The Paranormal (Where is it now?)

by John Clinch , Thursday, January 08, 2009, 12:46 (5796 days ago) @ David Turell

It's the "wisdom of crowds" idea, isn't it? Although when humans get together in actual crowds and develop crowd consciousness, nasty things often ensue: mass hypnotism, fear and panic, frenzied hatreds, Nuremburg. It is often forgotten that we behave, in so many ways, in a way that is utterly vile. - At the risk of sounding pompous, I'm afraid this rather silly discussion on the paranormal has reminded me, on this return visit to this site, why I left it nearly a year ago. I was asked, in the way favoured by the pseudo-scientific, to be "open-minded" about all of this stuff. - None of BBella's "amazing experiences", or those of her family require, any supernatural entity or alien visitation to explain them. Why is it, incidentally, that self-declared "psychics" are prone to witness spacecraft, on the face of it two quite different things? What's the common link? Hmmmm... - The fact that these and similar experiences are felt by people today and throughout history is evidence of nothing except how some minds work, given certain cultural and environmental conditions. Nothing. If this was the seventeenth century, BBella woud be seeing witches on broomsticks. - The plural of anecdote is not "data".