no or atleast i dont think so i might change my mide when im older lol |
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Do you believe in anything that could be considered supernatural? Or do you think it's a all natural world. |
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Formally Known as MrBlonde.
no or atleast i dont think so i might change my mide when im older lol |
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How old are you now? |
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I saw a ghost once. Not even a shadow person but a full blown apparition directly in front of me. I could control my ability to see them, too. If I focus on the objects behind them, they would fade. If I let my vision rest, they would re-emerge. I still neither believe nor disbelieve in anything paranormal and I don't know what the word supernatural is supposed to mean. Transcendental? Non-causal? |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
No. I doubt I'd be able to comprehend the concept of something supernatural either. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
Sort of. I believe in chi/ki/whatever you want to call it. Except I don't think it's some sort of mystical force like the Chinese do; I think it's just your mind allocating resources (for lack of a better term), "powering down" certain parts of the body and concentrating on one specific part. Hopefully that makes sense. |
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I don't believe in the supernatural at all. To me, supernatural just means fake. Everything in the world is natural. People claim things are supernatural as a cop out to avoid trying to explain something. |
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No, not at all. I care about the truth. I find most people who believe in supernatural things either don't care about the truth and prefer to believe things that sound cool, or are just really bad at determining what the truth is. |
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I believe in a lot of things that others call supernatural. But i dont think its supernatural, I just believe we haven't understood yet where it fits in the natural world. |
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I don't think it's possible to determine what truth is. I would say disregarding the possibility of things which are erroneously labeled "supernatural" makes one more likely to be wrong than if you remain open minded. Granted this goes back to the thread in philosophy about belief. Like I said in this thread, even though I have "evidence" of the paranormal I still don't actually believe in anything. But I also don't hold anything that comes out of a scholarly textbook to be "true." Words are not true, they are translations. Statements are not true, though they may agree with the parameters of the statement. For instance 2+2=4 is a math statement which agrees with the logical parameters set for the language of math. Mathematical equations can either agree or disagree with these parameters, but truth remains something separate. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
You mean for certain? If so I agree. But we can sometimes determine what the truth likely is or in some cases almost certainly is. |
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It's hard not to because there are so many unexplainable things in the world. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
"Supernatural" is a self-refuting concept. It's literally meaningless, since describing any "supernatural" event must always lead back to appeals to the natural. Why? Because supernatural events are detected by people, and people are natural. Therefore, anything they can detect, regardless of the cause, must also be natural. Even hallucinations are natural because they involve real changes in neuron firing patterns. |
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Of course, and that is why supernatural stuff never exist. People appeal to supernatural things as a final grasp to explain something existing when all natural means fail. The moment you call something supernatural you have given up all hope of explaining what it really was. |
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I think a better word would have been esoteric (correct me if I'm worng) or paranormal than supernatural. The problem is that there is no true agreement on the meaning of natural or it's limits. Unlike the word paranormal which implies that it falls out of our understanding of normal (normal is subjective as it is based on our observations allowing for modifications to be made), supernatural would suggest that it falls outside what is natural (Objective, the laws of the unniverse) meaning that no explanation can be given ever which should never be assumed from a scientific standpoint. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
In that case, I must fall back to the scientific method, and thus far no good science has been done to verify any paranormal hypotheses as stated by their adherents (although some things have been explained in other ways, such as alien abductions being sleep paralysis events). As for telepathy, I don't think it exists but humans might just go ahead and make it real using BCIs and whatnot. |
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Of course I do. |
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I believe everything in the universe is natural. Most people only label things paranormal/supernatural if it has no solid explanation. Ghosts, miracles, telekinesis, etc. at some point of time, man will have the needed knowledge and technology to explain these "paranormal" things. |
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Like everyone else has already said, anything "supernatural" is still natural. Psychic powers, aliens, ghosts, spirits, etc. aren't supernatural if they're real, that would make them natural. Do I believe in anything that could be considered supernatural? Yes. I do believe that shared dreams and mind communication (sounds better than "psychic") are real, but not because someone on the internet says they are. I believe it because of my own experiences. No one else should believe any of it exists just because I say I experienced it, but they shouldn't say it's all fake just because they haven't had any experience. I doubted (but hoped) it was real until the IOSDP's Lucid Daydreaming experiment. |
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