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

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DNS wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:40 am
Lucas Oliveira wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 11:06 pm Does anyone have news?

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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
Thank you David..

did not know that the contest had more than 1,000 entries..

but the official website is under maintenance and has nothing new in the contest's social networks.

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Aloka wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:20 am When I was a child I saw Santa Clause through a window Image
Santa is a metaphor…


God gives gifts…

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Wow time pass so quickly... it will be funny to read wimmers essay..
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confusedlayman wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:51 pm ... it will be funny to read wimmers essay..
Funny, yes. :rofl:
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Contest Winners

Announcement BICS Essay Contest November 1, 2021

https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/News4.php


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Lucas Oliveira wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 4:34 pm Contest Winners

Announcement BICS Essay Contest November 1, 2021

https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/News4.php


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Lol ... winners have phd lets see the essays next weel
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Very interesting. I'm curious about the essays.
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Modus.Ponens wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 11:15 pm Very interesting. I'm curious about the essays.
First prize is not so good IMO: https://www.nonlocalmind.org/wp-content ... titute.pdf

Very disappointing. He repeatedly calls skeptics 'scoffers' and doesn't address the debates around these topics much at all. Just presents the "evidence" as facts without acknowledging the long history of conversation between skeptics and parapsychologists on these experiments.

I'm looking forwards to Kastrup's honorable mention essay though. I suspect it will be much better. (He has an idealist view of reality).
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waryoffolly wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 11:38 pm First prize is not so good IMO:
good IMO
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Lucas Oliveira wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 3:41 pm
Near-Death Experiences

Evidence for Their Reality

by Jeff rey Long, MD

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... _p0372.pdf
NDERF is the largest NDE site in the world, with over 4,000 experiences in more than 23 languages!
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Review of "Evidence of the Afterlife"
http://neardth.com/evidence-of-the-afterlife.php

The Nine Lines of Evidence
http://www.newdualism.org/nde-papers/Lo ... 2--1-2.pdf

Exceptional Experiences
https://www.nderf.org/Archives/exceptional.html
Jeffrey Long, MD, was one of the winners, he was fourth!

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

All 29 Essays Published Here!

https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php



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I haven't read the essays yet, but it looks like many of them are open to or even accept rebirth / reincarnation.
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Lucas, thankyou for starting this topic, I am so interested to read the essays.
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Lucas Oliveira wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:02 am Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize

All 29 Essays Published Here!

https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php



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Awesome!

3 of the 29 links are not working. I'll email them.
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JamesTheGiant wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:55 am Lucas, thankyou for starting this topic, I am so interested to read the essays.
for us Buddhists this is very interesting...

Science is proving one of the most important teachings in Buddhism, the Rebirth

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Lucas Oliveira wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:02 am
Awesome!

3 of the 29 links are not working. I'll email them.
for a millionaire contest, this site is too weak ..

they can invest more on the site.

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