Lars

Welcome back 🙂

re:daughter of karl

You are not a rarity. The majority of atheists hold some kind of spiritual or hocus pocus beliefs (the majority of atheists come from Eastern Asia (China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam). And despite years of secularism or even the chinese cultural revolution…belief in ancestor spirits and other kinds of fluff-talk is very real.…[Read more]

I found it fascinating that belief in the paranormal can be linked with schizophrenia, but only in males.  There’s a summary here

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8173547

Sigh.  He’s dead, Simon.

Steve wrote:
Could a ghost be a pattern of energy that does not dissipate fully after the body that held it together ceases to live? Could reincarnation be a pattern of energy that merges with a newer body?

No. There is not even the slightest evidence which demostrates that people have an essence, an immaterial being separate from our physical…[Read more]

There most certainly is a level of evidence that skeptics would accept. Ghosts appearing in public, immune to any attempt to explain them (trickery with light and smoke or holographic technology or some other deception), doing things that are impossible to explain. Behaving in the same predictable way in many different places…all recorded…[Read more]

@robert That is a seriously good reply 🙂

No

The nearest I have to a phobia is for jellyfish. Luckily I don’t run into them often