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Feeling normal in an anomalous universe

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“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist” – Jean-Paul Sartre

"When you are as deeply concerned with strange phenomena as I am, it’s hard to get up in the morning feeling normal.  It helps if you drink.  The chasm between physical reality and our conscious perception thereof opens up with your morning coffee, and as you peruse the newspaper headlines and social media feeds, one has the same unsettling sense that no doubt prompted humorist Dorthy Parker to greet the doorbell each time it rang with the phrase, “What fresh hell can this be?”  Let’s face it, if you express anything more than a passing interest in UFO’s, Bigfoot, ghosts, monsters, or the various and sundry anomalies of the universe, you are generally regarded by your peers with trepidation, and a charitable concern for your mental health.

Now this may be “inside baseball”, but a curious development has emerged in the world of anomalistics, which we can understand to include those who experience and those who investigate, as well as those self-identified skeptics that nonetheless wade into the muddled marsh of Forteana.  Strange phenomena have been decentralized as an object of study, in favor of a psychologization of those who express an interest (either to believe, understand, or debunk).

Thus, we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the pathological delusions of true believers, the cognitive dissonance of skeptics, and the fear of commitment of those who straddle the line.  The focus has shifted from a simple ontological statement that while our valuation of science has an impressive track record of achievement, the universe nonetheless keeps serving up oddities that throw a wrench in our metaphysical project of comprehending the significance of human existence and grasping at the nature of reality.

Therefore, instead of debate, we more often see diagnosis.  This is as foolhardy as it is unproductive.  The unadulterated truth that is being largely sidelined is that the existence of an anomaly is prerequisite to scientific discovery, and the facts that don’t fit are what usher in the paradigmatic shifts that revolutionize our understanding of the universe...."====http://esoterx.com/2015/12/01/how-to-fee...-universe/


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elte Offline
That's wrong alright.  People should just comment on what they think of the opinion presented to them rather than on the person.  People are too judgemental of others, which results in their having to watch their own backs concerning getting judged because of the social environment they create.  Humans waste too much time knocking others down and then cleaning up the societal wreckage left over from it all.
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