Do you know any Athiest people that believes in ghosts or Karma?

[Dr. Zaus]

Just look at all those Wiccan hippies. I think they would claim to be atheist (of course, who do they think they're fooling) and yet they sincerely believe in all the weirdest of shits.
Oh well, at least not some guy fucking a virgin, who then gives birth to the guy himself, who's a different guy and then dies and then goes to heaven, where he meets himself, then goes back down and pushes aside a big rock, and disappears.
Because believing in grave robbers is too much of a leap.

actually the guy that was the first guy's son/himself goes down to hell and hangs out with people that existed before that guy told some other guy to build shitty floating zoo.

God, get it right.

Also wrong marry... marry, birther of Jesus is not marry whore friend of Jesus.

 

[WelshBloke]

It's not, it's lame; dogs pissing on you all day, then some asshole cuts you down just to bake you alive.

I was thinking more a tree on a lonely mountainside rather than one in a shitty city park.

I suppose theres always wolf piss to worry about but some little old lady pissed down my leg the other week so a bit of wolf piss is a step up.

 

[Mixolydian]

some little old lady pissed down my leg the other week

D:

 

[WelshBloke]

D:

UTI as well. Smelled like someone had left a box of rotting prawns out in the sun for a week.

 

[Yuling]

Or do only religious people believe in those supernatural concepts.

I think people from all walks of life believe in weird stuff (the supernatural) but I chalk it up to ignorance. The idea of ghosts and seeing spooky things can be explained away by science in virtually every case. In cases it cannot, it will be eventually.

For example, ghost sightings usually can be explained away by infrasound. Infrasound is so low you can't hear it, but you can feel it. It acts on your brain to create feelings of anxiety and dread, and also messes with the fluid in your eyes creating ghostly images. It can also vibrate things in the room (moving things around). And infrasound is created naturally by things like storms, the ground shifting, weather patterns, even elephants.

I think everything has a scientific explanation, and if something doesn't, it's only a matter of time.

 

[CZroe]

My sister frequently insists matter-of-factly that there is no God and then complains about stuff like Chi flowing through the open toilet.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I am certain there is more then my limited senses can detect.
From my logic point of view :
"What you reap is what you sow" is sort of karma.

I expect that some people who love to deceive people will find their reaped result not gratifying.
And if it is not you yourself that will reap, it might as well be your offspring...
Cause and effect...
Can be good or bad...
And there also exist something such as bad luck.
Which means one must be the best he or she can be in order to respond to it rather well.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I think people from all walks of life believe in weird stuff (the supernatural) but I chalk it up to ignorance. The idea of ghosts and seeing spooky things can be explained away by science in virtually every case. In cases it cannot, it will be eventually.

For example, ghost sightings usually can be explained away by infrasound. Infrasound is so low you can't hear it, but you can feel it. It acts on your brain to create feelings of anxiety and dread, and also messes with the fluid in your eyes creating ghostly images. It can also vibrate things in the room (moving things around). And infrasound is created naturally by things like storms, the ground shifting, weather patterns, even elephants.

I think everything has a scientific explanation, and if something doesn't, it's only a matter of time.

:thumbsup:

 

[dawp]

I'm an atheist and I believe in karma, it's all in how you live your life. if you treat people badly eventually it's going to come back to bite you in the ass. what goes around comes around.

 

[zanejohnson]

i've went from atheist to agnostic, to deist in my lifetime,

i'm a firm believer in a "source/creator," more of an idea/state of mind/state of consciousness/awareness, than an actual living, thinking entity... i'd imagine we are all but "virtualizations" run by the "host" install (the source) probably because it's the most efficient way for this "entity" to examine/diagnostic/experience the "construct/matrix"

i believe in karma.. but i also believe that a state of mind can be reached, in which karma does not effect you individually... or more or less, all your manifestations are "one" with the "all" (and your aware of this) thus making it impossible for you to promote negativity (which will definitely always bring you a negative karmic reation) same with positivity......... i think the buddhists called it "zen"

 

[SlitheryDee]

I'm an atheist and I believe in karma, it's all in how you live your life. if you treat people badly eventually it's going to come back to bite you in the ass. what goes around comes around.

I'm of the mind that what we call karma is a social and physical phenomenon rather than a supernatural one. It's a concept that plays the odds in order to be correct most of the time. For instance we all know that if you treat people badly for long enough and they'll return the favor, and we all know why that happens without referencing anything outside the physical world. Karma is a word describing something that has always seemed like common sense to me, and has nothing to do with anything but the most likely result of certain behaviors.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Not believing in one magical concept does not make you immune to believing in all magical concepts.

 

[Cerb]

downside to being athiest is that when you die your next life will most likely be shitty, like an ant or tree.

Or, a single grain of sand--and guess just where you'll land? In the cat box once again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again (ribbit, ribbit), and again, and again...

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I've had a few weird experiences, so I'm pretty open. But, if it's real, it is man-made or natural (or aliens, but I'm lazy to make a meme pic), and if there's anything one should be certain of, it's that the universe still has more secrets for us to reveal and make use of. Supernatural, by the very two words it is composed of, is either use of technology, or requires faith in some mythos. IoW, if ghosts were real, and were dead people wandering around, Swayze-style, and some genius found a way to prove it, that would cause it to, after whatever chaos such a crazy thing would cause, to be added to the laundry list of known natural phenomenons.

However, quite a bit of what had historically been thought supernatural turned out to be really easy to understand stuff, provided one also had a fair understanding of the physics/biology/whatever that underpinned the explanation. It just took people thinking to do things like make a bottle with a top too narrow for a bug to get inside, or to look at crap under a microscope, which didn't exist way back when, etc..

It's certain that the experiences of the "supernatural" are very real, but they could be very real neural interactions, due to environmental factors, that will make everyone go, "oh...*facepalm*" if they get figured out, too. In some cases, that happens. Some places filter sound in ways that do weird things to us, FI,, and some natural materials can effectively record and play back things (there's actually a bar somewhere with walls that do that, IIRC). Disbelief of the occurrence at face value is, IMO, operating with a belief system just as much as a religious person is, though, and that that belief system is just as mentally limiting, though less dangerous to society, in large numbers.