Do you believe in any of the following...?

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Ok just had that knowing somethings happened thing.

parents just put on a DVD of the trip to Canada (1989) were they meet them all for the first time has my dads aunt in it and then 10mins later we get a call that shes just died.

(just happened about 40mins ago)

Ghosts? Hell yeah. (having met a couple...)

Telepathy? It's quite possible. Would explain some weirdness. (see below)

Precognition: Absolutely. (see below)

Time Travel? Theoretically it's possible, and it would explain some of history's mysteries (including UFO's).

(Below part) - I don't pretend that I know everything about quantum physics, but I think there's a part of all of us which is connected to the universe on a quantum level, and that when conditions are right we can sometimes pick up something that's happening (or going to happen) in the space-time continuum. There's too much evidence that the phenomenon exists and I expect that sooner or later this will be proven.

I think the ghost phenomenon is related to this - indeed, a lot of the things on the poll (IMHO) are examples of a kind of physics we don't know a lot about yet.

If it requires belief alone to legitimize it, I want no part of it.

You people are fucked in the head.

Ghosts? Reincarnation? Human combustion? Astrology?

Buncha damn primitives.

Isn't the fact that money has worth, based for the most part on the fact that people believe that it has worth?

I take it Storm isn't a Christian then.

Personally, I don't see how one can be a christian and NOT believe in those things, since the Bible supports their existence.

I remember waking up one night with the feeling that something awful had happened. It wasn't until the next day when I read about the London train bombings, that I connected it to when I woke up.

Theoretically anything is possible. Well with the exception of meaningful Social Security reform.

You take it correctly.

Storm is empty inside. So empty.

I choose to see it as a collective agreement made for the sake of expedience, so that I don't have to trade gourds and beaver pelts for my german dungeon porn.

And I still wouldn't believe it if you just told me about it. I would actually see you receive something of value in exchange for currency. No faith required.

Hm. Beaver pelts for porn. Sounds appropriate.

Examples of telepathy and precognition abound. The unifying factor, however, is that none of these episodes are expected, nor are controlled, so they're difficult to prove in the laboratory.

For example, my ex-wife, who has ZERO reason to back me up on anything (in other words, typical ex-wife) would nonetheless confirm that I dreamed about the Challenger disaster about a week or so before it happened and told her about it over breakfast. I've had many similar dreams but that one was the only one involving a "public" event...incidentally, anyone who tells you that they can see what's going to happen to a movie star or something like that is lying - in my dream, I saw the astronauts doing the "hero walk" to the launch pad on TV and I knew they had all died...basically, I was seeing the CNN coverage.

But do I expect anyone to believe all that? Of course not. I'd have to get my ex-wife on here (fat chance - she's religious and thinks the Net is teh Evil) and THEN you'd have to understand the relationship between she and I before you'd realize that she wouldn't lie for me, just as you wouldn't, say, lend money to actormike.

Anyway - being religious (she takes the fun out of "fundie", believe you me) - she wouldn't lie about it either. It freaked out the both of us when the event happened.

Shit DOES happen. Seems to me that the discoveries made in just my lifetime prove we dont' know everything. Who'd a thunk that Pluto had a moon? Not one of my science teachers. A ring around Jupiter and Uranus? Hah hah, very funny, F on your paper. Critters living in boiling water around lava vents miles under the ocean? G'wan, getouttahere.

So I can only tell of my own experiences and clearly, I'm not alone in this - *I* am convinced some of this stuff happens and I think it'll be figured out eventually.

OK, somebody try to convince me this doesn't prove there's some weird shit out there...

I have no reason to believe in most of those things. And many of them are so contrary to our current understanding of the universe, that my level of skepticism regarding them is very, very high.

Near death experiences--to the extent that they're the constructions of a mind under highly unusual conditions--are real.

Time travel and teleportation may well be possible (on some scale) but whether either will become a meaningful reality in the future is impossible to say.

Extraterrestrial life is (IMHO) almost a certainty, although intelligent/technologically advanced extraterrestrial life is probably exceedingly rare. I see no compelling evidence that Earth has been visited by an extraterrestrial intelligence.

I'm pretty sure many people dreamed about the Challenger. Some dreamed that it was a success. Some dreamed that they crashed.

Success or failure. Things go good and nobody hears about some mugs dream. Things go bad and they yell and scream...I knew it! I knew it!!

Gimme a break!

So you bilk people out of their money by spouting bullshit and cold reading?

They cant be replicated when someone tries either. Most telepathy is simply a form of cold-reading, and with precognition, it is just chance.

Or, you dreamed about a shuttle disaster, and constructed what would happen in your head as far as the the CNN footage was concerned. Why? because they ALWAYS show hero like footage when someone important dies.

All of it. Bullshit.

Unless she's messing with your mind...

If they can't be proven, they're either hoaxes or coincidence.

Looking at these poll results, I thought the general WF population was smarter than this. I mean, yeah I believed in some of this stuff when I was a kid, but now I've grown up.

What a crock of shit.

One has to be careful because there is a lot of crap involved, but no proof doesn't neccesarily mean that it is not real. Lack of evidence is not neccessarily evidence of lack.

The weakness of Occam's razor. It's far too easy to dismiss things people are uncomfortable with.

I have no evidence to say there are unicorns, except for the time I watched a herd of them jump out of a rainbow shitting gold. That doesn't mean gold-shitting unicorns don't exist.

It's up to psychics and other charlatans to prove their powers, and they have failed to do so for hundreds of years. Most of them are often revealed to be hoaxes, YET THEY STILL GO ON TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF PEOPLE. Take Sylvia Brown, John Edwards, or Uri Geller for instance. They've all made money off of others' misfortunes, and that is the sickest thing to do.

Or maybe their abilities just don't work they way you want them to, in a way you can understand.

To those who refuse to believe, no amount of evidence will be enough.

To those who believe, no evidence is neccessary.

Interesting responses!

Actually, I forgot a couple poll options:

-Lost Continent/City of Atlantis

-Voodoo/Witchcraft

-Totem power/Animal Spirit Guides



I actually think there might have been a lost City of Atlantis although it's harder to swallow the idea of a missing continent.

Considering the poor state of long distance communication in those days, the Minoan civilization could easily have been the inspiration for the Atlantean legend.

Also the fact that much of ancient history has been completely lost.

Not true. If scientific evidence were presented that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that someone can read others' minds, I would accept it.

That's true, belief in magic and psychics is based on irrational thinking.

You only need to see one white crow to refute the statement that all crows are black.

Yeah, they've actually found underwater cities off the coast of Florida and somewhere around the Mediterranean. So while I don't believe that an entire continent sunk, it's entirely possible that an island city by the name of Atlantis sunk thousands of years ago.

I believe that the Storm is the only chance we have of being saved from all of the above.

Especially teh Baba.

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Save us, Storm!!! Use your powers for good for a change!

Wouldn't both of those fall under the "Religion" heading?

What exactly is beyond a reasonable doubt? What about unreasonabled dout? What if it's only a little doubt?

How much evidence is required? Mountains and mountains? Reams and reams and reams?

A small 5 page paper?