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Post by rjb on Dec 22, 2016 16:36:30 GMT -8
There is a yearly US survey- one of the sciency kind that actually tries hard to do it right and get good numbers. You can get details here: blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2016/10/11/paranormal-beliefs/They do a lot of surveys, but one of them checks out so-called paranormal beliefs. That means a belief that has no science support. Paranormal Belief---------------------------------------------Percent Agree or Strongly Agree Places can be haunted by spirits------------------------------------------46.6% Ancient, advanced civilizations, such as Atlantis, once existed---------39.6% Aliens visited Earth in our ancient past----------------------------------27.0% Aliens have come to Earth in modern times-------------------------------24.7% Some people can move objects with their mind---------------------------19.1% Fortune tellers and psychics can foresee the future---------------------14.1% Bigfoot is a real creature-----------------------------------------------13.5% Bluemoon is in good company with about 3 million Americans who believe in Bigfoot! So you can give her a hard time if it makes you feel good, but she is not alone. I wonder how many here believe in a lot of those not-very-sciency things above. |
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Post by joee30 on Dec 22, 2016 20:49:33 GMT -8
Aliens are real!!!! They probe peoples bums all the time. lol
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2016 2:55:58 GMT -8
For that exact reason I keep a probe with me at all times just in case I'm abducted I'm going to turn the tables on them.
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Post by exoticimports on Dec 23, 2016 6:13:21 GMT -8
Bluemoon is in good company with about 3 million Americans who believe in Bigfoot! US population is 319 million; 13.5% is over 43 million. 66 million voted for Hillary Clinton. |
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Post by leptraps on Dec 23, 2016 8:45:54 GMT -8
Am I allowed to join in the fun?
So you think that those who voted for Hillary believe in Big Foot.
I wonder what Hillary would look like with facial hair.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2016 15:26:23 GMT -8
I'm going with chewbacca.
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Post by wingedwishes on Dec 24, 2016 14:57:32 GMT -8
Has sasquatch been given a Latin name? If not, what would you suggest?
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Post by wingedwishes on Dec 24, 2016 15:01:02 GMT -8
Homo omnicapilaris?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 15:56:37 GMT -8
How about Australopithecus jackslinkinsis?
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Post by leptraps on Dec 24, 2016 16:21:59 GMT -8
Causebi smokenrope.
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Post by rjb on Dec 24, 2016 19:43:17 GMT -8
Bluemoon is in good company with about 3 million Americans who believe in Bigfoot! US population is 319 million; 13.5% is over 43 million. 66 million voted for Hillary Clinton. Right about the number. I used the number of adults only because children weren't part of the study so 30 million not 3 which was a typo. Thanks for noticing. |
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Post by T.C. on Dec 26, 2016 17:24:30 GMT -8
I think it's so wierd people would believe in a "Big Foot"? This isn't the 1800's? If there was abig foot, by now it would be in a cage.
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Post by rjb on Dec 26, 2016 18:40:47 GMT -8
I think it's so wierd people would believe in a "Big Foot"? This isn't the 1800's? If there was abig foot, by now it would be in a cage. Well not if you believe bigfoot has ESP and superhuman abilities to stay out of sight. In the other long discussion on this forum, we saw that Bluemoon has explanations why Bigfoot is very active in her area but is never caught or documented by camera. People can believe anything they want to believe. Belief in spirits and ghosts and bigfoot and gods is still rampant and not likely to go away soon. |
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Post by Paul K on Dec 27, 2016 4:41:27 GMT -8
Not Bluemoon , Bluemoth !
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Post by rjb on Dec 27, 2016 5:33:57 GMT -8
Oh my. I can't do math anymore and I can't get names right. Getting old- it sucks.
This is the golden age of nonsense. There should have been no evolution in the human brain in the last 1000 years and there is no evidence for us being smarter. I think there is probably as much or more wrong belief now than lots of centuries ago.
Today science contains an immense quantity of (almost) correct knowledge but this is ignored by almost everyone. Our incredible advance in communication makes knowledge available to almost everyone all the time. Still the nonsense and wrong ideas available on the internet is awesome and seems to be growing.
I appreciate Bluemoth’s candid explanation of how she interprets her experience as proving Bigfoot exists. Someone has been throwing stones at her- it is bigfoot. Someone has been making strange noises- it is bigfoot. Cameras never photograph bigfoot clearly because bigfoot is very shy and very perceptive and avoids all cameras. Stick structures are put up by someone- it must be bigfoot. She has also shown that the internet is loaded with videos of bigfoot.
She thinks the scientists are blind for not admitting this as great evidence.
Science works because it has very high standards of evidence. Also as a scientist, if you publish something wrong, your reputation is seriously hurt. If you are caught publishing something fraudulent, you are dead as a scientist. This is in sharp contrast to our politicians and news media. Our new president who lost the popular vote by the biggest margin in history feels comfortable tweeting lies saying (by some convoluted logic) that he won by a landslide. Trump ( or Clinton) can get caught (recorded telling blatant lies) and maybe get elected president because lying is expected of a Trump or a Clinton.
All those people faking Bigfoot have nothing to lose by their entertaining mischief. Any scientist publishing that Bigfoot exists had better show very good, solid data. Meanwhile what does it hurt if anyone believes in Bigfoot. Or ghosts ... or denies global warming. Those scientists are just blind or liars trying to get funding or whatever.
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