I can't generalise, but I think a lot of Atheists discount all supernatural things?

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also pseudo-sciences.

Now I know that all atheists don't agree here but ...

personally I don't believe in ghosts, mediums, psychics, fairies, water divining, homoeopathy, reiki, faith healing, zombies, unlucky/lucky numbers, tipping salt for luck, blarney stone, aliens buzzing people in Nevada etc, aliens making crop circles, bigfoot, loch ness monster, lucky/unlucky black cats, lucky horseshoes, lucky bird poo, 7 years bad luck for breaking a mirror, toucning wood for luck, 13th floor bad luck, haunted houses/graveyards, telekinesis, palm reading, tea-leaf reading, astrology, dreams that predict the future, past lives in hypnosis, reflexology, worthiness of a tin foil hat as protection from microwaves etc, moon influencing sanity (what we used to call lunatics are now diagnosed as having bi-polar disorder), werewolves, vampires, flat earth, Elvis still alive, Princess Diana murder conspiracy, falsification of moon landings, crystal healing, dianetics, Illuminati controlling the word, Illuminati as reptiles, anything out of the mouth of David Icke, perpetual motion, Tutankhamun's curse, graphology, that Gillian McKeith has a valid Phd, phrenology, biorhythms, iridology, magnetic therapy, laundry balls (the wife tried them, clothes left still smelly), intelligent falling, penta water, Lamarckism, spontaneous human combustion (they combust all right, but its the wick effect and takes time), alchemy, numerology, leprechauns, tooth fairy, santa, boogey men, monsters under the bed/in the wardrobe, easter bunny, magnetic healing, mmr vaccine causes autism, anything by Eric Von Daniken, Holy Grail, any allusion to truth in the Da vinci code, precognition, telepathy, parapsychology, ESP, poltergeists, near death experiences as anything other than experiences produced by the brain, clairvoyance, prayer as anything a focusing of hopes and desires, spoon bending by Uri Geller (he's been caught cheating), spirit photographs, ouija boards, Jesus's image on the moon, Elvis's image on toast and probably a thousand other things I forgot to mention.

The question to Atheists is: have I gone too far?

The question to Christians or <insert your religion here> is: Is there any of you that discount all of the above and the rest but are still firm in your religious convictions?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I agree with everything you listed except that I have doubts about the "moon influencing sanity" one cos we are composed of 80% (or whatever large number it is) of water and the moon influences the tides.

A VERY quick Google gave me the attached link as a possible verification.
"Back in the 1970s, a study was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry that found some interesting results. Homicides in Dade County, Florida appeared to rise and fall with the phases of the moon over a 15-year period. In other words, the murder rate rose with the full or new moon."

BUT, even though I'm a gambler I don't think I'd back the possibility that more crimes maybe committed during a full moon.
It could have more to do with the ability to get away cos of the better light availability.
Then again are most murders 'planned'?
~

Passenger (wow widow) · Answer

Geez that was a long list. I'm Wiccan and I might have missed one or two but the only thing I believe in on that list is prayer. I could make a case for the horse shoes but there's a long story there that would take hours to explain and I don't believe in lucky horseshoes so it's probably not worth mentioning. 

There are several things on that list I'm so opposed to the mere mention of them is likely to get me up on my soapbox for hours - mmr vaccine causing autism and the Da Vinci code are at the top of that list but a lot of the ghost/spirit stuff is too. I don't have any comment on the laundry balls but I'll just take your word on them.

Gary Oster · Answer

Why don't you pick something more interesting and esoteric like whether there is such thing as soul or spirit, whether we are somehow connected, whether negative thoughts alone produce negative consequences in our environment, and the source and nature precognitive dreams?

? · Answer

I hope you haven't slipped a "trick" one into that list, but I'd go along with almost all of them. In my opinion they all involve the supernatural (and since we live in a natural world, there is no way they could be true).

Oh hang on...tin foil hats...they could be handy.

The Darkened Man · Answer

I live and let live, your beliefs are your own and I respect that!

The only thing that makes me cross is when ANY Religious person tries to inflict their beliefs onto me....

I'm not trying to convince or convert anyone!

Anonymous · Answer

I agree with you 99.9%.  The jury is still out on the "intelligent falling" part.

JohnsHopkins · Answer

I used to be christian and I used to believe there probably was a monster under my bed (simultaneously). But I got better.

Anonymous · Answer

You say that about the zombies, but I bet you won't be laughing when you see them slurping your brains out of a pina colada glass!

Anonymous · Answer

No tooth fairey?!   


Okay buddy!

 

  Put up your dukes!!

Adam F · Answer

I neither discount or count
I would need to experience it firsthand in order to give it any attention

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