Truth poll

[ciphergoth]

I should really post this on a Monday but I might as well do it now. A whole bunch of assertions to do with truth that it occurred to me to poll about...

[Poll #1365485]

Comments

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in the "super"-natural as I am not so sure they aren't "natural", but do believe there are phenomenon that cannot currently be explained, eg ghosts & spirits

Yes, this. I sort of think describing religious/spiritual belief as 'supernatural' is derogatory, if it exists then surely it's natural? (Er, FSVO 'natural' - not wanting to get into arguments about people wearing clothes/using computers/eating cooked food &c!)

[nameandnature]

I like Richard Carrier's definition of "supernatural" as being the idea that there are minds which don't run on physical stuff (see his blog post). If there are such things, then naturalism (in the philosophical sense, not the nudist one) is wrong, so such things are supernatural. If there are ghosts and they're actually made of physical stuff, then they're not supernatural in his sense.