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If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?

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If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 2:25 pm
(July 16, 2014 at 2:16 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Is it because your reasoning may include something outside of science? Thinking

No. It's because of the word private. Also free will.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 2:35 pm
(July 16, 2014 at 9:11 am)pocaracas Wrote: It's clearly false: why isn't the girl looking at the fairies?

This was asked at the time actually, and Conan Doyle said that because the girl was so used to the fairies she didn't think of them as anything unusual and therefore wasn't looking at them.

When a believer wants to believe they will come up with any excuse to.
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 2:50 pm
(July 16, 2014 at 9:11 am)pocaracas Wrote:
(July 16, 2014 at 8:26 am)FreeTony Wrote: If there is no such thing as fairies, how do you explain this? The following photo was deemed genuine by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

[Image: Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg]

It's clearly false: why isn't the girl looking at the fairies?



Maybe she's straight?
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#54
RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 3:04 pm
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 3:07 pm
So, the argument goes, "Here's evidence of ghosts which is evidence of an afterlife, therefore god!"

So I can say, "We have pictures of planets, therefore potential for alien life, therefore those who claim abductions are right?".

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 3:12 pm
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 5:34 pm
(July 16, 2014 at 3:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What we have are double exposures, primitive lenses and pareidolia

You mean to say Jesus isn't trying to communicate with people by putting his image on burnt bits of toast?


(What is particularly stupid about this is that no-one has a portrait of Jesus so wouldn't know what he looks like, plus the idiots think he'd have white skin)
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 5:44 pm (This post was last modified: July 16, 2014 at 5:57 pm by Minimalist.)
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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 5:55 pm
(July 16, 2014 at 5:34 pm)FreeTony Wrote:
(July 16, 2014 at 3:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What we have are double exposures, primitive lenses and pareidolia

You mean to say Jesus isn't trying to communicate with people by putting his image on burnt bits of toast?


(What is particularly stupid about this is that no-one has a portrait of Jesus so wouldn't know what he looks like, plus the idiots think he'd have white skin)

But Jesus on toast should be all the evidence you need!

I loved Penn and Teller's Bullshit when they talked about celestial visitations. An image of Jesus on a glass pane in a large building.

When they went around the back the same stain was on multiple windows but they were ignored and some removed.

I guess xerox Jesus just isn't valid.

ROFLOL

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RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 16, 2014 at 6:07 pm
Those aren't fairies. Fairies wear boots.
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