gattino
Justified & Ancient
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If anything.
I'm talking the broadly Fortean stuff, none of your politics here.
Is there anything you were previously convinced of the reality of , but that reading or experience - or lack of it - has pulled you away from?
Or is there anything you previously - and genuinely, not just saying it for a better story - scoffed at and dismissed as disproved and/or impossible until it happened to you or the weight of written material wore you down?
On TV believers always insert "I'm a very sceptical person, but..." and scoffers are always sure to claim "I would love to believe, but..". Each, it seems to me, merely insert these unconvincing descriptions of themselves to ward off claims of gullibility or closed mindedness before they can be made. Everyone wants to paint themselves as the rational one swayed only by evidence, and swayable still. I suspect few are.
So, are there any genuine converts through experience here - in one direction or another?
I'm talking the broadly Fortean stuff, none of your politics here.
Is there anything you were previously convinced of the reality of , but that reading or experience - or lack of it - has pulled you away from?
Or is there anything you previously - and genuinely, not just saying it for a better story - scoffed at and dismissed as disproved and/or impossible until it happened to you or the weight of written material wore you down?
On TV believers always insert "I'm a very sceptical person, but..." and scoffers are always sure to claim "I would love to believe, but..". Each, it seems to me, merely insert these unconvincing descriptions of themselves to ward off claims of gullibility or closed mindedness before they can be made. Everyone wants to paint themselves as the rational one swayed only by evidence, and swayable still. I suspect few are.
So, are there any genuine converts through experience here - in one direction or another?