How can you be 100% certain someone is lying and didn't actually see/experience what they say they did just because you don't believe it to be possible and tell them they belong in a padded cell?
2007-02-25 18:23:36 · 4 answers · asked by Cinnamon 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
It is believed to be real by babys and small children and laughed about by their parents . After a certain age the parents start brainwashing the Children into thinking its just their imagination or its evil. This is reinforced by the Church an to some extent by science.
2007-02-25 18:37:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People are notoriously bad at remembering things. Research has shown that people will paint in details that weren't there, will conflate memories of real events with things they've heard, and will basically just screw up the telling of everything. It makes you want to throw up your hands and start videotaping everything, really.
Go check out snopes.com sometime. This tendency of ours to misremember everything really helps urban legends along. For instance, we'll swear up and down that we were there when someone famous made a crazy goof that never actually happened. Or that that witty guy said all those witty things that he never did.
The police have to be really careful with lineups, too, because of this. A witness may very well be absolutely sure that the guy he points to was the one who robbed him, but that guy was an inmate safely in his cell at the time. It works just as easily with, say, UFOs. We see a bright light in the sky, it looks weird, later we remember it as an alien spaceship, while really it was Venus. We might even add details, like it moving in strange ways. Our minds, while being wonderful things, are just not that reliable.
2007-02-26 03:04:12 · answer #2 · answered by random6x7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people need 'proof' before they can believe. Others see 'proof' every day, but discount it as the truth of the matter is things they can not explain are frightening. It implies they don't have the control over their lives they might want to have!
2007-02-26 02:34:05 · answer #3 · answered by waggy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's human nature to scoff at something you haven't experienced or don't understand. I used to be the same way until I experienced paranormal phenomena.
2007-02-26 03:43:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋