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Hello from a non-skeptic

Charles, you've made claims that don't hold.

You've made claims that you can't support.

When questioned, you have dodged.

When challenged, you've played the martyr.

When ignored, you've insulted others.

And when given useful advice, you've listed even more claims without a shred of evidence, taken a condescending tone with any who don't accept them blindly, all the while ignoring the dozens of valid criticisms of your claims - dishonestly referring to them as "attacks".

Now, there's really nothing left but ridicule.
 
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What instantly jumped out at me were all the unsuspecting serious and honest people that may have come here and been beaten into a pulp by all your attacks.
A highly insulting comment to everyone who's taken part in this thread. Care to quote any of these "attacks" or is this something else plucked from your nether regions?
 
It is possible, but difficult to believe, that you are unaware of how often in your last post you have contradicted previous posts.

Regardless of those contradictions, what you have made abundantly clear again is that you have decided on what is true, regardless of evidence or reason, and will brook no argument to the contrary.

Charles, you insist on implying that we have not done research, that we know nothing of reincarnation beliefs, that we don't know religious or mystical traditions. You are wrong.

I am not the most informed on the subject in this thread, but based on what you have written here I wager I am far more informed on those topics than you. Moreover, I am open to being shown I am wrong in the face of evidence you steadfastly refuse to present.

I said some time ago that your posts responding to the dissection of your claims should not be the measure of your character since virtually no one can respond to the dismantling of cherished beliefs with stoicism. But that time is past. You have had time, opportunity, and reason to reexamine your claims, yet you come back here not only spouting the same refuted nonsense but continuing to cast false aspersions about the open mindedness and knowledge of those who have engaged you here, many offering very helpful suggestions.

You are wrong, Charles. Until and unless you present actual, rigorous evidence to the contrary, it is not only reasonable but proper to point out to you that you have been taken in by a scamming agent, that your claims of reincarnation are whimsical fluff, and that your claims of royal descent are exercises in wishful speculation.

I wish you the best, Charles, but I do not wish the best for the propagation of your false claims.
 
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One of the reasons I held back from looking at this thread was so as not to be tempted to reply to so many provocations and to hopefully give you all some more time to research, read, study and reflect. I cannot give you all your answers (though you all seem to believe that you already hold them). As I said at the beginning of this thread, the "Spiritual Journey" is always an individual one. It is an exercise in "free-will". You have the choice to search and seek for the answers or to refuse to do so and remain in ignorance. That is always an individual choice; as is what we choose to believe in or not.

Why do you assume that the varied group of people on this busy forum have not researched the subject?
 
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You have had time, opportunity, and reason to reexamine your claims, yet you come back here not only spouting the same refuted nonsense but continuing to cast false aspersions about the open mindedness and knowledge of those who have engaged you here, many offering very helpful suggestions.
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Time to repost the video about open mindedness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI

;)
 
Oh, FFS - enough is enough

Originally Posted by Charles Boden
One of the reasons I held back from looking at this thread was so as not to be tempted to reply to so many provocations and to hopefully give you all some more time to research, read, study and reflect.

What a steaming pile of smarmy, condescending bovine excrement! Charles, I'm usually an easy-going soul but you've finally pushed me over the edge. It's painfully obvious from the semi-digested tripe you've vomited all over this thread that your own ability to research, read and study is sadly deficient; in case you haven't realized, this is the main reason you've ended up as the victim of a fake literary agent. If only you'd done a bit of research over the twenty years you claim to have spent on your book you would have discovered quite a few esoteric/New Age publishers who might have paid YOU for the privilege of bringing forth this magnum opus.

I'm now putting you on ignore. Be happy in your delusions, but at least have the decency to expose your "agent" before he moves on to the next easy mark.
 
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Someone here asked me why, if I had been told not to divulge certain secrets, I have now divulged what I have. Believe me, I also questioned myself concerning this when I began to wonder about divulging what I have been trying to regarding "Consciousness", and the "intuitive reply" that I got was: "Against the Greater Consciousness, nothing can be done. Go ahead and divulge it..." So I have been trying to act in accordance.

Several times you've said "someone here asked me <something>" and "someone here told me <something>" and each time, I've ctrl-f my way through the whole thread, and in each case up to now, nobody has posted anything resembling your assertion. I have to go out in a second so have not got time to check whether the highlighted words above are accurate, but based on past form it seems unlikely.

Is this an honest way to debate, Charles?
 
By the way, I do hope Charles isn't comparing himself to the hypothetical "unsuspecting serious and honest people" he's so concerned about. His very first post made it clear that he expected to be "torn to shreds", so he clearly wasn't unsuspecting. He wanted to "rock [our] all-knowing pedestals", so he wasn't serious. We know that he exaggerated his supposed past-life memories and edited a Wikipedia article to provide "independent" support for his claims, so he wasn't honest.
 
Several times you've said "someone here asked me <something>" and "someone here told me <something>" and each time, I've ctrl-f my way through the whole thread, and in each case up to now, nobody has posted anything resembling your assertion. I have to go out in a second so have not got time to check whether the highlighted words above are accurate, but based on past form it seems unlikely.

Is this an honest way to debate, Charles?

I am back from ferrying my children about , so I though I would check. I used the thread search tool and find that the word "secret" appeared in three posts: post 612, post 892 and post 1543.

The word "secrets" appears in only two posts; Charles' post 1635 and my quote of the same post, in post 1648.

Your assertion that "someone here asked you why, if I have been told not to divulge certain secrets..." is, like your claim that someone on this thread told you to get a life (I checked this way back in post 559 ), completely false.

Do you want me to show you more posts of yours where you have made similar, unfounded assertions?

You are setting up strawman arguments and arguing against not what has been said to you, but what you think should have been said, if the JREFF were the big bad bearpit of personal attack that you seem to want it to be.

Of course your claims have been challenged, it's a sceptics forum. But you have not responded to those challenges.

Remember the anachronistic minstrels in the wrong time period, or the "man with a guitar" also in the wrong time period and the wrong country? How about those army boots in the wrong place at the wrong time - any explanation for why you "see" things in your "past life" that simply should not be there if your memories were real memories?

Do you have any response to Les's research on the town of Biggar, which you presented as a memory from your past life, but could not have been?

To present your experience on the JREFF as "the most unpleasant experience of your life" is an insult to those who have been unfailingly polite, to those who have tried to help you (particularly regarding your scamming agent) and is a slap in the face to those who are facing real unpleasantness.

Charles, if having a few people research your claims and find them to be without foundation is the most unpleasant experience of your life, you should be down on your knees every day thanking whatever deity in which you believe that you have never experienced grief, loss, bereavement, illness, poverty, hunger.... because all those things are a hell of a lot more "unpleasant".
 
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I cannot give you all your answers (though you all seem to believe that you already hold them).

Unlike you, of course, who only modestly claims to know so much about reincarnation as to be able to say that it is perfect and without flaw.

As I said at the beginning of this thread, the "Spiritual Journey" is always an individual one. It is an exercise in "free-will". You have the choice to search and seek for the answers or to refuse to do so and remain in ignorance. That is always an individual choice; as is what we choose to believe in or not.

There's that modesty again.

You call yourselves "serious scientists",

We do?

but yet you condemn the purchasing of books???? Books have always been mankind's source of knowledge. It is by reading and studying that we LEARN!!! It is not important if my "agent" might be conning me. What truly matters is that anyone wishing to purchase my or Carol's or any of the books that have been mentioned will have this in their hands as a source of KNOWLEDGE.

So people should read everything that anyone has ever written, regardless of its quality. Oh, except for this thread, apparently.

I have not taken anything here too personally.

Really? So why did you claim this was one of the worst experiences of your life (I guess we should have asked which life), and that you feared for the safety of your family?
 
If after all that I have shared here you are still bent on claiming that I am dellusional, then again we are going round in circles, and it would be best if we did indeed just finally end this thread.

Well then stop artificially prolonging the life of the thread without actually addressing our criticisms - and the thread will magically end.

You have the choice to search and seek for the answers or to refuse to do so and remain in ignorance.

I would throw this right back at you. Are you interested in the possibility that you may be mistaken?

That is always an individual choice; as is what we choose to believe in or not.

Have you considered that such things need not be a matter of choosing to believe?

What he doesn't know is that as well as Ohshallah I also have Mr Lock-Street as my guide, who will have him dancing the can-can naked upon a sleazy bar table with a red rose in his mouth if he doesn't come clean with me.

If you truly believe this and are not in jest, there's a substantial sum of money to be gained that would certainly assist in spreading your beliefs.

Have none of you realized that what is behind all this is much more than just myself? We have ALL lived many lives, and will still live many more, so why the insistance of focussing on me?

Because you have come here making the claims, obviously. You also aren't making much sense here. Assuming your assertion re "many lives" were true, and you know that we don't accept it, why would we NOT focus on you? Again, you're the one, here and now, making the claim.

You call yourselves "serious scientists",

Nope. None of us have said that.

but yet you condemn the purchasing of books????

What on earth are you talking about? We damn well BOUGHT a copy of your nonsense!

Books have always been mankind's source of knowledge.

Not strictly true - look up "prehistory".

It is by reading and studying that we LEARN!!!

Yeeees. And?

It is not important if my "agent" might be conning me. What truly matters is that anyone wishing to purchase my or Carol's or any of the books that have been mentioned will have this in their hands as a source of KNOWLEDGE.

Again - seen it, bought it, reviewed it. And yet you apparently aren't interested in engaging with me on its contents.

In Umbanda, money is called "aqué", which means "materialized energy". It is meant and created to change hands in exchanges.

In England, money is called "dosh", which means "a form of currency". It is meant and created to change hands in exchanges.

Seriously, what the heck are you on about?

I have not taken anything here too personally.

Read your own post. The righteous indignation is palpable.

I am well scholared in argumentations

Classic.

The point of the matter is that what I am calling for via what I have written is a serious reconsideration of certain phenomena and of certain dogmas and doctrines of the now very ancient "traditional religions"

How can you do so without consideration for EVIDENCE?

Though the confirmed knowledge of this reality still evades us, it is only a small leap away, but this "leap" is not one that I might teach you all, but one that you will have to learn for yourselves...

Charles Edward Stuart Boden

It's precisely this "leap" that we have issue with. There's no need to roll the dice on belief when you can simply assess the evidence and make provisional conclusions based upon it. If you choose to overreach the evidence and simply believe, that's fine. But don't expect anyone else to follow you, or get all bent out of shape when they question your approach.
 
What instantly jumped out at me were all the unsuspecting serious and honest people that may have come here and been beaten into a pulp by all your attacks.
Once again: patiently explaining to people how easily they can be mistaken, and why they probably are in the case of a particular belief, is not attacking them.

If after all that I have shared here you are still bent on claiming that I am dellusional, then again we are going round in circles, and it would be best if we did indeed just finally end this thread.
If after all the times we have patiently explained how and why we think you are mistaken and you have responded not by addressing our arguments but by pretending we've said you're delusional, if you're still pretending that we're calling you delusional we certainly are all wasting our time here.

The concept of spiritual evolution via the reincarnatory process is beautiful, it is perfect and it is without flaw.
Other than the minor flaw of being pure fantasy, you mean?

Personally I like fantasy, it can be entertaining and inspiring. You just need to be careful not to confuse it with reality. Fortunately there are tools (collectively known as the scientific method) for telling fantasy from reality; you have been educated about them and given some excellent instruction in their use in this thread. Whether or not you choose to use them is, of course, up to you.
 
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The post on "get a life" was deleted just as others have been.

If you answer my questions concerning how the act of observation can cause the wave-particle effect and how a plant, who knowingly has no brain, can hold a form of "consciousness" as demonstrated by the experiment with the lie detector, then we can continue. "Consciousness" is "Information" in its purest form, and it is at the origin of the creation of all things. Find the means to test this and I very much doubt that you will prove me wrong.

I have not "dodged" your questions. I have given you all the references you need to find the answers for them. I am not hear to "spoon feed" you all.

Concerning my "agent", I am taking the necessary measures, so thank you for your concern and assistance.

Les, I have not replied to you out of politeness. In fact I have, but my post was deleted (which I knew it would be). You are certainly not qualified to evaluate my work, and your insinuations are not worth my responding to, just ignored as I have been doing.

I would very much like to request the moderation team here that this thread might now be closed. You have all told me to leave so many times, but contrarily to what you say (as so often has been the case here) it has been you and not I who have prolonged the life of this thread.

I have not contradicted myself, Garrette. The 1st payments are going to be donated to charity, even if the "charity" might be my agent, and a percentage from then on. Contrarily to Chico Xavier, my work is not a psychography. It has been the result of my own hard work and effort over almost 20 years.

I wish you all a very Merry Xmas. Why you have all chosen to perform the "mission" that you seem to have encumbed yourselves of is a mystery to me. In all honesty, I would stop if I were you. Certainly there are dishonest people everywhere, and we must be able to differentiate them, but all that you have shown me here from the start has been extreme rudeness (now fortunately deleted), accusations and attacks.

Re-read this thread and the links and books I have recommended. In particular pay attention to the names and the onomastics, and you will find the answers to all of your questions. Elevate your thoughts, and do say a little prayer to Ohshallah/Yeshua/Jesus. It would do you all a world of good...
 
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