Asklemmy

Without a doubt, but, it's complicated. I try not to make assumptions, or get my own personal interpretations of things mixed up with direct experience.

I believe that people have experiences they can't explain, and that this happens far more often than most would imagine. Imo a lot of it has to do with how our minds handle probability — we imagine that 'highly improbable' things never happen, at least not to us, so when they do, we experience it as 'supernatural'

Sometimes, (more often lately) I wish I did believe in that stuff or that they did exist because it would make me feel a whole lot better about the way the world is now, vs just greedy and shitty people doing greedy and selfish or malicious things to others for greedy, selfish, and malicious reasons. The existence of a physical manifestation of evil and it's ability to influence others would at least make the world make more sense sometimes. I want there to be more good in the world and it feels rotten to think that the reason there isn't there are just shitty people manipulating us or harming us and getting away with it vs some force of nature.

But, I am sadly not that person, I don't believe in that stuff. I am open to it should it be presented to me but for now, I have no evidence of it.

I believe in Aliens if that counts.

No.

I know the natural explanation is coincidence, but those etsy witches cursed Charlie Kirk and he died only like a week or two later. I like to believe magic does exist.

If answering very simply, no.

But I believe the words, "I don't know" are arguably the most important words there are. As soon as you step beyond that into claiming to know anything for certain, I doubt your motives/mindset very much. But I appreciate that "I don't know" also leaves room for so much mystery, pondering, speculation, etc. In that sense, I'm cool with a "maybe," as long as you don't start trying to define it as a specific entity you have special knowledge about, etc...

I grew up listening to Art Bell and still have my tinfoil hat. I believe that there are things in this universe that we don’t remotely even begin to understand. All manner of things and legends could be true at least in part.

But I’ve also grown up enough and seen enough to realize that 99% of so called supernatural or otherworldly things are either jokes, pranks, or misunderstandings of known natural phenomena. I’d hazard a guess that at least 2/3rds of the rest also have quite mundane explanations.

As for the rest, I am grateful that there are still things in this world that we still don’t understand. It makes things interesting.

Not really. Granted though the human mind is limited so likely things go through my mind. Luck or something but in the long more critical thinking form of my existence no.

I don't have any spiritual beliefs but ghosts would be awesome if they were real. They could help us write history books and scare our enemies.

I think humans are natural storytellers who rely on the construction of narratives for most of our basic thought processes. But the natural world is inimical to narrative, so we employ narrative worlds whose functioning is adapted to the requirements of storytelling. (Even “naturalistic” storytelling relies on subtle tweaks to the laws of causality and probability, if nothing else.)

So I believe that we can’t make sense of the world without relying at least implicitly on the supernatural, but I don’t believe that it corresponds to anything external to our own cognition.

There are two unexplained phenomena that I currently believe in (but either could change at any time - by being explained or by being shown not to exist.)
They are dark matter and dark energy.

But ghosts and stuff? Certainly not.

I believe that our understanding of "natural" is imperfect and immature, thus there are an enormous number of things and phenomena that don't yet fit into our understanding of natural, thus are supernatural. At least until we learn and adapt our understanding of natural.

i ain't afraid a no ghost

Maybe, show me a fashionable ghost, I might believe in it.

On the fence. I have had things happen to me that I can't explain but I'm leaning towards no, at least for ghosts and other such paranormals.

Aliens have gotta be out there though.

I mean, I believe in God, but He's not supernatural but outside of spacetime itself so it doesn't apply. Things like ghosts, for example, would have to coexist with us for us to notice them. And nothing truly "supernatural" has ever happened to me (I have deja vus often but if it's just an illusion, so be it, and if they aren't they're part of reality just not easy/impossible to reproduce, so where's the "supernatural" part of it?), so I don't concern myself with it at all. And I'm not superstitious so that takes away rituals and lucky charms from the equation as well. 🤷

Yes. Stuff like lucky outfits for interviews, choosing lucky days when I can't make up my mind on when to schedule an appointment, and various other little rituals based in anecdote rather than written evidence. Perhaps a particularly satisfying story or two about why the world is the way it is in the absence of a more naturalistic explanation.

But not the ghost haunting, UFO, or skinwalker kind of stuff. Won't believe it until I see it myself. Makes finding a good horror podcast a bit more challenging for me.