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Beyond Normal Guiding Philosophy

It is important, as an investigator into the extraordinary, to steer oneself between two opposite yet equally fallacious positions.

Many are convinced that our current understanding of science and the world around us has sufficiently explained everything in need of explaining; they are convinced that we have reached the pinnacle of understanding, that no further meaningful study is necessary, and that anything which contradicts our established knowledge should be presumed to be a hoax. These fools imagine themselves "skeptics", yet are utterly unskeptical of their own blindness and ignorance.

Tales of giant oceanic monsters were dismissed as pure myth for centuries before specimen of colossal squid and giant squid were discovered, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, respectively. Even the platypus, on its introduction to the scientific community, was dismissed as a taxidermic forgery cobbled together from different animals.

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In opposition, there are those who insist that the wonders of the universe are truly unknowable, and that there are things in this world which simply can't be understood through the scientific method. This form of willful ignorance is even more contemptible.

If you don't believe that study, observation, theorization, experimentation, and a process of further refinement through cyclical repetition is not the optimal method of surviving in this world, I cordially invite you to walk off a bridge. If you fly, perhaps you'll have proven science wrong. (However, I'd still insist that further study is necessary.) If you fall, the rest of us will be better off without you.

Any system where we can make meaningful decisions WILL follow rules; they are just not necessarily the rules as we understand them. Insisting there are no rules is useless. Insisting that the rules which you are comfortable with must not be wrong in the face of contradicting evidence is worse than useless.

Guestbook

Aimee95 writes:

Hey what do you think about the rumors about ghosts in town?

BeyondNormal (Admin) writes: 

These rumors absolutely warrant further investigation. However, it is important to remember that "ghost" is a culturally loaded term, one loaded in ways which may not accurately describe the observed phenomenon. It implies that the phenomenon in question is the spiritual remnant of a formerly-living human, unnecessarily dismissing various possibilities such as extraplanar, extraterrestrial, and extradimensional entities, or even heretofor unknown sources.

FARTLIGHTER6969 writes:

lol this is that freaky girl from 4th period history right??? what kind of dum shit is this? u spend your time talking about weird stuff on the internet too instead of just embarasing yourslef in class huh.

BeyondNormal (Admin) writes:

This post is off-topic, inappropriate in tone, and profane. Due to multiple violations, you are indefinetly banned from further posting here.