The Paranormal
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| Daft Fabulous Killjoy  Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 157 | Paranormal: (Psychology) (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) beyond normal explanation n (Psychology) (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) the. paranormal happenings generally Of course, religion will undoubtedly pop up in discussion. So please don't be a bigot. Allow people to share their views etc. Discuss. |
| thank fsm. In The Murder Scene  Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 20564 | As the one who brought up this topic, do you have any points for us to start on? |
| Daft Fabulous Killjoy Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 157 | Sure do! Demons, ghosts and the like: I'm unsure, possession (of a demonic variety) seems fairly legitimate. I consider myself a christian, though an open minded one. So i believe that it is possible for a evil "spirit" to inhabit another persons physical being. I wont go into detail in my psychedelic experiences, but i will say that some things i saw were too real to be a mere hallucination. Mythical Beings: Meh, innocent until proven guilty tbh. |
| yoseob. Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 1294 | Well, I don't believe there is an afterlife, as no one had been there to prove that there is. |
| thank fsm. In The Murder Scene Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 20564 | ...Actually, could we maybe take the afterlife portion from your post, Daft? We have several religious-tangent threads and I worry that the rest of your points may be ignored in favor of that portion, which is easier to discuss and more emotionallt-charged for some. |
| Daft Fabulous Killjoy Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 157 | Sure can, will have to make a new thread in that case. unless you use your amin superpowers to rename the topic =) |
| thank fsm. In The Murder Scene Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 20564 | I just took that "afterlife" portion of your last post out; should be good now. : D |
| lolis12007 Really Not Okay  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 655 | well i do believe in paranormal beings and activity. how spirits roam the world after they die and are here because of some unfinished business. Also about how they can take over a person's body and how they can cause physical attack and emotional on someone. I also believe that all paranormal things are not evil, although scary. I would die if i ever experienced anything paranormal. |
| Daft Fabulous Killjoy Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 157 | Why ALWAYS scary. Possibly a good/evil balance? |
| lolis12007 Really Not Okay Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 655 | Well I am a huge scardy cat i get scared easily for things that i shouldnt be scared of that is why its scary for paranormal things to happen to me. I meant scary for me not as something evil and freaky. I think that there is a balance between Good/Evil paranormal experiences, for example miracles. I believe in God (i'm catholic) and I believe that his iracles are paranormal activity. |
| Daft Fabulous Killjoy Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 157 | I am also christian (by definition that i believe Jesus is my savior and died to repent for the sins of humanity) but have read many deviant books upon the supernatural/paranormal. It's out there as far as i know |
| S713 Joining The Black Parade  Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 225 | Ghosts/hauntings don't have to contradict religion. If it all exists, it's just something that science hasn't been able to explain yet. "Magic" is just the old fashioned word for magnetism, sleight of hand, electricity..."dragons" are just the old word for dinosaurs. The cyclops was just a myth sprung from elephant skulls. "Sea monsters" are just the old words for giant squids and whales. Everything that is unexplainable seems mysterious and interesting until we explain it, and then it just becomes part of the mundane. |
| Alexface. Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 3489 | I don't believe in the paranormal. It makes for great fictional concepts and films, and I adore it as a sub-genre of horror, but in real life? Nah. All sorts of unexplained things and coincidences and things like that happen, but I think we seem to jump to the paranormal explanation too quickly. I'd like to think that there are good forces out there, that incarnations of our deceased loved ones could visit us, etc. but it just doesn't make logical sense to me. |
| S713 Joining The Black Parade Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 225 | Alexface.: Well, for the sake of conversation, why not? |
| Alexface. Salute You in Your Grave Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 3489 | Well, as for the deceased haunting people and that sort of thing, I believe that when you die, you die. Memories of the person can remain, of course, but nothing (apart from that) of that person will be living anymore, the way I see it. Maybe the fact I don't believe in the paranormal is simply because I'm an atheist, and seeing as I don't believe in God or the devil, I don't believe in good spirits or demons. |
| SweetRevenge1992 Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 4215 | I totally believe in ghosts and all that stuff. I've peronally had some really strange, unexplainable experiences around my house before. |
| VoodooDolly Killjoy  Age: 44 Gender: Female Posts: 47 | Thought this was a cool thread, so might be worth bring back. Apologies if it should not be. I work in a paranormal bookshop, curate a paranormal museum and moonlight as a paranormal investigator. I've witnessed some pretty bizarre things in my time, some of which turned out to have normal explanations and some which defy scientific reasoning altogether. I've seen objects move of their own accord, seen full bodied apparitions walk into walls, disappear. I've heard voices in empty buildings and been touched by invisible hands. There's definitely something more to this life than what we can see or measure (in my view). |
| emiliiERASE Killjoy  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 11 | I'm what we call a "paranormal investigator." I write articles on the paranormal (my main points always include UFOs, EBEs and ghosts). If any of you need support with ANYTHING paranormal, let me know. I have heaps of stories about being touched/punched/yelled at by spirits if anybody is interested. |
| littlejeka Generation Nothing  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 126288 | I agree, I also have had some expierences with ghosts. Around where I used to live, there would be stories of ghosts. I've seen doors open and close without explanation. I also have heard voices, mind you inside and outside. I'm positive that there was nowhere around me, not to mention that I'm not crazy. I do believe in ghosts and all of the paranormal. I have no explanation for any of these kinds of things. I don't even know if there is an afterlife but what I heard made me question a lot of things. My family also have expierence ghosts in the house where i used to live. Like footsteps on stairs, babies crying, children on the roof, and children playing outside. I'm agnostic and I postively believe in ghosts. |
| VoodooDolly Killjoy Age: 44 Gender: Female Posts: 47 | It's always interesting to me when non-religious people believe in ghosts. Some people assume you have to believe in god to believe in ghosts but I disagree. Heaven, hell and god don't necessarily have to be involved in order to have an "afterlife". Agnostics and Atheists believe that life exists simply by nature alone. Why is it so challenging to believe that life continues to exist by nature alone in a different way after the physical body decomposes? I see our lives (our consciousness) as sound waves. Our fleshly bodies are the radio through which it plays. But just because you smash the radio and bury it, doesn't mean the sound waves stop existing They're still out there floating in the air. Maybe they go to another radio (reincarnation) or maybe they find a new way of playing their sound altogether. |
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