Do you believe the paranormal blindly, or based on an experience...?

Question

That defies the the unsatisfying conventional explanation

Answer 1

I don't "believe" in the paranormal at all.  I've never had a weird experience, or seen something strange that I couldn't come up with a natural explanation for, once I sat down and thought about it.

To read peoples comments on this site, you'd think it would impossible not to constantly be tripping over ghosts, aliens or bigfoot.  

I understand  peoples fascination with the weird, and when I was younger, less well read and educated I used to believe a lot of that stuff too. People like mysteries, they like to think there is something "beyond explanation".  They don't like scientists coming up with boring (but actual) explanations of things that fooled them.

  Experience is interesting, but peoples senses and expectations can fool them into thinking they saw something that is paranormal, but has a very prosaic explanation if you take the time to look for it.

Answer 2

For anyone to believe anything to do with t**t like this they would have to do so blindly.  

Answer 3

A lifetime of experiences.

Answer 4

I have had many experiences over the course of my life that forced me to believe, I don't have a choice.   Now I look for scientific proof, I know I am not crazy.    

Answer 5

Yes. I am a christian I love God. He has shown me visions of things. These things arent randome and crazy they make sense. I have seen people be prayed for and then they fall down on the floor and they are frozen. then they wake up and they usally have something different. My sister has seen demons, shes seen them whispering in peoples ears. The Spiritual realm is all around us and it is a battlefeild

Answer 6

I believed a little before my expeirenece but I believe for sure now.

Twice when I was in my room alone someone would walk by my bed (no I was not sleeping I was sitting there on my laptop). Also I once through a raison across my room because I was mad about something and (I watched it hit the floor) like ten minutes later it came flying across back at me. Once again alone in my room. And then once when I was sitting in my living room (my mom was asleep on the couch) it was dark all but a lamp and and the tv light and I looked in the kitchen and someone walked across. It's creepy!

Glad I'm moving!

-Witch

Answer 7

Personal experience.  I've seen deeply spiritual and miraculous events.  Things beyond "conventional" knowledge definitely exist.  Dictionary.com defines conventional as: conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.  

2. ...arbitrarily determined.  

3. ordinary rather than different or original.  Just because a lot of people subscribe to a thought process, doesn't make it any less boring and unimaginative, or often any more true.

If your mind is so open your brains fall out, that's no good, but if your mind is totally closed you won't see or recognize anything out of the ordinary if it's right in front of you.  I have a friend who changes the subject every time I bring up something supernatural or extraordinary.  I just can't believe he's never experienced ANYTHING.  What I came to realize is that he was afraid to acknowledge anything.  He has an unbalanced Mother (I think she's very interesting), but he's afraid that embracing any of that will lead him to be unbalanced as well.

Sad that his fear cuts him off as much from everyday miracles as from fear based paranormal experiences like ghosts or UFO's.

I did see a ghost once and it freaked me out :)

Answer 8

I see, hear and feel things on a daily basis that defy conventional explanation (not counting those whose only explanation is that you're nuts). I have never blindly believed, I have always been a "prove it to me" person. It has. Repeatedly.  

Answer 9

i believe n weird and paranormal stuffs. from when i was little i was interested in these stuffs. then suddenly i started missing my friend and started to feel his/her

presence around me always especiaaly when i was lonely. most of the time i was lonely i felt his/her presence around me as if he/she was trying to comfort me, or help me, or save me,or follow me or look after me. so from when i was little i started believing in paranormal stuffs.

Answer 10

Yes I certainly do believe in ghosts. I have had plenty of terrifying

personal experiences, I am still having experiences and I just can't think of any other possible explanations for. My experiences started when I was around 4 years old so at that particular point, I did not know what ghosts were until I told my mom and she told me about them.  

Answer 11

Based on both personal experience, and on what the Bible says about the Occult.

Answer 12

Based on experience. Until it happened to me, I was a total unbeliever in ghosts. In the past 40 years I've had 10 experiences, few and far between, that tell me life is much stranger than we're taught in school. The events happen to me, I cannot 'conjure' them. I am a believer!

Answer 13

i believe in the paranormal based on the show Ghost hunters they go in to places and try to disprove the claims but if they cant then it has to be something paranormal

Answer 14

I've experienced enough things at least dealing with the spirit world that I believe things such as spirits, what you would call ghost do actually exist. As far as UFOs,Big Foot, Loch Ness Monster and all the rest I'm still not sure they are real? So I would say I believe things based on my own personal experience.