My parents once owned a house in the “Central Gardens” Area in Midtown Memphis. Now anyone who lives in Memphis knows there are a lot of older homes in that area. Anyway,the house we lived in was once an orphenage(sp?). well to make a long story short, My mom, sister, and brother all say they have seen a small blonde haired boy in the basement playing with a rubber ball.
Weird huh?
Oh please. This is pure and utter rot. First off, there is zero truth to that old myth that we use 10% of our brains. Look at a PET scan of an active brain sometime. ALL of it is being used at one time or another. And as for the telekenisis, bit, if anyone can prove they have it, there’s a $1 million waiting for them. I can visualize no mechanism for it under current physics. Electromagnetism is the only force that can act over distances and can be produced at the necessary strength at the energies a human brain is capable of, but it only acts on charged particles. Most ordinary matter is neutral or weakly charged, at best. Find a viable mechanism and I’ll listen to you.
read the last line of your quote of me Q.E.D. i just said that at current there is no known viable mechanism. do you doubt the existence of the universe, even tho current explanations are still nowhere near understanding exactly how it all works? and besides, PET scans are not high enough resolution to show what’s happening at a cellular level. and i did not say that the other 90% doesnt get used. it’s just not to do with ‘us’. bubba jr is blatantly using some of it… anyway b]Q.E.D**, if you dont believe in poltergeist activity (to which telekinesis and the 90% are strongly linked), then do you believe that bubba’s house is haunted at all?
lastly, chill, cos i dont mean to be nasty about any of all this man. i dont mean it to come out like that, but you know how hard it is to convey stuff on a text only level 
And my point was that if there were some other force capable of moving objects remotely, we surely would have detected it by now. It’s not a case of us no knowing the exact details, we have know evidence that such a thing exists at all. This is not at all the same as not understanding the minutae of the universe at the subatomic level. We may not know all the exact details, but we certainly have the gross essentials in place, to the point where whe can make detailed verifiable proedictions about the how the universe should behave under various conditions, which have so far, largely been borne out.
And no, not only do I not believe in poltergiests or any other similar phenomena, I most certainly do not think bubba’s house, or anyone else’s is haunted. Not even a little bit.
Believe me, this is me chilling. I’f you had truly incurred my wrath, you would know it.
[hijack] oh cool. i already checked the pit for a thread along the lines of ‘plankspanker is a gullible turd’, but didnt find one, so i thought i was ok phew[/hijack]
but seriously man, i believe this. my science may be shoddy, my lack of understanding great, but i believe this. i have personally experienced too much wierd stuff that i couldnt explain, else i’d still be extremely cynical about it all…
Allow me, then, to point you to James Randi’s Website. It’s quite eye-opening if you’re willing to be open minded and activate your critical thinking skills.
oh, i know about james randi already. and my eyes are already open. it’s just that i dont subscribe to occam’s razor (sp?) myself. i believe that not everything in this place can be explained. some things just ‘are’. and there will always be the believers and always be the sceptics, and we will always bitch about each other being foolish and wrong
Newer, very expensive camera…
I guess your explanation works for that, but if so, the timing was just VERY creepy…
If you people are hearing rattling things in thew night, & the sound of mens’ footsteps–call the cops! It ain’t ghosts, but it might be burglars.
Tramps will go around looking for unlocked doors, & you’d be suprised how often they find them. Then–a sneaky midnight burgulary (SP?).
Honestly! Look for simple answers first! You’d think you’d all pawned your brains! :dubious: :smack:
Actually, your “science” is non-existent, as the term “science” is generally understood. And simply because you can’t explain something, doesn’t mean that it is unexplainable.
If you really want a fuller explanation of the points Q.E.D. is making, pick up a copy of Physics & Psychics, by Victor Stenger. It’s a little dated now, but the concepts are valid. Stenger explains in great, yet easily understandable, detail, the workings of all known natural forces and demonstrates why it is extremely unlikely others can exist.
Then, as I said, your “science” isn’t only shoddy, it is non-existent. Occam’s Razor is an essential tool in the pursuit of science. Science cannot be performed without it.
More expensive cameras have timers for the shutters. It get accidentally switched and thirty seconds later a picture gets taken. This is not to say that a newer, very expensive camera, using an electric switch instead of a simple spring release, can’t have switch problems.
Then there is the full panoply of eyerolling ghostly photographs that people are taking these days. It’s gotten so bad that even a ‘believer’ has posted explanations on how these manifestations can be manifested without supernatural help.
Tell you the truth Unc, I’ve never seen a ghost personally, and I’ve known both TO & DO to exaggerate things a bit, but you gotta admit it makes a good story.
I went to one place in the NW part of NC in the Appalachians, and met a dude who says he saw the Bigfoot family as he was hiking. Every other sentence he said was “I swear to God this is true” which of course meant he was lying. But, he so wanted to believe it was true, he’d have smacked his own grandma to prove it.
yeah, i know what you mean UncleBeer, Q.E.D. but it was 3 am. my ability to explain stuff in real terms usually ends about the time that i really should go to sleep
oh, and my reference to science was to do with the EM waves theory Q.E.D mentioned. the shoddy part is cos i’ve forgotten most of it since A-levels…
anyway, i have used occam’s razor (yay, i did get the spelling right!!!) in the past. hell, at one point it was nearly my mantra. i am a rational-thinking person, but there are just some things that i cant rationalise, and this sort of thing is one of them.
[sherlock holmes] remove the impossible (ie check that there are no other people in the house, nothing that could concievebly (sp?) cause noises etc). if at this point stuff is still happening then it’s not something the rational mind (or even indeed occam’s razor) can explain. it’s the improbable, and its the only explanation left…[/sherlock holmes]
i’ve read it at some point in the last year or so, and understood most of it, but unlikely and impossible are not the same…
What’s really eerie is how ghosts can sneak into your house and steal the Cap Key off your computer . . .
I never lived in a haunted house. In fact, I don’t actually believe in ghosts, and I’m convinced most “ghost” things are edge-of-sleep things, or misinterpreted signals, or whatever.
That said, I did work in a house that was supposed to be haunted, and two creepy things happened while I was there. One of our waiters had been shot the week before, and we were all very upset about it. He’d been a great guy, the kind of person you didn’t have to worry about if he was working, he’d clock in, look at the catering sheets, and get to work and whatever he was working on you knew you wouldn’t have to worry about. If he saw a buffet on the schedule, he’d get right to setting it up, for instance.
So about a week after he died, the assistant manager was sitting at a table in front of the only entrance to the basement, where the chafing dishes and such were kept. She’s trying to figure out who’s going to do what that evening, and thinks, “who do I have who knows how to set up the buffet?” when she hears the chafing dishes rattling in the basement. “Oh, Reggie’s on it,” she thinks, and then realizes he can’t possibly be. So it must be one of the other waiters.
Except there was nobody in the basement.
Two days later, I was in the building alone doing liquor inventory and heard people walking around upstairs, and voices, very faint. I know there was no one else in the building, I checked just in case the chef or another supervisor had come in. I don’t believe in ghosts, but still it scared the hell out of me and I got out of there as fast as I could. The staff, hearing the story, insisted it was Reggie saying goodbye.
I know I heard what I heard. I know the assistant manager wasn’t lying. But I also know just how completely freaked out we were that week. Reggie was only twenty-seven, had a wife and two little kids, was smart, hard-working, and well-liked. It was like someone took a piece out of us, just ripped it right out, like a missing arm or something, and we were all wandering around in a daze. Hell, I’m tearing up right now, thinking about him. I’d be surprised if we hadn’t had any hallucinations.
Still, it was an awfully creepy experience.
I wonder how many of the people who say that items during the night have moved may be sleepwalking or have someone in the house who is sleepwalking.
My brother once cleaned his entire apartment for guests who were coming the next day. In the morning he was dismayed to find that he had sleep walked and had left records and his guitar laying about and his car, which he had put into his garage was out on the street. Yes he sleep-drove!