Do You Believe In Any Of The Following?

[naomi24]

A survey of 2,000 British adults was commissioned to mark the launch of the new TV series ‘Believe’. The poll asked respondents about their beliefs as well as superstitions that still hold sway in 2014, with the following results:

Top 10 Beliefs in Unexplained Phenomena:

1 - Ghosts (33%)
2 - Sixth sense (32%)
3 - UFOs (22%)
4 - Past lives (19%)
5 - Telepathy (18%)
6 - Psychic ability to predict the future (18%)
7 - Psychic healing (16%)
8 - Astrology (10%)
9 - Bermuda Triangle (9%)
10 - Demons (8%)

http://watch.uktv.co.uk/believe/article/do-you-believe/

[jeffa]

1. Natural phenomenon which science doesn't understand yet.

2. Atavistic throwback to prehistoric man who could, e.g. detect magnetism.

3. Mathematically, it is highly unlikely that we are the only life in the universe. For other life to reach us, of course, they would have had to have found a way to travel faster than light, which our science still holds to be essentially impossible.

4. Unlikely, but can't rule it out due to lack of understanding.

5. Yes, definitely.

6. There is plenty of evidence of this but it's almost impossible to study and measure.

7. Yes.

8. No.

9. This is now, essentially, debunked, and is due to perfectly natural meteorological phenomena. All of the vessels lost in the triangle are at the bottom of the sea somewhere.

10. No.

[Tilly2]

Oh, The Bogeyman! Ours lived in the coalhouse, Peter.

[pixie373]

I agree with mibs. UFOs in the true definition, yes. Everything is explainable, even if we cannot yet.

[vulcan42]

I think most of the replies were influenced by indulging in other spirits.

[Prudie]

mibs what kind of pools are those ? gene? swimming?

[mibn2cweus]

//mibs what kind of pools are those ? gene? swimming?//

Most likely, the spelling challenged kind.

[viv38]

I've had experience of two of them, but I'm not going to say which, as people just take the p*** !!

[Wharton]

The Bermuda Triangle was once known as The Bermuda Parallelogram until one of its sides mysteriously disappeared.

[Prudie]

That's not like you :-) (hope you took that in good spirit)

[mibn2cweus]

Being me, having a sense of humour is virtually mandatory. ;o)

The trouble with spell check is it usually doesn't alert you to spelling errors that happen to spell out a legitimate word. :o/

[DTCwordfan]

1/2/3/5 and 7 as I believe there are energy forms yet to be discovered. 4 maybe.

[tonyav]

Definitely No 1, not sure about the others but I have an open mind on them.

[China Doll]

No to all of them. (I don't necessarily believe aliens (if they exist) would be any further advanced or behind than us so I wouldn't think a UFO would be an alien - poorly worded but I'm tired).

[jim360]

It's surprising if only 10% believe in astrology why so many papers and magazines bother to print them... maybe it's to provide amusement rather than spiritual guidance?

[zebo]

I think it is extremely arrogant of us to dismiss all of these out of hand, I would hate to think none of these were real. We once had a very strange experience which has influenced my views.

[EDDIE51]

No to all of them. Though as I said to you a while back , if there are (as has been suggested) 'parallel universes' to this one, then possibly ghosts are maifestations of a rare ' interferance' between our universe and a parallel one.
As to number 6, I can predict the future no Psycihic ability needed . I predict that the world will not end tonight and that the Sun will rise as normal tomorrow.

[naomi24]

‘Do you believe?’ A poor choice of words. The pollsters have made the usual mistake of lumping together UFOs with ghosts, telepathy, superstition, astrology, and the Bermuda Triangle – all in my opinion, completely separate subjects – but it happens continually. That which science doesn’t understand is automatically associated with potty conspiracy theories and hence dismissed and ridiculed. ‘Belief’ in this context smacks of that peculiar kind of faith that is belief in the absence of evidence, but people who have experienced some of the things on that list don’t simply ‘believe’ – they claim to have personal experience and are therefore convinced that what they have experienced is real. I can empathise with Woofgang’s post at 13:03 Fri 28th Mar.

Viv, //I've had experience of two of them, but I'm not going to say which, as people just take the p*** !!//

Speak your mind and don’t let the bu&&ers get you down. I don’t – even though, on occasions, I have very good reason to. ;o)

[starone]

I don't believe in any of them but I still like to watch the films made about them. The fake photography is amazing. I believe in that!!

[Caran]

All of them