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Alan Medic

Alan Medic

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taper Wrote:

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> I am very happy to give the OP the assurance that

> there is no such thing as paranormal activity.


Eh.....how do you know? If people at one won point quite reasonably assumed the Earth was flat, the liklihood is you would have been one of them. And it seems it's not.

taper

taper

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Sue Wrote:

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> taper Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I am very happy to give the OP the assurance

> that

> > there is no such thing as paranormal activity.

>

> xxxxxx

>

> Evidence for your statement, please?


The burden of evidence is on you and yours. V difficult to prove a negative.

Lynne

Lynne

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If it was just a question of how many people had died in any place, then all hospitals should be so full of ghosts that it would be difficult to walk through the corridors. Like wading in mystic soup (not that I'm sure this is a reliable comparison, I haven't actually tried it)

lynne

maxxi

maxxi

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Get the wrong kind of psychic whistle and you'll be surrounded by the ghosts of a thousand dead dogs.


I don't think evidence is necessary - the faintly ethereal and slightly scatty are free to believe in ghosts just as the seriously deluded are to believe in god/gods etc.


Just as long as they don't start killing each other over the right approach to poltergeists and/or organise a fatwa against Ghostbusters for trivialising the issue.

Sue

Sue

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taper Wrote:

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> The burden of evidence is on you and yours. V

> difficult to prove a negative.


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Indeed. So better not to make statements which you can't prove :)


Some people are unable to distinguish between certain colours. Other people (I knew one) can only see things in shades of black and white.


No amount of others telling them they were "wrong" could convince them that colour "existed", if they had a mind to doubt it.


Some people are sensitive to psychic phenomena which others can't perceive. Telling them that they are talking bollocks just because you are not so sensitive is closed-minded.

Sue

Sue

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???? Wrote:

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> Popper and Kuhn must be cheering from on high at

> the standard of scientific debate on the EDF


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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Kuhn who wrote about paradigm shifts?


Quite relevant to the discussion if so, I would say.

red devil

red devil

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Sue Wrote:

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> Some people are sensitive to psychic phenomena

> which others can't perceive. Telling them that

> they are talking bollocks just because you are not

> so sensitive is closed-minded.


Maybe, but does a mad man always know he is mad?...

Sue

Sue

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> ...er, and a big scientific paradigm shift was

> when people started believing in science not

> fairies/ghosts/goblins etc


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"Believing" in science???


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift

Sue

Sue

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red devil Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

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> > Some people are sensitive to psychic phenomena

> > which others can't perceive. Telling them that

> > they are talking bollocks just because you are

> not

> > so sensitive is closed-minded.

>

> Maybe, but does a mad man always know he is

> mad?...


xxxxxx


I'm not talking about psychosis ....


ETA: Anyway, I'm not feeling well and I'm going to bed, so feel free to return to slagging off things you don't understand :)

taper

taper

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Sue Wrote:

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> taper Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> >

> > The burden of evidence is on you and yours. V

> > difficult to prove a negative.

>

> xxxxxx

>

> Indeed. So better not to make statements which you

> can't prove :)

>

> Some people are unable to distinguish between

> certain colours. Other people (I knew one) can

> only see things in shades of black and white.

>

> No amount of others telling them they were "wrong"

> could convince them that colour "existed", if they

> had a mind to doubt it.

>

> Some people are sensitive to psychic phenomena

> which others can't perceive. Telling them that

> they are talking bollocks just because you are not

> so sensitive is closed-minded.


And some people are sensitive to believing any old crap because they are feeble minded.

Alan Medic

Alan Medic

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taper Wrote:


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> And some people are sensitive to believing any old

> crap because they are feeble minded.


And you really do write 'any old crap'. Just because you don't know somwthing doesn't mean it doesn't exist and I'm talking about anything. For feeble minded read closed mind in your case.

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