Has Science and Reason Taken Away Some of the "Mysticisim" of the world for you?

Don't get me wrong, I love science, I love logic, and facts. However, when I was a kid, I was enthralled with history and mythology. Mummies curses, witchcraft/wizardry, the Greek Pantheon, Norse Mythology etc. As a kid, into my early teens this stuff added "magic"and "mysticism" to the world for me. The world seemed exciting with so many supernatural possibilities. Enter science disproving all of it, and removing the "whimsy" from the world. Sort of like when a kid finds out Santa and the Easter Bunny aren't real. While I've found that science can be exciting in many ways (I was also always into science), it's not the same type of mystery and whimsy that something like the Greek Pantheon, Egyptian curses, and yes even Santa Claus brings. Now when I watch a movie like "The Mummy" my head just starts disproving it with science and facts I've learned. Bleh... anyone else experience this?

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Thevy29 · 41-45, M

What do you mean Santa and Easter Bunny isn't real... 🥺

Science can't explain, How the full Moon effects people.

Or The power of the mind over the body and how it can heal itself when science says otherwise.

How twins share a connection.

It can not explain the existence of ghosts or how some people can perceive their own death or the deaths of others. (this one most people wont believe unless they witnessed it themselves.)

Modern day science can't work out how the ancients built the Pyramids or Stone Henge. so they claim Aliens helped them.

Heck, they do not know how human kind evolved. We thought we came from the Neanderthals who came from the Troglodytes who came from, you get the picture. Recent studies in a cave has discovered that all these species we are said to have evolved from were alive and well 10,000 years ago. And these humanoid ancesters may have originated in other places of the world instead of coming out of Africa.

And almost everything we know about the planets in our solar system have been 'Best guesses' from looking through a telescope.

We cannot be so blinded by the wonder of science to think we know everything we know cause that can be proved to be false.

Don't forget around 1880 Scientist believed they had discovered everything and what was left was to add detail to what they knew. Telephones, cars and airplanes were not known by those scientists... Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Thevy29 A long list of wrong

You first need to establish that the full Moon does effect people, and in what way.

You first need to define and detail the ‘mind’, and then demonstrate if it affects the body

You first need to establish that twins share a connection

You first need to establish the existence of ghosts

There are several credible explanations for how the Pyramids and Stonehenge were constructed... all of them quite mundane, and none involving ‘aliens’.

Homo sapiens did not evolve from Neanderthals. Those two hominid species existed at the same time, and even interbred (around 3% of your genes are Neanderthal). All hominid species following common ancestry with chimpanzees originated in Africa.

Perhaps you’re unaware of the robotic exploration of the Solar System... I recommend any number of good reports and books about what has been found and learned and established. The explorations continue (spoiler alert: There are no alien-constructed ‘canals’ on Mars)

It is never a characteristic of science that it claims to know everything. On the contrary, the boundaries of the unknown expand as the area of established knowledge increases. That’s why science is dynamic and exciting.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@newjaninev2 You failed in English class didn't you

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Thevy29 You ask because..?