Have you ever experienced a paranormal phenomenon?

[Limbo]

And not everybody shares these experiences to begin with.

Yes...group experiences make it a little bit harder to write it all off as a mere 'hallucination' or whatnot.

 

[I Ratant]

Yes...group experiences make it a little bit harder to write it all off as a mere 'hallucination' or whatnot.

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Fatima comes to mind.
But just a few miles away, there was even larger outdoor event underway, termed World War One, where all the ziggies and zaggies in the sky were unremarked.

 

[six7s]

Yes...group experiences make it a little bit harder to write it all off as a mere 'hallucination' or whatnot.

Yeah... cos we all know how reliable popular opinion is!

youtube: Awareness Test​

 

[Lonewulf]

Yeah... cos we all know how reliable popular opinion is!

youtube: Awareness Test​

Okay, now THAT'S hilarious.

 

[applecorped]

Okay,

In all seriousness, I had a friend named Mathew Colvin. We knew each other in East Windsor, New Jersey. After High I didn't see him much. He had a deep interest in Ratafarianism. Forget the fact that he was Jewish with Red hair. I sat next to him in High School. He regaled me with the teachings of Bob Marley and his promotion of peace. I fell in love with Jah, and birds, and Sheriffs. One day he got sick. His brain was getting to big for his head. He suffered. I wish he hadn't. I cried when his coffin was brought down to the tune of "Time Will Tell" by Bob Marley.

One night when I was thinking about him I fell asleep.

I woke up. Or so I thought. I then woke up. All I could think about was him.

Probably nothing. I still think of him.

But he went silent. I was quietally sad.

 

[I Ratant]

Popular opinion has never established a physical reality. Flat earth, universal flood, witches, all have existence -only- in popular opinion despite what a majority may have believed.
Gravity has no interest in what anyone or everyone thinks about it.
The earth goes around the sun, and not vice versa. Always has, always will.
The only thing popular opinion can establish is the tyranny of the majority, whether or not the majority is correct.

 

[Limbo]

Yeah... cos we all know how reliable popular opinion is!

Guess I should have been more clear.

I should have said, experiencing something paranormal in a group situation makes it harder for the PARTICIPANTS (like me) to write their experiences off as a mere hallucination.

Non-participants can of course hand-wave it away as mere anecdote. They weren't there, so all they can do is guess.

It's a free country. Write-off what you want.

 

[Lonewulf]

Non-participants can of course hand-wave it away as mere anecdote.

It's hard not to. It requires one to trust the inerrancy of another human's perceptions.

 

[arthwollipot]

It's hard not to. It requires one to trust the inerrancy of another human's perceptions.

And their reporting thereof.