/x/ - Paranormal

If you stop and ask yourself, "Why does anything exist?" what is the result?

>>41738

I get a spoopy boner

"Isn't it strange that anything exists?" is what I used to contemplate. In fact, it is quite strange, and it filled me with wonder and still does if I ever need to go back to that place to restore a balanced perspective. However, a fixation on that aspect of reality alone reveals an underlying bias, because if we are honest with ourselves, something existing is no stranger than nothing existing because there is no surrounding context to differentiate their weirdness. It's through the same process that the inevitable conclusion that both are equally mundane is reached as well. Thus, without an enclosing context, there is no difference between the ordinary and extraordinary. They are two faces of the same quality.

It is a great pain to have the magic carpet pulled out from under your feet. You were flying and then one day the mysticism of life vanished in a puff of smoke, and you fell to a cold, hard reality. This sensation of separation from the supernatural is like an illusion though, for when the waters of the mind become still again, no passing phantom can hide the miracle that you live and breathe. "So what?" you may retort. Breathing has lost its magic to you. What was formerly impossible has now become taken for granted. What you want is to feel amazed again—to experience what is incredible in this context that is already established for you. What you want is to do the impossible once more—in this paradigm of existence. How can you say you aren't already doing it? How can you say it isn't happening to you now? Denial may raise its head, but truth is not destroyed.

But surely there are rules. There is an order to some things that denies some subset of possibilities from happening. But from where arises this order? Who makes the rules? Order is a strange thing. There is no reason for this order of things. It just as well may have been a different order. Who would protest? The reality where fish fly and birds swim is just another paint color on the same bike shed. Therefore, order arises from chaos. They are sides of the same coin. Dazed and confused this revelation makes your inner world, but still, you must march boldly forward to pass the hill of illusion. In truth, there was no order to begin with. The divinity of design now shattered, you realize that the impossible and possible are intertwined—one preceding another.

Now you look to the sky, ready to break your chains with conviction, but still you linger in normality. It is ultimately random in the grand scheme of things, sure, but "Who will undo these rules already set in motion?" you protest one more time. Find peace first and listen well: just as whole numbers come one after another in perfect harmonious order, there still arises the unpredictable primes in the midst of the orderly composites. The chaos of origin arises and falls away in the middle of your perfect, lifeless dream. For you see, the intrinsic nature of all things was always the same as the whole. As above, the chaos falls into order, so below it arises again to lift your spirit to a new dimension of reason. By the finite mirroring the infinite, you realize the world is in your hands, and the world embraces you back. To touch upon the supernatural, you must journey to the next prime number in your sequence or realize you're already there. If that prime number isn't great enough, you must keep going, for new ones always appear eventually. The prize is in the journey—not the end of it—for the end and beginning is always empty, but inside the heart which is in between is the same void which becomes full when you come alive and seek the truth.

>>41737

Define paranormal, supernatural, or magical and mansplain existance, we have 2 options, you dont know a shit about anything or you are just tipping your classy hat.

>>41761

What, you're saying these quasicrystals naturally become a dodecahedron when its components combine to form an alloy? That's nuts.

>>41768

No, they're dodecahedrons

I have come to the conclusion that the ONLY logical way that anthropy works is through one of two theories, potentially both:

1) Quantum Immortality

2) The Egg Theory, put forward by Andy Weir

The chances of being an alive human with a "full" 80 year lifespan at any point in possible history is 1 in 4 billion. This isn't even including the variables of living when it is possible to do so (i.e. not when the planet is engulfed in fucking fire), nor the possibility of even being a human to begin with, over say, an insect or a plant. Given that 5 billion species have existed during the 66% of our Universe's Potential History, it can be theorized that another 1.65 billion will live during the remaining 5+ billion years. So the chances of simply being a human are 1/6.65 billion. When combined with just one of those two other factors, the chances of being an alive human in an inhabitable world becomes so infinitessimally small that it isn't even worth calculating.

If you are ever killed or fatally wounded, you will see your own body in front of you. Time will cease to a crawl as your motor functions stop. Then, like God himself hit the "Rewind" button on the great TV remote in the sky, time will progress backwards to a certain point until you are away from danger. Then life will go on for you as though nothing happened. You're still dead in your original timeline mind you, but you cannot die. Not as most understand it. Others will witness your certain death, but you will somehow live. Potentially old age is the only release, and from there you will begin anew.

The religious concept of an afterlife just doesn't work. You're telling me that once you die, you're either greeted with eternal bliss that is effortlessly rewarded indefinitely or eternal damnation for which you are never forgiven. Even the former would grow tiresome after a while, unless you are constantly "refreshed" and in that case, QI is proven anyway.

>>41898

Uh huh, but what does that have to do with this thread?

>>41899

Because OP thinks everything is as they seem. The fact you're reading this right now is an occurrence that is beyond extraordinary. We are each microscopic needles in the infinite expanse of hay that is existence.

>>41738

https://youtu.be/Lgthc-wTYWc

>>41737

I live in an haunted appartment and I can reassure you that paranormal and supernatural things exist.

materialists are disabled

i can confirm its not its schizophrenic

i wish i was schizo op

>>42034

nice post from my ip shill nigger

i have a good memory lmao

>>42034

so which agency are you ?

>>41974

Same here. From what I've dealt with in my life I can absolutely assure OP that there are supernatural things out there. And I'm willing to bet at least half of /x/ have had firsthand experiences as well.

Well people believe in God and look how far the big guy's made it, trust me, real or not believing is pretty much as good as real

>>41737

The universe is more than atoms. Think if one day someone told you that a whole new continent had been discovered? Or that the earth wasn't flat? What if you heard about someone riding around on a metal machine? Its gonna get crazy, we are just distracted right now.

>>41737

Then you need to pursue an education. The garden is no less magical because there are no faeries hiding beneath the flowers. You find yourself in complex reality. If it bores you it's only because you have failed to live up to your own potential. Work = satisfaction in life.

>>42519

>You're just uneducated if being a meaningless pool of atoms doesn't fulfill your inborn yearning for a greater meaning to life

This is why materialists are a joke. It is totally consistent with materialism to have a *perfect* understanding of the natural world and yet be totally unfulfilled and not at all mystified by the interactions of dumb matter. To try to derive fulfillment and meaning from "science" is totally stupid and juvenile, "planets are really really far away, and lots of atom's interact in a really really small space, whoaaaaaa!"

If materialism is true (which is absurd, since I know first hand that I have a mind and thoughts which are metaphysically distinct from my physical body), then how can you claim with a straight face that the workings of matter are even objectively interesting, none the less fulfilling or "magical"? That's a metaphysical statement, kid.

>>42519

Working and becoming successful won't get rid of the underlying emptiness you feel. You'll feel good during the day, then sink into the darkest depression when you're in bed, waiting to fall asleep, alone with your own thoughts, fully conscious that you're just a puppet living in a giant dollhouse you call 'world', fundamentally no different from the furniture in your room or the mosquito on the wall.

>>42526

Your mind and thoughts can extend beyond your body, but cannot exist without it. This is the mistake that spiritualists make, they think just because astral travel and telepathy exist, it means the mind is somehow separate from the brain. Unfortunately there is zero reason to believe this, it's just wishful thinking.

>>42528

>Your mind and thoughts can extend beyond your body, but cannot exist without it. This is the mistake that spiritualists make, they think just because astral travel and telepathy exist, it means the mind is somehow separate from the brain. Unfortunately there is zero reason to believe this, it's just wishful thinking.

Even if 'the mind' is just an accident of the brain we dont have any reason to think that they cant be separated if we check your evidence.

>>41737

>The scariest thing for me to think of is the possibility that nothing more than the sum of its parts

>>42519

>The garden is no less magical because there are no faeries hiding beneath the flowers

But there are?

>>43062

I'll never understand why someone would want to believe that fairies don't exist, or that UFOs are all hoaxes and weather balloons. They say reality is complex and magical but at the same time they deny the reality of a lot of magical things.

>>43063

Because they're skeptical, and therefore want to deny the reality of this joyfully magical world.

>>43066

Scepticism means nothing, very few people are actually true sceptics. Most people are just sceptical of the things they don't like. For example, a lot of professional sceptics vehemently defend the official version of how and why the attack on the Twin Towers happened. Why aren't they sceptical of the government's account? At the same time they're extremely critical of anyone who dares to question it - those who are actually being sceptical. The sceptic community is just a bunch of hardcore defenders of the status quo who apply their scepticism very selectively in a way that allows them to reaffirm what they already believe. What I don't understand, is why they so desperately want to believe what they believe.

>>43068

>Skepticism isn't really skepticism, just intellectual cowardice

Well fugg. But as far as your statement

>why they so desperately want to believe what they believe.

I believe that they want to be in their comfort zone, mentally speaking. They don't want to think for themselves, or think about things that might be scary for them.

>>42519

This came dangerously close to an "arbeit macht frei" statement. Work alone will not give you satisfaction and answers from life, you should find something you find worth doing. To be frank many people find this world and its accepted structures to be devoid of substance anyway. If this garden has no faeries beneath the flowers, then it is barely worthy of being called a swamp.