Re: Paranormal - normal or para?
Reply #76 –
I've never seen anything "paranormal" that didn't have some rational explanation if you want to dig for it.
You mean like the Ouija board you told about in post #19? The digging you did to find a rational explanation for it was to get rid of it...
That sure seemed to be the right thing to do at the time. Stuff I've read and heard since backs up that notion.
Mr Seaton would tell you not to mess with it because the "power" is fraudulent, and not apparently subject to scientific tests. I say not to mess with it because whatever is behind that thing is evil. So, JSeaton and I are on the same page concerning Ouija boards, but for different reasons. Not even that different as it happens: If there IS evil behind it as I suspect, that evil is trying to deceive you--making the advice given by the "magic oracle" fraudulent.
Messing around with witches, Tarot cards, Ouija boards and for all I know hanging garlic on your door to ward off werewolves doesn't make for good 21st Century educated discussion. All that stuff really belongs to back-woods lore at a time when people feared going to the castle on the hill because the vampire-prince that lives there would eat you. But, on a storm-tossed autumn evening, when the shadows lengthen, it makes a great story to scare each other around the camp-fire.
"Hoot"
I just heard a wolf.
(Everybody takes off, running in terror.)
Heh heh. Wolves don't hoot.