do you think there is much difference between someone believing they could see an image in the sky and christians believing in a greater being waiting to save our souls above the clouds??
...but theyre gonna argue that she only appeared to the 'faithful'.
can you expand on this?Yes. Yes I do.
To the people who think that those who saw "something" is deemed OK or harmless, if the clairvoyant had said "UFOs will appear in the sky at 3pm" and then some people claimed to have seen them, would you still have the same opinion of those people?
Yes, a big one.
The existence of a god or gods cannot be proved or disproved - for the moment.
The notion that the sun 'danced in the sky' or 'changed colour' or behaved in any way out of the ordinary can be easily disproved.
2 ways of looking at this, upon hearing the clairvoyant you could scoff at the fools and be on your way, or you could take a chance go see for yourself and then you may or may not see something amazing. Would fear of looking like a fool to your peers prevent you from following curiousity?
I wasn't there so I can't be categoric in saying anything did or did not happen
Would fear of looking like a fool to your peers prevent you from following curiousity?
Come on.
I think you are taking this devil's advocacy a bit too far.
As you may have guessed, I wasn't there either. If you want something categoric, contact Met Eireann, European Space Agency, NASA...whoever & I'm sure they'll let you know.
Not me, Im always looking foolish during the most reasonable activities!! But I wouldnt have any curiosity - I wouldnt be taken in in the first place.
Which brings me to the point that seems to have been overlooked here, the fact that many people draw comfort from unusual religious undertakings is not something that should give any concern, the fact of WHY these thousands of people turned up at the behest of some nonentity of a clairvoyant from the other side of the country, that would surely have a massive vested interest in having thousands of people turn up is a worrying aspect.
People join cults and perform some pretty bizzare things at the requests of un annointed individuals and I see little difference here.
If I announced that the virgin mary was gonna appear from the skip I hired in my garden I would be sure I could get enough fools to want to see for themselves to make a pretty penny.
Its the fact that they went like sheep without reasonable exscuse I find amazing.
Posters here watched with bated breath to see if Derren Brown could predict the lotto numbers, even though reasonable thinking would point to the impossibility of this act. Curiousity is a very strong feeling, just ask the cat.
people can be wowed by things that make no sense, even intelligent people that have no need for such trickery in their world of facts.Bit of a difference dont you think? Its a known fact that Derren Brown was performing a trick to make it look as though he was predicting the lotto numbers, I dont think any reasonable person thinks he was making an actual prediction - he was just doing a magic trick. And not pretending to be doing anything other than a magic trick.
The clairvoyant in the Knock situation was actually telling people that what was happening was REAL.
people can be wowed by things that make no sense, even intelligent people that have no need for such trickery in their world of facts.
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