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Originally Posted by Zeraph
And don't tell me the inner world isn't real, when someone can literally die from being sad (broken heart), that's as real as it gets.
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Originally Posted by Sue
There are some crazy things on Ghost Hunters (Sci Fi channel). They also try to disprove any paranormal claims, which I like. But there are some things I've seen on that show that are unexplainable which I personally chalk up to paranormal.
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A member of another forum I'm on wrote a bit about working with TAPS, and concluded by saying that, while it's fun, it convinced him 100% that ghosts are not real.
I also watch the show from time to time, and I see case after case of confirmation bias with very little proof of anything.
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Originally Posted by Zeraph
Sorry if that came off a little harsh, it's not you personally. Just a bit pissed off at how ethnocentric people can be, it disgusts me. There are more ancestor worship-believe in ghost cultures in the world than there are not. People think just because theyre well off compared to the rest of the world that that somehow makes them better and wiser.
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Anatole France put it best: "If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Appealing to tradition is a fallacy, as is appealing to the majority. Assuming that we disbelieve because we think our culture (which, by the way, is just as full of magical thinking and fallacious beliefs as most others,) is better than theirs is simply not true and I don't appreciate the implication that I am maliciously ethnocentric because I demand that things I am told I are true should be backed by evidence. If a belief is backed with evidence, or even simply provides a coherent, cogent set of propositions that can be tested, I am open to it. I am willing to review any evidence or claims of ghosts' existence made to me, but those who believe should be equally willing to change their minds if proven wrong. In my experience, believers are largely unwilling to do that.