Do you believe in ghosts or the paranormal?

[Burst6]

Also the person with the problem isn't a good judge of how well they are recovering. Could be that you were recovering all that time but you just couldn't feel it.

Who else would be a good judge of how well someone is recovering?? I had a bad cough and a tight chest, and it was commonly agreed that neither of those symptoms were improving at all. I wasn't recovering at all with any natural solutions my parents gave me.

Because what you feel isn't exact. It's just an approximation that your brain perceives, and how much you feel isn't only dependent on what's actually wrong with you. The only accurate way to tell is to check using medical strategies.



Also natural solutions have a reputation of not working at all. Remember, people devote their entire lives to fixing these kinds of problems. They make medicine that is specific and contains the right amount of chemicals that help your body without hurting it. They spend a lot of money on research and make a lot of sacrifices. If there existed simple solutions that did the same thing, doctors would have started using them a long time ago.

And i probably shouldn't have used the stress example. Stress is a really hazy word, and could refer to a lot of things. The place where i read it from (a Harvard website) said that scientists have a hard time proving that stress does anything in humans. They only had a few results from mice.

So then you have no argument that I didn't will myself healthy? Because I'm ready to drop this argument when you are.

Also T-T-Triple post! I really am awful.

No my argument still stays at the coincidence thing.

And yeah lets drop this argument. I need to go to sleep. Just remember, coincidence doesnt equal low chance. Some coincidences have a very good chance of happening.

 

[floopdawoop]

I want to believe. Unfortunately I've never seen anything to persuade me to.

 

[TheMariner]

Well, I believe in angels so it would be kind of odd if I didn't acknowledge demons as well right? Good cannot exist without evil and whatnot.

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

I once believed in it.

Then I turned ten. *Ba-dum-tsch*

Actually, I do not believe in it unless I have seen it with my own two eyes AND there is a reasonable scientific possibility of it existing. There are quite a few people who are not crazy or stupid who believe in it by their own experience, but most likely they are wrong. We don't know everything, so the door is always open.

 

[Aqua Trenoble]

Okay, if everyone is done talking to me or at least can save their objections until tomorrow afternoon? I have to be in a play twice tomorrow so I really need to be unconscious now.

Kthxbai.

 

[badgersprite]

No, but it's cool to pretend or imagine. In essence, part of me wishes there were some truth to it and likes these kinds of theories purely as entertainment value, but I know it's entirely false without a shadow of a doubt. It's fiction, but there's fun in it as long as you don't take it too seriously and can have a bit of a laugh at those who do.

 

[Patrick Dare]

This explains pretty well why any personal experiences cannot be used as evidence.

 

[Aprilgold]

I don't believe in them because I don't believe in religion. Theres a reason to all of the accidents that they say happen, but they never, REALLY did.

 

[tipp6353]

I think sometimes that when people die a violent death or die young they tend to stay on this earth, like my grandmothers old house with the barn next to it, I seen a lady early 20s,blonde hair, blue dress and a bonnet dangling from the rafters in the barn by a noose, the site was very very eerie for me.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I believe in the stuff. I've fiddled around with Ouija boards but I can't seem to get them working though. And I'm not sure if Demonology falls under this category but I've looked into that too.

If anyone actually has used a Ouija board and knows what they're doing can you please message me some tips. It would be much appreciated.

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[Mouse_Crouse]

My mother's prices are perfectly reasonable compared to what doctors charge for their cures, especially since the doctor's methods don't even goddamn work half of the time!

The irony here is amazing.

Honestly I feel bad for you. When you (one day), either by your mothers admitting or by some other means, find out what this really turns out to be. It's going to crush you. You have bought into this so hard, you will be absolutely destroyed. You may here all the anecdotal stories that she tells about all the success-stories, and the failures get brushed off. It's gonna be a big wake-up one day.

On Topic: No I don't believe in the "paranormal". Be it aliens, ghosts, psychics, what-have-you. Don't buy into any of that stuff. You think you've seen ghosts, what have you.... great for you, I think you saw something that you interpreted as those things. Same with psychics. Time after time again, people keep coming forward with "supernatural psychic powers" and time and time again they are dis-proven.

 

[g3ko]

I'm not even kidding, if there's good, reliable money in telehealing then there must be something to it.

Gullibility comes to mind..

Obviously you didn't read a word of the previous sentence. Repeat clients. FOR 20 FUCKING YEARS. Nobody, no matter how gullible, pays 200 dollars on a regular basis for absolutely no reason. She gets referrals all the damn time. It is a legitimate buisness, dude.

i think he was talking about the placebo effect.

 

[edudogel]

i believe in aliens but they do not go to earth we are stupids apes to them and Ghosts are not real(I have had an out of body Experience but hey who care)

 

[b3nn3tt]

Not even a little bit. I accept that a lot of people have these 'experiences' and believe them to be real, but there will always be a better explanation for them than the paranormal.

I share the opinion of many here, that if something can't be tested then it can't be said to exist. If someone could offer up genuine proof that ghosts, psychic ability, or anything of that nature exists then I would fully endorse the claims, but I am yet to see any kind of compelling evidence to that end.

 

[Saippua]

As i am not a mediaval peasant or a fool i naturally dont believe in anything supernatural.

 

[Patrick Dare]

There are things that have yet been tested and are so far real: dark matter. wormholes(not sure about that). the ever expanding edges of the universe.

Except there is actual evidence for those (or at least dark matter and the expanding universe, not sure about wormholes). For example dark matter: we can't actually see it but we know it exists because we can observe it interacting with our world. We can observe it through something called "lensing". Lensing is a phenomena created by gravity. When light passes close by an object with a strong gravitational pull (such as a star) it is bent. We can determine how much the light will be bent if we know the mass of the object. Astronomers/cosmologists have observed lensing around objects where the light is being bent more than it should be based on the mass of that object. Therefore we can infere that something else is there adding mass that we cannot see. There is no direct evidence yet and this is why scientists still aren't sure what exactly dark matter is but we know for sure something is there affecting the lensing.

I think dark matter is actually the perfect example for this thread. Here is something we cannot see and still do not know what it is but yet we know it exists, we see it interacting with our world in a reliable and mathmatically demonstrable way. Compare that to ghosts that people claim to see yet we have no evidence for outside of personal experience (which is not evidence at all). There has been no observation of ghosts interacting with our world, there is no theory or hypothesis that suggests how they might, there is no math to demonstrate this, there is no reliability.

 

[Jonluw]

[HEADING=3]Breaking news: Psychic wins lottery![/HEADING]
Have you ever seen that headline?

[a href="http://www.snopes.com/luck/lottery/dreamwin.asp"]Why yes I have.[/a] That said I am a skeptic. I do not believe in ghosts or psychics or any of that stuff. I don't want to flame and I respect peoples beliefs but don't ghosts violate the laws of thermodynamics?

That is indeed quite a coincidence, but it's hardly proof of anything.
First of all, that lady wasn't someone who claimed to be a psychic. All she did was dream about her lottery-ticket.
I mean, how many people do you think dream of their lottery number and large sums of money after they've bought a lottery ticket? One of them would be bound to win something after a while. The impressive part was that the dream made her buy another ticket with the same numbers; but I'm going to write that down as a coincidence until things like that starts happening regularly.

 

[silasbufu]

I don't because I don't believe in God, and I would guess ghosts and religion should be somewhat related. Even if not, I still believe it's all in people's heads.

 

[Bat Vader]

I don't know what to believe.
I've seen some convincing stuff and some... really unconvincing stuff as well, so really I don't know what to believe.
I've had my own experiences with strange goings on but I can't instantly label is as "OMFGUGUISEGHOSTS!!!!" but I can't say it's nothing so basically.... I'unno.

Though, things like this, even if it's fake, make me pretty damn scared and question my ideals.

It is scary. The idea of something that can hurt me but I have no way of hurting it back is pretty scary. The video does look pretty fake. The thing at the end looks like an abomination from the Dragon Age games. I have never experienced any paranormal activity and I hope to keep it that way.

 

[Saelune]

I dont disbelief the possibility.