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A survey of 2,000 British adults was commissioned to mark the launch of the new TV series ‘Believe’. The poll asked respondents about their beliefs as well as superstitions that still hold sway in 2014, with the following results:
Top 10 Beliefs in Unexplained Phenomena:
1 - Ghosts (33%)
2 - Sixth sense (32%)
3 - UFOs (22%)
4 - Past lives (19%)
5 - Telepathy (18%)
6 - Psychic ability to predict the future (18%)
7 - Psychic healing (16%)
8 - Astrology (10%)
9 - Bermuda Triangle (9%)
10 - Demons (8%)
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Top 10 Beliefs in Unexplained Phenomena:
1 - Ghosts (33%)
2 - Sixth sense (32%)
3 - UFOs (22%)
4 - Past lives (19%)
5 - Telepathy (18%)
6 - Psychic ability to predict the future (18%)
7 - Psychic healing (16%)
8 - Astrology (10%)
9 - Bermuda Triangle (9%)
10 - Demons (8%)
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1. Natural phenomenon which science doesn't understand yet.
2. Atavistic throwback to prehistoric man who could, e.g. detect magnetism.
3. Mathematically, it is highly unlikely that we are the only life in the universe. For other life to reach us, of course, they would have had to have found a way to travel faster than light, which our science still holds to be essentially impossible.
4. Unlikely, but can't rule it out due to lack of understanding.
5. Yes, definitely.
6. There is plenty of evidence of this but it's almost impossible to study and measure.
7. Yes.
8. No.
9. This is now, essentially, debunked, and is due to perfectly natural meteorological phenomena. All of the vessels lost in the triangle are at the bottom of the sea somewhere.
10. No.
2. Atavistic throwback to prehistoric man who could, e.g. detect magnetism.
3. Mathematically, it is highly unlikely that we are the only life in the universe. For other life to reach us, of course, they would have had to have found a way to travel faster than light, which our science still holds to be essentially impossible.
4. Unlikely, but can't rule it out due to lack of understanding.
5. Yes, definitely.
6. There is plenty of evidence of this but it's almost impossible to study and measure.
7. Yes.
8. No.
9. This is now, essentially, debunked, and is due to perfectly natural meteorological phenomena. All of the vessels lost in the triangle are at the bottom of the sea somewhere.
10. No.
No to all of them. Though as I said to you a while back , if there are (as has been suggested) 'parallel universes' to this one, then possibly ghosts are maifestations of a rare ' interferance' between our universe and a parallel one.
As to number 6, I can predict the future no Psycihic ability needed . I predict that the world will not end tonight and that the Sun will rise as normal tomorrow.
As to number 6, I can predict the future no Psycihic ability needed . I predict that the world will not end tonight and that the Sun will rise as normal tomorrow.
‘Do you believe?’ A poor choice of words. The pollsters have made the usual mistake of lumping together UFOs with ghosts, telepathy, superstition, astrology, and the Bermuda Triangle – all in my opinion, completely separate subjects – but it happens continually. That which science doesn’t understand is automatically associated with potty conspiracy theories and hence dismissed and ridiculed. ‘Belief’ in this context smacks of that peculiar kind of faith that is belief in the absence of evidence, but people who have experienced some of the things on that list don’t simply ‘believe’ – they claim to have personal experience and are therefore convinced that what they have experienced is real. I can empathise with Woofgang’s post at 13:03 Fri 28th Mar.
Viv, //I've had experience of two of them, but I'm not going to say which, as people just take the p*** !!//
Speak your mind and don’t let the bu&&ers get you down. I don’t – even though, on occasions, I have very good reason to. ;o)
Viv, //I've had experience of two of them, but I'm not going to say which, as people just take the p*** !!//
Speak your mind and don’t let the bu&&ers get you down. I don’t – even though, on occasions, I have very good reason to. ;o)
The list again for brevity:
1 - Ghosts (33%)
2 - Sixth sense (32%)
3 - UFOs (22%)
4 - Past lives (19%)
5 - Telepathy (18%)
6 - Psychic ability to predict the future (18%)
7 - Psychic healing (16%)
8 - Astrology (10%)
9 - Bermuda Triangle (9%)
10 - Demons (8%)
My take on the above...
1. 0%. Living creatures cease to exist when they die. Since there is not one single piece of verifiable evidence to suggest that living things continue to exist once they've expired, it's safe to say that "ghosts" do not exist.*
2. Depends on the specific definition. Sometimes "intuition" can be (and often is) described as being a sixth sense. However, "intuition" is a complex cerebral synergy between multiple physical real-world sensory inputs. If one chooses to define the phrase "sixth sense" in a metaphysical sense then I would say that they're wrong.*
3. 100% validity. UFOs demonstrably exist. By definition, a UFO is unidentifiable. This does not mean that it is extraterrestrial in origin.
4. 0%. The theory rests on the idea that a person can survive their own death. See point 1.*
5. 0%. Never once been verified by anyone.*
6. 0%. Not one single specific prophesy has ever been shown to have been true. And by specific I mean just that - in order to show that a prediction has been made it has to be both precise in its description and precise in its timing*
7. ?%. This is the real anomaly in the list. The placebo effect is a strange, well researched and still not fully understood branch of science. The idea that a person can directly "heal" another by the power of their mind alone is baloney. However, the idea that the person being "healed" can believe that they're being "healed" by another can (sometimes) induce the believer to be healed. Such is the power of belief and hence, the placebo effect.
8. 0%. Utterly and completely absurd.
9. 0%. I've read about this extensively. I have yet to see a single case of a missing aircraft or ship that cannot be explained by rational means.* Isn't it interesting that ever since we've had GPS technology, the number of "Bermuda Triangle" incidents seems to have tailed off some what?
10. 0%. Absurd and quite perverse. One has to believe in God, then believe that God chose to create "demons" - entities that are specifically designed to ultimately torture us for eternity. It's an unprovable notion based on yet another unprovable and unfalsifyable idea. Completely ridiculous.
* Things that do NOT constitute evidence:
a. Anecdotal stories;
b. The assertion that there is no 'better' evidence;
c. Many people believe in it;
d. Someone with a scientific qualification says it's true.
1 - Ghosts (33%)
2 - Sixth sense (32%)
3 - UFOs (22%)
4 - Past lives (19%)
5 - Telepathy (18%)
6 - Psychic ability to predict the future (18%)
7 - Psychic healing (16%)
8 - Astrology (10%)
9 - Bermuda Triangle (9%)
10 - Demons (8%)
My take on the above...
1. 0%. Living creatures cease to exist when they die. Since there is not one single piece of verifiable evidence to suggest that living things continue to exist once they've expired, it's safe to say that "ghosts" do not exist.*
2. Depends on the specific definition. Sometimes "intuition" can be (and often is) described as being a sixth sense. However, "intuition" is a complex cerebral synergy between multiple physical real-world sensory inputs. If one chooses to define the phrase "sixth sense" in a metaphysical sense then I would say that they're wrong.*
3. 100% validity. UFOs demonstrably exist. By definition, a UFO is unidentifiable. This does not mean that it is extraterrestrial in origin.
4. 0%. The theory rests on the idea that a person can survive their own death. See point 1.*
5. 0%. Never once been verified by anyone.*
6. 0%. Not one single specific prophesy has ever been shown to have been true. And by specific I mean just that - in order to show that a prediction has been made it has to be both precise in its description and precise in its timing*
7. ?%. This is the real anomaly in the list. The placebo effect is a strange, well researched and still not fully understood branch of science. The idea that a person can directly "heal" another by the power of their mind alone is baloney. However, the idea that the person being "healed" can believe that they're being "healed" by another can (sometimes) induce the believer to be healed. Such is the power of belief and hence, the placebo effect.
8. 0%. Utterly and completely absurd.
9. 0%. I've read about this extensively. I have yet to see a single case of a missing aircraft or ship that cannot be explained by rational means.* Isn't it interesting that ever since we've had GPS technology, the number of "Bermuda Triangle" incidents seems to have tailed off some what?
10. 0%. Absurd and quite perverse. One has to believe in God, then believe that God chose to create "demons" - entities that are specifically designed to ultimately torture us for eternity. It's an unprovable notion based on yet another unprovable and unfalsifyable idea. Completely ridiculous.
* Things that do NOT constitute evidence:
a. Anecdotal stories;
b. The assertion that there is no 'better' evidence;
c. Many people believe in it;
d. Someone with a scientific qualification says it's true.
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