Nov 21, 2016 08:05 PM
(Nov 21, 2016 05:04 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ](Nov 21, 2016 04:32 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]A grainy photo of a paranormal event is still a photo of a paranormal event. Particularly when it is backed by eyewitness accounts. There are hundreds of photos of paranormal phenomena online. You just have to educate yourself about it first.
MR, don't you ever ask why the event has a grainy picture, or why are there curtains, a stage, or why the events such as this one don't take place in an impartial setting? WHat about the person? What do you know of them? Their background, history, criminal record, motive? Why does Chi Master Chang fail or refuse to perform when skeptics are about?
There's no business like show business like no business I know. People in the street have been known to treat actors they recognize, as the characters they play on TV or the movies. Why are you so insistent this chicanery is real? And even if it was, then where does paranormal fit in?
I only ask why when it is relevant. Do I ask why the photo is grainy, as if someone made it that way on purpose? Ofcourse not. It's a magnification of an old photo, so ofcourse it's a little grainy. I did ask why mediums always require darkness to operate in, and I got the answer. Appparently ectoplasm disspates when exposed to light. Makes sense now. Also explains the failure of scientific attempts to get a sample of the stuff. Why did the chi master stop performing for the skeptics? Well he didn't in the beginning. And they were able to perform enough tests to learn his abilities were not being hoaxed. No metal plates in his body. Nothing in his house. He shocks them when he touches them. And he lights an LED he holds in his fingertips. A pure electrical energy summoned at will in his body that mysteriously defied measurement with a voltmeter. Science did it's job in this case and confirmed the existence of a new phenomenon. That's the kind of research we need with such phenomena. Willing openminded testing of it instead of outright dismissal of it as fraud.
