Simply put, you do NOT have a “third eye” that “feels like a muscle opening in my forehead, kind of like a sphincter” when it opens.
Your statement is not true. In fact, it’s bullshit.
If you think it is true, you need to quit the drugs, seek professional help, or likely both.
Anyway, you made the extraordinary claim, it’s up to you to provide the evidence, not the rest of us.
Holy shit. I agree with milroyj.
Will someone please check the weather in Hell for icy precipitation.
I’m not interested in proving it. As long as you are willing to admit that it is your own bias devoid of logic that has you saying this, I’ll agree to disagree.
Erek
My bias, real, imagined, or otherwise, is completely irrelevant. On a board dedicated to fighting ignorance, you have made a totally bullshit claim, and one for the record books, I might add. Truly, this is even more bizarre than “woman sperm”, et al.
Saying that you’re “not interested in proving it” is weaselling of the highest order. IOW, put up or shut up. Otherwise, you’re coming across like you’re just posting to get attention.
It’s not weaseling out of the highest order. I don’t care to prove it. I didn’t say I wanted you to believe it, only that I believe it. You are making a bold assertion that it ISN’T true and then asking me to defend myself. I don’t care to defend my assertion, but your statement is not in any way logical or rational, it is a straight up opinion, and unless you want to put up, I suggest you shut up. All I am doing is pointing out that until you do put up, you are the one propagating ignorance.
My point is simply that, while I can FEEL the effects of my third eye, I don’t understand why it happens, only that it does. So I lack the capacity to PROVE anything to you. That’s not weaseling out at all. You however, are making a claim that is neither experiential on your own part, nor based in any evidence other than you don’t want a third eye to exist and can find enough people to consense to your opinion, that you feel froggy enough to say that I am full of shit.
Burden of proof is on you my man, you’re the one claiming superior knowledge of someone you barely know to the knowledge they have of themselves.
Wake up there’s a big world out there, you don’t know everything, and unless you DO know that I am wrong, you ain’t fighting ignorance, you’re just a chump willing to buy into a commonly held bias.
Erek
Now you’re just being an idiot. It is simple, really. If you make an extraordinary claim, which you have, the burden is on you to prove it.
Only if I care whether or not you believe it.
Um, no, it doesn’t matter what you care about.
You have made an outrageous claim, but decline to support it, in any way.
Thusly, I won’t be the only person to dismiss what you have to say, out of hand.
Whatever floats your boat, dude.
mswas has drawn a distinction between phenomena that are subject to scientific investigation, and phenomena that are not. Claiming that the world is 6000 years old is subject to scientific investigation. Claiming that evolution is the way God has chosen for life to develop is not. You can argue creationism and ID from this point of view, but only in a philosophy class.
That’s why I asked if mswas’ third eye is testable. If it allows him to do the inexplicable, then it can be tested. If it doesn’t, then it is a personal experience of his and not subject to scientific investigation, proof or disproof at all. Until he answers that question, he hasn’t made an extraordinary claim.
Personally, I have an invisible squirrel on my shoulder that gives me advice and corrects my typos. He’s not perfect, but I’d make a lot more mistakes if he weren’t there correcting me.
This claim is not testable, so it doesn’t fall under the umbrella of science. You may conclude that I’m delusional or lying because your life experience tells you these are more likely, and you are entitled to that conclusion. But it isn’t subject to debate.
mswas, I’m not asking you to prove your third eye, nor will I. I am asking if it is a testable phenomenon, or it is purely subjective? This is personal curiosity.
Perhaps you should learn a little bit about who you’re insulting before you pick on them. We’re not cowboys and hookers bunched up in saloons having showdowns at high noon here in Texas, but perhaps they don’t teach you that we have made as much or more scientific progress as whatever short-sighted-asshole-producing state you’re from. Ignorance begets ignorance. Don’t generalize.
Well, yes, actually, it does. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof” is a test for people who are actually trying to convince you of something. He doesn’t have some Constitutional responsibility to prove anything to you, does he?
I mean, I think the “third eye” thing is silly, too, but mswas is not your slave, tasked to do whatever you want him to do.
No, of course not, that would be silly.
But if he wants to be taken seriously about his claim, he should back it up, don’t ya think?
And if he’s joking, or worse, he’s in the wrong place.