Hmmm, I thing 'believing' things with out proof
Disbars you from being rational old son, but each to their own.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 21:38, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Of course it doesn't.
Theoretical physics postulated black holes way before any were identified, and nobody accused Hawking et al of being credulous nincompoops.

It's not blind belief either- I fully expect these things to be categorically explained in the future. And like I say, I do not believe they are dead people, just that these things haven't been explained by science.

Fucking magnets, how do they work?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 21:40, Reply)

That's called having a theory
And I suspect hawking et al had some evidence to go on and a back ground of research. The thing a bout theories is also that they can be proved of disproved. Beliefs tend to be imune to evidence. This is why god botherers have belifs and not theories.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 21:45, Reply)

I know about the difference between theories, hypotheses and balls-out loony faith.
I am of the view that just as the Elizabethans didn't understand hygiene and electricity, eventually ghosts and things will be explained by science. That is fundamentally not the same as a religious type believing in God/angels/creation etc.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 21:54, Reply)

Ghosts are all about the mind and not about science.

( girlinthehole, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:00, Reply)

I read on the wall of the pub toilets that ghosts give you the willies.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:01, Reply)

NEED MORE WILLIES!

( girlinthehole, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:04, Reply)

haha!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:06, Reply)

fair enough
But when you say "I believe in ghosts" the majority of people will not understand this as "I thing the penomena we call gohosts will one day be explained by science." I think most will read it as "I am a credulous knob", hense the reaction.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:01, Reply)

I am absolutely not credulous.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:04, Reply)

ulous ible
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:07, Reply)

You're saying I'm incredible?
You are so, like, rilly rilly sweet.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:08, Reply)

I love you doze.
It's not often I get to feel superior these days
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:11, Reply)

In what way do you feel superior to me?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:12, Reply)

I suspect it's his choice in wimmin.

( girlinthehole, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:14, Reply)

I see.
I have impeccable taste in women.

*winks at blouserino*
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:15, Reply)

Winking get's you Jack shit.

( girlinthehole, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:18, Reply)

Or a Kroney special as it's also known!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 22:18, Reply)