Do You Believe in the Paranormal/Supernatural?

[BanjaLuka]

Only when you fall asleep in graveyards.

I actually see City Graveyard from my apartment window



and the City Graveyard's tenants can see me

[Leliana]

I believe in some Christian teachings and that's like believing in something supernatural I guess.

[Saturni]

I think the term "supernatural" isn't a particularly good one to describe certain phenomenon.

What is called supernatural are just things that we currently have no explanation for. This doesn't mean that we'll never understand them. It just means at our current evolutionary/technological levels, we simply can not comprehend certain naturally occurring phenomenon.

[The Alchemist]

NOPE.

[Dead Eye]

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Unfortunately Humanity has already discovered all of the cool animals on this planet. The famous cryptids are too large or too unrealistic to exist. Like the Loch Ness Monster is supposedly a dinosaur, why doesn't it surface to the air to breathe? Unless it evolved gills, which hasn't happened to any other marine tetrapod.

Bigfoot can be explained by feral apes that escaped from 19th century zoos in America. Or feral monkeys (some have even established a permanent settlement in the Everglades).



All the mysteries surrounding ghosts have been proven by science. Like orbs and that 'feeling of uneasiness' people get.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18828...sightings.html



Yeah, the Wow! Signal is pretty interesting. Something definitely has to be out there. Too bad UFOs (as in flying saucers) seem to all be of government origin.



I do believe in Time travel. But I wouldn't list it as something supernatural.

Stories of Bigfoot are hundreds of years old.

[Mercury]

Stories of Bigfoot are hundreds of years old.

Yes native Americans tell tales of bigfoot. Especially the more western tribes. I still think most sightings can be explained by some sort of feral ape or monkey that got released in the wild. Anyways I find it interesting the man from Survivorman Les Stroud has seen Bigfoot on multiple occasions:

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[Svipdag]

So, why is there no "None of the Above" option in the poll ? I have had no experiences which would lead me to accept the reality of the paranormal or supernatural .

My mother claimed to have seen ghosts and other unclassifiable apparitions, but I seem to be avoided by such phenomena. Perhaps I'm just too hard-headed and skeptical to be worth the trouble of trying to convince.


"Intellego ut credam" - Pope John Paul II

[Vasconcelos]

I belive in alien life forms based on probability, and time travel (which is theoritecally possible in one direction)

[Svipdag]

The past has happened. How can it "un-happen" ? Does this not imply that that the past is unchangeable ? Yet, if the past is unchangeable, then time travel is impossible.

Visiting the past would change it because YOU WEREN'T THERE or should I say "THEN" ? Just being there [or then] would change the past which cannot be changed.

There are too many paradoxes involved in time travel for it to be reasonable to expect it to work. One of them is a science fiction cliché . A man can't travel into the past and kill his own grandfather because he would never have existed to travel into the past in the first place.

No one can return to 44 BC and prevent the conspirators from assassinating Julius Cæsar without undoing 2056 years of history WHICH HAS HAPPENED AND CANNOT BE CHANGED.

The only way that a person could travel into the past would be if he/she
could be undetectable and could in no way interact with anything or anyone.


"Those who will learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana

[Vasconcelos]

Yea, but "advancing into the future" (very unscientific way to put it, though) is possible if you reach ~c speed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation


Which is why I said once direction, and not both.