Do you believe in the paranormal?
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lol. I usually shy away from this stuff now... because, well, you can't teach critical thinking unless the party is interested in learning.nakedraygun wrote: »You're welcome. I wrote a blog on skepticism for 6 years. lol
Your skin must be crawling right now.
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So you won't take Randi's challenge? Make a cool million. Why am I not surprised?MusicalSharon52 wrote: »Sightings aren't always visual. But they happen too many times, too many places and circumstances just to be a brainwashing of some sort. My initial sense Mom was here was smell. I could smell the same brand cigarette smoke she used. No one smokes here I smell it nonetheless. For only 1-2 breaths. This smell never absorbs into fabrics. It's ghost smoke. Always preceded Mom's visit.
I'm not interested in proving things to you what I KNOW happened to me. You have obviously already made up your mind already.
And please, keep that bit of projection to yourself. I'm the only one, the skeptic mind you, that has offered a way for your psychic abilities and the existence of ghosts to be verified in a laboratory setting. I haven't read any believers offering that.
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TheVirgoddess wrote: »No - I don't.
But I also won't say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror, either.
I'm a conundrum
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So you won't take Randi's challenge? Make a cool million.MusicalSharon52 wrote: »Sightings aren't always visual. But they happen too many times, too many places and circumstances just to be a brainwashing of some sort. My initial sense Mom was here was smell. I could smell the same brand cigarette smoke she used. No one smokes here I smell it nonetheless. For only 1-2 breaths. This smell never absorbs into fabrics. It's ghost smoke. Always preceded Mom's visit.
I'm not interested in proving things to you what I KNOW happened to me. You have obviously already made up your mind already.
Why am I not surprised.
Notice the appeal to emotion fallacy she utilizes. She smelled her Mom's smoke, even though its scientifically impossible. You can't tell her that...She smelled it. End of story.
These kinds of threads are difficult, people want to believe in unicorns...0 -
Lol, my aunt can't say hippopotamus. She's an electrical engineer and knows what a hippopotamus is.nakedraygun wrote: »pareidolia.I now know the correct terminology for this. Thanks.
Sure. But do you know how to pronounce it?
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I am not sure if its "scientifically impossible" that she smelled her mom's smoke, but something like that makes it scientifically impossible to test.nakedraygun wrote: »
So you won't take Randi's challenge? Make a cool million.MusicalSharon52 wrote: »Sightings aren't always visual. But they happen too many times, too many places and circumstances just to be a brainwashing of some sort. My initial sense Mom was here was smell. I could smell the same brand cigarette smoke she used. No one smokes here I smell it nonetheless. For only 1-2 breaths. This smell never absorbs into fabrics. It's ghost smoke. Always preceded Mom's visit.
I'm not interested in proving things to you what I KNOW happened to me. You have obviously already made up your mind already.
Why am I not surprised.
Notice the appeal to emotion fallacy she utilizes. She smelled her Mom's smoke, even though its scientifically impossible. You can't tell her that...She smelled it. End of story.
These kinds of threads are difficult, people want to believe in unicorns...
The more likely explanation is she had just a strong memory because she really misses her mom. And that's very human and I get that, but emotions are also something that interferes with the level of empiricism involved. Heck, innocent people go to death row because human memory is fallible.0 -
Oh, yes, you are correct. Sorry for that - didn't mean to hijack that.nakedraygun wrote: »
I meant NinerBuff actually. But since you mentioned it, do you have a link to one of those podcasts? I'd like to know if your voice sounds as Alpha as your posts, ha ha ha! (just kidding )
Nope... I pulled them down years ago. They weren't very good in retrospect.
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No, but sometimes it's enjoyable to think it's possible -- like accepting the premise of a movie, for example.
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I think it was Carl Sagan who said something like that skepticism is as important when buying a car as it was when buying a chariot.nakedraygun wrote: »Heck, people go to death row because human memory is fallible.
The above is sad but true.
I have yet to hone my powers of skepticism to a Samurai degree but I'm more skeptical than most, I think. It's a safeguard, in my opinion, and consequently, a valuable characteristic.
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I believe in mysticism and spirituality.0
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Yes, definitely!0
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