Poll: Ghosts.

[eatenbyagrue]

Being a fair-minded and logical person, I'd say "No, until further evidence can be brought forward." But given where I go to school, it's hard not to believe.

See, the school used to be a death camp during Japanese occupation in World War II. Hundreds of people died on the grounds, and 60 years later, they STILL won't let people on campus past 9:30PM, mainly because people are terrified of what they claim to have seen. Never had an encounter myself, though.

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

I don't believe in ghosts. Don't know why some people does.

 

[Steambroom]

I even know one personaly.

 

[FinalGamer]

I believe in ghosts. A LOT. My family are quite superstitious and my nana believes she can see ghosts, backed up with several scary stories with my mum as her witness.

.....it wasn't a good idea to play Fatal Frame. Now I sleep with the light on.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

I believe that there are things in the world that science can't explain YET.

 

[Spitfire175]

Nah.
But they make for good stories.

Ayp. They do. Folklore is nothing without some good spectres flying around.

 

[Abedeus]

Yeaaaah. Ghosts, Santa and Jesus over there.*


*- Not saying Jesus wasn't real, a lot of religions claim that he existed. It's just that believing in such things is an equivalent of believing that you've got Jesus hidden in your closet.

 

[Eisenfaust]

maybe, but what gets to me is all the photos of people going "oooooooh look! ghosts!" when there's something that looks easily photoshoppable lurking somewhere in the background...

 

[Agema]

There was a theory that things like the wind cause vibrations in buildings. If the building vibrates at just the right frequency to match with the frequency that the eye works at, there can be visual effects, and of course you can get sounds with vibrations too. It was something like that, anyway.

Lots of random stuff happens in life. Doors get blown shut, branches hit windows, things that have been piled up badly can collapse long after they've been left alone with no-one near, lights from unknown sources bounce off surfaces and appear unexpectedly, then you get phenomena like St. Elmo's Fire and heaven knows whatever else.

These things can be misinterpreted, especially by someone superstitious, already nervous or afraid. Our culture has stories about ghosts, so the idea of one already exists in our brains. Something weird and surprising occurs, the imagination cooks up a ghost from the pre-existing influence, and in the unnerved state imagination blends with reality. Afterwards, post-rationalisation accepts the ghost to explain the strange event, possibly reinforced because someone admitting they got scared witless by a book falling off a shelf is a bit embarrassing.

Also, I think lots of people bullshit about ghosts even though they know they haven't seen one as a way of attention-seeking or entertaining themselves and others.

 

[Gebi10000]

option 4 but with a "yet" added on the end.

 

[mysticite]

Plausible, but scary. If they are real I'd hate to know what they've seen me do. |:
It's the thought of invisible beings I don't like.

 

[Whistler777]

No, I don't believe in ghosts. When I was a lot younger I did, but have since grown out of it.

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[JohanGasMask]

To me seeing is beliveing...so have i seen a ghost,no.
have i seen Jesus...no, but i still tell people that im a christian.
But there must be more to life then what we just see.

 

[Hawgh]

There's no such thing as ghosts. If there are things that cannot be explained by science, it's because science has yet to explode them sufficiently.

 

[Archer147]

Absolutely not, it's physically impossible, not to mention fucking retarded.

wow. you seem friendly.

there are multiple theories for the existence of ghosts. look them up before you go calling scientific theories fucking retarted.

 

[traceur_]

Absolutely not, it's physically impossible, not to mention fucking retarded.

wow. you seem friendly.

there are multiple theories for the existence of ghosts. look them up before you go calling scientific theories fucking retarted.

Pseudo-science is not science, and you should learn the difference between a theory and a hypothesis.

 

[Shycte]

Ghost I don't know.

But there are things out there that science can't explain.

And I doubt that they ever will be able.

 

[Uncreation]

You're all stupid, of course they exist, I keep one in my fridge called terry, he drowned in beer you see, so he just stays in my fridge and watches my roomates beer. I also have a pet dragon named shirley and my own Jesus! *eye twitch*

Where did you get the Jesus? Is he the miracle making kind, or the cheaper, no miracles version?
OnTopic: Neah, i don't believe in ghosts.

 

[silasbufu]

I'm an atheist so any theory about souls, angels , demons etc. is out for me..as for a scientific theory regarding ghosts..I have never heard of one..but it would seem hard to prove. Plus most people who strongly believe in ghosts have had some strange life-changing event that they couldn't explain..i'm still waiting for it

 

[The_ModeRazor]

No. Duh.
Ghosts are supposed to be souls.
There is no such thing as a soul.