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Storm
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  09:28:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Storm's Homepage Send Storm a Private Message
Lets leave religion out of the phenomenon. Lets talk about the natural energy of our body energy that when we die gets dispersed. Maybe in this lies our evidence for what is termed ghostly phenomenon.
C'mon Filthy not all these websites all these investigations, EVP, photography, video, surely not all are shams, falseties. Don't be sucked into debunking. Critical thought and open minds are some of the best tools to start with.
Ghost investigation has involved into much more than Ancedote although it started with that or did it? Did it start with the phenomenon and then the ancedote? Which came first the chicken or the egg?

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Siberia
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  09:31:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
The egg did.

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Storm
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  10:08:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Storm's Homepage Send Storm a Private Message
What is your interpertation of your statement?

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Ricky
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  11:24:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
The egg did, he is correct. The egg first appeard in reptiles which came before birds.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  11:36:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Ricky

The egg did, he is correct. The egg first appeard in reptiles which came before birds.


I'm a she!

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- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Ricky
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  11:38:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
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Lets leave religion out of the phenomenon. Lets talk about the natural energy of our body energy that when we die gets dispersed. Maybe in this lies our evidence for what is termed ghostly phenomenon.


What you fail to realize is that energy is always dispersed when a person is alive. When a person dies, they are no longer transferring matter into energy, so energy no longer becomes dispersed. You talk as if when someone dies energy suddenly gets realized which is the opposite of what actually happens.

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C'mon Filthy not all these websites all these investigations, EVP, photography, video, surely not all are shams, falseties. Don't be sucked into debunking. Critical thought and open minds are some of the best tools to start with.


I actually realized this last night while trying to fall asleep. You start out with the premise that it exists to come to the conclusion that it exists. From the above:

1.) Surely not all evidence for the paranormal (or whatever you are talking about) is false.
2.) Therefore it exists.

That is your line of reasoning. However you, fail to mention one very important part. In order for 1 to be true, it must exist in the first place. If it doesn't exist, then 1 is false and so is 2. What you are really saying is:

1.) Based on the premise that the paranormal exists
2.) Not all evidence for it is false.
3.) Therefore the paranormal exists.

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Ghost investigation has involved into much more than Ancedote although it started with that or did it? Did it start with the phenomenon and then the ancedote?


Do you know the answers to these questions? You have yet to show any non-anecdotal evidence and to my knowledge there isn't any. You seem to think that there is. I must have missed it when I did my research. Can you tell me what this is?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  11:49:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
I prefer to say "The egg is chicken, they were never differnt entities, just perceived that way."

What came first the human embyro or the human?

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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Storm
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  12:11:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Storm's Homepage Send Storm a Private Message
Explain more !!1 please Papa

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Ricky
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  12:13:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
Do you have a reply to my post, Storm? Or are you just going to ignore it?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Storm
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  12:44:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Storm's Homepage Send Storm a Private Message
Yes I do Ricky but I must break for a short while and in about an hour or so I will reply. I also want to take time to Contemplate waht you wrote.

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Ricky
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  12:48:36   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
Alright, I've just seen a lot of posts skipped over, I was just making sure this didn't happen again.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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filthy
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  12:51:36   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Storm

Lets leave religion out of the phenomenon. Lets talk about the natural energy of our body energy that when we die gets dispersed. Maybe in this lies our evidence for what is termed ghostly phenomenon.
C'mon Filthy not all these websites all these investigations, EVP, photography, video, surely not all are shams, falseties. Don't be sucked into debunking. Critical thought and open minds are some of the best tools to start with.
Ghost investigation has involved into much more than Ancedote although it started with that or did it? Did it start with the phenomenon and then the ancedote? Which came first the chicken or the egg?

My mind is so open there is a draft going through my skull, but not so open that I am going to get blind and stupid. You gotta ghost? Produce it, or at least solid evidence thereof.

The egg came long before even the reptiles, indeed, before any foot ever trod upon the land.


"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


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Storm
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  12:51:53   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Storm's Homepage Send Storm a Private Message
It is the uniqness of the energy of the human and animal that we can see what is labeled ghostly phenomenon. Maybe it is consciousness. For other souces of energy do not have consciousness. So maybe it is bits and pieces that are released at the time of death. If you look at your classifications of ghosts you will see those bits and pieces.
I must go and take my daughter to work will return.
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Storm
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  12:55:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Storm's Homepage Send Storm a Private Message
I have no proof. i am only opening the critical thinking of the possibilities based on numerous stories, studies and dare if I say it Ancedotes. Lets drop any anger and move on. We are all to smart to fall into a rut

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Ricky
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Posted - 12/06/2004 :  13:06:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
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The egg came long before even the reptiles, indeed, before any foot ever trod upon the land.


I guess I assumed we were talking about the amniotic egg, which did start with reptiles.

quote:
I have no proof.


Then how do you expect us to give your ideas any weight if you can't back them up?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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