Finding Materialism Too Dull?

[Nakosis]

Years ago, when I still believed in demons and, consequently, paranormal phenomena, I found stories of "haunted houses," "possessions," "exorcisms," etc., to be interesting and rather terrifying. I also sometimes found a bright side to them: after all, the idea that a "possessed" person could be fully and fairly quickly cured of suffering through an exorcism was a comforting one, especially since I had heard stories of similar cures benefiting not-so-distant relatives.

Nowadays, though, I find such stories generic and fictional due to my materialism. The thing is that while I'm a materialist, I sometimes find myself wishing paranormal phenomena were real in some cases, such as ones where an "exorcism" is alleged to be a cure-all for a specific problem a person has. Also, exorcism and possession aside, the idea that there's more to life than what we can readily observe is pretty fascinating.

Am I the only person who sometimes finds materialism a bit too dull despite being an advocate of it? Put differently, are there materialists here who wish paranormal phenomena were real and scientific?

Note: I considered putting this thread in the Non-Theists Only forum, but I decided to put it here instead to have input from more people as well as opinions from believers in the paranormal. Everyone's input is welcome here.

There's science fiction. Still lot's of good material for horror.

Zombies, aliens, the rise of the robots etc...

No need to rely on supernatural lore.

 

[Milton Platt]

Years ago, when I still believed in demons and, consequently, paranormal phenomena, I found stories of "haunted houses," "possessions," "exorcisms," etc., to be interesting and rather terrifying. I also sometimes found a bright side to them: after all, the idea that a "possessed" person could be fully and fairly quickly cured of suffering through an exorcism was a comforting one, especially since I had heard stories of similar cures benefiting not-so-distant relatives.

Nowadays, though, I find such stories generic and fictional due to my materialism. The thing is that while I'm a materialist, I sometimes find myself wishing paranormal phenomena were real in some cases, such as ones where an "exorcism" is alleged to be a cure-all for a specific problem a person has. Also, exorcism and possession aside, the idea that there's more to life than what we can readily observe is pretty fascinating.

Am I the only person who sometimes finds materialism a bit too dull despite being an advocate of it? Put differently, are there materialists here who wish paranormal phenomena were real and scientific?

Note: I considered putting this thread in the Non-Theists Only forum, but I decided to put it here instead to have input from more people as well as opinions from believers in the paranormal. Everyone's input is welcome here.

Materialism encompasses the entire known universe, so it it difficult to see how it could be dull.

 

[Grandliseur]

Years ago, when I still believed in demons and, consequently, paranormal phenomena, I found stories of "haunted houses," "possessions," "exorcisms," etc., to be interesting and rather terrifying. I also sometimes found a bright side to them: after all, the idea that a "possessed" person could be fully and fairly quickly cured of suffering through an exorcism was a comforting one, especially since I had heard stories of similar cures benefiting not-so-distant relatives.

Nowadays, though, I find such stories generic and fictional due to my materialism. The thing is that while I'm a materialist, I sometimes find myself wishing paranormal phenomena were real in some cases, such as ones where an "exorcism" is alleged to be a cure-all for a specific problem a person has. Also, exorcism and possession aside, the idea that there's more to life than what we can readily observe is pretty fascinating.

Am I the only person who sometimes finds materialism a bit too dull despite being an advocate of it? Put differently, are there materialists here who wish paranormal phenomena were real and scientific?

Note: I considered putting this thread in the Non-Theists Only forum, but I decided to put it here instead to have input from more people as well as opinions from believers in the paranormal. Everyone's input is welcome here.

Materialism is boring. No ghosts, no fallen angels, no good angels - no terror under the bed, no terror for the bad guys or the good guys. Life is not life, it is a misunderstanding of chemical, mechanical, electric, computational machinery, nothing else. There is no conscience - only materialism highly misunderstood. It is only electrical impulses warped by computational imagination that is entirely not living.

 

[idav]

There's science fiction. Still lot's of good material for horror.

Zombies, aliens, the rise of the robots etc...

No need to rely on supernatural lore.

I hear you and with the current technology we live in one of the more fascinating times in history. Some just figured out how to edit our alphabet a letter at a time. It's going to get even crazier. The difference to me is that life is not like XMen where people are randomly given awesome abilities. If we create the abilities it's through engineering, not some cosmic force guiding us to some deity like evolution of humans, that's movie stuff that comes from a culture with belief of god ingrained in it.

 

[Jumi]

You're in luck, materialism itself doesn't rule out strange phenomenon from existing. It just doesn't actively promote these ideas. The materialistic Soviet Union had multiple researchers study paranormal in hopes of finding something useful to further the materialist dialectic.