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I may have seen things I couldn't explain, but erm... I don't feel comfortable talking about it before bed.

Spooky, eh Rachel bunny?

Very, Larry bear.

*shivers*

Nope. Don't believe in any of it.
I believe that we still don't understand the human brain, and that is the real root of all this stuff.

Pat wrote: "Nope. Don't believe in any of it.
I believe that we still don't understand he human brain, and that is the real root of all this stuff."

That's certainly one way to look at it.

I'm an agnostic. I know that I have some perfectly sane friends who I know wouldn't lie to me who have experienced various paranormal things, but I never have, even though I've invited it.

My husband believes in ghosts, but I've never been convinced that it is not a trick of perception coupled with expectation and some exaggeration. I used to believe in witches (not wiccans, but real, pact-with-the-devil witches), but that was thanks to my old church and as I got older, I realized it was just fear-mongering and a too-literal reading of texts.

No. Don't believe any of it. Bunch of hooey.

Ghosts, yes, only because too many normal/sane people I know claim to have had encounters. They didn't tell me, I asked them and they reluctantly shared.

Not aliens, Djinn, aliens, etc.

But that episode of the X-Files where Mulder & Scully find that Djinn in the storage locker, that cracked me up.

Yes! ^^^

I've had a few supernatural experiences having to do with the spirit world, but I'm also not going to argue that I'm sane or anything...

When I was in high school, we were partying up at a radio tower late at night and something came up over the hill (very steep, no walking path) standing on two legs, but was much larger than a human and didn't look like a bear, but it was all furry. I was the one driving back, so I had not been drinking.

Because it was fairly dark, there was no way to see exactly what it was, but the thing was huge. This was no person in a costume. Of course, we ran like hell instead of sticking around to find out what it was. To this day it bugs me that I didn't get a good look at the thing.

King Dinösaur wrote: "I believe in all of it. Why not? I don't necessarily believe they are literally the things people say they are, but I do believe this earth is too vast and weird for us to know everything that go..."

I'm very happy in the "boring" world.

Barb wrote: "I neither believe or disbelieve."

Are you a politician?

Barb wrote: "I neither believe or disbelieve."

Either/or, neither/nor.

No, I don't believe in the paranormal. I do, however, believe in black holes. I fact, when I see how many people think the Twilight books are the best books ever, I sometimes think we're living in one. That's scary enough for me.

I belive in the paranormal

I'm curious about how belief in the paranormal might coincide with a belief in a deity. Are atheists less likely to believe in ghosts & such?

I think there's stuff we don't know about yet. We didn't know about bacteria, or the way the planets move around the sun, or about the speed of light in the past.

So, why not Bigfoot? Why could there not be some kind of connecting energy cuing Bun in to needs of loved friends and family?

I'm a skeptic, but I'm also openminded.

I think it depends on the atheist, many of whom believe only in science and nothing that can't be proved. Ghosts would be considered a trick of the mind. Not saying this is all atheists.

Richard who is your standard NY cynic has seen a ghost, as well as other people who were at this weekend theatre workshop in a huge old house owned by Richard Avedon. Sat on the porch with the ghost for a long time. In the morning after others confirmed sightings, they investigated and it looked like the original owner.

I do believe in spooks myself, even tho I've never seen one. ALtho something very evil came into the bathroom when I was in the tub, inviting a spirit in. (THis is when I was my stupid 20s) It had a deep evil chuckle. Well, sure I could have imagined it, but it scared the crap out of me!

as Shakespeare wrote: "there are more things in heaven and hell than are dreamt of..." I believe in intuition, the possiblity of telepathy and telekinesis and clairvoyance (we don't use a lot of our brain, maybe some people use portions most of us do not) and ghosts (maybe we leave electrical impulses behind us in some instances). some day we may have scientific explanations for all of it. as for aliens, well there are a lot of uncharted, unexplored planets out there so the possibility exists.

Perhaps Bun, but I am pretty sure you use a much larger part of you brain then the majority of us me. :)

::raps Shakespeare's knuckles::

Honestly, what was he thinking?