Thread: How to counter skeptics' statements on Astral Projection?

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Enlightenment historically has always been the first thing and the most consistent thing to be outlawed, even carrying a higher penalty than rape and murder.

QFT.

Modern science says the fact that we even exist at all is a complete random occurrence.

DNA, despite being contained in every living being on this planet, completely random.

Cells only know how to do one thing, and that is to obey instruction. How did they gain instructions in the first place, or gain the ability to follow them? Random?

Each living being contains its seed, which can produce another version of the same being from a very small and basic cellular state, using only instructions provided by DNA, called reproduction. How is this possible? How did this even come to be in the first place. Randomly? Everything just started off capable of reproducing with no real inherent reason to reproduce in the first place other than to survive? But wait, how did survival even become a driving factor? Randomly?

We have many forms of plant life, all of which serve a very specific purpose with effects that are generally the same across an entire species. Well...that's not so random, that seems very predictable. But it came to be all randomly?

When our brain is formed by these same cells, and we are born into this world and start to age, how is it that we have free will, and can learn to create things using combinations of other things that initially do not represent in any way what their final form will be? Random?

Why do we have an imagination that can conceptualize anything we want, even if that item does not exist in waking reality as an organism or being? Random?

Why is it that we don't have various species of human, and that over time all human life has stayed the initial form of human, with no deviation from the amount of chromosome pairs, and other things? Random? How many humans existed when the first humans were on this planet? In what locations? Random locations?

Is free will a feature of our physical brain? Or our non-physical mind? Do we have a non-physical mind? How is it that we can dream when we sleep? Why do the rules of dreaming state anything you want to do is possible so long as you believe it? How do we believe? Is believing a feature of our DNA? Is dreaming? Why doesn't our DNA allow us to do what we do in dreams in waking? Is it simply just random? Were we just unlucky? Is that merely an assumption?

Why is placebo possible? How could we possibly use only our minds, to cause changes in our bodies? Random feature?


It's much easier to make something up than to even begin to comprehend the possible truth isn't it?

Are you a body with a consciousness or a consciousness with a body?