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ik vraag het mezelf ook veel af , het kan toch niet dat er na de dood niets is ?
maar als je even nadenkt : als je slaapt , dan is er toch ook niets , dan weet je toch ook van niets , i kdenk dat dood zijn net hetzelfde is , je weet het gewoon niet

JA!
geloff je in GOD, dan ga je naar de hemel!
geloof je in DBB, dan zul je wel ergens anders heen gaan..........
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Ook het feit dat we over dit soort dingen na kunnen denken zegt in feite al dat er meer is. Want zouden we zo intelligent zijn dat we zulke dingen bedenken, moeten we ze ook kunnen oplossen. Andersom zouden we ze niet kunnen bedenken.
Niet alles geloven wat er uitgekraamd wordt. hé musclebeertje pass the dutch by the left hand side please
Nou meen ik ook eens gehoord te hebben dat een lichaam na de dood minder weegt dan het moment vlak voor de dood. En dan praat ik over een tijdsbestek van een uur. Hoe verklaart men dit dan weer, is dat de 'ziel' die het lichaam ontstijgt? Of ga je na je dood zoveel scheten laten dat je kilo's gas verliest? (Natuurlijk, je spieren staan niet op spanning) De wetenschap kon dit toen niet verklaren.
It would take a great deal of credulity to conclude that MacDougall's experiments demonstrated anything about post-mortem weight loss, much less the quantifiable existence of the human soul. For one thing, his results were far from consistent, varying widely across his half-dozen test cases:
1) "uddenly coincident with death . . . the loss was ascertained to be three-fourths of an ounce."
2) "The weight lost was found to be half an ounce. Then my colleague auscultated the heart and and found it stopped. I tried again and the loss was one ounce and a half and fifty grains."
3) "My third case showed a weight of half an ounce lost, coincident with death, and an additional loss of one ounce a few minutes later."
4) "In the fourth case unfortunately our scales were not finely adjusted and there was a good deal of interference by people opposed to our work . . . I regard this test as of no value."
5) "My fifth case showed a distinct drop in the beam requiring about three-eighths of an ounce which could not be accounted for. This occurred exactly simultaneously with death but peculiarly on bringing the beam up again with weights and later removing them, the beam did not sink back to stay for fully fifteen minutes."
6) "My sixth and last case was not a fair test. The patient died almost within five minutes after being placed upon the bed and died while I was adjusting the beam."
So, out of six tests, two had to be discarded, one showed an immediate drop in weight (and nothing more), two showed an immediate drop in weight which increased with the passage of time, and one showed an immediate drop in weight which reversed itself but later recurred. And even these results cannot be accepted at face value as the potential for experimental error was extremely high, especially since MacDougall and his colleagues often had difficulty in determining the precise moment of death, one of the key factors in their experiments. (MacDougall later attempted to explain away the timing discrepancies by concluding that "the soul's weight is removed from the body virtually at the instant of last breath, though in persons of sluggish temperament it may remain in the body for a full minute.")
Dr. MacDougall admitted in his journal article that his experiments would have to repeated many times with similar results before any conclusions could be drawn from them:
If it is definitely proved that there is in the human being a loss of substance at death not accounted for by known channels of loss, and that such loss of substance does not occur in the dog as my experiments would seem to show, then we have here a physiological difference between the human and the canine at least and probably between the human and all other forms of animal life.
I am aware that a large number of experiments would require to be made before the matter can be proved beyond any possibility of error, but if further and sufficient experimentation proves that there is a loss of substance occurring at death and not accounted for by known channels of loss, the establishment of such a truth cannot fail to be of the utmost importance.
MacDougall seems not to have made any more experimental breakthroughs regarding the measurement of the human soul after 1911 (at least, none considered remarkable enough to have been reported in the pages of the New York Times), and he passed away in 1920. Nonetheless, his legacy lives on in the oft-expressed maxim that the human soul weighs 21 grams. (At the moment of death, MacDougall's first test subject decreased in weight by three-fourths of an ounce, which is 21.3 grams.)
What to make of all this? MacDougall's results were flawed because the methodology used to harvest them was suspect, the sample size far too small, and the ability to measure changes in weight imprecise. For this reason, credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul as 21 grams. His postulations on this topic are a curiousity, but nothing more.
21 gramsNiet alles geloven wat er uitgekraamd wordt.
Ik bedacht me net dat we niet bestaan, omdat ik dat denk bestaan we dus ook niet? Soort van omgekeerde 'Ik denk, dus ik besta'.
