gailsimone:

Some of you may know that I am a genuine card-carrying skeptic, which doesn’t mean, as is often said, that I don’t believe in anything. What it means is that I don’t believe in extraordinary things without evidence. Someone’s opinion or anecdotal evidence isn’t enough. This is a big problem on the…

Nope. None of that, really.

I used to, though. When I was young, I believed in astral projections and things like that. I used to try every night really hard to get out of my body and explore the astral world. It never worked, though I still believed it happened sometime during sleep. My father told me about some fairly esoteric occult concepts and I fully embraced them. (No, my dad was not a wizard, but he was interested in this stuff and read about it and talked to me openly about it when I was very young, and since it came from my father, I figured it had to be true.)

I’m not sure I would throw UFOs into the same paranormal category, as it’s not really based on a belief in the supernatural. I’ve always believed in the existence of life elsewhere in universe, and I still do, but I no longer believe that they have the means to visit us here. As wonderful as it is to fantasize about, the vast distances between us and the nearest planets with even the possibility of life have convinced me that we’ll probably never have any encounter with intelligent extra-terrestrial life. But I hope that we’ll at least have evidence of some form of life out there in my lifetime. Even if it’s very primitive life.

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3. countryboylife said: Ghosts - first hand experience, keep an open mind on most of the others. But I suspect the explanation is just not science yet, eg Ball lightning, REF Clarkes 3 laws.
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   Thank you, ealperin! :-)

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10. tonguedepresser said: Nope. I’ve been a lifelong skeptic as well. I don’t like to bring it up, though, because people always will think I am some kind of god-hating… god-hater.
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13. vejigante said: Well, i think there is life on other planets(It’s a big universe after all), but i don’t believe in the UFO stuff.
14. nomi-malone said: Nope, don’t believe in any of it. If reasonable evidence were presented I’d reconsider but the odds of that happening are slim. Also, I feel like the whole thing is kinda moot and not worth debating because it has no bearing on how i live my life.
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16. greatergoods said: I’d LOVE to believe in ghosts (but just can’t), and am probably ‘alien agnostic.’ I understand why so many women turn to ESP and horoscopes for guidance (being left out of traditional institutions, medicine, etc.) but it can be… embarrassing.
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    I don’t think that it’s a bad thing to always be questioning — in fact I think I think it’s something more people need...

19. captain-fur said: I’m a huge skeptical. I don’t believe in God, I don’t even believe in Santa. ;)
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21. stoopidtallkid said: No, though cryptozoology is close. There are species out there we haven’t found yet, but they probably aren’t Bigfoots and lost dinosaurs.
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23. ryanlrussell said: Just my religion, pretty standard stuff.
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25. menshevixen said: I want to believe! I’m just a huge X-Files fan. :B I do believe that alien life exists, and I have a couple of tarot decks.
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27. 33blackbirds said: Extraterrestrial life has to exist out there, just not in the way UFOs are presented. I try to keep an open mind about the supernatural, but I’m skeptical.
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29. mayak46 said: none of the above because never seen credible evidence. open mind though, If evidence can be stand up to the scientific method.
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31. lordofthedaves said: I believe in esp…precognition, remote viewing and empathic ability….Had too many times in my life were a gut feeling has let me know something was about to happen.
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34. dorkward said: I believe in God thus spirits but don’t believe the popular depictions of angry ghosts, loved ones becoming angels, etc. I think it illogical to assume humans are capable of perceiving, quantifying, measuring, or understanding everything that exists.
35. knightwing23 said: I believe in Super Humans,because they are the next stage in human evolution and i believe in the supernatural because if theres a natural,why cant there be a supernatural? and aliens exist because humans cant be the ONLY species in the universe!
36. taliadinasdaysoffuturepast said: I think there r aliens out there in the universe &i believe in the spiritual.I went to Pearl Harbor & Yad Vashem in Israel & I felt something @both. My mom went to Dachau while carrying me & she said she could hear the people who were killed there.
37. dreamsofawesome said: I deeply believe in ghosts. I believe consciousness exists beyond the physical body and continues to exist after that body ceases to exist for a good long while in varying forms and strengths. I have a lot of personal experiences to make me believe.
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39. collababortion said: I don’t believe in any of it…until I’m alone in the house at night and just read a scary book and the cats are freaking out. So very much like religion for me. I’m an Atheist…until my kitten gets sick and I’m so worried I make deals with God.
40. refractedd said: I believe in aliens just because I think its kind of ignorant to think we’re the only conscious beings in all of the universe and beyond that. Though that doesnt necessarily mean I think theyve visited us but you never know, the world is old.
41. lunaste said: Nothing except life somewhere else in the universe. Because what are the odds of us being alone among billions and billions of other planets?
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43. arcadysabo said: I believe in extraterrestrial life. I don’t have any hard evidence yet, but it’s a numbers game. Given the wide expanse of the universe, the probability is high there’s another planet with sentient life on it.