In any form or fashion. If you do believe in a supernatural thing(s) what?

  • AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    The god of the gap? No. I believe in proof and evidence, and once you have that it’s not supernatural anymore. Isn’t the real world interesting enough?

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    20 hours ago

    i’ve seen things i cannot give a fully scientific explanation to why they happened, and i believe there are things that are not currently explainable by current science. however i don’t take the explanations currently given by most religious, esoteric and magick groups at face value, and more so in their vision of how a society is to be shaped.

  • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I know that we have, throughout history, assigned unknowns as supernatural occurrences.

    And I don’t think we know everything yet.

    So yes? That doesn’t mean the supernatural things are supernatural., just that they exist, we don’t understand them yet.

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    1 day ago

    If “supernatural things” were to exist, they would be part of nature and therefore natural by definition.

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    22 hours ago

    No lol. Belief in the supernatural in any form is un-Marxist.

    Whether that’s angels and demons and deities, witches and ghosts, or astrology and healing crystals. It is a virtue to have a completely Materialist worldview.

  • Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Now that almost everyone on planet earth has a small camera with them at all times, it would have been really cool to have discovered some supernatural stuff, be it ghosts, Big Foot, Nessie, whatever (and someone still might, who knows?), but instead all we get is police brutality. 🙁

  • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Sometimes, (more often lately) I wish I did believe in that stuff or that they did exist because it would make me feel a whole lot better about the way the world is now, vs just greedy and shitty people doing greedy and selfish or malicious things to others for greedy, selfish, and malicious reasons. The existence of a physical manifestation of evil and it’s ability to influence others would at least make the world make more sense sometimes. I want there to be more good in the world and it feels rotten to think that the reason there isn’t there are just shitty people manipulating us or harming us and getting away with it vs some force of nature.

    But, I am sadly not that person, I don’t believe in that stuff. I am open to it should it be presented to me but for now, I have no evidence of it.

  • davidgro@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There are two unexplained phenomena that I currently believe in (but either could change at any time - by being explained or by being shown not to exist.)
    They are dark matter and dark energy.

    But ghosts and stuff? Certainly not.

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    1 day ago

    I work in 911 dispatch, and it absolutely feels like on and around a full moon our calls get weirder

    We’re not necessarily getting more or more serious calls than average, so it’s kind of hard to point to any measurable statistic that would back up that assertion, and it’s not just people with psych issues calling and ranting at us, so you can’t even just go by mentions of callers “rambling” or “not making sense” in the notes of our calls, a lot of them are just bizarre situations that seem really unlikely or convoluted.

    I’m kind of loath to label it as supernatural though. I feel like if there is actually a correlation and not just confirmation bias on my part, it probably has some reasonable scientific explanation.

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      1 day ago

      Tbh, a full moon means a lot of increased predatory activity, I wouldn’t be surprised if we subconsciously become more anxious and rash, and I wouldn’t consider that any more supernatural than the tides (provided there’s actually at some point a link discovered).

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        1 day ago

        I’m not sure which version of my comment you replied to because I kind of waffled a bit on my last paragraph and edited it about 3 or 4 times in rapid succession probably about the same time you were replying because I didn’t like how it sounded, it felt a little rambly trying to cram it all into the comment, so sorry about that.

        But yeah, I’m basically on the same page there, one of my versions did touch on that, lots of animals have instincts tied to the moon, more available light gives them different opportunities and risks, and we are, at our core, still animals with some weird instincts driving our decisions, and of course there are things like the tides as well, and who knows what other little effects the moon is having on us and our environment that might make us act a certain way, all with a reasonable, if not immediately apparent scientific explanation.

        Sure feels supernatural though.

  • ProfessorScience@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What does it really mean to be supernatural? What’s the difference between, say, a ghost and dark matter? We don’t really know what either one is. Is it that we can reliably find evidence of dark matter, even if we don’t know what it is, so it’s not “super” anymore? It seems to me that “supernatural” is just a name for the ones we don’t actually believe in.