I thought my posts were directed more towards critical thinking rather than putting down their ideas. Perhaps I overdid it, but I'm not going to bother reading back my posts
If Abnaxus feels I've somehow gone too far in any way, I apologise.
I could be very wrong with my perception of the world. I don't think I am based on the evidence available to me, but I realise I could very well be wrong. Only way to find out though is to look for answers consistently and look for them well.
I try to encourage that in people - it's why I linked Abnaxus a couple of times and gave a few corrections in the things he said (admittedly, I had to look up some details, but that's how we learn, isn't it?
. I don't think I made any judgement calls on Abnaxus' experience of seeing the room from above and being able to see the aneasthesiology equipment from above. I did, however, ask him to be critical
In all honesty, I'm not even that interested how much of his experience is real and how much is his imagination. I'm more interested in people thinking critically - and it's a hard thing to do, especially when considering your own abilities and experiences.
IMO, if more people would do this, we could get rid of homeopathy, faith healers and psychics - there's simply no evidence that they do anything other than make you feel better about the situation. But for some reason, things are going the other way around - people are doubting their doctors and blindly following the faith healers and homeopaths etcetera.
And in return, people are way more likely to die from their illness with all the ensuing pains etcetera.
So I guess it is personal in that I would like it if some people were more curious - REALLY curious. Looking things up. Learning about things that matter.
Teach a man to reason, and he'll think for a life time - Phil Plait.
Sorry, Free, I'm naturally distrustful of "big theories of everything", because they usually don't hold with mathematics for example to prove their hypotheses
They like oversimplifying things too much. If there's something I've learned, it's that things are rarely simple. Even something as simple as measuring someone's blood pressure has all sorts of nuances, false positives, false negatives, fluctuations based on when you measure, how you measure etcetera.