have you ever seen something weird

[paulpablo]

Tom green was fucking hillarious in his prime thats pretty much self explanatory

[Brian37]

So youre saying when i see something i dont understand i see something i dont understand, thats pretty self explanatory. And i didnt say i thought it was area 51 causing the rain either which is a weird assumption to come to from you.

Go back and read my first response. I said I hate questions like this because it invites trouble and allows the gullible fuel. I was not saying you personally buy Area 51 crap.

"You" in the context of that post means "the individual" can and often does have flawed perceptions and falsely fills in the gap with crap.

I simply see no need to throw gas on the pyre of credulity. Pop culture already feeds them with enough garbage. I was providing natural explanation to a very mundane flaw in humans. It all boils down to flawed perceptions.

[paulpablo]

Well i was hoping there might be coincidently somone who knows a lot about geography who can explain the rain pattern i mentioned, i tried to log on to a geography forum but it was pretty dead and in the end i realised i couldnt be bothered just to ask that one question so i thought id post it in here and ask other people if they had ever seen anything strange just out of my own curiousity.

[Brian37]

My best guess is that it was a wind shift. It is quite common for wind to change direction suddenly. I do think it is cool to see the wall of rain before you enter it.

And I would guess that the acoustics of the geography amplified the sound of the rain, like when you talk through a megaphone. But without seeing the physical location, I can't comment on that.

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And to understand why there is nothing to what you observed. This also cuts to sample rate error. How many times has this not happened to you? I'd find it really freaky if it was happening to you every day. If you claimed it was happening to you every day, I'd wonder if you'd need meds.

It is the same misunderstanding of reality when people use the word "miracle", to describe surviving a plane crash.

1 person dies out of 200 on that plane and the media always has a clip of a passenger or pilot or rescue worker who says "it's a miracle"

Or 199 people die and only one survives and the same superstitious word is used "miracle".

What really happens in both cases are NATURAL factors, such as weather, mechanical condition, pilot skill and or error.

So what caused this rain to "seem" to follow you? Nothing, because it was not "following" anything, it was a result of natural conditions.

[Dee Dee Ramone]

I saw Alex Jones going gun-nuts. Does that count?

The weirdest creatures I saw, was during scuba-diving. No ghost stories, unfortunately.

[Brian37]

I saw Alex Jones going gun-nuts. Does that count?

The weirdest creatures I saw, was during scuba-diving. No ghost stories, unfortunately.

Alex Jones does not count. He is just nuts.

But the more I think about it, I just found another word I hate "Weird". It merely is a stupid way of saying "it caused me awkward pause".

Basically it is feeling sudden unsureness or uneasiness. Part of our evolutionary fight or flight mechanism.

[CapnAwesome]

Alex Jones does not count. He is just nuts.

But the more I think about it, I just found another word I hate "Weird". It merely is a stupid way of saying "it caused me awkward pause".

Basically it is feeling sudden unsureness or uneasiness. Part of our evolutionary fight or flight mechanism.

I have seem some lights moving erratically in the sky before. It's a big leap to go from that to Aliens however. So that's about the weirdest thing for me, far up moving lights. Kind of disappointing on the strangeness scale.

[Brian37]

Alex Jones does not count. He is just nuts.

But the more I think about it, I just found another word I hate "Weird". It merely is a stupid way of saying "it caused me awkward pause".

Basically it is feeling sudden unsureness or uneasiness. Part of our evolutionary fight or flight mechanism.

I have seem some lights moving erratically in the sky before. It's a big leap to go from that to Aliens however. So that's about the weirdest thing for me, far up moving lights. Kind of disappointing on the strangeness scale.

That really can be anything(accept little green men).

Most of the time it is simply some sort of aircraft.

There was a case in Az that was reported by several people about "lights" in the sky a few years back. Again, I would never in good conscious fill that gap with green men woo.

And you can perpetrate a hoax and if cleaver enough do it on a huge scale.

Just like stage illusionists can get tons of stage hand or the audience in on the trick.

It still amounts to if you are stupid enough to fill in a gap because you don't know what naturally happened or know how a hoax was concocted, if you want to believe something badly enough, you will.

"Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer is a book I intend to read at some point. Although I'd suspect it would not be anything new to me, even if still entertaining.

I do find how the human brain ticks fascinating. Knowing biology and psychology is important in knowing how our perceptions can be flawed.

[paulpablo]

And to understand why there is nothing to what you observed. This also cuts to sample rate error. How many times has this not happened to you? I'd find it really freaky if it was happening to you every day. If you claimed it was happening to you every day, I'd wonder if you'd need meds.

Yeh thats fair enough, but im 28 years old and ive never seen a rain cloud that covered only a few meters in length but was very long in width, length and width being from my perspective i mean, the rain when it passed over us only lasted for a few seconds but i looked to either side and it seem to be quite far out, as i said like a wall of rain. And for me to have never seen anything remotely like it, ive felt rain suddenly but never heard it progress towards me then moments later see a wall of it going right past me.

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was not "following" anything, it was a result of natural conditions.

Again dont take this word too literally either, i say follow to give a description of what the rain was doing, it reminded me of the cartoons when you see a depressed person and the rain follows them, but it didnt even exactly follow us because it went right past us then came back towards us again then just wasnt there anymore.

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But the more I think about it, I just found another word I hate "Weird". It merely is a stupid way of saying "it caused me awkward pause".

Basically it is feeling sudden unsureness or uneasiness. Part of our evolutionary fight or flight mechanism.

All of your definitions assume some emotional relationship with what was seen.
None of these things are a definition of what "wierd" means, all your definitions are definitions of how it is to feel weird, emotional responses, and even these definitions are vague.
Weird is just something, somone out of the ordinary nothing to do with a flight or fight mechanism and you can feel unease or unsureness about things that arent weird and you can pause awkwardly at things that arent weird. Obviously somone can feel weird aswell, it can be an emotional response but that wouldnt be an overall better way of putting things than saying weird.
If i would have called this thread "have you ever seen something that you couldnt explain that caused you to pause awkwardly" why would i make the assumption that seeing something weird would cause them to pause awkwardly?

[CapnAwesome]

That really can be anything(accept little green men).

Most of the time it is simply some sort of aircraft.

There was a case in Az that was reported by several people about "lights" in the sky a few years back. Again, I would never in good conscious fill that gap with green men woo.

And you can perpetrate a hoax and if cleaver enough do it on a huge scale.

Just like stage illusionists can get tons of stage hand or the audience in on the trick.

It still amounts to if you are stupid enough to fill in a gap because you don't know what naturally happened or know how a hoax was concocted, if you want to believe something badly enough, you will.

"Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer is a book I intend to read at some point. Although I'd suspect it would not be anything new to me, even if still entertaining.

I do find how the human brain ticks fascinating. Knowing biology and psychology is important in knowing how our perceptions can be flawed.

Yeah, it's kind of funny the difference in the discussion that I had about the lights with my Atheist friends and with some other hippy types who were hanging out. If it was such an amazing contrast how we all looked for logical material explanations and the spiritual types thought it could be anything except those.