I firmly believe in science, and I agree that there's a lot we don't know which all good scientists admit to. What I like about guys like Randi, Shermer, and Penn Gillette, is that they debunk a lot of stuff that does need debunking, like what Randi did to Yuri Geller. I'm a huge fan of Penn and Teller's Bullshit, and they do bring up a lot of good points.
But they aren't really qualified in doing so, and Randi's debunking of Geller was pretty flawed as well. Just because Randi can fake bending a spoon doesn't mean that Geller fakes bending spoons. Maybe he did, but that's still a circular argument, and all it proves is that Randi knows how to do a trick where he bends a spoon. Plus he picked out one guy that he was sure was a fake. And Shermer never has anything intelligent to say. He just smirks. And just because Geller might be a fraud doesn't that physic or psychokinesis abilities don't exist. But that's what's implied. The Duke University research showed otherwise.
The problem with those three is they are biased. Bias confirmation is something to be avoided in science. So as far as I'm concerned anything they "prove" is invalid.
But Randi and Gillette are very good entertainers. I've had many enjoyable hours watching them. They were always some of my favorites in that field. But in the end it's their personal opinions and beliefs they are pushing. Their egos want to be right, so they do the whole debunking thing. It's like the whistle blower syndrome.
But yeah, charlatans need to be exposed! But debunking a whole subject is not the way to do it.
With that said, there's a high probability that there's a lot of stuff we don't know. What bugs the shit out of me though is people that assume just because we don't understand something, people jump to the conclusion of Aliens or Ghosts or whatever.
Ghosts are a name we have given to the phenomenon. It doesn't explain what it is. It is presumed to be the spirits of the deceased, I guess based on their appearance and circumstances, as in the case I presented. The phenomenon seemed to be attached to the woman's belongings. That doesn't mean it was her, but it probably had something to do with her. We all thought it was her, but it was a vague shape of a person with no details. besides the shadow we saw the shape move past us several times. And why does the room get cold? These are physical effects that should be able to be measured.
You have to think that this stuff has been seen for countless generations, and people have come to conclusions based on their observations of the events. But that doesn't explain what it is, just what it seems to be.
Aliens? That's a tricky one. I don't think they are people coming from another planet somewhere, but that can't be proven or disproven. They might appear as aliens because that's what we want to see. But then I have to temper that argument with my experience as a child, when the images of "grays" didn't exist in our culture.
Probably any answer we come up with will be wrong and too simplistic.
We have absolutely no proof of that other than what people tell us. Could it not be something else? Why is it only a select few that have these experiences, and why don't we have any acceptable documented proof that it is something that isn't natural? It doesn't have to be aliens or ghosts. And if it is Aliens that are taking people in the middle of the night, well that's scary, but we have to admit that there's a strong possibility that it's something all-together more mundane.
At the present time all we have is what people experienced, and the occasional photos of ghosts and UFOs. But let's not throw that out with the bath water. And lets not make proclamations as to what it all means. We have to define what a ghost is, or any paranormal apparition.
We also have to think that perhaps it is an advanced race of beings, totally leaving out where they are from and how they got here. Maybe it's something other than living beings like us. We have no concept of anything like that. So they might be able to do all sorts of things as people observe them doing, and they have enough control over us to not be photographed if they don't want to, except for the UFOs themselves. They seem to parade those in front of people all the time. They put on a big show with lights and such.
Maybe if we photographed one of the (insert name for beings) they might not look like what we observe at all. Or like anything.
Sometimes I think all this stuff is a glitch where things pop in from some part of reality we know nothing about. Maybe they see us when we see them and they go and tell their people, and then they get debunked!
