685:. Really. Truly it doesn't matter to the fairness of sources that you or I are or are not Baha'is. As soon as it does such a person would be accused of bias. God forbid! And personal experiences have no place in editing - it is all about fair uses of fair sources. As for your proposal of 'The Baha'i perspective on Near Death Experiences' - the problem then is a source that says it is an authoritative (scholarly or institutional) perspective rather than individual presentations. I don't know of any such statement. It has been looked at, it has been published about, but I'm not aware there is "The Baha'i perspective…". Perhaps "Perspectives of some Bahá'ís on Near Death Experiences" but it seems to be excessively wordy.
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I believe the authors' intention is sincere and heartfelt, and the text prior to that section to be accurate and well researched (We have hundreds of books by the founders of the Baha'i Faith), the section about NDEs could be reworded to make it clear that it is only a related topic and is written to describe examples of certain experiences of a small percentage of the population. Since no one who has had a Near Death
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being used in the statements of summaries of the positions presented. For example the "Developing
Destinctive Communities" reference is not used to state any positions of the religion on any issue - it is cited only to say such a thing exists. The points made about the various positions Baha'is have taken from almost completely from non-Baha'i and or explicitly scholarly works. Perhaps too quick a review of the article in it's current form might seem to not be relying on reliable sources but I think a careful review will make it more obvious. --
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very subjective and controversial topic; practically all religions see them as "evidence" of their belief system and people of different religions generally have NDE that coincidentally correspond to their respective belief (Christians report angels and Jesus or hell with fire and devils, for example). Thus its presence on an article about one particular religion might be over-reaching, but I would like to see other people's opinions. --
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to the evidence provided by sources. Does not "Personal presentations" exactly speak to what you are saying? Above that it just has a section that refers to literature that has been published and those personal experiences. Find sources describing the literature in some manner and that should be included.
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I would like to see more input about the lenghty presence of the Near Death
Experiences section. I think it might be breaking the Neutral Point of View as, at least on its current phrasing seems to endorse that NDE are evidence that the Bahai believes in the after life are true. NDE experiences are a
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Don't get me wrong - I appreciate what you have done, and I think it is important for people to understand what the Baha'i Faith is about. Baha'is are expected to have the highest possible morals according to the writings. Harmony, Unity and so on. That is why I've chimed in. I would like the article
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I am also a Baha'i. I actually agree that the section on NDEs is a bit overblown. Perhaps the title of the section should be 'The Baha'i perspective on Near Death
Experiences'. When titled as 'Near Death Experiences' there is an implication that the author/Baha'is are an authority on the topic. While
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You are ignoring what I said about this is not an article about near death experiences, it is an article about Baha'i views about the afterlife. Baha'is have used their experiences this way and it is well documented. How you or anyone interprets their experiences is up to them but not the subject of
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The article presents a lot of examples of NDE like trying to validete that the Bahai believe in the after life is true. That not only is pseudoscientific (because is based among other things, in cherry picking and confirmation bias) but aslo breaks
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Perhaps I did - but the section you appear to be now focusing on is a small part, and showing that the topic has been of long and widespread interest inside the religion. It was not meant as a major section by itself but as an introduction to the relative importance of the topic. It also helps focus
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I attempted to cover a breadth of related aspects - only the first section covers a history of the topic in texts to show a sense of long standing interest in the topic. However that is a small part of the whole document especially now that I've extended the content. I've used responsible non-Baha'i
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Pasarow video, and her account sounds wonderful to me. I had an "out of body" (OBE) experience when I was 14. So, please understand I believe these accounts. But most people will not. I told some college friends about my OBE and they said "Oh, that was just a dream". Consider
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Personal presentations) are within the section titled 'Near Death Experiences'. I was only suggesting a more neutral main title rather than one that is suggesting that we Baha'is are some kind of experts on the topic. We are not. And I suspect Dereck was
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Different Religions View Death and Afterlife" and other third party extended sources are not generally available online they take more time to gather and use specifically. Various sources already included treat the views fairly shortly. More to come. The other extended
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It says no such thing. It says people said it themselves. I'd welcome a paper about it all but it is what it is. Nothing broken. If you want to perceive that as a flaw in the religion you are welcome to but it isn't breaking neutrality to say people said something and did so through published
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trying to point this out. What exists out there about NDEs are all personal accounts, and I think it is fine to mention NDEs as something like a "See Also" topic, but it does not directly support, or relate to the main topic "Baháʼí Faith on life after death".
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I think you are misunderstanding the point I make. Use the sources to talk about the subject of the article "Baha'i Faith on life after death", not on which sources exist and when they were written. -- 16:14, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
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I'm not ignoring anything is just that the argument is still lacking sense. The article explicitly says that the NDE confirm the Bahai beliefs in the afterlife and that's a breakig of the neutral pov. --
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