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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
I used to believe in ESP, now Im very skeptical to the idea. Sure, there are a lot of things that seem supernatural, but there are logical explanations even if we dont always see them. I really wanted to believe in psychic abilities, mostly because I wanted to be one of those special people who could do it. I still have books around on Developing your ESP powers, but Ive recognized that I dont have some sort of sixth sense. What I have is an uncanny ability to notice tiny things that most people ignore, and quickly process the potential effects of these things.
In the end, none of it stands up to scientific scrutiny. Even if we werent able to observe the mechanisms by which results are produced, believers claim that ESP is an observable phenomenon, and no correlation has been found between claims of psychic abilities and actual results, even with large cash prizes offered for positive results under controlled conditions. Logically, the only conclusions I can draw are that tests yielding positive results were flawed, and that ESP does not exist.
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Yeah yeah yeah.
But where is it written that the world, the universe, etc., all must be explicable by logic, science, or even....at all?
Further, why does it need to be? Just for us? To give us meaning? As if were the most important things ever, in all of existence in the perception of some great maker? Because in my opinion, were probably not.
Even the most dedicated scientists and geniuses in all of humanity were people of faith - and knew that aside from logic and explanation, there were going to be things that defied all of that.
Im all for proving paranormal phenomenon. I really am. But Im also all for allowing the extraordinary to occur without immediately thinking its bogus.