Do You Believe In Any Of The Following?

[naomi24]

A survey of 2,000 British adults was commissioned to mark the launch of the new TV series ‘Believe’. The poll asked respondents about their beliefs as well as superstitions that still hold sway in 2014, with the following results:

Top 10 Beliefs in Unexplained Phenomena:

1 - Ghosts (33%)
2 - Sixth sense (32%)
3 - UFOs (22%)
4 - Past lives (19%)
5 - Telepathy (18%)
6 - Psychic ability to predict the future (18%)
7 - Psychic healing (16%)
8 - Astrology (10%)
9 - Bermuda Triangle (9%)
10 - Demons (8%)

http://watch.uktv.co.uk/believe/article/do-you-believe/

[ToraToraTora]

portals, right oh! at least you have had a go at how it may work. how are these portals generated? whats at tother end? where is tother end? Hang on! Stargate! PMSL!

[naomi24]

TTT, I read what you said. I can’t answer your question – but Stephen Hawking pins his hopes on antimatter, foreseeing future technologies that might reach speeds equal to a high percentage of the speed of light. (That last bit unashamedly edited, copied, and pasted from the internet). Is that possible? I don’t know – and neither do you.

[Cloverjo]

I don't believe in any of the things on the original list. Nor do I believe there are aliens. Just because there are a massive number of stars, planets and rocks out there does not mean it is statistically likely that there must be intelligent life on any of them. The creation of life requires not just ideal conditions, but a huge amount of energy. The fact that we are here is amazing. The chances of it happening elsewhere at another time are infinitely small.

[puddle-duck]

TTT I have no idea, but there again neither do you. But I think to dismiss anything based purely on our own scientific understanding is wrong.

[mibn2cweus]

Birdie, I also think that the possibility that we are it is worth considering . . . and having considered that possibility one would hope that somewhere in this vast universe exists the potential for something better. :o/

[petal54]

yes,I believe in some,no logical reason to do so.I feel many unexplainable things out there

[Sir Alec]

However, birdie, I have seen your previous posts and your latest on ghosts. Just because you have had no experience yourself does not mean that something does not exist.

[Sir Alec]

birdie, what a nasty little man you are. So my Dad on his deathbed was lying about all his dead relatives? Do not presume that you are superior in any way. Your attitude shows that you are far from it. Your arguments are absurd stupid and laughable. Just as I cannot prove that something does not exist, neither can you prove that it does. Pathetic!

[Svejk]

another^ graduate of charm school, ;o)

[naomi24]

Svejk, indeed.

Birdie, //I'm unaware of Stephen Hawking suggesting that contact with alien civilisations living many light-years away from us may be possible by use of "antimatter".//

I didn’t say Stephen Hawking suggested that contact with aliens may be possible by use of antimatter – I said he’s suggested that by the use of antimatter it may be possible to traverse vast distances – and if you were unaware of that before, you’re not now.

//Even if your paraphrased 'quote' is correct, ….//

Unlike some contributors, I never post anything in the hope that the reader won’t investigate it. I don’t invent information – you should know that.

// TTT's assertion that the distances involved are simply too ginormous to ignore is quite valid……Supposing that we can construct a communication device that operates at almost 100% of the speed of light, it would still take (for example) 8.4 years to receive an answer from Proxima Centaui since it is 4.1 light years away. And that's our closest neighbour.//

I’m very well aware of the enormity of our galaxy and of the universe. However, at almost the speed of light, the distance between earth and our nearest neighbour (approximately 4 light years) is hardly ‘ginormous’. Bit of a mix up in your thinking there, Birdie. TTT’s logic isn’t irrefutable and neither is yours.

As for your post to Fred, your aggression is completely unwarranted. You’ve told her the idea is absurd, stupid, laughable, silly, and fallacious, but you most certainly haven’t shown her the absurdity of her belief, as you claim. Just as she cannot provide evidence, neither can you provide evidence to conclusively debunk her claimed experiences – and before you launch into the usual ‘burden of proof’ rhetoric - we know.

[mibn2cweus]

Nothing quite brings out the spectre of a laundry list of logical fallacies and humankinds seemingly boundless capacity to believe in the unexplained if not patently absurd than the inability to grasp the essential nature of the means and process of consciousness and reason exacerbated by an unbridled imagination.

[Svejk]

if you're trying to say you know everything, mibn. i doubt it. lol.

[naomi24]

mibs, rather than make unverified assumptions about anyone’s inability to grasp the essential nature of the means and process of consciousness and reason, or to criticise what you perceive to be unbridled imagination, it’s far more rational to acknowledge that the unexplained is, indeed, unexplained – don’t you think?

[whiskeryron]

I do not understand the arrogance of the human race who will say that they do not believe there is an existence of anything they cannot see or touch when it is an established fact that outside our normal vision there are x rays, ultra violet rays & any number of things that are present in our atmosphere that we know are there but cannot see, likewise there are sounds outside our audible range that other animals can hear but we cannot. So basically I am saying there maybe ghosts of events past recorded somehow in some medium we have yet to discover, fairies & other life forms that are at the moment not visible to us but actually exist just outside our visual range. I expect a lot of ignorant ABers to scoff at my suggestions but I say to you all keep an open mind &''Just Wait & See''.