Zitat von Jay C
There are always two sides to these kind of things. There's the psychological aspect of it, where as soon as someone starts talking about these kind of things, you start thinking you've seen ghosts when in any normal situation you would have shrugged it off. Whether we're overreacting, underreacting, hallucinating or just plain exxagurating, there are accounts of this kind of thing, enough that it may be taken seriously, and then there are those people that just believe in this stuff because everyone else believes in it, until the chain reaction results in an inevitable train wreck of people going "did you feel that?"
Yes, the paranormal can be taken seriously. Take it too seriously, just like anything else, and you start looking like a jackass.
I frankly believe anything is possible. I believe that as long as you believe in something, it's true. While some people try and find reasons to justify why they believe something exists, my belief is that it exists because I believe in it. The belief fuels the fire of existence. It's all a part of our ethereal connection with every other thing in the universe, and it's something that mankind tries so hard to understand, but never really hits the nail on the head, and sometimes just goes completely in the wrong direction, as can be seen by the radical actions of the Christian community, such as racism, ignorance, and intolerance, complete antonyms of the qualities that used to be requirements to follow Christ, such as love, peace, and forgiveness.
It's like I said, you try to hard to understand something, and you're going to start reading too much into the wrong thing, and throw your belief structure off entirely. It seems superstition goes the same way. A lot of people believe in something because they can, and a lot of people DONT believe in that same thing because they don't have to. The paradox is kind of saddening.
It runs back into my belief=empowerment of beliefs argument. I try not to believe in ghosts so that I won't be constantly plagued by them. Now, you can view this from the psychological aspect and say that because I'm not constantly thinking about ghosts I don't think I see them all the time, whereas a person who believes in ghosts will assume any inexplicable occurence is the fault of their own convenient belief, I mean, thats one way of explaining how that works. But that in itself would mean that such a belief is false, and that anyone who believes otherwise is just fooling themself, and that is not how I look at things. If we're going to talk about ghosts, we're going to end up at God eventually, and I might as well use it as an example. I believe in God. Now, God doesn't exist because I believe in him, God exists whether I believe in him or not. But, because I believe in God, I can take occurences from my life and connect them with that belief, whereas in any other situation they would appear to be coincidences. But, that kind of thing can stress you out, thinking that your life is just a string of coincidences. It leads you to question your purpose in life, which can result in all sorts of depression, and that isn't good. No, rather, my life is structured, one thread in a patchwork of the lives... no, the existence of every other thing in this universe, each being a finger of that timeless consciousness, as if you were standing a the end of time and looking back at our lives like history, and we are destined to complete a journey, for the benefit of every other thing, intertwined to live, breathe, die, all at schedueled moments for the good of all existence.
Excuse me, I ramble when it gets late. I should probably be in bed instead of throwing entire threads off topic. So, if you've had paranormal experiences, then of course you would believe in them, I mean if you didn't, well thats just flat out denial of your own senses. But as for me, I don't speak spanish, so I don't talk to mexicans. The same can be said for ghosts, spirits, and whatnot. They have no interest in me apparently, which might have something to do with the fact that I have no interest in them. For all I care, they don't exist. And I say that, because I don't want to bother with them. It's a foundation I walk on every day.
