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Topic: Would you contribute to mediumship/afterlife research with bitcoin? (Read 1457 times)

hero member
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They wish to not be named so I guess that is that  Grin. Thank you all for your input. It has been most helpful.
hero member
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They use traditional scientific methods.  To any that has said yes or expressed some interest, please pm me and I will provide more informaiton on the organization I'd like to support via bitcoin.

Why not just link their details here so that we can openly evaluate their "scientific methods" and the credibility of those operating the organisation? Legitimate researchers don't keep their identities or their research methods secret.  Why the secrecy about which organisation you believe should be supported?  Do you have some personal connection with them?

And yeah, the JREF has a large amount of money available to anyone who can prove the legitimacy of mediumship or the existence of an afterlife using "traditional scientific methods".

With their permission I will post their information. Not knowing the response I would receive here, I did not want to bring any unwanted attention upon them.
hero member
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Portland Bitcoin Group Organizer
I'm going to start my own thread for bigfoot research BTC donations. You basically pay for my summer vacation along the pacific crest trail.  Cool
legendary
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You cannot kill love
I would do so by the end of the year.
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They use traditional scientific methods.  To any that has said yes or expressed some interest, please pm me and I will provide more informaiton on the organization I'd like to support via bitcoin.

Why not just link their details here so that we can openly evaluate their "scientific methods" and the credibility of those operating the organisation? Legitimate researchers don't keep their identities or their research methods secret.  Why the secrecy about which organisation you believe should be supported?  Do you have some personal connection with them?

And yeah, the JREF has a large amount of money available to anyone who can prove the legitimacy of mediumship or the existence of an afterlife using "traditional scientific methods".
sr. member
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Come-from-Beyond, the great thing is that it's actually less difficult than one thinks to conduct experiments in this field... JREF, CICAP and many other "skeptics" organisations do a rather good job ad doing just that. I think you'd love some of their work

As far as people believing in this crap... billions are spent every ear on snake oil (omeopathy) and the like, so yeah... people do belive in this and continued effeort to "study" or "proove" this fenomena is dangerous and damaging to the weaker links in society.
legendary
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Newbie
If you were given the option to contribute to an organization that accepted bitcoin contributions towards mediumship and afterlife research would you?
Such researches make no sense. Everyone will know everything about this themselves when the time comes. Anyway, mystical experience is non-provable from the scientific point of view, coz it's almost impossible to conduct experiments.

Do people really believe this crap?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_Life:

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"Life After Life" sold more than 13 million copies...
full member
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Decomposition outside of the physical plane has not been evidenced.

Seems you have an evidence to the contrary, don't keep us suspended, please share.
sr. member
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Everybody is free to donate to whomever they wish to donate, however I'd rather donate to people trying to educate against irrationality than this kind of "research". (which in fact I have done in the past)
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/support-us.html

they do not, unfortunately, support Bitcoin, but they are a very important organization whose aim is noble.


Either way, good luck in your endeavor.
legendary
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We already know what happens in the afterlife.  Your body decomposes and eventually gets reused for something else.

This

"In the afterlife" is referencing a place, not just a state of being. Decomposition outside of the physical plane has not been evidenced.
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Your body decomposes and eventually gets reused for something else.

Thanks mlawrence, just when I thought I was useless.
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daytrader/superhero
We already know what happens in the afterlife.  Your body decomposes and eventually gets reused for something else.

This
hero member
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Excellent. Do you guys need some Phlogiston for your research? I've got a basement full of the stuff and no one wants it.

You should probably get that looked at.

Yeah, the fire department is pretty insistent I get rid of it.
hero member
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Excellent. Do you guys need some Phlogiston for your research? I've got a basement full of the stuff and no one wants it.

You should probably get that looked at.

I'll save my donation for http://appliedrationality.org/

Start a bitcoin collection and donate it to them. I'm sure they don't accept bitcoin, but you could convert it to USD and send it to them.
legendary
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hero member
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Excellent. Do you guys need some Phlogiston for your research? I've got a basement full of the stuff and no one wants it.
hero member
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hero member
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They use traditional scientific methods. 

Is it alchemy?
hero member
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They use traditional scientific methods.  To any that has said yes or expressed some interest, please pm me and I will provide more informaiton on the organization I'd like to support via bitcoin.
full member
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And just what is the method for researching this subject?
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