Posted by SilentFilmStar at sdn-ap-032tnnashp0081.dialsprint.net on August 05, 2003 at 15:46:53:
In Reply to: Poll - So what do you believe? posted by Trent Reno on August 05, 2003 at 10:13:31:
: Feel free to go beyond the "yes or no" answer if you see fit.
: Do you believe...
: -Psychics (as in the ones that make a business out of their "gift")
Not even a little bit. There's no way I can accept that someone who's never met me could know anything about my life in any detail. Usually they deal in generalities, and it seems to me as if the person they are "reading" tends to fill in the details for them.
: -Astrological signs?
I read my horoscope occasionally, just for fun, but I don't plan my day by it.
: -Aliens have visited Earth?
Yes, definitely, as long as they have the technological means to do so. Who wouldn't want to explore a place they've never been?
: -Aliens have abducted humans?
I don't think so. Every abduction story you ever read is almost exactly alike all the other stories. There's not enought variation to make it plausible.
: -The gov't is covering up human/alien encounters?
If they have ever happened, the government is surely hiding any evidence of their existence.
: -Creationalism (Adam & Eve)
No. I can't. In my mind, it just doesn't make any sense to me.
: -Ouja (sp?) boards?
No.
: -Hell?
I really don't believe in any religious concepts at all.
: -Miracles?
See above answer.
: -Natural Supplementation?
I really don't know what you mean by this.
: -Sasquatch or "missing links?"
It's possible. There are mutations in every species. Never seen one though.
: -Pot should be legal?
Depends on what it's going to be used for.
: -Ghosts of hauntings?
I've never been able to believe in things I haven't experienced. As for ghosts/hauntings, I'd have to believe that there was some form of afterlife for them to be real for me.
: -Weeping or bleeding statues or paintings?
Mostly hoaxes, I think.
: -Spontaneous human combustion?
Anything is possible.
: -The female orgasm?
Of course I believe in it.
: -Men & woman can just be "friends?"
Definitely. 99% of my closest friends are men.
: -Some form of deity is watching over us?
I don't think so.
: -You life will be judged after you die?
By who? If I'm right about there not being an afterlife, there will be no one to judge the way I lived my life except the people who knew me who are still living.