I've long since resolved not to argue or debate the paranormal evidence I've gathered over the years with skeptics. As I've said before on this site, I won't argue and debate with skeptics about my psychic mediumship or about the evidence I present in my posts or in my threads about my paranormal investigations. Any religious objections to my psychic medium abilities or any doubt about whether they are real or not won't change the reality that I've lived with these abilities all my life, and I refuse to suppress them again in fear of what other people will think. As I've said before, the reason why I post on RF about my psychic abilities and start threads about my investigations is so that I can give other people who don't have these abilities the chance to experience what I see. It's that simple.
As far as I'm concerned, people can accept or reject what I say about my personal experiences as a medium in communication with spirits. It's entirely their decision. I've long since realized that it serves no purpose for me to debate the paranormal with skeptics. I don't post about my psychic abilities or my experiences with the paranormal in an effort to persuade skeptics and win them over to my point of view. I learned that it's pointless and a total waste of my time to debate and argue with hardcore skeptics online because they won't change their minds unless they're genuinely convinced after experiencing something paranormal firsthand for themselves. I don't argue with hardcore skeptics in person either, and skeptics like to hang around and scoff while I'm conducting an investigation.
If I'm conducting a paranormal investigation and there are skeptics present, then I will invite them to participate in the investigation, but I'll ask them to be respectful of me and of everyone else around us, even though they don't believe in the paranormal as others do. If they agree to play nice, then I will accept their participation. I'll answer their questions, inquire about their own opinions, explain to them how I conduct an investigation and what equipment I use, explain how the equipment works, let them handle the equipment, and encourage them to be actively involved in the investigation. If I show them any digital pictures, SLS images, or thermal camera images, I'll ask them what they see and not tell them what I see. If I'm using the spirit box, then I'll ask them what they hear and not tell them what I hear. If I record EVPs on a digital recorder, then I'll ask them what they hear and not tell them what I hear. I make it a point to never influence other people when they're investigating with me or when they are examining my evidence. And when I'm investigating a suspected or well-known haunted location, I never reveal that I'm a psychic medium to people I don't know. If, on the rare occasion, a spirit has a message for someone else present during my investigation, I'll wait until I can talk to that person privately.
More often than not, there will be a humbled skeptic who comes up to me after the investigation to tell me that they saw some very compelling evidence that has caused them to reconsider their view on the paranormal, and they thank me for letting them participate in the investigation. There have also been a few occasions when skeptics attempted to argue with me (basically pick a fight), and I told them flatly that I would not argue with them. I told them that they had seen the same evidence that I and everyone else present had seen, and it was entirely up to them to decide whether they accepted the evidence or not or believed or not. And I left it at that.
I've come to trust a few skeptics that I know, so I let them look through my evidence and give me their feedback. They know that I'll let them come to their own conclusion and that I won't argue with them. There are a couple of them who have told me that the evidence I have shown them is very compelling, but they weren't quite ready to admit that they believed in the paranormal. Since I have been actively involved in the paranormal field for the past 15 years, I've come to strongly believe that "seeing is believing" when it comes to hard-core skeptics. The numerous in-person encounters I've had with this kind of skeptic over the past fifteen years confirm this, as I've explained in other posts (as in this
one here). In fact, Religious Forums has given me a rare opportunity to talk about my psychic abilities and my experiences with the paranormal. I've never been on another forum like it or even on Facebook (or another social media site) where I felt like I could talk about these topics freely and not be bombarded with hateful responses that viciously attack my character or question my sanity. So, I'm grateful for this site, and I value my time here. It has been a positive experience overall.