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Psychics? fortune tellers? Talismans? Ghosts?
BeoPuppy:
Oh good. I honestly didn't want to upset people but it was my honest response.
LTK:
If you're going down the path of psychics and prayer, you'll find a lot more practices that get more suspect the more scientific they try to be. Things like acupuncture, magnetism and other things that ascribe undetectable physical properties to the human body may have no basis in reality, but because they are excellent at triggering the placebo effect (often solely due to providing a person with relaxation, attention and physical touch) their therapeutic benefits are real.
Where it becomes really despicable is when these supposed healers start asking extortionate prices for their product or services, which I believe is not uncommon with homeopathy. Occasionally I hear about someone actively discouraging their patient from using traditional medicine when suffering from cancer, which is tantamount to manslaughter. That sort of thing almost justifies banning alternative medicine entirely, but that would probably do more harm than good...
As for other supernatural phenomena, I know humans to be superbly capable of self-delusion, confabulation, fabrication and overinterpretation, so much that I have no doubt that the vast majority of these phenomena can be attributed to tricks of the mind. The brain is a far more powerful force than the soul.
Remember, just because you cannot explain something doesn't mean it's unexplainable.
de_la_Nae:
--- Quote from: LTK on 01 Oct 2013, 15:37 ---As for other supernatural phenomena, I know humans to be superbly capable of self-delusion, confabulation, fabrication and overinterpretation, so much that I have no doubt that the vast majority of these phenomena can be attributed to tricks of the mind. The brain is a far more powerful force than the soul.
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Brain's a crazy thing, can't disagree with you there.
The beginning of that second sentence (which is also something I can't disagree with you about) reminds me of a Cracked video. Let me go find it.
Allie_Allie:
I like astrology, but I don't believe in horoscopes. Just in the personality traits and everything as they have proven accurate with 90% of the people I've met. Even when they're in denial or they don't believe in it, it usually does go with how they are. Which I find so damn odd. I'm not ashamed to say I like astrology, I feel it's become a taboo to say it and an accepted thing to ridicule.
I've had paranormal, or what seem like paranormal experiences, and I've always had a fascination for everything supernatural/paranormal. A lot of the times I know it's just my mind playing tricks on me, but I have had situations in which more than one person has seen/heard the exact same thing I have.
--- Quote from: LTK on 01 Oct 2013, 15:37 ---As for other supernatural phenomena, I know humans to be superbly capable of self-delusion, confabulation, fabrication and overinterpretation, so much that I have no doubt that the vast majority of these phenomena can be attributed to tricks of the mind. The brain is a far more powerful force than the soul.
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I agree with this, though, and therefore I can't 100% say the things we've seen and heard are necessarily supernatural. I just don't have another word to explain them as of yet.
I don't believe in a god, I don't believe in psychics or fortune tellers, though. So I suppose I'm not completely delusional. :laugh:
GarandMarine:
Astrology, physics and fortune tellers are a load of bunk. Talismans? Depends on you I suppose, if having an item makes you feel good/lucky/whatever I suppose it works for you doesn't it? As for ghosts, science has explained most haunting as being strongly related to low frequency sound waves. Hell CRACKED of all places did a well cited and written article on it. http://www.cracked.com/article_18828_the-creepy-scientific-explanation-behind-ghost-sightings.html
I don't really believe in ghosts but I have had two incidents that I cannot explain. Now I just posted what is most likely an explanation for 99.9% of "hauntings" and other ghost sightings above. My issue is for both of these incidents I was in open air, well away from buildings or anything that would really be generating low frequency noises. The second incident was in the middle of the Sonoran desert with no one around for a good hundred and fifty miles even.
Incident 1: 2008, Camp Pendleton California, Edson Range. AKA Marine Corps Recruit Depot Northern Campus. (It's an in joke don't worry about it) I was on the parade deck in broad daylight receiving my Eagle, Globe and Anchor, along with the title Marine. A parade deck is a large expanse of asphalt, similar to a parking lot, but parking on it will earn you a beat down. The parade deck has a berm running on one edge the long ways, that is where the road is. As soon as I return to parade rest from receiving my EGA, I see a flicker of motion on the berm. A man in WW2 era Marine Corps service greens looks me right in the eyes and salutes me, performs an about face, takes one step and vanishes. There is no where he could be hiding, no way for him to vanish from view from where I am to where he is, and the real bitch of it is he looked just like my grandfather, a WW2 Marine who passed away before I was born.
Incident 2 is a bit more personal... still really not sure I want to share it.
Also I'm a theist so there you go.
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