{"id":285,"date":"2020-05-11T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2021-10-09T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T08:55:23","slug":"the-supernatural-probably-does-not-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/the-supernatural-probably-does-not-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"The supernatural probably does not exist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The implications of the nonexistence of any supernatural things are wide and important. No good evidence points to the existence of any supernatural powers or phenomena. Yet, as ideas and concepts they definitively permeate the culture and our imaginations. They are the stuff of countless movies and the basis of any religion and spiritual beliefs and yet they most probably simply do not exist. They are imaginary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is precious and short. Wasting our time on imaginary and delusional ideas as if they were real is tragic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work of Suzan Blackmore and James Randi have helped many realize that the supernatural is simply nonexistent. Their life work extremely beneficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_Blackmore?wprov=sfti1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Susan Blackmore <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge?wprov=sfti1\">James Randi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implications of the nonexistence of any supernatural things are wide and important. No good evidence points to the existence of any supernatural powers or phenomena. Yet, as ideas and concepts they definitively permeate the culture and our imaginations. They are the stuff of countless movies and the basis of any religion and spiritual beliefs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/the-supernatural-probably-does-not-exist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The supernatural probably does not exist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,54,47],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-religion","tag-spiritual","tag-supernatural-powers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The supernatural probably does not exist - Informational Self<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informationalself.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/the-supernatural-probably-does-not-exist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The supernatural probably does not exist - Informational Self\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The implications of the nonexistence of any supernatural things are wide and important. 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