The Paranormal

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If I based my spiritual beliefs on my personal paranormal experience alone, I'd have been a "metaphysical naturalism" atheist.

(in other words I've never had any undeniably paranormal experiences that I can recall)
 
Never experienced it, and I’m really skeptical of it, but I’m inclined to think at least some of it is real.

A striking detail of claims of paranormal activity is how common they are. I know multiple people through my family and friends who claim to have experienced dead relatives/people appearing to them as unmistakable supernatural events. Ghost hunting groups can find new locations every week. If you speak to a random stranger off the street about it, there’s actually a small but real chance they will claim to have had an experience themselves. Obviously a lot of stories of ghosts are little more than somebody getting scared of the sound of their house (or mind) slowly falling apart or hoaxes, and you have to take them all with a microscopic piece of salt, but if ghosts aren’t real, then that would have to mean a LOT of people are either crazy enough to either hallucinate on a regular basis or are willing to dedicate their lives to trolling and I don’t find that plausible.

I used to be into the whole ghost hunting/paranormal investigation sphere when I was a kid and what always struck me was the consistency a lot of the descriptions of paranormal activity have across numerous “victims” and ghost hunting organizations. Many “ghosts” were reported as exhibiting similar activity, such as manipulating temperature, appearing as shadows, speaking in EVP, etc, often with limited originality besides specific information such as where they were/why they died/etc. Internal consistency points towards something being at least partially real, because while a hoaxer can take inspiration from other accounts, a high degree of variation should be expected if ghosts aren’t real, and therefore every story is the result of human creativity instead of observations of something objective.

If I start hearing voices I’ll get myself checked for schizophrenia, but I’m never touching an Ouija board
 
I can believe in ghostly/ psychic phenomena (like the Stone Tape theory), but I doubt the retards on the SyFy and Travel channel have ever actually caught evidence of a ghost on all those Ghost Chasers and Haunted Hunting bs shows...
 
I've seen a small child in reflections, and heard others say they've heard a child's voice in my house or other locations. Had my bed rock and it stopped when I told it to fuck off, same with knocking at the window. I have woken up to being scratched pretty badly. I'd prefer it to be a ghost/demon than anything logical.

I've seen animals do weird things in the deep woods, especially on Native land.
 
El Gato Grande said:
Never experienced it, and I’m really skeptical of it, but I’m inclined to think at least some of it is real.

A striking detail of claims of paranormal activity is how common they are. I know multiple people through my family and friends who claim to have experienced dead relatives/people appearing to them as unmistakable supernatural events. Ghost hunting groups can find new locations every week. If you speak to a random stranger off the street about it, there’s actually a small but real chance they will claim to have had an experience themselves. Obviously a lot of stories of ghosts are little more than somebody getting scared of the sound of their house (or mind) slowly falling apart or hoaxes, and you have to take them all with a microscopic piece of salt, but if ghosts aren’t real, then that would have to mean a LOT of people are either crazy enough to either hallucinate on a regular basis or are willing to dedicate their lives to trolling and I don’t find that plausible.

I used to be into the whole ghost hunting/paranormal investigation sphere when I was a kid and what always struck me was the consistency a lot of the descriptions of paranormal activity have across numerous “victims” and ghost hunting organizations. Many “ghosts” were reported as exhibiting similar activity, such as manipulating temperature, appearing as shadows, speaking in EVP, etc, often with limited originality besides specific information such as where they were/why they died/etc. Internal consistency points towards something being at least partially real, because while a hoaxer can take inspiration from other accounts, a high degree of variation should be expected if ghosts aren’t real, and therefore every story is the result of human creativity instead of observations of something objective.

If I start hearing voices I’ll get myself checked for schizophrenia, but I’m never touching an Ouija board
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Oujia is one of the easiest ways to communicate if you fee like you have an openness at all to the other side. It's not for everyone though. I wouldn't suggest it to people who have addictive personalities like smokers, etc., because you need to exhibit a good amount of restraint and not over do it or you could end up in some pretty messed up shit including possession. Communicating with ghosts is kind of like feeding raccoons. If you do it too much, you're going end up with always having raccoons at your house until the point it's an extreme nuisance.

I think most normal people do have an under-lying assumption things like this are real and are just there, there's just no benefit to not go along with the status quo of people pretending it's hogwash because people don't like being scared and don't want to be mocked by smarmy atheist types who get off on the idea they are smarter than normal people.

I think most people that have had experiences have had them with dead relatives and even pets. I'm reminded of my friend who acts all super skeptical of everything and then I asked her about communicating with dead pets, and she ended up admitting that her dead cat came to her for a while to communicate. Due to how people are conditioned in our increasingly secular society, a lot of them just tend to take experiences like this and paper over them like an abuse victim can do to past trauma, because it's easier to accept a world where things like that don't happen and everything is like what Bill Nye said on TV when they were 10. In other cultures, these events are just interpreted at face value without the skepticism because their belief system already accounts for it.
 
Russian Bot said:
I've seen some shit, but
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Tell us your stories, fren. Some of us would be very highly interested in reading along. It's an anon (if you're doing it right) interweb forum, so let the sperging flow.
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Oujia is one of the easiest ways to communicate if you fee like you have an openness at all to the other side.
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It helps that it primes the person/people involved with the expectations, belief, and intent required to do so, yeah. It's not that the board itself is spooky scary on its own; it's that so many believe it's a receiver for the "beyond," and will go into the experience with the expectation (possibly the intent) that crazy shit is going to happen.

We're told throughout our entire lives that such things are hokum, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
 
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Fek said:
It helps that it primes the person/people involved with the expectations, belief, and intent required to do so, yeah. It's not that the board itself is spooky scary on its own; it's that so many believe it's a receiver for the "beyond," and will go into the experience with the expectation (possibly the intent) that crazy shit is going to happen.

We're told throughout our entire lives that such things are hokum, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
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Personally, I think most people have a level of "openness" in regards to communication that exists somewhere on a scale from completely "closed" to psychic medium. Openness can also fluctuate over people's life times. For most people, they spike sometime during childhood or adolescence, and then become more closed as adults. Certain life events can also re-open you later on.

From my experience, how well Ouija works depends on your level of openness. So if you're in a group of five people, it may not work very well with certain people's fingers on the planchette, but it will work a lot better with others. Politeness, tone and intent also matter. It may also depend if there is something there that already wanted to communicate regardless such as a dead relative. But in most cases, it's like a radio receiver like you said. It's best to go in with no expectation of who you will talk to, because that's usually waht happens.

The idea that Parker Brothers invented this is ludicrous, these things have existed in some form since ancient times. You could literally make an Ouija board out of the back of a pizza box and get the same exact results as if you bought one in the store.
 
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I believe in ghosts and to reincarnation but I think they have scientific explanations. Ghosts aren’t spirits but the memory of an even that remains in a place, while reincarnation is just someone remembering another person’s memory (quantum physics has an explanation for both phenomenon that makes sense).
 
if ghosts are real, why cant i see them? and why cant i get them to suck my cock for me? i want some of that ghost pussy
 
Mothra1988 said:
Oujia is one of the easiest ways to communicate if you fee like you have an openness at all to the other side. It's not for everyone though. I wouldn't suggest it to people who have addictive personalities like smokers, etc., because you need to exhibit a good amount of restraint and not over do it or you could end up in some pretty messed up shit including possession. Communicating with ghosts is kind of like feeding raccoons. If you do it too much, you're going end up with always having raccoons at your house until the point it's an extreme nuisance.
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Retired Junta Member said:
I believe in ghosts and to reincarnation but I think they have scientific explanations. Ghosts aren’t spirits but the memory of an even that remains in a place, while reincarnation is just someone remembering another person’s memory (quantum physics has an explanation for both phenomenon that makes sense).
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I wonder if any government agency got involved in Paranormal phenomena. Since if they are willing to admit they track UFO's, and were involved in "remote viewing" experiments, then what evidence would they have collected in regards to the paranormal? What are the laws? Are we talking alternate dimensions?
 
There's definitely something to do it, I had an aunt, uncle and cousins that lived in a close to 200 year old farmhouse when I was a kid and they all had experiences, including my mom, that can't really be explained.

I don't feel like power leveling into specific stories, but they were things that are all pretty close to impossible to just handwave away, last time I spoke to my cousin about it I was actually surprised at his reaction when I brought it up, he just said "oh yeah, it was totally haunted" and shared a story I had never heard before about two heavy steel doors just slamming shut on their own, hard enough to shake the entire house even though no one was near them, how does stuff like that just happen?

I've never had a firsthand experience, but I've always been very open minded about this stuff because of all that, I feel like there's definitely a weird side to the world we live in that traditional science has yet to delve into.
 
Man, If I were a ghost, I would appear in front of a medium and fuck with them by feeding them false information about their clients.
 
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