If you had a spirit guide...who would it be?

[Tin Lizzie]

I'd be first in the queue for Houdini.

Imagine being able to produce someone's lost house keys from your mouth, (as opposed to a piece of muslin).

Er, don't mean to poop in the party but incidences of apport are not uncommon. The best I have heard of is a fresh rose. More recently a friend woke up to find a large shinynail beside her bed, after dreaming of nails (needless to say, it doesn't belong to her)

So.....there

[tkingdoll]

I tell you what else is not uncommon: lying; attention seeking; twisting the facts to make them more interesting; being plain old mistaken; fantasizing; exaggerating; not realising an object was there the whole time before; noticing the object the night before in peripheral vision and that triggering a dream about the object; wishful thinking; etc etc.

There are many, many explanations for the nail story, Occams Razor giving us lots to choose from, including the least palatable but very likely 'it never happened' to the kinder and also very likely 'it didn't happen exactly as it was told to you'. Pick the simplest. It's the one most likely to be right.

At the absolute, rock bottom, doesn't-even-scrape-onto-the-list-of-potential-explanations you have "apported there by paranormal phenomena in defiance of all known physical laws and in the absence of an actual witness to the phenomena".

Will someone please explain to me where this drive, this compulsion to cling to a physically impossible explanation when there are so many well-document, human, possible, plausible and likely ones to choose from, actually comes from?

Tin Lizzie, I appreciate you believe you are keeping an open mind, but can you explain to me the difference between accepting "someone apported a nail" without question and just being a creduloid?

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

Er, don't mean to poop in the party but incidences of apport are not uncommon. The best I have heard of is a fresh rose. More recently a friend woke up to find a large shinynail beside her bed, after dreaming of nails (needless to say, it doesn't belong to her)

So.....there

Just last night, a new 42inch LCDB Sony Bravia telly popped out my mouth, I was well chuffed. Been dreaming about a new TV for ages.

[wooo_oops]

I've changed my mind.

Tommy Cooper.

Imagine producing a lost sense of humour from out of your mouth (as opposed to a bunch of keys).

[Zaira]

Anyway..... Getting back on topic.....

Who would your spirit guide be?

[bobdezon]

colin fry

[BillB]

Hi,

In the true spirit of humour I would choose John Jackson, but he would need to have passed over first. After all a good skeptical spirit is essential when exploring the unknown!!

BillB

[brettdbass]

Animal, from the muppet show.

[polomint38]

I know the thread is dead.

But I would have Myra Hindley as my guide, she'll help mefind body's.

Or Fred West!

[newatheist]

no no no no you've all got it wrong!!! its gotta be GOD!! he/she is omnipotent, can whoop jackie chan's ass, write better plays than shakespeare and smarter than einstein.

hahahha!! beat that.

oh wait what? he doesn't exist?
it was gettin so good too.

lol

[Big Bird]

Frankie Boyle

I reckon he'd have god in a comedy fest. Also i reckon he'd drink god under the table.

[Tim the Mage]

I shall carry on using whisky as my spirit guide.

[lost thought]

I shall carry on using whisky as my spirit guide.

Ah yes you know my good friends, Blair Athol, Tam Dhu, Ben Nevis and lets not forget Glen Morangie whom I think is an exallant spirit guide and would be my main choice.