[Brutha]

Originally Posted by Oopkop

As a child i was pretty gullible, but years of research enlightened me with a path of reason.

For how many year do you now hold your beliefs?

With my comment i merely wanted to imply, that a smart person would go and look for answers he/she would not just accept the most common explanation(paranormal),

While there are certainly people like that that visit this forum, their are also quite a few that thought a lot about those questions.

but of course if your happy with the easy explanation that is your choice.

As I said above, I don't make that choice. But you should know that there are smart people who make it, after a lot of experience with dealing with that question.

(not to mention their zeal for convincing others that they may be on to something).

And you aren't showing your zeal for your beliefs at the moment by posting here?

I'm a skeptic and i'm open to true paranormal event, but i have yet to hear, experience, touch, smell or see something that convinced me.

Being completly without those experiences, why do you think you can accurately judge other people with those experiences?
Ignorance isn't bliss.

After having had experiences it is still another question of how you interpret those experiences but without them you don't can't really understand the people who had those experiences.

I have explored the rabbit hole, and there seems to be a reasonable explanation for everything, if you open up your mind of course.

What was your most strange experience in your exploration? How deep did you go?

Is there any evidence whatsoever to suggest that there actually is such a thing, or any way that I could test the idea? The answer to that question is always no.

Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? - New York Times suggest that the probabilty of you being a brain floating around somewhere in the comsos is higher than the probabilty of you being a human who lives on a planet with other humans.
Who do you test whether you aren't some boltzman brain which is connected to some computer that serve you with your daily experience and your memory of the past?

After all that is a lot more likely than you being a human, so the burdon of proof has to be: "What the proof for you being a human living on a planet?" Afterall that is a lot more unlikely.

You don't have any proof and have to take a leap of faith.

I'm here to see if someone can convince me of paranormal activities.

You will probably doubt the existence of any proof that someone could give you via the net and at the same time nobody can give you experiences without being with you in person.

>To the 150 iq man

I genius kid in china with iq of 210 still believes in santa claus, does that make smart people dumb? no. It makes you gullible

And that makes your starting assumption wrong.
That exactly what science is about: Testing assumptions.

Coming to a place and claiming to search truth doesn't pair well with making false statements in the process. Especially when you want to try to tell us that it doesn't matter that you make false statements.