| From: Callan | 21/01/00
17:36:15 |
| Subject: Skeptics & spontanious human combustion | post id:
28675 |
| What is the position of the
Skeptics society on spontanious human combustion? If the same rule of it being a 'bugger to catch sceintifically' could be applied to psychic stuff... Not those guys on TV, but the guy who sleep through a loud alarm, missing an accident on the road he uses. Or the feeling you get, somthing you can't pin, that stops you walking into a very uncomfortable situation. Or the regular 'sombody is looking at me' and spinning around and looking straight into sombodies eyes? Yeah, yeah, I'm flaming up fires of that old psi stuff. I really don't know why anymore. Cheerz, Callan | |
| From: Trevor Wilson (Avatar) | 21/01/00
19:46:24 |
| Subject: re: Skeptics & spontanious human combustion | post id:
28708 |
| I don't know what the position of
the Asustralian Sceptics is towards SHC (Spontaneous Human Combustion),
but I can assure you, there has never been a properly documented instance
of SHC, where a combustion source was not identified. The accepted theory,
is that SHC occurs, when a person is incapacitated, dead, drunk or asleep.
The person is ignited and usually burns in an atmosphere where there is
only small access to oxygen. Burning occurs very slowly and completely.
Tests on animal carcasses have proven this to be an accepted method of
combustion. As to your other 'theories'. There are usually good, clear explanations, for everything which humans see, hear, smell, or 'sense'. I find dogs interesting, for instance. My dog seems to be able to determine a person who fears dogs, with unerring accuracy. I wondered how it was possible, until I watched her carefully. She makes a VERY SLIGHTLY agressive move towards ALL strangers. If that stranger moves back, even slightly, she knows that she has the upper hand and treats the person accordingly. Humans work on a similar level. Much of how we interact with other people occurs on a level, which we don't notice. Part of our primitive brain, does know what is going one, however. That is how we 'sense' danger. We are processing information on a level which our conscious mind is unaware of. Trevor | |
| From: Alanē | 22/01/00
0:07:03 |
| Subject: re: Skeptics & spontanious human combustion | post id:
28764 |
| check out
http://skepdic.com/shc.html | |
| From: Callan | 23/01/00
12:19:34 |
| Subject: re: Skeptics & spontanious human combustion | post id:
29082 |
| I've pondered the subtle actions
as a good sense of what is happening. I've wondered if people could 'telepathically' comunicate by indicating messages subconciously to others(a eyebrow flicker, a movement of the hands, scent glands), this information could then be 'addressed' to another individual. Many humans pass it along, till it hits the right person! A sort of internet of the subconcious! Well, it sounds silly, but in a way it would be quite workable on the concious level...after all, we talk all the time, with our mouths, why not communicate in other, more sdubtle ways? Cheerz, Callan | |