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Originally Posted by IROC
With all due respect to Seahawk, he is also human and subject to the same cognitive limitations as the rest of us. The real "training and experience" takes the form of understanding that every one of us is fallible and that we are easily fooled.
Unfortunately, your argument is a straw man and frankly unexpectedly juvenile for a man of your substantial acumen. No one (certainly not me) is pushing "outright denial". Of course there are things we don't understand. Just because we don't know the answer to something doesn't mean the answer is "unknowable" or that the only plausible answer is a supernatural explanation. Or aliens. Or ghosts. Or Bigfoots.
In the history of mankind, the list of things that were once mysteries but are now known and understood is very long. Never...not once, has the answer to one of the mysteries been "supernatural". So, I would submit that subscribing to supernatural explanations for events is the actual "refuge of people who do not want to deal with unpleasant realities" - not those of us who simply ask for evidence for beliefs...
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My point was..if the usual suspects do not yield the causation you have to start looking farther afield which includes ghosts aliens and big foots..you can not rule them out. They are possibilities. To categorically say they don't exist is to deny their possibility..which is the avoidance of possibly facing a reality you are I'll prepared emotionally to deal with. That would blow the doors off of your conceptualization of reality.
Man's knowledge and perceptional abilities have limits. Perhaps in the future what are termed as being ghosts can be explained scientifically .that they are in fact people who in someway are caught in between dimensions after they leave this plain of dimensional existence. .
Perhaps Aliens have bent space or use time to be able to travel vast distance.
It is thinking that only the laws of physics that you know exist that limits your possibilities...it keeps you in the box of what is possible. Anything that resides out of the box is a flight of fancy. That must be a safe and secure comforting feeling.