Fun Stuff > CHATTER

Psychics? fortune tellers? Talismans? Ghosts?

(1/13) > >>

TRVA123:
I'm not sure if this thread should be here, or in discuss or in chatter. So I put it here!

I'm a fairly rational person, I like solid evidence for things and I an inherently suspicious of anything labeled supernatural.
At the same time I know some people who believe that psychics, fortune tellers, ghosts, and universal energy flows are real.

Personally I think that a lot of it is the human brain making connections between unconnected things. I think that Psychics are just very good at reading people or at phrasing things so generally that what they say can apply to almost anyone.

What do you think? have you ever experienced anything that made you believe in the supernatural?

ackblom12:
I consider it all hogwash, but it's hogwash that some people absolutely believe in and they're free to do so. Until some actual evidence can be shown, I'll continue to roll my eyes a bit though.

de_la_Nae:
Sort of?

I'm very wary of people who are trying to make money and/or power off of such things, but... there are many, many things I do not know, or only dimly know. I do, as I think I have mentioned before, have views and ideas grounded in my religious beliefs that probably bleed over into this some.

Take for example the act of prayer for a suffering individual by others that one sees in many Christian circles (mine included). One can argue that it is an attempt to channel positive energy to the sufferer, and that there is no evidence that it works that way.

But...it can still be a comfort to the sufferer, to know that their friends are doing this thing for them. And that might have an element of the divine spark that I suspect is within us all nudging the body's energy towards less stressful neural pathways....or it might be just the body doing it on its own, the result of a wondrous and complex system of life that has developed over millions of years (whether nudged by a super-sentient cosmic force or not). Either way, the sufferer is eased, however slightly.

That's the sort of thing I tend to think about these things, if that makes any sense.

BeoPuppy:
Fraud, all of it. You can't talk to the dead ... Because they're dead. You can't tell the future. The stars don't care. There is no god. I realize that last one might be problematic to loads of people but I feel that trying to convert me is the same as trying to sell me on astrolgy and such.

de_la_Nae:
Hey, if you don't think that there is one, then you don't. I don't think it's any more wrong to say that than it is for me to say that I do. You're fine.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page