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What paranormal activity do you believe in?

What paranormal activity do you believe in? (multiple choice)

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In light of this spooky time of year, let's discuss paranormal activity. What do you believe in?
 
I could be tempted to believe in bigfoot but not so much as a bigfoot, just as one of many scarce species.

Ghosts aren't my thing. As I've aged (thus becoming closer to ghost material) I see less and less advantage in going that route.

While I believe there is life on other planets and that it's entirely feasible that they have figured out a way to get here, I don't think they have. Every species on this planet manages to mark its territory in some way or another. If aliens came here they have done something to let other explorers know they were here first.
 
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Josie said:
In light of this spooky time of year, let's discuss paranormal activity. What do you believe in?
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I don't believe in any myths like Chupacabras and Bigfoot. I do think aliens are real, but I highly doubt that they are advanced enough to have reached this planet. There are plenty of UFO's, but they aren't flying discs filled with green men.

I do like all of this stuff, though, and it's fun to listen to creepy stories about things like this (I love creepypastas). But that's all they are; stories.
 
i'm becoming a little more neutral on ghosts after listening to a great Snap Judgement / WNYC podcast called Spooked. as for space aliens, i don't believe that they visit us, and cryptozoology only works in oceans.
 
None of the above - I believe that there are unidentified (misunderstood?) things at the time of their (brief?) observations (from afar?), but not that they are unidentifiable (unable to be understood?) if stopped, captured and examined up close.
 
There have been soooooooooooooooo many ghost stories throughout the centuries.

Surely not all of the witnesses were deluded or lying, were they?
 
This thread does kind of beg the question of, if there are space aliens on earth, what do they taste like?
 
None, but I sure like watching horror films on the subject.
 
TheParser said:
There have been soooooooooooooooo many ghost stories throughout the centuries.

Surely not all of the witnesses were deluded or lying, were they?
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There are soooooooooooo many stories about a lot of things. That doesn't mean they are real. People have imaginations.
 
Lutherf said:
This thread does kind of beg the question of, if there are space aliens on earth, what do they taste like?
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Three-bean salad.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
None of the above - I believe that there are unidentified (misunderstood?) things at the time of their (brief?) observations (from afar?), but not that they are unidentifiable (unable to be understood?) if stopped, captured and examined up close.
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Agreed. I don't believe in any of this stuff. Ghost Hunters try to use technology to "hear" the voice of a ghost, but it just sounds like radio interference to me when they hear a word or two. Bigfoot and others would've been found by now. And I do believe there are unidentified objects in the sky, but I don't believe they are from another planet or universe.
 
None.
Like everything, admitting that humans created it all, is much more honest, and rewarding. You can stop thinking about it, and still have fun with it though :)
Speaking of scary and this Halloween....

One of my kids has talked **** about loving horror and scary stuff since she was little. But she's scared to death once it comes time to actually do it. Wife forbade me to do anything really scary for years. Now that she's almost in high school, she still talks a big game, but is *still* scared out of her wits if I put on the scary voice and turn out a light. She still can't watch real horror, but she wants to and always says she will. I still have to sit with her if anything even slightly creep is involved.

That paradox to me fills me with joy...talks like she's the bravest person in the world and LOVES horror, but can't even get past the creepy mood music. I cry laughing sometimes just thinking about the absurdity.
I think we love things that are hard to figure out...that mystery. For her the mystery is the unknown horrors. For me, it's how she can talk so crazy big about loving it and being brave, but be so obviously chicken and can't watch it. It doesn't compute, and I love it. But now the she's older the gloves are coming off. I'm thinking haunted house this year, or at least a full length horror flick. I can't wait.
 
TheParser said:
There have been soooooooooooooooo many ghost stories throughout the centuries.

Surely not all of the witnesses were deluded or lying, were they?
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Lots of people make up stories of the paranormal. People's imaginations run wild, and a lot of people have a proclivity to believe in superstitious stuff. None of the alleged sightings or encounters of paranormal apparitions or whatnot, has ever stood up to credible muster. So while there are plenty of people who do lie about stuff like this, I think it's in a lot of cases, more often than not, that people project these kinds of beliefs on certain situations.
 
Mach said:
None.
Like everything, admitting that humans created it all, is much more honest, and rewarding. You can stop thinking about it, and still have fun with it though :)
Speaking of scary and this Halloween....

One of my kids has talked **** about loving horror and scary stuff since she was little. But she's scared to death once it comes time to actually do it. Wife forbade me to do anything really scary for years. Now that she's almost in high school, she still talks a big game, but is *still* scared out of her wits if I put on the scary voice and turn out a light. She still can't watch real horror, but she wants to and always says she will. I still have to sit with her if anything even slightly creep is involved.

That paradox to me fills me with joy...talks like she's the bravest person in the world and LOVES horror, but can't even get past the creepy mood music. I cry laughing sometimes just thinking about the absurdity.
I think we love things that are hard to figure out...that mystery. For her the mystery is the unknown horrors. For me, it's how she can talk so crazy big about loving it and being brave, but be so obviously chicken and can't watch it. It doesn't compute, and I love it. But now the she's older the gloves are coming off. I'm thinking haunted house this year, or at least a full length horror flick. I can't wait.
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Unknown horrors are awesome. That's why I love lovecraftian horror, and especially horror stories that are involved with space, and the great unknown. It's amazing and terrifying to think about.
 
Lutherf said:
This thread does kind of beg the question of, if there are space aliens on earth, what do they taste like?
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Like chicken.
 
RAMOSS said:
Like chicken.
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Naturally. Everything tastes like chicken. The issue we have here is whether space aliens taste like earth chicken or whether they taste like space chicken.
 
Lutherf said:
Naturally. Everything tastes like chicken. The issue we have here is whether space aliens taste like earth chicken or whether they taste like space chicken.
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We do know that moon rocks are tastier than earth rocks.
 
Because they are meteor.
 
Lutherf said:
Naturally. Everything tastes like chicken. The issue we have here is whether space aliens taste like earth chicken or whether they taste like space chicken.
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Chickens ARE space chickens
 
Lutherf said:
Naturally. Everything tastes like chicken. The issue we have here is whether space aliens taste like earth chicken or whether they taste like space chicken.
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Nope, chicken tastes like frog legs. ;)
 
Demons are the great deceivers...
 
Josie said:
In light of this spooky time of year, let's discuss paranormal activity. What do you believe in?
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I've witnessed UFOs and ghosts. As to what they actually were, don't ask me.
 
Josie said:
In light of this spooky time of year, let's discuss paranormal activity. What do you believe in?
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I believe in the unknown. That all you mentioned in your poll are possible and a lot more. Now they vary on my probability scale. I think there are things we don't understand and some of those we'll never understand or prove for that matter. But not being able to prove something doesn't mean it doesn't exist or existed at some point.

Quite a lot of us view thing rationally, if science can't prove something, then it doesn't exist. The universe is vast, full of unknowns. Full of things and happenings we don't understand and may never understand. Just because something is unknown, unexplainable, totally lacking in scientific proof or beyond reason in some's belief doesn't make it impossible or nonexistent.
 
Josie said:
In light of this spooky time of year, let's discuss paranormal activity. What do you believe in?
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Pretty much all of it. That does not mean that I will blindly accept any given event as paranormal. I would have to exhaust known possibilities.

I have to also note that for me paranormal/supernatural would encompass that for which we have no current knowledge or measuring technology for. As the saying goes, any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. How supernatural must nuclear power seem to even medieval humans?

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maquiscat said:
Pretty much all of it. That does not mean that I will blindly accept any given event as paranormal. I would have to exhaust known possibilities.

I have to also note that for me paranormal/supernatural would encompass that for which we have no current knowledge or measuring technology for. As the saying goes, any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. How supernatural must nuclear power seem to even medieval humans?

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To heck with nuclear power. How about a good old fashioned hot air balloon?
 
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