Have you ever experienced a paranormal phenomenon?

[Babbylonian]

P.P.P.S

Is there a reason why the poll percentages don't add up to a hundred?

Is it perhaps because you're attempting to remote-view the numbers instead of just reading them on the screen?

Seriously, though, it's because people can choose more than one option.

 

[JihadJane]

Is it perhaps because you're attempting to remote-view the numbers instead of just reading them on the screen?

Ha ha! Very witty ...

Seriously, though, it's because people can choose more than one option.

I see.

(Is it also normal for individual posters' number of posts not to change over several posts? The forum Index no longer works on my screen since the upgrade either. Why do forum software updates always makes things worse? )

 

[Babbylonian]

Ha ha! Very witty ...

I'm just sharp like that.

(Is it also normal for individual posters' number of posts not to change over several posts? The forum Index no longer works on my screen since the upgrade either. Why do forum software updates always makes things worse? )

You scored -4 posts when several posts from this thread were moved to "Abandon All Hope." Any posts moved there get taken off a member's post count.

ETA: In other words, the post counting function appears to be "working as intended," verified by my increase from 430 to 431 with this post.

 

[Gene L]

Yes...while camping out one night, I saw a UFO. It scared me so much I almost dropped my whisky bottle.

 

[arthwollipot]

Typical cop-out. Remote sensing would be truly amazing, as there is no current explanation for how it would work. Apply for the prize, or quit bothering us with this tripe.

There's enough Tripe Loaf on Station V3 for everyone in the universe.

I'd just like to point out that the entire purpose of this thread is for people to say whether they have experienced paranormal phenomena. By asking people to "go away and quit bothering us" with stories of paranormal phenomena, you are completely undermining the purpose of the thread.

Personally I think JJ's been treated a little unfairly. The thread asked "have you ever experienced a paranormal phenomenon". JJ answered "yes" and was pretty much immediately pounced upon. Darat at least was reasonably polite about his pouncing.

Seriously people. The thread is about paranormal phenomena. When you start putting people down for answering a question honestly, you're going too far.

 

[paximperium]

Personally I think JJ's been treated a little unfairly. The thread asked "have you ever experienced a paranormal phenomenon". JJ answered "yes" and was pretty much immediately pounced upon. Darat at least was reasonably polite about his pouncing.

Seriously people. The thread is about paranormal phenomena. When you start putting people down for answering a question honestly, you're going too far.

I disagree. She wasn't stating a paranormal experience, she was stating that she has paranormal powers and claimed that anyone can do it and then gave some wishy-washy justification about it.

It's one thing I can't stand is for someone to proudly proclaim their ignorance about a subject("oh the brain is such a mystery!!!") as evidence for their claims.

 

[gtc]

I've experience pre-cognitive dreams on more than five occasions.

They tend to be vague and deja-vu like but I definately remember the details of the dream with the current event that I was witnessing and matching...however all those events were pretty irrelevant precogs such as me moving a dresser or driving past a circus...oh well, I'm still waiting for the dream with the winning lottery number.

Once when I was 12, I had a very vivid dream about walking to school and seeing a bus stop, in a spot where there shouldn't have been a bus stop). The bus stop was bus stop number 4.

The next day we took a bus to the city and got off at bus stop number 4.

 

[arthwollipot]

I disagree. She wasn't stating a paranormal experience, she was stating that she has paranormal powers and claimed that anyone can do it and then gave some wishy-washy justification about it.

It's one thing I can't stand is for someone to proudly proclaim their ignorance about a subject("oh the brain is such a mystery!!!") as evidence for their claims.

And I'm not suggesting that I feel any differently. But I think that telling JJ effectively to shut up and piss off when all she was doing was attempting to answer a question was a bit harsh.

 

[TheLoneBedouin]

Hmm... I think some people are lying.

5.4% of respondents claim they have experienced an "alien abduction". Incidence of abduction among the general population (U.S.) is 2%. And my definition of alien abduction was quite specific!

Could Gene L, Mashuna, pchams, Timble, Undesired Walrus, and ush please recount their experiences.

(Note: I am not counting Hokulele. He/she intentionally transgressed polling rules).

 

[Hokulele]

Rules are meant to be transgressed.

 

[JihadJane]

I disagree. She wasn't stating a paranormal experience, she was stating that she has paranormal powers and claimed that anyone can do it and then gave some wishy-washy justification about it.

It's one thing I can't stand is for someone to proudly proclaim their ignorance about a subject("oh the brain is such a mystery!!!") as evidence for their claims.

I suspect that this poster is being deeply dishonest!

I have never met someone who uses phrases like 'If there's one thing I can't stand ..." who do not also produce a froth of irritability on a wide range of topics, including, often, incorrectly placed cutlery and toilet seats.

Those who doubt that the workings of our brain/mind are still a profound mystery to us should examine what shot-in-the-dark psychiatric drugs do to brains and bodies in the name of scientific medicine.

 

[JihadJane]

And I'm not suggesting that I feel any differently. But I think that telling JJ effectively to shut up and piss off when all she was doing was attempting to answer a question was a bit harsh.

Indeed. Thanks for shining a small light of rationality onto the thread.

However, rationality is a foreign concept to the "reptilian" brain so your efforts are probably in vain!

 

[JihadJane]

I'm just sharp like that.

You scored -4 posts when several posts from this thread were moved to "Abandon All Hope." Any posts moved there get taken off a member's post count.

ETA: In other words, the post counting function appears to be "working as intended," verified by my increase from 430 to 431 with this post.

Thanks. Another mystery solved!

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ETA (Although I notice that my last three posts are numbered 183. Perhaps I'm still catching up)

What does ETA mean?

 

[Professor Yaffle]

ETA means edited to add.

Your post count will be the same on all your posts, as it gives the current post count, not the count at the time the post was made. Note how all your posts now say 185 (or above if you post again before reading this).

 

[JihadJane]

ETA means edited to add.

Your post count will be the same on all your posts, as it gives the current post count, not the count at the time the post was made. Note how all your posts now say 185 (or above if you post again before reading this).

Thanks, Professor Yaffle.

It must be confusing when JREFers tell their JREFer spouses that their train is going to be late!

 

[Mashuna]

Hmm... I think some people are lying.

5.4% of respondents claim they have experienced an "alien abduction". Incidence of abduction among the general population (U.S.) is 2%. And my definition of alien abduction was quite specific!

Could Gene L, Mashuna, pchams, Timble, Undesired Walrus, and ush please recount their experiences.

(Note: I am not counting Hokulele. He/she intentionally transgressed polling rules).

I'm in Wales, not the US. Aliens are ten a penny around here. They're forever trying to abduct people, and if you get careless, you're in a weird kind of transport with flashing lights. . .

Hang on, that's not aliens is it? That's being picked up by the police on the way home from the pub.

 

[arthwollipot]

Those who doubt that the workings of our brain/mind are still a profound mystery to us should examine what shot-in-the-dark psychiatric drugs do to brains and bodies in the name of scientific medicine.

Or, indeed, the effects of damage to various parts of the brain. But...

While it is quite true that a lot of the functions of the brain/mind are indeed profoundly mysterious, that cannot be used to justify the existence of magic. Although there are things we do not know about the brain, we do understand quite well the neurological substrate - we know what the brain is made of, and quite a lot of how these components work. And we know enough to be able to say that these components cannot possibly give rise to a phenomenon like remote viewing. That can only be explained if there is some way that the mind can be detached somehow from the neural substrate of the brain and operate independently of it. Not only is there no evidence that this can happen, there is no plausible mechanism consistent with the laws of nature as we know them by which this can happen.

To cut a long story short (too late!), the fact that there is a lot we do not understand about the way the brain works cannot possibly be used as an excuse to claim the existence of magic.

 

[JA Demko]

When I was in my early teens back in the mid 1970's, my family lived in a newly built house where, for a few weeks, there was poltergeist type activity.
Briefly, pictures would "jump" from where they were hung on the walls. Neither the wire from the frame or the nails in the wall ever showed any damage that would account for the pictures simply falling. Cupboard doors would sometimes open themselves. On one occasion, a bookshelf full of paperback books emptied itself onto the floor. The bookshelf was fastened to the floor and hadn't fallen over, just the books ended up there.
We never saw any of this stuff actually happen. Typically, we'd hear a sound from another room and go in to see the "aftermath."
After a few weeks, it stopped.
The house was in a rural area and built on what had been a cornfield in previous decades. We were the first people to live in it. A few years later, my parents sold the place and we moved away. As far as I know, the new owners never experienced anything unusual.
I don't know what caused the phenomena. The fact that we never got to actually see the events happen means my knowledge of what was going on is incomplete.

 

[arthwollipot]

There was a museum in Tasmania that recently had a sudden attack of the poltergeist. Many things were thrown about and a lot of valuable artifacts were ruined.

Turned out to be a possum.

 

[Limbo]

And we know enough to be able to say that these components cannot possibly give rise to a phenomenon like remote viewing.

Is that right.

"He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows." -Joseph Campbell

Consciousness and Quantum Coherence