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offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-04-04 04:21 [#01552451]
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I'm almost through reading a book by the excellent Colin
Wilson, called Poltergeist! and despite its somewhat
exuberant use of the exclaimation mark in the title, it is a
very good study of the phenomena of phantoms, hauntings,
poltergeists, multiple/split personalities, and curses. It
has made me seriously reconsider my stance regarding the
supernatural, although I have always had a favourable bias
toward it, being a child of Romantic Imagination.

Anyway, what are your own views on the Supernatural? Do you
believe they emanate from the human spirit or a discarnate
spirit(s), or a combination of both? Maybe we have three
spirits inside of us, the middle being our conscious self,
the lower the immature spirit which in death becomes
involved in poltergeist activity, and a higher self which is
our guardian of the future.

BTW, this is a book recommendation. He also wrote, The
Occult, which I mentioned several moons ago.


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2005-04-04 04:29 [#01552459]
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Things you don't understand don't neccesarly have to be
"supernatural".....


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2005-04-04 04:31 [#01552461]
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I like the idea of supernatural


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-04-04 04:31 [#01552462]
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Thanks for your contribution.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-04-04 04:32 [#01552464]
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If I had more time and the book with me, I could detail some
cases. I'll do a quick Search on the InterWeb and see if
there's a link.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2005-04-04 04:33 [#01552465]
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hahaha

I thingt this thread said "Do you belive in Superman" then
for a seccond =oD


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-04-04 04:33 [#01552466]
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbmorgan/cwilson.html

add da tags yo'self.


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2005-04-04 04:35 [#01552467]
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There are three bears...


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2005-04-04 04:35 [#01552468]
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why would someone want to make a page so hard to read?


 

offline SPD from United States on 2005-04-04 04:35 [#01552469]
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i believe that everything is natural and that nothing
existing can escape being that.


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2005-04-04 04:37 [#01552471]
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Maybe we have three spirits inside of us, the middle
being our conscious self, the lower the immature spirit
which in death becomes involved in poltergeist activity, and
a higher self which is our guardian of the future.


Sounds like FREUDS concept of Id, Ego, Super Ego to me ? The
Id, the essentially biological element is constantly trying
to kill the Ego


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-04-04 05:33 [#01552513]
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I can't be enitrely convinced by supernatural things; i
think there is always an explaination, and that its people
wanting to believe something so much that they convince
themselves that it must be supernatural.

I remain pretty open-mided as the subjet does interest me,
yet lately Derren Brown has completely explained the
phenomena away for me.

Did anyone see when he pretended to be a spiritualist, in
front of a live american audience? It was amazing; just like
those shows on uk living. He would say things like "I've got
someone called Pete with me, he has dark hair..." And
someone from the audience would break down and be like
"OMG.. Pete" and then he would just ask general questions
and act as a medium. The reason he was always 'right' was
because the relative always WANTED to believe...


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-04-04 05:45 [#01552523]
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no i don't believe in it.
my mother is an addict follower of all esoterics and says
there are miracles but i don't see them. she says her
friends levitate on their seminars. i ask: what does it look
like? I get the answer: they sit on the floor, "lotus pose",
eyes closed, and they start to heavily shiver. I ask: do
they leave the surface in vertical direction? i get answer:
no, one should be very advanced to be able to fly. Of
course, she says that instructors can fly, but she has never
seen it. She just BELIEVES. She is an instructor herself -
she can't fly, i bet. She is a normal middle-aged woman.
She's into these sciences for many years now, i wonder when
do people start calling themselvesadvanced. after several
hundred years of practicing? when they continue to practice
in their graves with worms?


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-04-04 05:58 [#01552528]
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i believe in supernatural, i'm an old fan of Twin Peaks,
X-Files or Twilight Zone

but the idea of 3 selves/spirits is a bit too much for me to
believe


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-04-04 06:04 [#01552531]
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well, actually i only believe that Bob killed Laura Palmer.
i'm quite cautious and sceptic rather than superstitious.

but I WANT TO BELIEVE

tudududu....du....du....du.....

*whistles the Twin Peaks theme*


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-04-04 06:13 [#01552538]
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wrong melody duude, that's from the x-files. too much coffee
!


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-04-04 06:16 [#01552543]
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i'd like to believe that there is something in our world, or
existence, that we can't understand - but can at least try
to understand. Perhaps if more people did they wouldn't
bother bickering about so many insignificant material
things.

Monoid mentioned Freud, and i was always sympathetic to his
views when i studied psychology - even though the rest of my
class dismissed it as non-scientific and unlogical. Perhaps
'supernatural' has it's own 'logical' boundaries and not
just those defined by our definition of 'natural'.

unfortunately, my view on supernatural happenings is a more
fickle than a football fan's view of his/her failing
football team.


 

offline danbrusca from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2005-04-04 06:24 [#01552551]
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The supernatural is nonsense.


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-04-04 06:28 [#01552553]
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yea its mad... i saw a program the other day about finding
life on another planet and they were saying that we need to
open our mind to what 'life' means - e.g. a rock on mars may
be 'alive' etc..


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-04-04 06:32 [#01552560]
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it sounds cliché but:
"life is what you make of it"
and by make i mean think


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-04-04 06:32 [#01552561]
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Yea either that or they need a bullshit reason to invest
more money into bloody space.


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-04-04 06:33 [#01552564]
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It sounds damn confusing..


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-04-04 07:01 [#01552592]
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hey you guys did anyone see that episode of buffy where
there was this ghost, and buffy met the ghost, and the ghost
attacked her, and she killed the ghost by punching the ghost
really hard?


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-04-04 07:34 [#01552633]
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yes, I believe in the supernatural.


 

offline danbrusca from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2005-04-04 07:39 [#01552636]
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The money we invest in space now will one day lead to
humanity visiting the farthest reaches of the universe. It's
the first small steps on the most epic of journeys.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-04-04 08:31 [#01552695]
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no, don't believe in it.


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-04-04 08:41 [#01552712]
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I dont believe in the supernatural, but what you're talking
about sounds like different levels of conciousness, which I
do believe in.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2005-04-04 14:23 [#01553079]
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i believe in the power of human imagination.
!


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-04-04 14:29 [#01553081]
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phantoms - no
hauntings - no
poltergeists - no
multiple/split personalities - yes
curses - no


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-04-04 14:34 [#01553084]
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i guess people believe in the supernatural because for some
reason that is more comforting than believing that this is
it.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2005-04-04 14:58 [#01553102]
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Uh, "the supernatural" is a pretty big area so i can't
really answer that one. I've known a couple of people who've
been heavily immersed in certain bits (kirlian photography,
remote viewing, astral projection) though, and both of them
freaked me out a bit.

Some bits sound quite persuasive, some bits sound like total
nonsense. I dunno.


 

offline tridenti from Milano (Italy) on 2005-04-04 15:02 [#01553103]
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i belive in supernatural! i like the ghost! :)


 

offline mimi on 2005-04-04 15:03 [#01553104]
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i wish and wish that i believed but i just can't. i just
like the idea of ghosts so much! i just can't believe in
them.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-04-04 15:13 [#01553112]
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Yes. I spent so many hours up in the graveyard ghost hunting
and stuff, you see what I seen, you start to believe. And I
think there's some sort of amazing endoplasm inside of us.
But I can't even begin to hypothesize, it's just too
amazing. I'll find out someday.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2005-04-04 15:16 [#01553115]
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Man, the girls love my amazing endoplasm.


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-04-04 15:43 [#01553134]
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is everything what we observe/perceive real?

I don't think so


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2005-04-04 16:48 [#01553170]
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i dont, to my mind the supernatural is a tangent from the
elusive nature of reality


 

offline hobbes from age on 2005-04-04 17:03 [#01553184]
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Yeah in a way, yeah.


 

offline OK on 2005-04-04 17:07 [#01553187]
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I believe there are forces in our world that cannot be
perceived by our most used senses.

and I believe there's a lot of hoaxes and hoaxers


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2005-04-04 17:23 [#01553202]
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cats have a 6th sense where they can "taste" smells. you'll
see this when a cat is curiously sniffing something and when
it looks away it's mouth is dropped open like "uhhh." it
has sensory nerves on the roof of its mouth. this is pretty
much totally unrelated to this topic.
!


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-04-04 17:27 [#01553204]
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that is pretty much totally called the St Jacobs nerve



 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2005-04-04 17:29 [#01553205]
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fucking ha! at your description of that. :D


 

offline Taffmonster from dog_belch (Japan) on 2005-04-04 17:34 [#01553212]
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ive just borrowed a book called " nothing in the book is
true but its exactly how things are" by bob frissell ive not
started yet but supposedly its a reallyg ood culmination of
a magnitude of conspiracy thoeries about aliens the pyramids
etc. supposedly its quite intriguing read regardless of u
taking it for real or not!


 

offline xceque on 2005-04-04 17:34 [#01553213]
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When I was really young (we're talking late 70's here) I had
this book called "Strange Unsolved Mysteries" which told
true stories such as "the wandering coffins of Barbados"
where coffins in a crypt of some family were always shifted
about "as if thrown by a giant" each time one of the family
died and they had to open it up.
And the story of the ring the Rudolf Valentino owned that
was cursed. Or maybe it was a car. There was a story about a
car that kept starting by itself and rolling over people.
Even in bits it was cursed.
And the story of the hill in Oregon where gravity moves
upwards.
And many other stories.
I used to believe all of that stuff. Those stories still
gives me shivers thinking about them now. I still have that
book somewhere. Hidden so I don't see it.


 

offline hobbes from age on 2005-04-04 17:41 [#01553216]
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There's a hill like that on the isle of man!



 

offline xceque on 2005-04-04 17:43 [#01553218]
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There's apparently one in Ayr too. The Electric Brae it's
called. Or something like that.


 

offline Taffmonster from dog_belch (Japan) on 2005-04-04 17:44 [#01553220]
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explain?


 

offline xceque on 2005-04-04 17:47 [#01553224]
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Well, there's this hill, in Ayr, with a road going up it.
And if you put things that can roll on the road they'll roll
up the hill, not down. Put your car in neutral and it'll
roll up too.


 

offline xceque on 2005-04-04 17:49 [#01553225]
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sloppy_linky


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-04 18:03 [#01553236]
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Cannot find server.




spooooooky!!


 


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