Do you believe in the paranormal?Why?

Question

Do you believe in the paranormal?Why?

Answer 1

Not really, but I believe there are gullible people who'll believe in anything.

Answer 2

Nope.  If paranormal stuff existed, it wouldn't be paranormal.  It would be normal.

Answer 3

Yes. My mother said so.

Answer 4

YES!! My whole family does. We are having PRS come in because of everything that has happened!! My fingers are getting tired so I will edit this later and tell you, I have to clean for PRS' arrival!!!!!!

Have you met them, can you answer my sisters question. If you do no rude comments!!

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Answer 5

Yes, because I've witnessed and have had paranormal experiences!

Answer 6

No, but it would be cool

Answer 7

yes, i believe everything unexplainable in this world is considered paranormal. just my own 2 cents.

Answer 8

yees, I'm an alien

Answer 9

Firstly we have to define the paranormal, for normality is defined by he who thinks he is normal. Spirits do exist, for example John of God, who allows friendly spirits to possess him to perform incredible painless surgeries on the sick. He lives in Brazil and has only 4 years of education.

I have only one thing to say to this question. "The all is mind, The universe is mental." You only think in a way because you make it seem that way. There is no truth, only imagination. Keep thinking:)

Answer 10

Yes. Science does not have all of the answers. Like somebody said, John of God is an example. I have also had a few paranormal experiences myself. I have seen a single UFO in my lifetime.

Answer 11

By definition, no. Para-normal means there isn't a means why which we can observe it, test it, and scientifically confirm it, which results in the para- prefix being attached.  So I generally do not believe in paranormal claims because of this. That doesn't necessarily mean that the paranormal claim cannot be true. In practice, however, I find most paranormal claims to be either a little silly or just too poorly supported.

Answer 12

prefix PARA means surrounding or outside of

                     (by the way there is another meaning=protective)

                     (the root of one is latin, and the other is greek, i think)

THE ONLY THINGS THAT ARE PARANORMAL (in the first sense) THAT I KNOW OF, ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN "THE PARANOMAL"

Answer 13

I'm a doubter of the paranormal.Most of it is silly superstitious nonsense.The rest is very questionable.Until I see a demonstration of one claim or boast.I'm not changing my mind.

Answer 14

Why do people seem to think that anything paranormal hasnt been proven. I believe Dean Radin has proved psychic ability to be true

"Meta-analysis, the analysis of analyses, can be thought of as an integrative review or a "structured technique for exhaustively analyzing a complete body of experiments." Radin states that:

Meta-analysis has been described as 'a method of statistical analysis wherein the units of analysis are the results of independent studies, rather than the responses of individual subjects.' In a single experiment, the raw data points are typically the participants' individual responses. In meta-analysis, the raw data points are the results of separate experiments.

Thus, "by combining thousands of people's performances over hundreds of experiments, we can obtain very high levels of confidence about the existence of psi." Put another way, "when we combine results of many similar studies to form the equivalent of a single, grand experiment conducted by many experimenters, from many locations, over many years, we also substantially increase our confidence in the outcome.

Meta-analysis has exploded in popularity because behavioral, social, and medical sciences needed a "method of formally determining whether the highly variable effects measured in their experiments were replicable." Since data from similar but not identical experiments are combined, some reevaluation of the original data is needed. This leads to criticisms of mixing apples and oranges (which is fine if what you're after is facts about fruit), and the "file drawer problem," which insinuates that many unsuccessful experiments go unpublished, siting in file drawers and skewing results.  

A comparison to aspirin studies is useful. Individual studies on aspirin reducing heart attacks were not very persuasive, but when many studies were combined, the aspirin effect was declared to be real. This, says Radin, is exactly what meta-analysis has done for psi experiments. Considered individually, some psi experiments have been successful but the effects did not appear to be easily repeatable. This uncertainty has fueled the skeptics' doubt for over a century. But when studies are combined, there is no doubt that the psi effects are real."

The bottom line is ..

The meta-analyses presented for the other types of psi research are similarly impressive. As a consequence, "Informed opinion even among skeptics, shows that virtually all the past skeptical arguments against psi have dissolved in the face of overwhelming positive evidence," and "informed skeptics today agree that chance is no longer a viable explanation for the result obtained in psi experiments." Only time will tell, however, if the scientific establishment's acceptance of psi will really be this simple and inevitable.

The Conscious Universe is not without its problems. The book could have stood more editing: at times it rambles, is overly repetitious, or seems insufficiently integrated. Moreover, when Radin gets into subject matters that are not his expertise -- he says some things about physics and mysticism that Ken Wilber, in Quantum Questions : Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984), shows are patently not so -- he occasionally falters. Nonetheless, this extraordinarily important, watershed volume should be read by every serious student of the human mind, and put into the hands of anyone who insists that "there isn't a shred of evidence for psychic phenomena." That's just not true any more.

Answer 15

Since it's unusual, most people will say you are

crazy... just like they laughed at the inventors of

radio and the telephone... voices throught the air,

you must be crazy, har har.

That's the stupid and narrow minded attitude of

some people.

I believe that certain paranormal experiences can

and do occur. I have seen them, experienced them,

and know others who have as well. I also have seen

big mouth skeptics change their song fast, when

fate drops some undeniable evidence on them.

B*B,

Jean

Answer 16

Yes, I do. I have experinced this a couple of times.

Answer 17

No, because there is not sufficient evidence to make it believable.

I predict that others here will disagree though.