Adderbox76

I see no necessary connection between ideas and phenomena

That's fair enough. You're welcome to live however you want to. I'm just explaining the difference between science and mysticism. It's not going to affect the average person's life in any fashion whether they believe in ghosts or not; they'll still go to work, buy groceries, get old and die.

But the rejection of science leads inexorably down to a path where a cult of ignorance starts to form; where those who aren't intellectually curious but still want to have an opinion on stuff start to think that their opinion is just as valid as actual facts. And we see what happens when that kind of willful ignorance works its way into the public discourse.

In short, you're welcome to not differentiate between ideas and actual scientific phenomena. But someone has to, because society only functions when decisions are made by people who share the same basic knowledge of reality.

There's a whole crap tonne about the universe we really don't understand yet; especially when you get down to the quantum level, spooky action at a distance, wave functions, etc...

In a very real way, we're still just cavemen banging on rocks as far as the sum total knowledge of how things work out there in what we call "reality". So within that vast gap of what we know, and what we don't know, there's could be a lot of things going on.

Is that a ghost? or is that a momentary glitch in the fabric of space-time? Or is it just someone mistaking a cars headlight bouncing of a chandelier and into a door that is ajar at just the right angle. One of those theories is provable using the scientific method and the knowledge that we currently have. One of those theories might eventually be able to be proven with knowledge that we don't yet possess. And one of those theories is so-called "supernatural".

As a reasonable human with critical thinking skills, I'll put my money on either of the last ones before I'll put my money on the first.

There also hasn’t been any proof that supernatural phenomena doesn’t exist

You can't prove a negative. Which is why in the scientific method, the onus is on the person making the claim to provide the proof, not the other way around. That's why we rarely engage in debates with people who don't grasp that concept, because for the most part they're argument comes down to "You can't prove it doesn't exist, so therefore I'm right."

Completely agree.

• 60% the person experiencing it misunderstood or misinterpreted what they were looking at because they were stupid and gullible, but not maliciously making things up.

• 35% completely fabricated and never happened and created to legitimately defraud or troll others.

• 5% something scientific that we simply don't understand yet.

• 0% actual supernatural occurrences.

Why does my country have to come out and be the fucking bootlicker?

Nice try, Hippie.

/s

Based on the noises she was making, yo' mama last night.

Historically:

• XCom - Enemy within (with Long War mod)
• Kerbal Space Program
• Crusader Kings 2
• Rimworld

Some people do enjoy an “English muffin” but they’re not very popular, much less loved than crumpets

Wait wait wait...hold on. Canadian here. I thought English Muffins and Crumpets were the same thing with different names...

People tend to look at me funny when I tell them that I don't remember my childhood all the way up through highschool.

Certain big events in highschool I can remember of course. But for most of it is just vague impressions of "Yeah...I must have done that at some point, but can't recall specifics".

For Childhood it gets even more nebulous; again, a few things I clearly remember, and much of the rest of it I can't decide if I actually remember it, or if I'm "filling in the blanks" from old photographs (the brain is funny that way...implanting a fake memory is pretty easy it turns out)

People have told me that that's a reaction to childhood trauma, but since I'm kind of stupidly good at holding useless trivia in my brain, I just think I pushed it all out to make room for random facts about ancient history and star trek lore.

As a shut in with social anxiety and very introverted

As someone who is similar, my advice is this. Get yourself one friend who is the exact opposite. If they care about you, they'll basically force you to attend social functions and stuff with them, and that will put you into a situation to get more comfortable with more people. Their friends become your friends.