Reply to article by: "the Ghost of Pete Charest" <pc@burninhell.com>
Date written: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:45:09 GMT
MsgID:<5952n01p5i0kj61ikaeq5cj8fhodsa9a2r@4ax.com>

By your "logic", since ghosts can be seen, therefore they are not considered
paranormal by you.

Ghosts don't show up on radar. Have you seen a ghost ?

Well for one thing, you snipped the definition for paranormal, so let me restore
your dishonest snip...

   "beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation"

Nice strawman, stooge.

A strawman is when an arguement that is being refuted is not the original
arguement. My original arguement was that UFOs are considered paranormal, not by
me but by the rest of the world, because they are beyond the range of scientific
explanation. UFOs and ghosts are both beyond scientific explanation because
science cannot study something that doesn't exist outside of the stories told
about them. That means you are the only one resorting to a strawman here.

You other idiotic arguement is that UFOs and ghosts can be "seen" but that isn't
completely true, since UFOs and ghosts cannot *normally* be seen except under
top secret circumstances that no one can figure out. So they *normally* cannot
be by just anyone therefore they are not withing the range of *normal*
experience. That means that UFOs and ghosts are paranormal.

But I'm still not going to argue against the dictioanary so if the dictionary
says that things like ghosts and UFOs are paranormal by definition, then they
are -- you can argue against the dictioanry and the rest of the scientific
community all by your illiterate self. Try as hard as you may to dodge and evade
the subject with strawmen (and then laughably accuse other people of doing what
you are doing), the irrefutable fact is that UFOs are considered paranormal by
everyone but your dumb ass.

The Sage

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