LiveForTheLaunch said:
Yes, I absolutely do! Too many people have had experiences, and to call all of them liars is just a bit silly.
If so many people have had experiences, then why is there not a single piece of solid evidence that they exist?
Hundreds of millions of people have had paranormal experiences, but nobody can show a single little bit of conclusive evidence that they're real.
It's not a case that people are lying, more that there are other explanations. The problem is, people who have had experiences will never accept any other explanation.
Mysterious things happen all the time. As I type this, a voice inside my head is telling me what to to write. It's actually me, but I have no control over this inner voice, it's just always there. Last night I dreamt a very vivid dream. I needed to assign a Windows security setting to a cake to stop people from eating it. The same voice telling me to write this, also comes up with that complete and utter rubbish which feels real at the time.
The point is, we are massively complex biological machines in a massively complicated universe.
We don't function any where near 100% accurately even 50% of the time. We're all damn flakey. Add into this the fact the universe works in ways we can't always comprehend (though science will often offer reasons for things happening) and you have "the paranormal".
How can you explain "my mum saw a ghost and had a chat"? I'm not allowed to suggest subconscious day dreaming (something that happens a great deal and is proven) as it's "offensive to that person" or, "that person just isn't like that".
Reminds me of talking to the neighbours of somebody who's just gone on a killing spree "he always seemed to be so polite and quiet - I never thought he'd do that".
Erm, it's a no.
I believe that there's a lot of stuff happens that we don't understand, but that doesn't mean that I should believe in something which cannot be proven outside of anecdotal evidence based on witnesses from the human race (completely unreliable).