Ordinary Banana

In this thread, list positions you really strongly disagree with, but also can totally understand how an intelligent, reasonable person would hold that position.

The idea that the current scientific orthodoxy is a roughly complete picture of 'objective' reality -- i.e. that we've mapped the major components/workings of reality and just need to fill in more detail

The position that virtually all info under the umbrellas 'pseudoscience' or 'parapsychology' or 'paranormal phenomena' or 'mysticism' is highly suspect and can reasonably be assumed to be false/fictitious

wait you dont agree with this??

Correct. I think many of the qualia described in these areas are much more than mere hallucination or self-delusion; I think the world is much stranger/more astonishing than we commonly realize (Of course there's still likely plenty of bad info in these categories as well)

awesome -- i WISH so much i cd believe but the reports of these mystical things don't seem to make sense in a way that can't also just be explained as coincidental or motivated? do you have any examples/arguments that get around this