Saying that something can't be explained is stupid. Everything can be explained.
Also if someone says something like: "you can't explain it therefore it's a ghost/UFO/supernatural", then he's just ignorant(argument from ignorance).
First you have to define what it is, why is it that and how can you test that it's that and it isn't something else.
Also on seeing strange things:
Your brain does that.
pilu said:
Saying that something can't be explained is stupid. Everything can be explained.
Also if someone says something like: "you can't explain it therefore it's a ghost/UFO/supernatural", then he's just ignorant(argument from ignorance).
First you have to define what it is, why is it that and how can you test that it's that and it isn't something else.Also on seeing strange things:
Your brain does that.
My view on this is the unexplained will be eventually explained.
To quote Elbert Hubbard "The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
Deth posted sum vidyas...
Sadly, most of those can be explained by photography errors. Now living in the digital age wehave to deal with Photoshop hoaxers.
Now for something really wierd that most of us have experienced: "shadow people". You know when you catch a glimpse of a black silouette out of the corner of your eye and when you turn to look there's no one there? That.
mascarpone said:
My view on this is the unexplained will be eventually explained.
To quote Elbert Hubbard "The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
Sir, your words are the golden truth.
On "shadow people":
That is mainly because your peripheral vision is really shitty and the pattern recognition of the brain is overworking. So there's something that might remotely look like a human silhouette so your brain recognize it as such because under natural conditions not recognizing it could possibly mean certain death.
palmtop-tiger said:
Sadly, most of those can be explained by photography errors. Now living in the digital age wehave to deal with Photoshop hoaxers.Now for something really wierd that most of us have experienced: "shadow people". You know when you catch a glimpse of a black silouette out of the corner of your eye and when you turn to look there's no one there? That.
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I agree with this thought....
Its too bad that technology has gotten to the point that one (at first) can't distinguish from the real to the fanciful any-longer...
I personally would have enjoyed being present during on of those - "cigar shaped" - sightings when they occurred in the 1800's without that technology...
also in addition to the shadow people mystery, that is somewhat similar, yet, odd, is being told that - "you look like someone I know" - or - "I have seen your exact double!"
From various beliefs and povs, it was (alluded to) that one - "should never see" - their own doppelgänger and of course the meaning behind this is as varied as the personal belief.
Now this is NOT related to twins - rather - to a another persona of you which exists elsewhere.
Here is a story that my mom used to told me.
My mom and her friends went to someone funeral. On the graveyard, one of her friend spout something like "hey this place seems nice to live in". She wasn't actually mean it since the wind feel nice and the graveyard were close to mountain with great scenery.
Few days later, she started to go out in midnight until morning. Her parents was worried she had an affair, and she always give excuse like "hang out with friend", so her mom hired someone (not detective really) to watch her move.
The watcher made a shocking discovery and told them that her daughter went out in the midnight to sleep on the graveyard. But the discovery were a little too late, her health is already deteriorating, her behavior had changed completely, and no single paranormal expert able to cure her. She died several days later by hanging herself in her room.
The newspapers only conclude it as suicide. But most of my mom friends know that is not the case. My mom always warn me to always keep my mouth shut and respect the dead.
Any sancom wanna try it? while you are at it, might as well try to piss and curse some of the gravestone to see if it's really working.
Well...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". - 3rd law of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
I believe even if there were true UFO's they might have already found a way , if wanted, to observe the Earth and its inhabitants undetected.
Also every time I listen/read about how the guy who invented Velcro did it, it feels more magical and "weird" than anything else.
Regarding personal weirdo experiences I have been always a scientific minded person, but even so since I was small I have dreams that turned out to be something that happened in the future, or so it seems. It could be a misunderstanding, dejà vu, a delusion or a hallucination but this reoccurs quite frequently.
^well, sometimes when i fapped on something new, i feel like I've had a dream about fapping on this in the past.
zetaplus said:
Well..."Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". - 3rd law of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
>snip<
Regarding personal weirdo experiences....
I have been always a scientific minded person, but even so since I was small I have dreams that turned out to be something that happened in the future, or so it seems. It could be a misunderstanding, dejà vu, a delusion or a hallucination but this reoccurs quite frequently.
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Don't get me wrong...
I do understand the need to follow on scientific explanation and well as regular needs to find Truth... I am not adverse to it...
Its just human nature after all...
right?
baronight said:
^well, sometimes when i fapped on something new, i feel like I've had a dream about fapping on this in the past.
Most of them are just stupid, like dreaming talking with someone(my dreams usually don't have voices) in a certain situation and then one day I remember I dreamt of it right before it happens, but most everyday events are really predictable so it might be what I thought and dreamt it's going to happen and when it does I'm led to believe it's perhaps supernatural.
Deth said:
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Don't get me wrong...I do understand the need to follow on scientific explanation and well as regular needs to find Truth... I am not adverse to it...
Its just human nature after all...
[videoclip]
right?
Haha, I just have great faith(hell yeah, paradox) in science that it can eventually find explanation for everything. Truly it's human nature, it doesn't matter how logical or scientific you are there is bound to be something to get you thinking if it's magical. Although what I really hate is when people are adamant that certain "supernatural" phenomena they had are truly such despite of whatever you say.
baronight said:
Here is a story that my mom used to told me.>SNIP<
Moral of the story: if you take a person with a severe mental illness to "paranormal experts", she will kill herself...
Deth said:
also in addition to the shadow people mystery, that is somewhat similar, yet, odd, is being told that - "you look like someone I know" - or - "I have seen your exact double!"
My Dad went on a canal holiday with some friends and he went into a pub and the woman behind the bar started talking to him as if she knew him, calling him by some other name. My Dad explained that he wasn't who she thought he was and she was shocked and said: "You've got a double you 'ave mi duck." ('Mi duck' is a local phrase)
StefanKinoshita said:
My Dad went on a canal holiday with some friends and he went into a pub and the woman behind the bar started talking to him as if she knew him, calling him by some other name. My Dad explained that he wasn't who she thought he was and she was shocked and said: "You've got a double you 'ave mi duck." ('Mi duck' is a local phrase)
Very interesting. I heard that they're are people out their look very alike. It's kinda freaky but cool at the same time.
StefanKinoshita said:
('Mi duck' is a local phrase)
I hate English regional terms of endearment.
I always thought the endearing "duck" was spelt "duk".
'Mi Duck' means what now?
Something like "dear" or "babe" or "darling", depending on who you call it, I guess. It's one of those really meaningless words.
can we rewrite the title of the thread in "the useless thread"? Content may remain the same.
Vegio said:
can we rewrite the title of the thread in "the useless thread"? Content may remain the same.
Yeah... It is starting to get boring.
OK, I've officially lost all interest in this thread. You can go ahead and lock it Deth.
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