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 Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:07 pm
First of all, I'd like to make a note on skepticism. Faith, as we are all well aware, is accepting something without an experimental procedure and without questioning. Skepticism now-a-days is almost synonymous with disbelief, having strong faith that extraordinary things are false without an experimental procedure or full understanding. Skepticism should really be a moderation of the two.
Now my point xp
When something seemingly paranormal happens, most people (being skeptical) are prone to assume it's mundane unless it can be proven beyond a shred of doubt that it is indeed paranormal. Why is there such a division between the two? It seems to me that there is an incredible force behind everything, especially the mundane, that is usually overlooked. Every root postulate to scientific fact usually requires a leap of faith of some sort as it is. I was just wondering why the two, mundane and paranormal, are decided between rather than integrated?
Thoughts?
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:00 am
In my college level astronomy class when we were discussing the universe and the fact it is expanding someone asked inside of what is the universe expanding, and the teacher told us that we weren't allowed to ask that. Why? Because they don't know, nor do they have any framework or tools or idea of how to, therefore they ignore it. I think the same is true of paranormal things, in all honesty they aren't separate from the mundane. It is simply that science likes to think they understand and can test everything on earth and are uncomfortable with the idea that they don't have as much figured out as they like to pretend. So even though it is obvious something is going on, they pretend it doesn't existent, when confronted by it they try to explain it away as a series of or combination of mundane events they are comfortable with and proving or discredit it as imagination because thier scientific tools and practices don't detect it.
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