

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