Is The Supernatural Real?
February 26th, 2018 at 1:42:07 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | FrG throws around the word 'supernatural' like it's a real thing, and it just isn't. "Science can not and does not believe in the existence of the supernatural. Believing in the supernatural inevitably means stepping into mythology. We reject supernatural causes in the same way that we reject implausible material explanations, because the evidence tells us that they don't exist." For years the Amazing Randi offered $1,000,000 to anybody who could prove the supernatural exists. He still has his money. It doesn't exist except in the minds of overly excited zealots who dismiss the need for proof, like actual proof is a waste of time. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 26th, 2018 at 1:45:27 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
And where do you file reincarnation? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
February 26th, 2018 at 1:51:03 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
An unproven theory. They have small kids that remember past lives, but it's a mystery how they do this. It's been proven the memories are connected to people who died, but nobody knows how the kid got them. If it was some kind of transference, it would be natural and not supernatural anyway. The Hindus and Buddhists regard reincarnation as a completely natural part of of the birth/ death cycle. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 26th, 2018 at 2:02:33 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Wishful thinking/denial-of-death/superstitious nonsense/religious nonsense/decent plot device or plot theme/Shirley MacLaine joke. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 26th, 2018 at 3:08:30 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
How could this possibly be explained as a natural process? I file this in the same folder as Jesus walking on water, Moses parting the Red Sea, and Mohammed moving a mountain. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
February 26th, 2018 at 3:17:16 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Do you think dark matter and black holes are supernatural, we don't know how they work or even what they are. If somebody dies and his soul, for lack of a better word, is born into another body, why would that be supernatural just because we don't know the process of how it works. James Randi has had thousands apply to win his million dollars, and over 700 actually tested, saying they could show the supernatural existed. They all failed, none even came close. Supernatural is a word for something we don't understand, it has no real meaning. Saying gods are supernatural is another way of saying you have no idea what you're talking about, so you use a meaningless word. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 26th, 2018 at 3:25:07 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
I'd tell you, but I'd be suspended for it. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 26th, 2018 at 5:10:26 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | The thing that drove me the most nuts about the Xtions I hung out with in the early 70's was, they were so dependent on each other for their beliefs being valid. The fact that all the others in the group seemed to believe the supernatural claptrap called Xtionity was enough reason for any doubts you had to be calmed. It was a kind of mob mentality. How can all of them be wrong, I would be a fool not to believe it too. They spent as much time talking about being seduced by the supernatural and demons as they did talking about god and Jesus. I had to eventually push them away because it felt like an outpatient clinic for a mental hospital. Ever since then my attitude has been, you have something supernatural, prove it or shut up about it. I don't bore you with stories about feeding unicorns in my garden, don't you bore me with your silly supernatural god stories. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 26th, 2018 at 5:36:28 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I still cant get past the feeling you think we all have that reincarnation is true and that we should just pay attention to this "feeling" and we would know that the universe is eternal and cyclical....seems well...kind of crazy. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 26th, 2018 at 6:45:25 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
We know instinctively we've been here forever and will be here forever in one form or another. Everybody who has ever killed themselves wasn't insane, many or most knew they could leave and start over. They just couldn't express it in words. Both my parents are dead, many friends I knew along the way are gone. An old friend I haven't seen in 20 years died on Xmas Eve from a slip and fall accident. How much time do we spend wondering how these people we knew are doing now. We spend no time wondering because we instinctively know they are just fine, no worries. Never heard one time somebody anguishing over a loved one who died 10 years ago and agonizing over how they are. We already know how they are. Instinctively. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |