One thing about me is that I do absolutely suck at listening to stories about weird, apparently paranormal things that happened to you.
100% intolerable “that was definitely a drone” and “you can stop worrying about your past lives because they don’t exist” shit.
100% intolerable “that was definitely a drone” and “you can stop worrying about your past lives because they don’t exist” shit.
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Science is great at finding true things that can be observed, but there are true things that can't be observed, and there are meaningful things that may or may not be strictly "true"
There are also places, such as black holes or the edges of the universe, where instruments cannot return a measurement to us
but neither of those really gets at what i was saying
Science does many things well, but it fails spectacularly at meaning-making because science always asks us to reserve judgment
Curiosity calls for eternally witholding both condemnation and exultation
It is scientifically unseemly—potentially even dangerous to the integrity of the scientific method—to be moved by one's discoveries
Have you ever even met a scientist?
But meaning is built of subjective truths: true things that are true for you and maybe not true for others
If you insist that objectivity must steamroll subjectivity, you are surrendering your humanity
shapes in clouds can feed a soul
My main position is that positivism is basically right.
I think people just enjoy living in a world where they thing some magical things exists.
On one extreme, it took too long for me to let go of weird religion-related anxieties. On the other, I felt lesser in some contexts for being too down-to-earth. Don't want to go back.
2. Sleep Paralysis
3. Carbon Monoxide
4. Sleep Deprivation
5. Old creaky house.
There we go, solved 90% of mysteries.
7. Overestimating how "real" things seemed when you were high.
9. Experimental military aircraft.
10. Pareidolia.
11. Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
Everyone on the planet knows someone who died, hoe many have seen Superjets?? That burying the lede!
Sleep paralysis absolutely
MARTIANS!!!!
Forever my favorite Wikipedia article.
Very much want the explanation
*sp.?
Science can't transcend personal experience, because you have to experience the science to do it.
The studies you're talking about you had to experience to even know about.
Your senses are literally the only way you gain information.
Two months later, I saw dozens of similar apparitions in a nighttime photo I took in Pittsburgh. Turns out there were water spots on the lens.
I’m a skeptic again.
So if you run a ghost tour maybe you could set up a little IR lamp with ghost silhouettes so that spooky ghosts show up in people's photos.
But I don't think you can just decide to believe. If I told you some crazy story that was clearly untrue I don't think you could just decide to believe it.
That ... did not work out
Not liking your reply, though, because that trend was one of the most annoying things on Tik Tok
As for Blucifer, I love that wild and strange and unapologetically unique thing.
Even the base close to me has been getting some activity from this as of late.
Just like Hume suggests....
We live, we die, make the most of the time we have on earth is hard for them to accept.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The new American.
Reality is still unimpressed.
That's how ghost became a thing, imo.
Your first ever, after a lifetime of disbelief, is extremely interesting.
There are also reports of children who've described the lives of people they purportedly knew nothing about. Can't prove it's impossible.
People can be odd that way.
I also leave a suggestive but inconclusive paranormal story in the guest book.
I am the problem. 😇
You can't fist(ula) what don't exist.
"It was my drone, the real conspiracy is I've been watching you the whole time"
You can’t prove something doesn’t exist, but proving claims wrong makes it more interesting when science gets stumped! The fact you can’t prove a negative is why I hold onto agnosticism by my nails!
Our senses only work in 4 dimensions, yet we somehow expect we experience all that this infinite reality is?!?
You don’t have to know everything to lead a joyous life Hank!
https://youtu.be/jIWj3tI-DXg
They wouldn't entertain the idea that it was the power of suggestion. I don't try anymore. I just nod and say something like "wow, thats crazy bro"
As for past lives, I believe in them in the Buddhist way and not the new age way. You don't remember your past life Brenda that's the whole point
*Ahem*
I meant: same!
Religious experiences defeat each other. Every religion sees people feel intense emotional experiences
I’m just bad at identifying.
All can be seen currently on The History Channel!
When the modern conception of physics is SO MUCH WEIRDER.
"Aliens traveling the stars in tin cans" - ❌
"Tendrils from a higher dimensional reality than ours" - 🤷♂️
Was talking to a fellow actor at a cast party, a seemingly sane woman who started telling me about alternative universes that she navigates. Unfortunately, she meant it literally and not figuratively
Had to excuse myself to go get another drink before I said something dickish
EDIT: My spouse has indicated that this is because we live in Canada and that, no matter what he claims, my drunken brother-in-law's name is not Big Science.
As soon as someone mentions speaking to a dead relative in a dream or when they "definitely have seen a ghost", I feel like I'm being possessed by Penn Jillette and need to give a presentation on why they're wrong. It's awful.
I can empathize with experience, and they certainly had one that they perceive and explain in their way.
But when they try to get me to believe it, I'm going to bring in my own experience and knowledge.
Getting me to believe something takes more than just telling me.
I believe they saw -something-, however, just because we don’t know the explanation, doesn’t mean it’s inexplicable.
Friend's mom admits there was faulty wiring, and that none of the incidents said to have happened "in front of the landlord" actually happened
Did you sing that word? Cuz.... muh ppl
Why bother existing at this point?
Let people cope please 🙏🏻
There was LSD, a very powerful electric fence, and stadium lighting involved. Our brains did their best and failed.
When we were teenagers my brother called me to come get him because he had apparently crawled over an electric fence while on LSD. According to him, his stomach was now stuck on the fence and he couldn't figure out how to get it back in his body. 🤷🏼♀️
I'm glad my LSD days are behind me now, but I wouldn't trade the raw madness of that night for anything. You learn a lot about yourself under that kind of stress.
But me? lol I have 3 new tarot decks on the way and want to start a SERIOUS study on all things paranormal, particularly the study of ghosts/spirits and a possible afterlife. I am NOT a ghost hunter. I am a ghost scholar. 😊
But I just replied “Ahh. Wow.” Because it’s not like he was going to even consider anything but how awesome his angel story was.
Still fun tho and occasionally there’s a really good one
10 years later i was playing a game where i died and i angrily said "i died because i had the wrong pistol equipped!"
Another one that I hate - when someone tells me about a fiction book they just read, in great detail, chapter and verse. Ugh.. stop..please.
Please, I'm begging you to explain this science-like.
They ask when you were born, just make up a date on the other side of the year. Let them go on for 10 minutes about how ‘it all makes sense that you’re a whatever sign’, and once they’re done you can announce the deception and tell them your real birth date.
They don’t like it.
"Well let me start off with I don't believe you saw a ghost..."
Really I just liked tigers and had watched a lot of tiger-related TV shows.
you're LONELY."
There are a ton of university studies and government operations to research reincarnation. If it’s quackery, why the big money investment for research ???
You’re gonna tell me none of this is shameless and passing down lessons? “Y’all whites” probably isn’t the best phrase to use if you’re against racism.
For some reason he doubled down and then confirmed he was a Flat Earther. So I confirmed that he was an idiot.
You can communicate what you think about a certain topic and move on. If you upset them with opposing beliefs; that's life.
That said, I wouldn't worry too much about offending a flat earther.
This is very normal behavior. They just got weird in joining the weird tribe.
The other thing is, normally we don't suspend our sense of logic to unconditionally support our friend group.
But to quite a lot of people, science might as well be an alternative religious dogma.
Flat earth is a religious view at this point. Religions provide both.
Interrogate a flat earther about why they believe what they believe and you'll quickly find out their beliefs often stem from biblical literalism or their faith in some way.
I also highly recommend Folding Idea's(Dan Olsen's) flat earth video if you have an interest in a high quality interrogation of the interaction between flat earth and faith.
Interrogate a flat earther about their beliefs and justifications and very very quickly, it will become apparent that their belief in flat earth is informed by biblical literalism.