What Does Critical Thinking Mean To You?

So i guess all those alien abductions are true also, the ones where they take them on their ship and probe their anuses. we have the same evidence for those as spirits.What about the chupacabra the being that sucks the blood out of goats we have stories of him to so he must be real.Where do you draw the line and say these are just stories of people whos minds played tricks on them.

Well i used to be really in to investigations in to the "spirit relm", if seen allot of so called evidence of ghosts and spirits nothing to convince me though. The best protection against spirits is to be a sceptic , no really theirs a "haunted" castle/hotel not fare from me i stayed many times never saw anything, but my mind wasn't plagued by fear that made every gust of wind in to a ghost like other people.what has you convinced of spirits, just the stories, or did you have your own private hallucination.

in 1938 there was a Halloween radio broadcast based on the novel war of the worlds about 1,2 million people really thought the world was attacked and they reported the smell of poison gas, and lightning flashes in the distance.Its the same with ghosts and other similar phenomena, people at one time or another hear a story believe it to be real, and at one point when their scared or in other intense emotional states the brain draws parallels with the story, and makes them see and hear things that are not there.Houdini said to his wife if there is an afterlife ill come back and tell you, to test the spiritualist that is saying is talking to me il give you a "password" he should say to you. so fare no one passed his test.the james randy foundation was offering 1 000 000$ to any one that claims to have spiritual powers of any kind and passes his test'sThey gave up because most people dint want to go on the show after they found out how easily he will debunk them. But some idiots still tryed.So you see "supernatural" claims are being tested all the time ther just aint any that have passed the test. Edited by frako, : No reason given.

And your sure you where not just seeing things, or dreaming, because?I once had a hallucination as i was pushing my scooter home, i ran out of gas, i saw a bear 20 meeter's from me, it was dusk and he was a big and mean looking, i was scared as hell, now i knew if i ran and he chased me id be dead, so i hoped that if i turn on the lights and point them at him he would get scared and run, so i did. The huge bear turned out to be a cat.Now as embarrassing as this story is its completely true in my mind it was a huge bear. Do you think you could have hallucinated the daemon? So you don't believe the stories of these millions of Catholics that see the virgin marry that you have not seen but believe they see daemons posing as the virgin because of some sinister plot or whatever?? The evidence for it is naturally your superior understanding of the world and god? Yea but the best protection against them is to be a sceptic they never show up for sceptics.

Well the bear was real for me too, if i handent turned the lights towards him and see it was a cat, i would swear under oath it was a bear.I do have a another example but it wasen't me who heard things, a friend of my girl stayed over once, and our conversation topic went to ghosts and such things. now when i drink a bit i can be evil so i told her that my house is haunted, the best part was my girl can be evil too she backed me up yea its haunted at night you can hear whispers in the walls and stuff like that. In the morning she said that she wanted to come and sleep in our bead a few times because she was so scared she heard whispers, people walking shadows moving the whole works i was pissing myself laughing, and she dont like me no more.

LOL i couldn't help myself, when someone talks about ghosts and the like to me it sounds like:" and then the leprechaun came with his pot of gold riding a pink unicorn."We are still friends though, last year we went to the beach together we stayed at her place.She still believes in ghosts and claims my house is haunted even though i told her it was a joke. And if i could do it all over again i would because it was one of the best laughs i had in my lifetime. I know its evil and wrong but still if you believe in fairytale's enough to be scared by them i will make sure you are