What the fuck is up with this UFO clown show and why do so many Americans believe that alien spacecraft are forever crashing into the United States? Which is 6% of the global land mass incidentally. Heck, maybe EVERY government in the world has bunkers full of crashed UFOs and they're ALL covering it up. Fuck's sake.

Apparently parking's a bitch in these flying saucers.

What woke me up at 3:30am? Why couldn't I get back to sleep? Is that pain my kidneys? is my crawlspace full of black mold? Is the housing market going to crash?
Oh it's 6:00am

Poltergeist activity. People are always like: why do ghosts go about opening cabinet drawers and moving objects around? I will argue that kinetic activity is merely a by-product of intra-dimensional energy moving through our realm; they don't be meaning to do it.

Also, animals can see spooky shit.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:13 pmI will argue that kinetic activity is merely a by-product of intra-dimensional energy moving through our realm; they don't be meaning to do it.

Makes me think of those philosophers - Malebranche and I think Al-Ghazali, and also Leibniz - who were into the idea of a separately acting intellect apart from the actually perceivable that they thought would be necessary to explain causal chains: items do not cause change in each other, it is the acting intellect which makes them change at precise moments...

The thing that makes things happen is not bound to physical limitations at all, it simply decides to always act in such a way that phenomena appear lawbound, but it could theoretically act however it wanted, and any change could occur without any locatable cause.

This view has definitely lost its popularity and I always found it hardly intelligible. I was just amused to note how it does leave a place for poltergeist activity.

In this view, even though the acter of events is trusted to always act regularly and predictably, one could imagine a number of renegade mini-intellects going around miffing things up in very limited, local contexts.

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:49 pm Makes me think of those philosophers - Malebranche and I think Al-Ghazali, and also Leibniz - who were into the idea of a separately acting intellect apart from the actually perceivable that they thought would be necessary to explain causal chains: items do not cause change in each other, it is the acting intellect which makes them change at precise moments...

The thing that makes things happen is not bound to physical limitations at all, it simply decides to always act in such a way that phenomena appear lawbound, but it could theoretically act however it wanted, and any change could occur without any locatable cause.

Could that also be attributed to why ghosts appear to walk through walls, or have I gone too far?

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:01 pmCould that also be attributed to why ghosts appear to walk through walls, or have I gone too far?

That one talks about something actually visible. The ghosts in my example wouldn't really have movement, just effects in the perceivable world.

Are you guys making up ghost fanfic? Imagine the irony experienced by the ghost of Patrick Swayze.

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:14 pm That one talks about something actually visible. The ghosts in my example wouldn't really have movement, just effects in the perceivable world.

Give me something philosophical to attribute it to pls and ty.

Anthony Flack wrote:Are you guys making up ghost fanfic?

Listen, we all manifest our own realities. That you are choosing to spend your afterlife in the void is on you, I'll be in Tony Goldwyn's gym locker.

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