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Atheism is the believe that there is no god at all. Atheists can still believe in the paranormal, and I do to an extent, but they do not believe there is a god, and there is nothing in the world that will convince them that there is a god.

I do not think that believing in the paranormal makes you foolish or illogical, as long as it is not just blind belief. If you have a good reason to believe in the paranormal, then by all means, do so.

I think the fact that people could believe that is downright foolish. In a way, it's like people are ignorant enough to think they know everything there is to know, therefore strange things that happen or that are believed by some people that also can't be proven must not exist.
Wrong.
There are plenty of things in the world that people will never know about and never be able to prove. My dad once said, "You could read every book that was ever written and still not be on the borderline of all there is to know out there." I believe that, and I also believe that just because something can't be proved doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I consider myself an open-minded person. Maybe paranormal things do exist, maybe they don't. All I'm saying is that I think it's foolish to completely rule out the possibility.

Religion and the Paranormal are very much alike, and they are all percieved by your minds eye and your inner belifes and morals

Yet you cannot say that they are probable or not probable if you cannot prove that they even exsist. By all means does beliving in anything that you can't prove, does not make you into a fool..

I for one have fits of deja vu(like when i was typing thiss I had deja vu of my avatar, which has several new items therefore has not exsisted yet) And that could or could not exsist, but since i belive in it, i see that it does through my eyes.

Paranormal does exist and it has been shown through religion and occult. There will always be critics and people trying to prove it exists or doesn't. But there are many things that cannot be proven by human standards and methods. We, as a species, are not all-powerful and all-knowing. If we were, we'd be gods. Believing in something does not make you a fool. I believe in ghosts, and I believe there are different types of ghosts. The first and best are the Akhu, or 'shining ones'. These are the souls who have gone to judgment and passed the weighing of the heart and come down to earth when needed to help those who call to them for help, or to help thier descendants. Then there are muuet, the resentful spirits as well as those who refuse to go to judgment. Some of these just want to wander the earth or worry themselves over one thing or another, while others act the part of demons and cause trouble through hauntings and trying to be the 'mouthpiece' for God to try to lead others astray from thier beliefs. The best way I found to deal with those is to make them speak a holy name. I have found that muuets are incapable of speaking the name of a holy Deity like Jesus, Ra or Gaia. Why this is, I don't know, but it works from my experience.

I believe in the supernatural because their are too many reports for it to be faked. Some of it isn't true, but it can't all be faked.

Well we beleive what we think is true. If I think Big-Foot is real then that's what I beleive. I do beleive in the paranormal, but I don't see how it makes one foolish. It's all based on opinion. There have been many reported paranormal acts. But who knows they may not be real. For example a lot of people claim to have been attacked by ghosts (poltergeists in this situation) witnesses have seen it, scientists cannot explain it. We have no clue. We have proof they are real, but we don't know if it's fake because we didn't experience it ourselves/film/record it ourselves.

me being a claivoint i believe in the paranormal deeply, just because hteres no evidence proving it, doesnt mean it does not exist, dont mind the spelling plz.


(wen the platipus was first shown to the scientific community, the thought that it was a bunch of animales sewn together, mainly because there was no proof of them at the time... again dont mind the spelling plz!!!!!)

I don't think that just because you choose to believe in a paranormal event or a particular religion you should be pegged as irrational. To do so would be an irrational act ina and of itself. (Irrational being defined by the American Oxford Dictionary as 1. not being guided by reasoning, illogical 2. not capable of reasoning) Therefore dismissing someone's rational based upong thier belief system is irrational. Just as dismissing something that cannot be explained by modern science as irrational is irrational. But these sorts of things are always to be approached with some caution because of the great differences in opinion. But we must remember that jst because our science and understanding of phenomenon are not yet advanced enough to explain something does not mean that thing should be dismissed as the talk of insane or irrational people. Let us not forget that the recent discoveries of quantum physicists are things that only a few years ago were ideas that were scoffed at by scientists. Think of how foolish they feel now. Also, we must keep in mind that science has a very bad habit of writing off anything that cannot CURRENTLY be replicated under controlled conditions numerous times as simply being untrue, an unfair but basically human way of dealing with something that we don't understand. Afterall, it wasn't all that long ago that scientists didn't think black holes were real because they had never found one, but we now know that this was a false assumption, we now know they are real. So, who's to say that the paranormal occurances that thousands upon thousands of people have claimed to witnessed are the ravings of irrational or ignorant people? Afterall, there is the fact that a vast number of these occurances were reported in a time when information did not travel as fast as today and people did not have contact with others across the globe, so it makes an interesting case that many of these reports had much in common with the others depending upon the phenomenon reported. For example, the "Old Hag Syndrome". The experience is usually written off as a combination of sleep disorders, although the vast number of sleep disorders one would need to have in order to have the experience is very rare (and potentially deadly). HOWEVER, a survey was done in the 1990's at a college asking students if they'd ever had the experience and to describe it. A very high percentage reported that they had the experience and the discription were all oddly similar, even though the vast majority had never heard of old hag syndrome (I'll list my resources for this study later, I'm not at my comp and don't have the book handy at the moment). I really thyink that when it comes down to it we have to approach this sort of thing with a sort of level headed openmindedness (sort of like keep and open mind but not so open your brains fall out). Sorry for the long winded write up.