Do you believe in ghosts?
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I'm open to the idea of ghosts, I think it is somewhat feasible although unlikely but I have so many issues with it.
I honestly think that even if I saw a ghost with my very own eyes I'd be more inclined to think it was a hallucination rather than a spirit, that explanation seems far more likely to me. The human mind is very capabale of producing such an experience.
In fact, my brother claims to see ghosts. We were driving a long one day and all of a sudden he said that someone ran across the road in front of our car. I believe he saw that happen because he was obviously pretty shocked but was it there? Blatantly not. No one else in the car saw it (4 people), I was looking forward and I didn't see shit.
It was obviously in his mind... Our eyes work by taking in light, everyone takes in the same light so I fail to see how he saw something we didn't. Which brings me on to another point, these ghosts must be some kind of physical entity. We see them so they must be reflecting light and they can allegedly produce sound. If you watch a ghost hunting program the ghosts are making all kinds of noises knocking on walls and stuff so clearly to produce that sound some kind of being is putting some kind of physical force to a solid object. They're just invisible so you can't see them do it :338:. So presuming they must be physical entities howcome we can't measure them. You would have thought by now scientists would have somehow been able to measure the existence of ghosts.
I mean surely hallucination is a much more logical explanation to seeing ghosts then dead peoples spirits which have become trapped in time, condemned to haunt the place they died? People just prefer to jump to irrational conclusions IMO.
I've heard one spiritual nut say that ghosts are hallucinations but the spirits impose these hallucinations on us... Sounds like another 'god did it' type explanation
Ouija boards or any other form of talking to the dead is pure BS and shouldn't even be given a second thought IMO.
How was that an explanation? All he said was that scientists may someday provide proof of the existence of ghosts, which goes without saying.
I honestly think that even if I saw a ghost with my very own eyes I'd be more inclined to think it was a hallucination rather than a spirit, that explanation seems far more likely to me. The human mind is very capabale of producing such an experience.
In fact, my brother claims to see ghosts. We were driving a long one day and all of a sudden he said that someone ran across the road in front of our car. I believe he saw that happen because he was obviously pretty shocked but was it there? Blatantly not. No one else in the car saw it (4 people), I was looking forward and I didn't see shit.
It was obviously in his mind... Our eyes work by taking in light, everyone takes in the same light so I fail to see how he saw something we didn't. Which brings me on to another point, these ghosts must be some kind of physical entity. We see them so they must be reflecting light and they can allegedly produce sound. If you watch a ghost hunting program the ghosts are making all kinds of noises knocking on walls and stuff so clearly to produce that sound some kind of being is putting some kind of physical force to a solid object. They're just invisible so you can't see them do it :338:. So presuming they must be physical entities howcome we can't measure them. You would have thought by now scientists would have somehow been able to measure the existence of ghosts.
I mean surely hallucination is a much more logical explanation to seeing ghosts then dead peoples spirits which have become trapped in time, condemned to haunt the place they died? People just prefer to jump to irrational conclusions IMO.
I've heard one spiritual nut say that ghosts are hallucinations but the spirits impose these hallucinations on us... Sounds like another 'god did it' type explanation
Ouija boards or any other form of talking to the dead is pure BS and shouldn't even be given a second thought IMO.
How was that an explanation? All he said was that scientists may someday provide proof of the existence of ghosts, which goes without saying.
I personally don't believe in ghosts. All I was saying is that other people do. (Just FTR 
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I just answered his question.
However, I have no idea who that was directed towards.
)I just answered his question.
However, I have no idea who that was directed towards.
It wasn't really directed at anyone or in response to anyone, more of a general "throwing that out there". It just kind of confuses me that someone who disbelieves in a higher being, could believe in the paranormal.
Well the reason people find ghosts so much easier to accept is recorded sighting for hundreds and hundreds of years and a lot of (questionable) modern video evidence.
I don't think so. Why would they?
Assuming they do really exists than it's not necessarily paranormal, perhaps this is some sort of natural phenomena that could eventually be explained by science.
Memories/energy trapped in time which somehow merge the past and the present or something crazy like that, doesn't really have anything to do with God.
I bet every one of those videos was grainy or in some way compromised.
Our brains pull patterns out of the fuzz.
Sometimes the grainier the footage the better.
(Our brains are remarkable at seeing patterns, but they lack the ability to tell if what it sees is physically real or not.)
I'm talking mainly about shows like 'Most Haunted' (uk show, don't know if it's broadcast in America) which involves going to houses, very occasionally seeing a rocking chair or something but mainly just hearing noises etc, as well as live saiyances and stuff like that. The fact that I think oujia boards are utter bollocks means I have to pretty much discount all the rest of the show, so it's fake to me.
Very good production and very believable to the average person, I'd imagine.
Oh yeah, America has this show.
We have some other ones too, as probably you, like Ghost Hunters.
They are extremely popular. (My mom is addicted to them)
And yeah, ouija boards are ridiculous.
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Despite all this, Paranormal Activity was badass.
