In any form or fashion. If you do believe in a supernatural thing(s) what?

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    Well, pretty much no. It’s a weakness that we wish for something conveniently supernatural to distract us from the cold, uncaring truth of the universe.

    It is up to us to fill it with light.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
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    3 hours ago

    Without a doubt, but, it’s complicated. I try not to make assumptions, or get my own personal interpretations of things mixed up with direct experience.

  • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I know that we have, throughout history, assigned unknowns as supernatural occurrences.

    And I don’t think we know everything yet.

    So yes? That doesn’t mean the supernatural things are supernatural., just that they exist, we don’t understand them yet.

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    9 hours ago

    No. I believe all things have a natural explanation.

    I do believe we won’t be able to understand every natural explanation that happens in the universe, though.

    You can’t teach a dog quantum physics. I don’t think we are so special that we will be able to understand everything. We may hit a limit where our math (a formal language of reasoning that we have developed) can’t model something or our brains simply refuse to accept its conclusion.

    We can operate with irrational numbers but it’s not like our brains can truly comprehend them. Nor does quantum physics really make sense; I mean, mathematically we can reason about it but we can’t comprehend it. The speed of light being a constant and warping time is another example of something we can experimentally verify but can’t logically comprehend.

    There’s no reason to believe everything will be understandable. So I’m open to something “unexplainable” happening that seems supernatural. I definitely do believe it’s natural at all times.

    And while I’m open to “natural things we cannot comprehend” I simply struggle to believe for a second theres something that exists on another “plane”, which we cannot see signs of, that somehow judges us and takes an interest in our individual lives, as anything but fanciful. If such an entity exists, and it seems to us omnipresent, I doubt it takes any more interest in us than we would an ant in a forest on the other side of the planet.

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    9 hours ago

    i’ve seen things i cannot give a fully scientific explanation to why they happened, and i believe there are things that are not currently explainable by current science. however i don’t take the explanations currently given by most religious, esoteric and magick groups at face value, and more so in their vision of how a society is to be shaped.

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    14 hours ago

    If “supernatural things” were to exist, they would be part of nature and therefore natural by definition.

  • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 hours ago

    No lol. Belief in the supernatural in any form is un-Marxist.

    Whether that’s angels and demons and deities, witches and ghosts, or astrology and healing crystals. It is a virtue to have a completely Materialist worldview.