Open Mindedness

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI"]YouTube - Open-mindedness[/ame]

Vid maker is a douche. There was a ghost moving the lamp shade

I seem to agree in total with what he's saying, but he is incorrect in his logic (well ok not his logic, but a premise) a bit over two minutes in. He says that people are saying they can't explain something therefore it can't be explained. He conveniently leaves out that extra couple words that are usually stated or implied, so it would go more like "I can't explain this event other than through supernatural means." So it is saying that one has been unable to explain an event through conventional means given the information they have about it, and therefore think it is likely there was a supernatural cause.

Other than this though I don't seem to have a problem with anything he says, and people should probably see this. Though really there are a lot bigger fish to fry than people who try to get you to believe in supernatural things. At least believing in supernatural things is fun, and when I was in elementary school there were few things that were more satisfying than believing in supernatural events and getting myself scared.

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Originally Posted by UnreasonablyReasonable

I seem to agree in total with what he's saying, but he is incorrect in his logic (well ok not his logic, but a premise) a bit over two minutes in. He says that people are saying they can't explain something therefore it can't be explained. He conveniently leaves out that extra couple words that are usually stated or implied, so it would go more like "I can't explain this event other than through supernatural means." So it is saying that one has been unable to explain an event through conventional means given the information they have about it, and therefore think it is likely there was a supernatural cause.

Other than this though I don't seem to have a problem with anything he says, and people should probably see this. Though really there are a lot bigger fish to fry than people who try to get you to believe in supernatural things. At least believing in supernatural things is fun, and when I was in elementary school there were few things that were more satisfying than believing in supernatural events and getting myself scared.

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I can agree, but usually the arguments I hear for ghosts and god, are things like "The world is so complex, it can not be explained, a god must have did it". They are basically saying, I can't explain it with science or I don't understand it, therefore god did it. Which is akin to "It can't be explained with science (right now), so god must have did it.