Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize

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Modus.Ponens wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:23 pm
SteRo wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:12 pm
Modus.Ponens wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:10 pm

I've already proven you can.
:lol:
What do you call published research on acupuncture? And published research on touch therapy, which is supposed to transmit energy? This stuff is published in medicine journals. But you insist on not accepting the obvious. Drink the water already.
If you want to scientifically discuss acupuncture or transmission of heat energy through material contact then please set the scientific grounds for these topics. But don't use :strawman: fantasies to support the non-scientific idiocy of the BICS project.
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chownah wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 8:48 am ...
chownah
Do people think that offering such big money will encourage some people to make stuff up in order to get some cash?
chownah
a team came together to create a contest offering 500,000 in prize.

weren't you naive to think that they didn't think of the various possibilities that could happen?

or whether they would achieve their goals?

and that there could be fraud?

if that's not naivete, then i got your phrase wrong. I apologize and admit that you didn't write that.
Could the big money be turning this contest into a creative writing contest?
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when you talk about "creative writing", aren't you talking about fraud?

if that's not prejudice, then i got your sentence wrong, i apologize and admit that you didn't write it

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SteRo wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:39 pm
Modus.Ponens wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:23 pm
SteRo wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:12 pm

:lol:
What do you call published research on acupuncture? And published research on touch therapy, which is supposed to transmit energy? This stuff is published in medicine journals. But you insist on not accepting the obvious. Drink the water already.
If you want to scientifically discuss acupuncture or transmission of heat energy through material contact then please set the scientific grounds for these topics. But don't use :strawman: fantasies to support the non-scientific idiocy of the BICS project.
Drink the water
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
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Modus.Ponens wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:46 pm
SteRo wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:39 pm
Modus.Ponens wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:23 pm

What do you call published research on acupuncture? And published research on touch therapy, which is supposed to transmit energy? This stuff is published in medicine journals. But you insist on not accepting the obvious. Drink the water already.
If you want to scientifically discuss acupuncture or transmission of heat energy through material contact then please set the scientific grounds for these topics. But don't use :strawman: fantasies to support the non-scientific idiocy of the BICS project.
Drink the water
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have heard published research on acupuncture has many good points....
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denise wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:27 pm have heard published research on acupuncture has many good points....
Yeah, I read about a kind of acupuncture where the needle is hollow....and different things are put into the emptiness within......
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denise wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:27 pm have heard published research on acupuncture has many good points....
:lol:

Yes, it's hard to argue against those "points."
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Does anyone have news?

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Lucas Oliveira wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 11:06 pm Does anyone have news?
everyone knows someone who has seen a ghost

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cappuccino wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:15 am
Lucas Oliveira wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 11:06 pm Does anyone have news?
everyone knows someone who has seen a ghost

:candle:
Nobody has ever told me they've seen a ghost.....possibly because I don't have conversations with other people about ghosts!

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Aloka wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:31 am
cappuccino wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:15 am everyone knows someone who has seen a ghost

:candle:
Nobody has ever told me they've seen a ghost.
when I was young, I met a ghost
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Ghosts, Devas, Merit, Rebirth etc
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Lucas Oliveira wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 11:06 pm Does anyone have news?

:namaste:
The winners will be announced November 1st, just in a few days from now.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/over-1-000-en ... ve-happens
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I just realized this essay competition is run by Bigelow, the same man who owns Bigelow Aerospace. They built the expandable module which is attached to the International space station. Amazing company, unfortunately destroyed by Covid and NASA contracts going to someone else.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow ... ity_Module
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cappuccino wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:33 am
Aloka wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:31 am
cappuccino wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:15 am everyone knows someone who has seen a ghost

:candle:
Nobody has ever told me they've seen a ghost.
when I was young, I met a ghost
When I was a child I saw Santa Clause through a window Image


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