Atheist If you experience a paranormal thing what will be your first reaction?

Answer 1

My first reaction would be curiousity followed by shock and/or awe.

Answer 2

I look for the rational explanation.

I've had a near death experience. Know the rational explanation.

I've had multiple out-of-body experiences. Know the rational explanation.

If I couldn't find the explanation, I'd keep seaching, but if there was simply no mathematically consistent way for what I had just witnessed to happen, I might consider the possibility of a hypernatural (not supernatural, there is a difference) force at work.

Answer 3

To verify it empirically. Then it would no longer be considered paranormal, but grounded in natural processes that can be understood.

Anecdotal feelings don't count as paranormal. Just because I think there may be an invisible spirit in my bedroom does not make it real.

Answer 4

I am athiest and believe strongly in life after death and have experienced numerous hauntings, apparitions and poltergiest and one that I cannot categorize...I assume it's a trapped spirit or she doesn't realize she is dead due to the fact that she exhibits an intelligent awareness of people, so she couldn't be classified as a risidual. But as for God...? What does his existance or non- existance have to do with the paranormal being believable? An apparition or ghost is a form of pure energy existing in or on a seperate dimensional plane that overlaps, apparently into the third. The only reason we see a ghostly image of them is due to the fact that the dimensional mass that makes them a whole is unphantomable to third dimensional entities....

Answer 5

"Paranormal" is a perceptual term. Things you might label as such I would likely see as another "thing" just simply going on in the world that many don't understand. I'm likely not to react too much either way. I try to maintain equanimity as much as possible since all things arise due to causes and conditions, even thoughts and emotions, are changing and impermanent.

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Answer 6

Most likely, I'd just assume a hallucination. Those definitely happen.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and anecdotal evidence is not a good kind of evidence.


David Hume answered your question many yeasr ago. If you see something that appears to conflict with known natural laws, the chances are your senses are fooling you.

Answer 7

It would depend upon which paranormal circumstance, but the proceeding actions would be something along the lines of:

- gather the evidence of what happened;
- analyse said evidence;
- draw a sensible and logical conclusion from that analysis.

Answer 8

Curiosity.

Answer 9

Curiosity.

Answer 10

i dont expect to experience a paranormal thing.