Poll: Do you believe in ghosts?
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Wow I'm quite suprise how many people are against the idea of ghost. I do believe it unless someone prove it's all fakes and with solid evidences.
I've always felt that the idea of a free-roaming field of energy that maintains form and stability, while also having intelligence and the incredible ability to be both corporeal AND incorporeal at the same time, to be rather.....ludicrous at best.
So, um...I guess you could say that no, I do not "believe" in ghosts. The very notion is comical to me.
Also, when someone says, "I'm not really sure, there are weird things we can't explain. So maybe ghosts are real.", they are really no different than this guy -
So, um...I guess you could say that no, I do not "believe" in ghosts. The very notion is comical to me.
Also, when someone says, "I'm not really sure, there are weird things we can't explain. So maybe ghosts are real.", they are really no different than this guy -
Ever hear the phrase "burden of proof"? Basically, it's up to the ones claiming something is true to prove that it's true. Not the other way around.DoPo said:
See above.Scarim Coral said:
You too? And here I thought I was alone! I've always been told I was crazy for believing in swamp gas.Vilty said:i believe swamp gas if that counts for anything.
Now, if only I can prove my belief in anthropomorphism. Then maybe people won't look at me like I'm some nutcase. <.<
"Find that someone"? Pretty sure that "someone" would be anyone claiming ghosts are real. So...take your pick I guess? There are plenty of them around. Hell, last I heard, anywhere between 25 and 30 percent of Americans believe in ghosts. So just grab the next 4 people you see. Chances are at least one of them is a believer.DoPo said:
Also, if they say they saw one, that is not proof. If history and science have taught us anything it's that eye-witness accounts and anecdotal evidence are the worst, most unreliable kinds of evidence you can get.
But think about it, if there truly is nothing after death it isn't like you would be able to tell or even care. You'd be dead.Aprilgold said:
Anyway, I believe there's some weird shit in this world that we cannot understand, at least for the time being.
Ghosts? I don't know. I believe that human beings must give off some form of energy, at least while they're alive, but for that energy to somehow manifest and gain its own will after death?
That borders on magic.
For me it's not a matter of belief, the idea of non-corporeal spirit entities violates the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. And as all evidence to date shows that nothing violates the Laws of Thermodynamics, this is scientific proof to me that the is no afterlife, no spirit world and no aether.
With that in mind, forget the idea of rewards when you die for good stuff you did in life, just be good for the sake of making the only world you're ever going to exist in a bit nicer for you and everyone else...
With that in mind, forget the idea of rewards when you die for good stuff you did in life, just be good for the sake of making the only world you're ever going to exist in a bit nicer for you and everyone else...
Well, not ghosts, specifically, but something causing the phenomenom behind them, sort of. Suppose that's still enough to make me an idiot, but hey.
Basically, I don't believe in the archetypical "Aaaveeenge meee!" type of ghost, or that those ghost-freeing psycics you see on the telly "Helping people to the other side" sometimes actually do anything of the sort. I do believe there is a phenomenom behind it, however, and we human beings simply apply too many of our own interpretations and conclusions on what we see.
Now, this is my theory. I can't prove it. If I could, we wouldn't be sitting here, for a start. But I do think that we, as creatures with rather developed cognitive and psycological abilities, do affect an enviroment we spend alot of time in. A person who are really attached to a flat or house, for instance, might rub off onto the enviroment. Perhaps the effect is different if the opposite is true, if the person suffers in the enviroment. And these tiny distortions is what others pick up, much later. Then, they go assuming it's A: some dead unrelative who's come back to say they're sorry for being such jerks or B: that they've shamed their species by entertaining superstitious thought.
Now, I can't prove it. I'm not trying to sell this to you, and I'm not all convinced myself. It's just a slight theory. And we're currently not in a position where we can be truly sure one way or the other in these matters, either way. We might be one day, but it's not the time to make facts of assumptions either way about it.
In short; no, not really. Something ghost-y might exist, but it's not like in the books.
Basically, I don't believe in the archetypical "Aaaveeenge meee!" type of ghost, or that those ghost-freeing psycics you see on the telly "Helping people to the other side" sometimes actually do anything of the sort. I do believe there is a phenomenom behind it, however, and we human beings simply apply too many of our own interpretations and conclusions on what we see.
Now, this is my theory. I can't prove it. If I could, we wouldn't be sitting here, for a start. But I do think that we, as creatures with rather developed cognitive and psycological abilities, do affect an enviroment we spend alot of time in. A person who are really attached to a flat or house, for instance, might rub off onto the enviroment. Perhaps the effect is different if the opposite is true, if the person suffers in the enviroment. And these tiny distortions is what others pick up, much later. Then, they go assuming it's A: some dead unrelative who's come back to say they're sorry for being such jerks or B: that they've shamed their species by entertaining superstitious thought.
Now, I can't prove it. I'm not trying to sell this to you, and I'm not all convinced myself. It's just a slight theory. And we're currently not in a position where we can be truly sure one way or the other in these matters, either way. We might be one day, but it's not the time to make facts of assumptions either way about it.
In short; no, not really. Something ghost-y might exist, but it's not like in the books.
There's a part of me that wants to believe it's all hooey and there's a part of me that feels there are too many credible people with too many good stories. Some time I'd like to go to a legitimate "haunted house" (but definitely not my own) and try to let something come at me, a la "Get her!" in Ghostbusters.
Here's one thing about "ghosts" that confuses me. If you're a "spirit," you theoretically have no mass and can move through solid objects. So shouldn't they be flying through and off the planet? What's physically allowing them to stay on this moving rock through space at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour?
Fact or Faked proved this can be done so there's nothing paranormal about that.arc1991 said:
That said, I've seen my fair share of shadow people so yes, yes I do believe in ghosts. I don't know what they are but I know what I've experienced.
Honestly no I don't believe in ghost, but I am open to the idea if there is concrete evidence or I see one with a whole bunch of people seeing it at the same time... If I see a ghost by myself or no one else sees it, then I will conclude I need medication asap.
I ain't afraid o' no ghost...
Seriously though, this vid made me a believer. [http://www.viddler.com/v/3c4636fa]
Seriously though, this vid made me a believer. [http://www.viddler.com/v/3c4636fa]
