Doubling down on the spooky posting. Also please check the high strangeness thread on c/main for even weirder shit. Anyways, what’s the creepiest thing you’ve experienced, real or paranormal.

  • Hotspur21 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Not trying to hate, but do y’all actually believe in paranormal/mystical shit? I feel like my lack of belief was a pretty big factor in leading me to leftism. Idk whether that’s a common correlation or just me personally

    • FanondorfAmiibo [they/them,none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I've long considered myself a staunch atheist, but damn if I don't feel like there's unexplainable phenomena in our universe. I don't think I really buy into the idea of like a god or an afterlife at all, but I feel like there's disturbances in our reality that don't fit neatly into the "logic and science" way our world operates today.

      • Hotspur21 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        What kind of stuff? I don’t necessarily disagree but I tend to think it’s mainly just things we haven’t discovered an explanation for yet

        • Funicio [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I like that explanation but it doesn't really cover the cases where multiple people see something paranormal simultaneously, unless those monkey brain parts are shared very accurately it seems implausible for multiple people to have the same illusion at once.

      • Caocao [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        well according to science 24% of the universe is dark matter and 73% is dark energy, add that together you get 97% of the mass energy of the universe is "dark," i.e. we know nothing about it except that it exists. People usually think of dark matter as something that exists way out in the vacuum of space, but we may interact with it every day without realizing.

        Anyway it's crazy to think the entire universe can be explained based on the 3% we have (partly) measured and documented

    • kelptea [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      just speaking for myself, i don't not believe in it. it's mostly an unsettled question for me, and one that, regardless of the answer, doesn't affect my leftism in the slightest. i do think quite a few things fall through the cracks in science, and there's just too many stories dating back since forever for me to completely dismiss it. basically a big shrug from me lol