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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:32:27 -0700, Ron Hubbard wrote:
here, which is kind of ironic because I probably agree with you more than
I disagree.
Anecdotal data or information is perfectly acceptable, in my book. There
are people I know who, I believe, would not lie to save their lives, who
are sober and drug-free, etc. - and who insist that they've seen things.
I believe these people. I totally accept what they say. They have
absolutely no reason to lie to me about this stuff, nothing to gain, and
they're not seeking my approval. They've just had strange things happen,
things that absolutely don't fit into our usual conceptions, and that's
that.
I have also had some remarkable personal occurrences that, despite my
best efforts to find more ordinary explanations, remain unexplained.
Just a handful of anecdotes, but highly convincing to me, and to those
who know me to be honest.
Of course, if I don't personally know someone, I am less likely to accept
everything they tell me. But that's a reasonable caution. Not everyone
is honest.
To my way of thinking, psi phenomena certainly exist. I am convinced of
it. When it comes to the existence of psi phenomena, we are probably on
the same page - we apparently both believe in them.
My seemingly skeptical comments were not addressed to the reality of
these phenomena, but rather to whether they were appropriate subjects of
*scientific* study. Science examines only a small subset of reality,
using only a small subset of the tools available to us. They are limited
to phenomena that can in some way be measured (as I keep saying). They
also require that the phenomena be somehow repeatable.
This doesn't happen with psi, as far as I can see. All the limited
*scientific* tests have come up dry.
Here in the West (I assume you're in the West) we often tend to equate
reality with scientific fact, but of course the two have little in
common. Most of reality is simply beyond the ability of scientists to
evaluate. Maybe this will change some day, but for now most of reality
is simply outside the domain of science.
But those things are real, all the same. Even if science never can deal
with them, they're real.
If I was unclear about that, I apologize. I never intended to say that
psi phenomena are false, just that they're more than science can handle
at the moment.
As for Freud - I didn't know he was accepting telepathy. I read
something by him about parapsychology, and it seemed he would twist
everything in order to do away with the possibility. I never knew he was
changing his opinion. Too bad he didn't live long enough to weigh in on
the topic.
--
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
-- Spanish proverb
Actually, that's not a problem. We seem to be talking at cross-purposesOkay, you have a problem. There are more people in the world with type B
here, which is kind of ironic because I probably agree with you more than
I disagree.
Anecdotal data or information is perfectly acceptable, in my book. There
are people I know who, I believe, would not lie to save their lives, who
are sober and drug-free, etc. - and who insist that they've seen things.
I believe these people. I totally accept what they say. They have
absolutely no reason to lie to me about this stuff, nothing to gain, and
they're not seeking my approval. They've just had strange things happen,
things that absolutely don't fit into our usual conceptions, and that's
that.
I have also had some remarkable personal occurrences that, despite my
best efforts to find more ordinary explanations, remain unexplained.
Just a handful of anecdotes, but highly convincing to me, and to those
who know me to be honest.
Of course, if I don't personally know someone, I am less likely to accept
everything they tell me. But that's a reasonable caution. Not everyone
is honest.
To my way of thinking, psi phenomena certainly exist. I am convinced of
it. When it comes to the existence of psi phenomena, we are probably on
the same page - we apparently both believe in them.
My seemingly skeptical comments were not addressed to the reality of
these phenomena, but rather to whether they were appropriate subjects of
*scientific* study. Science examines only a small subset of reality,
using only a small subset of the tools available to us. They are limited
to phenomena that can in some way be measured (as I keep saying). They
also require that the phenomena be somehow repeatable.
This doesn't happen with psi, as far as I can see. All the limited
*scientific* tests have come up dry.
Here in the West (I assume you're in the West) we often tend to equate
reality with scientific fact, but of course the two have little in
common. Most of reality is simply beyond the ability of scientists to
evaluate. Maybe this will change some day, but for now most of reality
is simply outside the domain of science.
But those things are real, all the same. Even if science never can deal
with them, they're real.
If I was unclear about that, I apologize. I never intended to say that
psi phenomena are false, just that they're more than science can handle
at the moment.
As for Freud - I didn't know he was accepting telepathy. I read
something by him about parapsychology, and it seemed he would twist
everything in order to do away with the possibility. I never knew he was
changing his opinion. Too bad he didn't live long enough to weigh in on
the topic.
--
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
-- Spanish proverb