Paranormal Certification

[Admin]

What do you think about requiring an Certificate to be a paranormal investigator?

I seen this post in another forum and thought i see what you guys think.

Here is what i posted..


First Post.

There are many things i see problem with being certified. For one it's like what was said there are different theories. believes. How can one certificate cover all?.

But another reason is: What does it mean to be certified? It's only a piece of paper, it doesn't mean you are any better or worse then person that isn't. To me it's same as having a degree in say electronics's then go out and try to get a job with that degree. When your trying to find jobs you keep seeing people with no degree get the job. The reason being experience. No amount of education is going to give you the experience. Your going to have to go out yourself and get it. Your going to have to go out and find out your own system. Wither it being scientific, spiritual or little bit of both.

Like the saying goes: "There's a difference between intelligence and wisdom, intelligence it someone that reads a book. Wisdom is the person who went out done it and learned".


Second Post:

There isn't anything when investigating paranormal that you can call scientific, as even equipment used is based on theory on why it works, what it's gathering. Why do you get flurated emf readings? Does that mean there is a ghost near by? Even if you get higher temps, abnormal photo at the same time as high emf, or flurated reading, it doesn't mean that it's scientific proof.

Solar Winds is known to cause high or abnormal emf readings. They have been known to knock out power grids, so messing with your equipment would not be any problems for them. They also been known to cause temps changes.

One advantage we had in last decade or so, was that the sun has been in it's dormant stage, with very few sun flares, but we are now starting to come out of that, and this will cause more problems as there will be allot more solar winds.

Saying this i think no one could certify another person to investigate. When it comes down to it, it's all based on our theories (believes) and each one of us has our own. To certify someone would be saying that person's theories are right and yours are wrong, which is wrong to do as it's all based on theories, with no real scientific proof behind it.

[Cherokee]

 I am sorry but anyone who tell me that they have a Paranormal Certificate just make me want to bust out laughing. How can you be certitified in a field where you can not prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what you are trying to prove? And you are working with equiment that may or may not help prove or disprove your theroies and it is all based on theroies. To me the only way to learn is hands on investigations. No piece of paper is going to prove to me you know what you are doing or have what it takes to be a paranormal investigator. And no one is quaified to give you that piece of paper either. Why??? Because no one has all the anwers on the paranoramal. Thats my two cents worth.

[Admin]

I agree with you, but you'd be surprised on how many people think there you should be certified. I know i was surprised.

[boogieman]

i completely agree with both of you no way you could learn all and have it on paper to many different beliefs  out there

[Cherokee]

 I have seen it too and it just makes me roll my eyes  .

[THE LANEMAN]

That  sounds like a easy way to make some fast money and even if its free it makes me laugh because we earned our certifecate when we went out and spent many hours of the night to leatn and see or hear ghosts. Also if a house is haunted and the people in it are scared and need help I really dont think they are going to say "Yes sir we would love your help but before we can go any futher do you have your certificate?" LOL    http://

[boogieman]

good point

[Fauss]

Easy way to make money that costs you $300 for an online test and a book that says absolutely nothing lol

[Cherokee]

 LOL.......you got that right!

[Admin]

lol, there are cheaper ones, Troy Taylor has one that is cheap, last time i was there, over 3 years ago. You had to pay i think it was $70 for it. But it is worthless. People are wanting there to be a law that states that you have to be certified. To me there is no way they are going to do this. As this would mean the government would have to say there is something to the paranormal, and i don't see that happening. Then other thing is what are you going to certify people with? That they can ghost hunt same way as you? Have your theories?

[Cherokee]

It will never happen. They will have to admit that there are ghost to hunt LOL.

[Britt04]

I know this topic is old but I am going and reading through everything.  I just about pee'ed myself thinking someone would have to be certified for this.  I guess I can see where people are coming from cause I guess they want to make sure that people are out there doing what they say they are doing, but you can't try to put a certificate on something where it can't be proved or unproved.  Well I guess you can un prove it but still I dont see how you can honestly certify people in something that technically isnt "scientific"  which Im not sure it will ever be.  There are too many different views on this.

I can also I guess understand that maybe they want everyone to use the same methods and such but that dosent even work, because some people don't do tihngs the way others do.  I guess to me it sounds like someone is trying to make a quick buck on something.

[Admin]

Yeah, they are all just making money off it. To certify people they have to go with your believes, your methods. I don't see that happening.

[Fauss]

Apparently I need to make a point I made on the former forum site... dangit... No one, and I mean NO ONE, can claim certification in a pseudoscience. It is a pseudoscience simply because there is
A. no difinitive proof one way or the other. No trials can be remade exactly the same way after something has been found.
B. most people try to throw a religious aspect into it. Hence Pseudoscience... If you have faith you don't need proof, and if you need proof you don't have faith... MAKE UP YOUR MIND lol