In article <L_2dnWr-G6RxNiPYnZ2dnUVZ_oqmnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Hud" <iron500@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The fact that an institution, such as Catholicism, has made ignorant
> blunders has no bearing on an individual witnessing something science
has
> yet to explain.
Except science has explained it. Over and over. The fact that you're
mistaken about something doesn't mean it's real. It just means you're
mistaken.
Take a look at Penn & Teller's BULL****! on ghosts. I think it's season
1. Good stuff.
Look, we're both being trolled by people who are cross posting this to
rec.arts.tv trying to start fights. Leave the postings at
alt.folklore.ghost-stories, alt.true.ghost, alt.paranormal.reincarnation
and it won't be a problem. Add rec.arts.tv back, and people are gonna
call bull**** on you.
rec.arts.tv crossposting removed
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>
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> "Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:ANIM8Rfsk-D3B4A2.07324228012007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > In article <523ckbF1mu6a1U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Shevek <shevek99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Anim8rFSK escribió:
> >> > In article <veOuh.29$pr3.22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >> > "Arnold" <arnoldkim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> "Hud" <iron500@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >> >> news:7NOdnWU8do5BGifYnZ2dnUVZ_uqvnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >>> "Perception is Reality." Ever heard this maxim? Many never
perceive
> >> >>> (witness) a paranormal phenomenon. Therefore it is not real to
them.
> >> >>> Because it is outside their scope of reality, it can't be real.
If
> >> >>> someone else claims to have seen a ghost, that person must be
> >> >>> mentally
> >> >>> ill. You can't get angry at someone who is skeptical when, for
them,
> >> >>> believing in something they've never witnessed goes against their
> >> >>> sense of
> >> >>> reality. They are simply being honest. To them, we must be
mentally
> >> >>> ill.
> >> >>> I understand this. As a result, I usually will only share my few
> >> >>> experiences with others who have experienced something similar.
I
> >> >>> don't
> >> >>> expect others to believe me. Many simply don't have the capacity
to
> >> >>> do
> >> >>> so. Such is life.
> >> >> I wouldn't say I believe in ghosts, but I'm not going to close my
mind
> >> >> to
> >> >> the possibility. The idea that something doesn't exist if you
don't
> >> >> personally witness it or because it is not yet recognized by
mankind
> >> >> as a
> >> >> whole is arrogance of the highest order. It's not right for any
of us
> >> >> to
> >> >> believe that we (whether as individuals or humanity as a group)
are
> >> >> the
> >> >> absolute authority on the way the universe functions.
> >> >>
> >> >> Maybe ghosts are real and we just haven't been able to prove it
yet.
> >> >> How
> >> >> many years has it been since we thought the sun revolved around a
flat
> >> >> earth?
> >> >
> >> > The Vatican still maintains the Sun goes around the Earth.
> >> >
> >>
> >> No, they don't. They believe in all sorts of fantastic things, like
the
> >> birth from a virgin, or the resurrection of several people, but with
> >> respect to science they are more "flexible" that many evangelical
sects.
> >> After all, the Vatican doesn't believe in the literal truth of the
> >> Bible. So, they admit the Big Bang, the evolution of species of the
> >> heliocentric model of the Solar System.
> >
> > When they undamned Galilleo, the press release made a point of saying
> > that the undamning was NOT to be construed as an admission that he was
> > right, but as a statement that they shouldn't have sent him to Hell
for
> > disagreeing with them. I take that to mean somebody somewhere in
> > Vatican City ain't buying the heliocentric model.
> >>
> >> > They believe in ghosts, too.
> >>
> >> and angels, and demons and many other supernatural beings.
> >
> > Yep. And they're wrong about all of it. :)
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