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6/26/14/0:39/Central Time

I cannot sleep; my mind has been bothered by all this SCIENCE!! ! everyone keeps waiving about on PP&R as if it explains the whole of reality. Really quite troublesome, that...except, as I've recorded here before, SCIENCE!! ! has never bothered me on a spiritual level with my Faith. And, well, I felt ya'll needed to be asked a rather serious question. seeing as I keep getting slapped in the face with pathoic (pathos-based) arguments on a subject that is a question of poor ethoic (ethos-based) decisions made past and present by the extremists world-wide culture that has spawned in parallel to major globalized economies that have evolved over the last 30-60 years, and then expect me to- as a representative of my faith- present some sort of logoic (logos-based) argument to justify the choices of the malicious or ill-guided, past and present.

Makes it hard to get a discussion on the actual Ethos of my Faith without being demonized. It's toxic, and sits ill with me. Especially as there is a leniency on decency on the WP. That's fine, I don't care; as a hybrid-ish aspie, I get how blunt we are. I also know that it js exceptionally easy to leave Bait to irritate the sensitive natures of spiritual and religious folk. Seriously, having my faith compared to some addiction is hostile. Especially as threads are opened just to continue the bitter spite you all call discussion in the last thread bash.

So Logos Me This; why, when I expire and leave this coil in reality, will I be 23.5-ish pounds lighter? Excluding bowel movements...if I had my way, I'd make sure they were empty before-hand. Don't want to be accused of fabricating my SCIENCE!! ! By the way, fun spin; been throwing a silly nerd reference this whole time. Context in-setting, hilarious. Context here though? Who knows- maybe someone'll take offense. But it is now 1:51/Central time, and I am now tired. Choo choo~

Peace, and Breathe easy.

^ Dig a bit deeper with your google searches. You will find that more recent, much more accurate, experiments have been done that effectively trash MacDougall's claims.

I've wondered about this,only because being on a small farm I've had to handle dead animals,and the death of pets,to me they always seemed lighter,like something was gone.I can't really explain it.

That's a possibility,maybe the fact that their muscles were active makes them feel heavier,I dunno,maybe it was my loss I felt.

at TallyMan: You know, you give the weight of the air in the lungs as the evidence which disproves this hypothesis. But Dr. MacDougall's subjects all had TB, chosen specifically because they would be less likely to disrupt the scale upon expiration. Their lungs were compromised, amongst other issues I am sure. I think it highly unlikely that, if the original results can trusted, air in the lungs play a significant factor in the unaccountable weight loss. The patient's conditions made them poor test subjects, as it has been noted.

Dug through google; found little in terms of actual scientific data. Found this article which goes over the subject with some objectivity, but little science has been conducted on the weighing of humans upon death. Since you have suggested reading into such science yourself, could you link your logos instead of assuming word of mouth summary and deflection make for an effective discussion?

Once again we have a person of faith demand that we prove a concept is not true. The facts are the original experiment has been shown to be incredibly flawed. Surely it is up to those who believe the experiment to have some level of validity to redo it, rather than to demand the rest of us accept the findings or disprove it.