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That's a good question Rick, and would be well-worth knowing. Just from having seen all the crap that Sacha Baron Cohen gets away with in his incarnations as Borat and Ali G, it doesn't appear that interviewees always know what they're getting themselves into. :D You have to admit though that...

I might as well throw out there that, while there may be no hard science linking humanity's CO2 output with a rise in global temperatures, I still believe it prudent to deal with those emissions ASAP. If all this talk of global warming and the pollution that arises from our excessive use of...

Well, it seems like Carl's statement used in the documentary was only a small part of a much longer and more balanced discussion of his findings. I know I would be pissed if I gave a long and nuanced explanation of the scientific work I had done and the views it had led me to, only to find that...

Some people here will also tack you on to their ignore lists the minute you challenge them or disagree with something they say. Such is the way of forums, I suppose. :rolleyes:

Are we distinguishing between ghosts and spirits, in that one seems to be some sort of energy trace that is associated with a particular location as opposed to the soul of a deceased human being? Because, I'm interested in further discussion of that difference. :) For the people who have...

I don't know enough of the scientific facts/theories to put my support towards one side of the debate or another, though my sympathies lie more "green" than not. However, in an effort to further the discussion on this documentary, here's an article in The Guardian critiquing it: George Monbiot...

Please do me the courtesy of typing my name correctly - your poor attempt at knocking me down by twisting my alias makes you look just as immature as the posters you criticize. Also, just to clear things up, I'm not proselytizing anyone or anything except keeping an open mind and trying to be...

Unfair sterotype statement from David hopeful skeptic, I see where you're coming from, I really do. But, how do you know that all superstition is silly, that all "supernatural" phenomena are bunk and as such the study of them (for those of us who are interested) can in no way contribute to our...

Is that some sort of threat? If so, I don't appreciate it. Believe me, I'm the last person to tell someone else how to behave and I'm not trying to start a fight. I just don't see how it benefits you or this forum to smack down other posters and essentially call them stupid, whiny brats. But, if...

As someone who's never taken a psychoactive substance, you're not really in any position to comment on the kind of people who take those drugs or the insight a psychedelic experience might give into the functioning of what we term "consciousness". I agree that the fact that these two...

Wow hopeful skeptic, what a scathing rebuke of a post. Obviously, I'm out of my intellectual league in trying to have a discussion with you. Let me sleep on your reply and get back to you. I certainly don't want to post any ideas that haven't been thoroughly cross-referenced with the latest...

Interesting thread guys! We should keep this going, update each other as we get more experience with OBEs. I have to admit - I feel like Gene here in that I'm very very interested in the phenomenon but have never had an out of body experience nor been close to achieving one. I've never even had...

interestedINitall - I have to admit I'm a bit bothered by the slightly snarky and disrespectful stance you took upon discovering that daiello is a college student. Maybe members of the community like you are the reason that the youth of today aren't more interested in joining in the conversation...

DBTrek, could you please enlighten us as to what you think Steorn's game is then? Why take out an expensive ad in the Economist? Why establish a panel of scientists to investigate their technology and, later, publicly disclose what they've found? Why set themselves up for all this attention if...

For people interested in uncovering truths that society has discounted out of hand, there seem to be a lot of people on this board who scoff at users of mind-altering substances and in turn dismiss what they have to say out of hand. Pot calling the kettle black, don't you think? Yes, drug use...

Thanks gentlemen, I'd be more willing to accept the possibility of "seeing the future" if it involved somehow gleaning the most likely path a person can take among many probabilities. This sort-of ties in to some science fiction I've read, supposedly based on real physics, that various...

Wow, does it piss anyone else off that doing The Paracast has negatively affected David's career? I mean, anyone who has actually taken the time to listen to the show would see that both hosts approach the topics with a respectable mixture of caution, curiosity, and thoughtfulness. It's...

Can you discuss predicting the future without getting into the thorny philosophical territory discussing whether we have free will or not and whether the future is predestined or not? I'd like to believe that we do have free will and that the future doesn't have some set course that we have to...

DVS - thanks for your reply. Let me clear up a few things. Like you hinted at, I would be prone to argue that people conflate communism, marxism, and socialism. But, I'd rather not even bring communism into this discussion at all. Like I said before, while Zinn may be pointing out the faults of...

riggs2099, just how old are you? Sorry if this is insulting but your posts come off as slightly childish and immature - provoking reaction just because you can. So, I'm guessing you're in high school? This relates though to the topic of "Youth and UFOs" - if younger people did take a greater...