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Taz
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Message 11 of 51 (567941)
07-03-2010 11:10 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Theodoric
07-02-2010 11:18 PM


Theodoric writes:
The Placebo Effect
This phenomenon has been observed for as long as there have been people. In modern times, various scientific groups have confirmed its existence.
There is absolutely nothing magical about it. And no, it can't cure something like AIDS or cancer. But on a small level, it can make people feel better by simply making them believe they should feel better. After all, many women simply feel ill because they've been brainwashed by society to be all feminine and weak and they need men in their lives to protect them. By making them stay at home and make babies, they will feel much better about their lives.
But seriously, this ain't even in the mind-over-matter category. The best proof for this is when a kid gets a booboo, a kiss from you will make him feel 100 times better than a band-aid.
The Sixth Sense
Since nobody is a mind reader, I could claim to be able to see people from the 8th dimension and nobody would be able to confirm it.
What I mean is even if it's real there is no way to verify it independently.
Near Death Experience
Please, this phenomenon is very real. It's called hallucination from oxygen deprivation to the brain.
UFO's/USO's - Unidentified Flying/Submerged Objects
Very real phenomenon. We just haven't been able to independently verify it just yet. Still waiting...
Dj Vu (Memory illusion)
This is a phenomenon that we all have experienced at least once. Since we have two brains, sometimes one brain will get ahead of the other for a split second, making the other brain think that it's been through this before. It's like you coming before your partner during sex...
The Big Bang (Origin of the Universe)
This phenomenon is absolutely false. If there really was such an event, we should have detected an "afterglow" that permeates throughout the universe. Since this cosmic background radiation hasn't been invented yet, obviously the big bang never happened.
Singularity
I wouldn't touch anything that has a ∞ written on there somewhere with a 10 foot pole.
Mammatus Clouds
What the fuck is this?
Non-aqueous Rain
Like acid rain? Again, what the fuck is this?
St Elmo’s Fire
WTF is this?
Ghosts
In the old days, in order to take a picture, a room or someone has to be exposed to the camera for a long time. Think of the misery people had to go through to take a photo. Anyway, if someone moved, it created this ghostly image in those old photos. And everyone knows that Michael Jackson was scarier when he was alive than dead.
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Various tests have shown that something as simple as a cigarette can start a fire with the clothes on the person and the person's fat would sustain the fire for hours. They've done these tests on volunteers as well as pig corpses.
Unexplained Disappearances
Yeah, because we know people don't kidnap people.
Bermuda Triangle
I actually saw an interesting program on the discovery channel a few years ago about this. They actually sat down and compared all the rates of disappearances around the world. And interestingly enough, the rate of disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is neither higher nor lower than anywhere else in the world. What can I say, people like to tell tall tales.
The Hum
If this Hum exists, there is nothing magical or supernatural about it. Why should we expect sound frequencies only come in the audible spectrum?
Psychic Phenomena
Like Sylvia Brown who told those parents that their son was dead but then that same son was resurrected by jebus?
Naga Fireballs
Don't know what this is.
Blue Jets and Red Sprites
No clue what this is.
Earthquake Lights
The only Earthquake I ever felt was that 2.3 that occurred in Illinois a few months ago.
Relationship between brain and body
Yeah, because we know the brain has absolutely no connection to the body...
Capacity (psychic and spiritual)
Neurons are an amazing thing.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon
Imagination is a wonderful thing.
The Sirius Mystery (as well as other ancient cosmology knowledge not visible from Earth)
They're not visible now because we got mother fucking light polution everywhere. The ancients could only either masturbate or stare at the night sky.
Tunguska Explosion
And what's so mysterious about this event? A comet or meteor exploded in midair, creating a blast the size of New York.
Charles E. Peck (Chatsworth crash)
???
The point I'm trying to make is this list is nothing more than a cluster fuck.
And just because a supposed phenomenon can't be explained now doesn't mean it's supernatural.

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