Why are new members not posting?

[jakesteele]

[tiger]

[NinjaPuppy]

Thanks wjbeaty for your insight about the spambots, et al.

[NinjaPuppy]

I have deleted the topics started by most of the spambots. Once again, thank you wjbeaty for pointing them out. We generally like to give the newbie the benefit of the doubt but obviously it only opens up a door for those who have another agenda.

[jakesteele]

[tiger]

[groupthink]

[NinjaPuppy]

Welcome Groupthink!

[jakesteele]

[tiger]

It is up to those that claim some paranormal ability to show that they do have this ability. Unfortunately, when people start to look at these claims they tend to fall apart. You do not even have to look very closely to see that many of them do not stand up. For example some of them claim the ability to cure people of illnesses. If they had that ability they could earn heaps of money doing so. Hospitals would be advertising for such people. Others claim the ability to solve crime. In that case police would be advertising for their services. You must ask yourself why have we not seen such advertisements? There are several possible explanations for this. I leave it up to you to work out what these are and which one (or more) is the correct one.

However, jakesteele, you are right. It is impossible to prove that no-one has any paranormal ability, either in the past, present or future. It could be that tomorrow something happens and we all have paranormal ability.

[ProfWag]

[jakesteele]

[jakesteele]

[ProfessorX]

As someone who hasn't posted in awhile, my answer to the thread question is that, the main reason I haven't been around mostly due to stuff going on in the real-life world. I hope to check in a bit more frequently for the time being.

JakeSteele - your "laws" of psuedoskepticism are absolutely brilliant!!! Hilarious and dead-on. Satire at its best.

In reading your laws, what struck me is how freakily consistent that mode of thought is. Consistent in the foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" sense.

And then it dawned on me that pseudoskepticism is, in essence, a form of fundamentalism. And, like with religious fundamentalists, the hyper-consistency of fundamentalist skeptics is actually a defensive coping mechanism to avoid having to confront the scary uncertainty and chaos of a world constantly changing, constantly in motion.

For religious fundamentalists, they hold on for dear life to their religious convictions to avoid having to confront the frightening possibility that there might not be a God.

For skeptical fundamentalists, they hold on for dear life to their pseudoskeptical "laws" to avoid having to confront the frightening possibility that there actually might be a God.

Pseudoskepticism, is, in effect, anti-anxiety medication for modernists.

[NinjaPuppy]

Good to see you back ProfessorX.