what makes people want to believe in the supernatural
By murtwot
@murtwot (206)
4 responses
@JellyBeans (639)
• Canada
18 Mar 07
I want a little excitement in my life.. for anyone who read my discussion about how i felt my life was completely borring... I mean i would definately want something abnormal to happen as i said in that discussion... anything abnormal is fine by me as long as it gives my life some more excitement and doesn't make it... as borring as i think it is.
@jamie622 (508)
• India
15 Apr 07
The very idea of supernatural is exciting .
It means doing or witnesing something that not everyone has the capability or qability to do .
Merely talking about it involves active use of imagination .
You forget the limiting nature of life , the limiting set of beliefs taht we are l9iving out each day in and out .
You come to think that you can go beyond those limis an that you are a free soul not limited by the limitations of the body .
So I would want to believ in supernatural .
@nowment (1757)
• United States
26 Mar 07
I think that for some they may want to believe if it is related to missing a loved one, but for others they don't want to believe but circumstances that have happened in their lives don't give them much choice while they might dismiss something once twice or even a few times, when to many "coincidences" happen they have to wonder if there may be more to the ideas of paranormal than just the Bunk they may want to dismiss it is.
In fact there are many who don't "want" to believe in the paranormal, but life's circumstances gives them little choice.
Some are able to dismiss the events, others are not.
Some want to believe such as those unfortunate people who have spent large sums of money going to charletons, to communicate with deceased loved ones.
Unfortunately there are many who will take advantage of those that think there may be alternatives to what science alone has told us.
There is however enough evidence that there is more going on in the world than we can readily explain, this is classified as paranormal, enough that while colleges will name the classes under other headings that there are colleges who offer courses related to the field again they do not label them specifically paranormal, or parapsychology, they do offer courses and have done so for quite a while.
There is a related article on this:
http://www.hollowhill.com/ghost-hunting/parapsychologydegree.htm