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September 6th 2009, 06:23 AM
SkeleTony
This all-too-common nonsense that being analytical/critical/skeptical is itself preventing us from 'knowing the truth' about real psychics and such is just silly guys. It is a dodge to avoid having to cough up any good evidence to support your claims(or answer the contradictory evidence and argument from people like me).
Any REAL thing or ability will leave REAL evidence warranting the inference. Skepticism will not and can not 'block' that!?! I will go with Occam's razor on this one until someone is able to demonstrate ANY psychic powers.
Contrary to popular mis-belief we have a pretty solid handle on what each part of the brain does and we use 100% of our brains. So good luck finding some mysterious undiscovered area of the brain that might be responsible for psychic powers and then constructing a mechanistic explanation of how such might be.
Listen, I would wager that I would be far ahead of YOU guys in some line of people arranged according to how badly they wanted for these things to be real and how open minded we were to such. There is this common misconception of skeptics that we are dour, hard-nosed people who recoil at the very idea that such things could be true. Most of us are connoisseurs of science fiction, fantasy, comic books etc., myself included.
We just don't confuse that desire and open mindedness we have with a rational assessment of reality. Unfortunately we do not live in an 'Anything is possible' reality. We live in a finite reality. Like it or not, some things are not real, no matter how much they entertain or inspire us creatively.
Any REAL thing or ability will leave REAL evidence warranting the inference. Skepticism will not and can not 'block' that!?! I will go with Occam's razor on this one until someone is able to demonstrate ANY psychic powers.
Contrary to popular mis-belief we have a pretty solid handle on what each part of the brain does and we use 100% of our brains. So good luck finding some mysterious undiscovered area of the brain that might be responsible for psychic powers and then constructing a mechanistic explanation of how such might be.
Listen, I would wager that I would be far ahead of YOU guys in some line of people arranged according to how badly they wanted for these things to be real and how open minded we were to such. There is this common misconception of skeptics that we are dour, hard-nosed people who recoil at the very idea that such things could be true. Most of us are connoisseurs of science fiction, fantasy, comic books etc., myself included.
We just don't confuse that desire and open mindedness we have with a rational assessment of reality. Unfortunately we do not live in an 'Anything is possible' reality. We live in a finite reality. Like it or not, some things are not real, no matter how much they entertain or inspire us creatively.
