Merged The razor of Hitchens and the Spirits!

[Calderaro]

What does "pseudocetic" mean?

false skepticism

 

[Calderaro]

And there is no such word as pseudocetic

Marcello Truzzi

 

[Calderaro]

Wonder if he means "Pseudocyesis"...

Wonder if he means "Pseudocyesis

I mean, pseudo-skepticism!! Marcello Truzzi!

 

[Agatha]

Wonder if he means "Pseudocyesis"...

That was google's best guess when I looked up the word!

Did you mean pseudosceptic, Calderaro? ETA I see you did.

What evidence do you have of these "spirits"?

 

[Calderaro]

And there is no such word as pseudocetic

This word does exist!!

 

[Agatha]

This word does exist!!

Just like these spirits, there is no evidence that the word exists (at least in English).

 

[zooterkin]

This word does exist!!

Pseudocetic is not a word in English. Are you conflating 'pseudoskeptic' and 'zetetic' (one of Truzzi's coinings)?

 

[Calderaro]

What evidence do you have of these "spirits"?

Personal Experiences

 

[Calderaro]

Pseudocetic is not a word in English. Are you conflating 'pseudoskeptic' and 'zetetic' (one of Truzzi's coinings)?

the word is pseudoskepticism!!!

 

[zooterkin]

Personal Experiences

Experiences that only happened in your head?

 

[The Don]

Hitchens certainly believed in spirits, especially that of a Mr Johnnie Walker.

I certainly heard the latter, most recently on a Friday evening.

 

[zooterkin]

I certainly heard the latter, most recently on a Friday evening.

Any new communications from that source may be a sign of the reality of spirits, however.

 

[Agatha]

I certainly heard the latter, most recently on a Friday evening.

A great loss to radio.

Calderaro, what kind of personal experience? And how do you rule out dreams/hallucinations/wishful thinking/coincidence?

 

[Ryan O'Dine]

Off to a flying start

Just like a ghost!

 

[Ryan O'Dine]

Hitchens' razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence".

The obverse: "What can be asserted without evidence can not be dismissed without evidence". Friends, that don't make no sense.

 

[Calderaro]

Calderaro, what kind of personal experience? And how do you rule out dreams/hallucinations/wishful thinking/coincidence?

I had very strong pain in my abdomen, my mother said a prayer... and the pain stopped! My mother's prayer drove away the evil spirit!

 

[Calderaro]

Just like these spirits, there is no evidence that the word exists (at least in English).

Agatha, yes the word exists! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoskepticism

 

[Thermal]

I had very strong pain in my abdomen, my mother said a prayer... and the pain stopped! My mother's prayer drove away the evil spirit!

Have you ever had a pain stop when your mother didn't say a prayer? If so, what do you think might be going on there?

I've had pains in every inch of my body that stopped, without any prayers involved. A strong abdominal pain that suddenly goes away, for example, is often called "gas". Mine often vanish with an occasionally loud and disruptive expelling of said gas. Is it possible your mother simply prayed and coincidentally, you farted?

 

[Darat]

The existence of spirits
may be beyond the scope of conventional scientific methodologysuggesting that the absence of evidence does not necessarily imply nonexistence!

If that was true no one would have any "experiences" of spirits - if humans can experience something the scientific method can investigate it.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I had very strong pain in my abdomen, my mother said a prayer... and the pain stopped! My mother's prayer drove away the evil spirit!

What was the date and time of this event? Because I tapped a small bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln on the head and said "Oompsy Boompsy!" and that may have been the spell that actually stopped your pain, from a distance. If the times match up there is no way to prove this theory incorrect.