Supernatural / Unexplained phenomenas

[CIPWM74]

@Hydrolic: That stuff happens to me. Is it Intuition or Psychic power? Or our mind working in strange ways? We may never know...
Stay tuned for more UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. Next we see a man whose penis was cut off by a ghost, was it really a ghost? Was it really his penis? Was it really cut off? Stay tuned to find out.

 

[Danny]

Ha Ha, I hope I don't predict anything like that. What an awkward point of topic that'd be. I guess it's maybe a blend of Intuation and Psychic power, it could even be our sub-concious alerting us.  I hear you've got a better chance of enducing a naturual, supernatural phenomenon if you iterupt your regular sleep pattern.

 

[Fate]

I know i was not meant to be posting on the forums as i said i was leaving but i saw this topic and had to express what i feel. I have had actually no supernatural or unatural thigns happen to me and i am not a christian or part of any religion. But i have something that i can not stop going through my mind, liek voices i guess it's just your brain talking to you as most you know, happens to homer simpson alot xD. Well i tell mself or someone tells me that something bad is going to happen the the world and it will be put in utter darkness and to be prepared forwhen it does. Now you might find this terribly pathetic but i go weigth and muscul training and shoot trianing every sunday to be prepared. I have actually this month joined a freerunning club to learn how to freerun. IF y think i'm loosing it please say xD.

Fate

 

[CIPWM74]

I believe that's a sort of mild Schizophrenia.

I strangely get scared and see things that I would usually see if I hadn't done or saw something creepy. I read the blurb of 'Candyman' and now I hate mirrors. I saw 1408 and now I'm afraid of alarm clocks. I read 'The Road Virus Heads North' and now I'm afraid of paintings.

What's with it?

 

[Fate]

That could be Tapinophobia (afriad of objects) just some sort of phobia you get. if this is true i would cut the horror films matey because you could end up being afriad of many things.

~~Fate

 

[Untra]

Something supernatural that happened to me?

A lightbulb exploded over me at four in the morning as I was taking a piss. Thats the strangest thing that ever happened to me.
Seriously, If you ever noticed, its usually the devout Christians that claim they're being possessed by the devil. This is just so that they can either
A.)Get attention
B.)have an excuse to cover up the fact that theyre fucking insane
Who honestly gives a flying dogs dick whether or not this actually happened? What this topic ought to be about is supernatural and strange phenomenas. Not some religious/satanic/divinitive expierence a member had.

 

[CIPWM74]

I had a Satanic experience once, I played Runescape. Now I'm doomed to the fires of hell.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Untravaersil, every religion has their share of people saying they are possessed.
If your only popping into Christians, then I guess your not looking hard enough, or your in the Christian world.

And no, I don't mean that as in you are Christian.  It's like if you were in the Buddhist world you'd probably be in the "eastern circle" in the middle/far east.

 

[Untra]

Meh, youre right. I was being a bit ignorant back there. My apologies.

Either way, I still say this topic ought to be about strange experiences members had, but whatever.

 

[CIPWM74]

I had a strange experience. But I escaped from MJ before the rebonering.

 

[Spoo]

Really, people. I belive rpgfan has some problems with his faith, or he is guilty for reading that book :/ I see things all the time when I'm in the dark. Heck, I used to be afraid Freddy was in my closet. But I think that he was guilty for reading a book about that stuff.

 

[Bloodmoon61]

so anyone got a scientific explanation for a guy thought to be possessed in a province in my country who ran in the middle of the street screaming while having his shirt torn off by itself and wounds suddenly appearing all over his body as if he was getting scratched or whipped by something? and yeah everybody in the street saw it so it cant be a single person's imagination

regarding ghosts, the strange thing is, people who come over to our house seem to see the same thing. a child ghost. i personally havent seen the kid but these people who dont know each other(friends and some relatives) have consistently described what they saw to be a kid in white. so again, it couldnt be just a single person's imagination or mind playing tricks on him/her

so *shrug*

 

[Yoshine]

they aren't ghosts they are demons
and he was experiencing stigmata
when demons cut you in the places Christ was.

There is no scientific explanation other than quantum physics the science that states
there is an entirely different dimension that you can't see which exists to keep our dimension running

there for you have chi (your own spirit) and if your chi was out side your body you would be a ghost
a spirit with out a body waiting for the grim reaper/death angel to bring you to Heaven/Hell
your body is only a vehicle made of 5$ worth of chemicals which is need for you to easily manifest your self in this dimension and demons/angels have the ability to manifest them selfs by easily thinking about it
angels do it to save people
demons do it to hurt/scare people

there is an hardly known martial art called "Chi" in Chinese "Ki" in Japanese "Qi" in Korean
called psi in the new aged version and the Indian nameslips my mind...  all of these have one thing in common
focusing your own spirit as a weapon like a hadoken believe it or not

Oh yea I know some one is gonna think this is crap so I don't care about your fucking opinion because unlike me you haven't researched it  :tongue2:

 

[Emtch]

I once lived in a house where at least two ghosts lived, when I was a kid. Sometimes you could hear people walking in the stairs when you were alone, sometimes you could hear and even feel the doors open when they were closed. Things fell to the floor for no reason and doors opened themselves.
Pretty creepy.

 

[silver wind]

I think most ghosts are simply a wind blowing through your windows. (door open/close, object fall, sounds, suddenly feeling cold..). but sometimes, they're real- namely, when you see them. not when a door slams itself and people go: oh no, it's a ghost..!
about what Yoshine said-
It's interesting to see how other cultures explain things. let me tell you about the Jewish way.
Firstly, Angels aren't trying to help you, Demons don't try to scare you. They don't 'give a damn'. they have their own tasks/ life goals. Angels are "good" simply because they have no 'evil instinct'* (sorry, free translation..) like humans have. demons do have it, and may do bad things.
Angels are made to serve G-D. so unless you're a prophet, you won't be seeing one.
Ghosts are souls of people that, for some reason, can't continue to the next world.
Ghosts that posses people -'Dibuk' -are souls of extremely bad people, and they're said to be suffering constantly- while not possesing someone.
Demons.. are generally ignored.. :D. we believe they exist. but why? where? there's not much tradition about them. however, some people never say the word 'demon'. I don't know the source for that- it might not even be a Jewish idea.**

*our goal in this world is to resist it, and do "the right thing" ( right by the Jewish religion).
** there's the torture in hell thing, but.. some streams in Jewish religion don't believe in hell- at least not THAT kind of hell.

 

[Emtch]

Actually I have seen some strange things, not sure if it were the ghosts though. I'm talking about poltergeist/demon activity, and some strange shadows that seemed to come from nothing.

 

[___]

I've experienced all kinds of strange things that I have had a hard time explaining and I still don't believe in ghosts and superstition.  To the OP, sounds like dreams and nightmares I have all the time, and I've never prayed to Satan and generally stay away from hokey nonsense.  You were probably suffering some psychological stress that resulted in some abnormally vivid dreams, it happens to many people for many reasons and doing something so directly opposed to your indoctrination is a likely candidate.  I'm no psychiatrist though.  I can tell you that I have abnormally vivid dreams all the time, just a product of my mind, and I often forget whether something I remember was in a dream or in reality in terms of mundane things, but I have a good enough grasp on reality to know that supernatural things were dreams, no matter how real and vivid they seemed.

I do love to read about rituals from all sorts of traditions, from Catholic to Hindu to New Age paganism, as inspiration for stories and games, but I don't practice it, think about it in a realistic sense, or believe it to be effective.

@Yoshine: Assuming that people who don't agree with you haven't "researched" what you've "researched" is pretty fallacious.  I've done quite a lot of "research" (continuing quotes because reading occult and new age philosophy and anecdotes is hardly research in a scientific sense) on the subject, and I've read real research on the subject, and I am not in any way convinced that any of the interesting phenomenon accomplished by people who claim to be using spiritual energy are the result of anything other than completely terrestrial knowledge and discipline. 

Really simple parlor tricks like walking on coals and glass, breaking boards and bricks, etc. can be accomplished by anyone who understands the basic principles and has the courage to give it a try (see Penn & Teller's Bullshit: Self Helpless episode for a quick debunking of junk like that), but some things are really impressive (the tibetian monks who can influence their own body temperature to the point of drying wet towels is a proven phenomenon, for instance).  That doesn't mean they're magic though.  Plug your ears and "lalalala I know its true because I want it to be so desperately" if you like, but I've done many of these things myself without the aid of any spiritual energy or special religious practice.

 

[mawk]

there is an hardly known martial art called "Chi" in Chinese "Ki" in Japanese "Qi" in Korean
called psi in the new aged version and the Indian nameslips my mind...  all of these have one thing in common
focusing your own spirit as a weapon like a hadoken believe it or not

For one thing, chi/ki/PSI isn't a martial art, but the name for the energy of the human body -- our lifeblood and life's breath. You want my research?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi

For another, all this talk of "energy" isn't as spectacular or magical as is implied by all this anime kids nowadays are slapped upside the head with (guys it's fiction, 'kay?) A lot of it is holding your arm at the right angle to transmit the most force, or to take the energy of a blow and redirect it to your whim. A lot of it is concentration and visualization to make your mind ignore things like hot coals, or increase your body temperature to towel-drying proportions. Unless you can actually show me documented evidence of a martial artist who thrust his hands forward and let loose with a blast of pure light, I'm calling "bollocks" here.

As far as ghosts go, I've had quite a few experiences some might call "encounters" over my life. They could just as easily be chalked up to bad eyes, drafts, or nocturnal indigestion, though. I sincerely doubt a ghost could have anything of much importance to tell me, anyway. I have a sort of apathetic relationship with superstition; I don't really believe anything one way or the other regarding ghosts, magic, and the like, but I wouldn't be incredibly surprised if tomorrow I found myself having a lengthy metaphysical discussion with a ghost. It's too much effort to believe/not believe in magic and ghosts, because then you spend too much time rationalizing everything out of the ordinary to fit your beliefs. Things such as the mental conditioning of the monks which allows them to manipulate their minds and bodies to such an extent are in a class of their own; we know they work, and monks wouldn't try and scam us anyway.

 

[Yoshine]

oh no there has been demons in other cultures
like japan they where called ONI they where supposed to steal children...

and tecnically
Qigong is the name of the martial art which involves chi you got me there...

 

[mawk]

Well, every culture's bound to have some form of baddie designed to make children behave. It's not necessarily proof of anything. Napoleon was once used to keep British children in line, but we all know he's not really a giant who finds children by the sound of crying, mashes them into a paste, and eats them.

Qigong involves Qi, true, but not as you'd think; It's a set of breathing exercises. I'm going to guess you didn't research this very thoroughly before coming here. Breathing exercises are about as far from a hadoken as you can get.