The Lost One
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Post by The Lost One on Sept 5, 2017 13:37:36 GMT
Just because people think they can tell doesn't mean they can. I agree; but of course this precept can also apply to those who think they can tell the "good reasons". Fair point.
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Post by lunda2222 on Nov 3, 2017 10:07:53 GMT
I'd say both and neither.
The supernatural are simply the answers we invent to explain phenomenon we don't have an answer for... yet.
To give an example, we didn't know why some people where born with deformities, so we invented changelings or elves who switched babies at birth.
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Post by hi224 on Nov 5, 2017 23:28:08 GMT
both?.
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lava-rocks
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Post by lava-rocks on Nov 3, 2018 3:10:49 GMT
There is no supernatural. We create it out of our own minds. We see things that are not there all the time. We miss things that are there. The human mind is a labyrinth of dark corners. It is a self-programmed computer that creates its own reality. Sorry, there are no gods.
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Post by Roberto on Nov 8, 2018 4:15:27 GMT
How can you discover something that doesn't exist?
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lava-rocks
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Post by lava-rocks on Nov 26, 2018 0:21:49 GMT
Some dreams are so real you have to wake up to realise you were dreaming. Some "ghosts" are the mind playing tricks on us. Others may be due to mental illness. Then there are the liars.
But seriously, when explaining death to a child, how would you do it?
Would you say, "The tiger ate Daddy" or "God took him up to heaven where he watches over us"? No one wants to die and think that their consciousness gets extinguished, but that is the truth. We will all be food for worms one day.
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Post by Arlon10 on Jun 24, 2019 0:05:20 GMT
And, how could one tell the difference? The same way one tells anything, tentatively. One tells by whether the experience stands up to various tests. As an example let's take the common experience of the "dematerialization" of small parts. It happened just recently to a fastening nut I required. What usually happens, and without fail so far, is that the small part did not dematerialize at all. It shows up in someone's foot or shoe. The fastening nut in this story will probably soon turn up in my foot. although I have never experienced them firsthand I suppose supernatural events might happen to others. They might doubt their own senses. They might suspect a waking dream. However that is true of all experiences, isn't it? It's just that we have so little reason to question most experiences.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Jun 24, 2019 19:37:01 GMT
And, how could one tell the difference? The same way one tells anything, tentatively. One tells by whether the experience stands up to various tests. As an example let's take the common experience of the "dematerialization" of small parts. It happened just recently to a fastening nut I required. What usually happens, and without fail so far, is that the small part did not dematerialize at all. It shows up in someone's foot or shoe. The fastening nut in this story will probably soon turn up in my foot. If by this you mean to suggest that human forgetfulness, carelessness, the tendency of small parts to become easily lost, and the fanciful interpretation of events is far more common than actual supernatural activity then I would agree. Indeed. It makes most sense to questions only the most extraordinary, especially when unverified and attributed to magic. I don't know why you have decided to a sentence posted by me in 2017 btw. Did you find it in your shoe?
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