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Who are we to say what is real or not when tons of people all over the world claim to have paranormal experiences. When all across the cultures, there are legends/myths of a sort of supernatural being.
My opinion is that we as humans, will never find out or agree if ghosts are real but for myself, I chose to believe in it. Because, many people have had their own sort of paranormal experiences and we can't shove them aside and say that they are lying because we don't want to believe in it.
Who are we to say what is real or not when tons of people all over the world claim to have paranormal experiences.
It is true it is safer not to speak in definite terms when it comes to the nonexistence of something. But considering none of these experiences have ever been recreated a controlled setting and in fact do not usually stand up to critical scrutiny, and there is a more probable, rational explanation for the human tendency to see ghosts, it puzzles me why people would not choose to err on the side of logic.
When all across the cultures, there are legends/myths of a sort of supernatural being.
These cultures all have very different ideas of what ghosts are, how they come into being, what they look like and what they are capable of. The fact that almost everything about ghosts is incredibly subjective based on geography seems like pretty good evidence to their nonexistence.
Because, many people have had their own sort of paranormal experiences and we can't shove them aside and say that they are lying because we don't want to believe in it.
Humans have naturally suspicious minds. We retain the tendency to see something where there is nothing, because that is safer than seeing nothing where there is something. Plenty of these people genuinely believe they had a paranormal experience, but in reality, they were influenced by fear, the power of suggestion, or groupthink. It is very possible for the memories of your own experiences to be very distorted without you realizing it. It doesn't mean everyone who claims to have a paranormal experience is crazy or a liar, it means they have an average brain with an overactive imagination.
Also, yes, lots of them are probably lying. Do not lose sight of the fact that every single one of these experiences is secondhand; they are quite likely to be omitting or embellishing, purposefully or not. Take the story of a slightly creepy coincidence, pass it through a couple of superstitious people who love a good scare, and you have a fantastic ghost story.
They may have different ideas of what ghosts are but the point is they still have stories of something supernatural. One or two may just a coincidence but if many of them have it, don't you think that there is something more to it?
My family and very close friends have told me that they have had supernatural experiences and I know they wouldn't lie or make up random stories. So that also adds to my belief even though it is not the big reason why I believe in it.
Also, how about things that can't be explained by humans? Things that seem to have more than rational reasoning behind it?
They may have different ideas of what ghosts are but the point is they still have stories of something supernatural. One or two may just a coincidence but if many of them have it, don't you think that there is something more to it?
All there is to it is that death and loss are frightening things and humans have sought a way to make them familiar and explainable since before they understood the world as we do now. Many people believe in ghosts as a mechanism for coping with grief, because the prospect of losing a loved one forever is too much to face honestly. Others fear the termination of their own consciousness and tell themselves it will continue, in some way or another. Others experience a very unlikely coincedince and, unable or unwilling to consider more practical causes, choose to sbustitute a paranormal entity as the cause. Still others simply crave something interesting or mystical in their lives and subsconsciously filter the world through this desire, seeing evidence for ghosts or angels or Bigfoots where there is none.
If ghost stories from around the world are all real, rather than a product of people trying to explain a world they didn't understand, then why the differences? Do you turn into a different type of ghost depending on where you died? Do ghosts vastly vary in properties depending on what the observer believes? If so, how and why would the beliefs of an observer influence the properties of the ghost? Why have no claims of ghosts, from the wildest to the most mundane, ever been recreated in a controlled setting?
My family and very close friends have told me that they have had supernatural experiences and I know they wouldn't lie or make up random stories. So that also adds to my belief even though it is not the big reason why I believe in it.
1. The human memory is surprisingly inaccurate, despite what we would all like to believe. We misremember important things and fall prey to misdirection and manipulation fairly easily. Memories created during times of extreme stress or intense emotion can be especially unreliable.
2. When a person who believes in ghosts or is naturally superstitious experiences a strange coincidence, they are less likely investigate other causes because they have already made up their minds.
3. Anecdotal experience is unreliable, even if that source is not intentionally dishonest. For example, let's say a person who believes in ghosts enters a room at an acquaintance's house and sees that a lampshade behind a couch is rhythmically shaking. They watch it for awhile and it continues to shake, despite the fact the air conditioning is off and the windows are closed. Hidden behind the couch is a small fan, making the lampshade move. However, the observer 'knows' they are witnessing the actions of a ghost and, nervous, they leave. Later, they tell their story to a friend. Of course, the presence of the small fan is omitted, and their friend has no way of checking to see if it was there and no reason to think it would be, because they, too, believe in ghosts thus see no need to consider other causes. Maybe they relate the story to you, and embellish slightly to make it more interesting, saying that the entire lamp was swaying back and forth a little. You now have even less reason to believe it was caused by something else because making a lamp sway would take considerable force. And suddenly, you have another piece of 'evidence' for the existence of ghosts.
Also, how about things that can't be explained by humans? Things that seem to have more than rational reasoning behind it?
If you gave me an example of one of the unexplainable things you have in mind, I could answer this question better. There are things that genuinely unexplainable, and things that are 'unexplainable' only in the sense that superstitious people and believers refuse to accept or comprehend the scientific explanation that has been provided, preferring instead to rely on magic or supernatural forces. Ghosts are an excellent example of this.
However, there are, of course, things that humans do not know. We may yet decipher some of the more difficult workings of the world, but in the meantime, there is no reason to fill in gaps in knowledge with supernatural phenomenon. It is better to admit a lack of knowledge and strive to acquire it.
I can't believe People dis-agree their existence after Paranormal psychology has proved it with evidences that can't be denied. Is there no respect for the stream?!
Are ghost real? Ever got a cold chill when it is ninety degrees? Ever had a door shut by itself with no breeze?
I lived in a house that many feared, I have seen some strange things.
Entered the house after being gone several days and smell of perfume took your breath (Nobody claimed to have been there while I was away).
Entered the house and the inside of the door was covered in blood. I figured someone broke a window and entered the house, left by the back door with a bloody hand. No broken windows and nothing was missing. (The Sheriffs office filled out a report)
Entered the house and took off my shoes, had to use the restroom, stepped on a soaking wet rug in the bathroom. Looked around and the toilet paper roll was dripping water from it as it hung there. The sink and tub both bone dry, no signs of water splashed anywhere else.
Those cold chills mentioned, occasional got them.
Dog would bark in the middle of the night as if there was someone just outside the bedroom door. No one ever found.
The light bulbs blow in the house one room at a time, and then the TV went up in smoke.
Leave and come back, one of the rooms I didn't use would have the lights on. This happened several times.
The cleaning lady claimed something kept shutting the lights off on her and brought one of her friends after that.
A neighbor gal mowed the yard and wouldn't mow without bring a friend along. She claimed that while mowing she saw a man dressed in a black long sleeve shirt and pants on a ninety degree day disappear. While on the riding mower she noticed him and turned around at the end of yard and mowed away from him, when she got to the other end and turned toward him he was gone. I lived in the country and one can see for miles, he just vanished. No cars picked him up, just gone. She didn't stick around.
I found a dead coyote leaned against the back door, moved it, and went to bed. The next morning it was leaned against the back door just as it was.
This was a five bedroom house and I resided there alone. Whatever it was that took place there, never really bothered me. I came to expect the unexpected the six years I lived there. A ghost? You decide.
Are ghost real? Ever got a cold chill when it is ninety degrees? Ever had a door shut by itself with no breeze?
Ghosts are sensory pattern heuristics gone awry. For example, when a door shuts we think someone shut it and don't sense changes in pressure that are too subtle for our senses. Some sensory information causes our defense systems to engage that we are not consciously aware of, hairs on the back of the neck for example are a legacy from our early evolution and when the hairs rising would make us appear bigger.
Then there's the suggestibility of the human mind. Someone tells you a house is haunted so you imagine things and are hypersensitive to things that aren't there.
To error is aveske. A qoute that will become famous one day. You only took one example of several, dispute all activity.
Second, this house is a new one built on bare ground. There is no history and the parties involved don't know each other. I am the only one that knows all parties and do not promote the idea of ghost. Please with all your wisdom explain all activity reported by these people. Let me guess you are the only sane person alive.
Second, this house is a new one built on bare ground. There is no history and the parties involved don't know each other. I am the only one that knows all parties and do not promote the idea of ghost.
I think I answered this. Sensory heuristics gone awry.
Let me ask you something. Do you believe that what you see, feel and think are real? More exactly, do you think that what you experience is reality itself, unadulterated? This is important.
In truth none of us has ever experienced reality without a filter. Our brain assembles what we sense into a reality that we know, but it is not an objective reality. This is why dyslexics see words backwards, why depressed and schizophrenic people can see things that are not real, but feel real. Our brain goes bad in those cases.
Let me guess you are the only sane person alive.
I probably am on the verge on insanity, but I am still correct about this.
Not on the verge, already there. Let me get this straight. You are always right and everybody else is wrong.
I have been mistaken and wrong on this website a few times, less than ten. If you compare that to the number of my posts including this one (2075), it means I am wrong less than 0.5% of the time. This means that for every two-hundred arguments I make, I am mistaken in one of them.
Math must not be your strong point, but then nothing is. Your effecinecy rating is 91% and so you must have been wrong at least 9% of the time. Not .5% and even this is subjected to popularity among your atheist butt buddies. Without the help of your other cult members this would be only a 60% instead of 91%
Math must not be your strong point, but then nothing is.
I prefer subtle insults. Crass insults like this denote a lack of thought.
Your effecinecy rating is 91% and so you must have been wrong at least 9% of the time.
Efficiency is calculated by a formula that weighs your current number of points by how many arguments you have made, roughly. If you'll note, I downvote and upvote people a lot, which means I spent points which lowers my efficiency. I should have around two-thousand or more points but as you can see, I vote a lot.
Without the help of your other cult members this would be only a 60% instead of 91%
My calculation in the last post was accurate. However, wait for my next two-hundred posts and you might spot an error.
The error occurred sometime ago, the egg and sperm that formed you is that error. Two wrongs never make a right. Ever since day the errors just keep happening. To error is aveskde.
The error occurred sometime ago, the egg and sperm that formed you is that error. Two wrongs never make a right. Ever since day the errors just keep happening. To error is aveskde.
I believe ghosts are real there are things to support it like at Gettysburg the limestone makes it perfect cause the brain has electromagnetic Waves which are at there at there peak at times of extreme stress and limestone is a good conductor so it is possible for it to store the energy at reproduce it thus ghosts
Well, "evidence" is just something I named at last minute, but I've had personal experiences with spirits, which I just decided to call evidence.
Though there is the 21 grams theory. This theory explains how that when you die, you lose 21 grams. These grams are believed to be the human soul. It is just a theory, however.
I see. Personal experiences generally hold very little water as evidence, as there is no way for anyone else to determine the accuracy even if you are 100% certain of what happened.
As for the 21 grams theory, it is far from conclusive. The experiment is over 100 years old and executed with suspect equipment and methods by a person with a distinct bias. Out of six subjects measured as they died on a scale, the data from two had to be discarded, and out of the remaining four, one lost weight immediately and stopped; one lost weight, gained it back, then lost it again; and yet another lost some weight immediately then proceeded to slowly lose a little more. No similar experiment has ever been conducted that corroborated or refuted the very limited and quite possibly faulty data.
Also, doesn't it follow that if an object has weight, it has mass, and if it has mass, that mass must be located somewhere in the body and we would be able to percieve and measure it by other methods?
We are humans and most humans don't believe in something unless they have seen it,really the only exception is religion. However some humans claim to have seen ghosts, including my uncle. I believe my uncle, i know hes not crazy or a liar, which means that I believe in ghosts. However no one will never know, and therefore, I think that we all shouldn't dwell on it too much or we will just drive ourselves crazy.
I believe that there are ghost/spirit around us. I myself have encounter one but that just me. but at the end of this, people have many opinions about ghost/spirits but yet there is not that many evidence that they exist.
If we have no souls than love doesn't exist either, no soul mate. Without a soul mate there is no love. We cannot see love or even see the wind, but both exist. Your only fear is that you have a soul and will be condemned to hell.
It is very doubtful that you have a brain, it is a safe bet that you are only made up of water.
You are that miracle you so desire to believe in God, a man with no brain exist.
Sight is not our only way of measuring things. Both love and the wind are measurable by multiple other methods. There is nothing mystical or magical about the wind, and the same is true for love. Just because it does not require a soul to exist does not mean love is any less real, profound, or intense.
We can measure love by the physical effects of a person in the presence of the one they love. You release dopamine, adrenaline, and seratonin, your pupils can dilate, your heart rate can increase, certain parts of your brain become incredibly active, and so on. There is a reason they say love is a drug and it isn't a mystery why we feel great in the presence of the person we love. Parents and infants also exhibit concrete reactions in the brain when they are around each other, so it is not only romantic love that does things like this.
Facts don't lie, but figurers do. I can make any statistic work to by benefit. One simply cannot take into account all factors and so all results are formed on a bias. And if you worship whats its face, the incest went on for a long time in your household.
Facts don't lie, but figurers do. I can make any statistic work to by benefit. One simply cannot take into account all factors and so all results are formed on a bias.
Are you doubting the existence of the parts of the brain and the certain chemicals that make a person feel elated in the presence of their loved one? Which 'figurers' are lying, and what are your reasons for thinking so?
And if you worship whats its face, the incest went on for a long time in your household.
What?
One more time, how do you know that everyone has a soul? I am asking out of genuine curiosity
Well, I am up for honestly debating this topic as long as it doesn't devolve into irrelevant nonsense. Seeing as that is what has happened, I am sure I will see you around.
Facts don't lie, but figurers do. I can make any statistic work to by benefit. One simply cannot take into account all factors and so all results are formed on a bias. And if you worship whats its face, the incest went on for a long time in your household.
It is a fact that love is related to hormones in the brain.
If we have no souls than love doesn't exist either, no soul mate. Without a soul mate there is no love. We cannot see love or even see the wind, but both exist.
We have brains. Those are responsible for love.
Your only fear is that you have a soul and will be condemned to hell.
You only deny that Djinn exist because you are afraid that they might cast a spell on you.
It is very doubtful that you have a brain, it is a safe bet that you are only made up of water.
We are all made up of mostly water.
You are that miracle you so desire to believe in God, a man with no brain exist.
I believe the possibilty that many things can exist and that includes Djinn. Take that and shove it in your pipe and smoke it.
You never answer anything you just play with words. Learn that from David at the atheist convention. What am I saying, you haven't learned anything in your life.
It is no shock that the miracle you claim is needed to believe is ignored by you. Where is that logic you keep saying you have? Maybe you never had it.
I believe the possibilty that many things can exist and that includes Djinn. Take that and shove it in your pipe and smoke it.
You missed the point. I cannot fear hell because I don't believe in it.
You never answer anything you just play with words. Learn that from David at the atheist convention. What am I saying, you haven't learned anything in your life.
Wittiness seems this way to slow people.
It is no shock that the miracle you claim is needed to believe is ignored by you. Where is that logic you keep saying you have? Maybe you never had it.
Now you go even farther into denying the exist of God that you fabricate a device in your mind to achieve this. You are clearly the logical one.
The simple answer is that there is no logical evidence for god that holds under examination, neither has god been witnessed by a panel of scientists, neither is there empirical evidence of god. It all fails. So therefore I am perfectly justified in not accepting a god.
Don't tell the wind doesn't exist! If you're going to say it's made up of atoms and so forth then it's possible that ghosts could be the split atoms from a human who died.
Just because you believe in something doesn't make it real. Say for example, I really believe that my orange is purple. My orange is never going to be purple (unless it was genetically modified). It's the same with ghosts. The fact that we believe in ghosts doesn't make it real. We need hard evidence. The hard evidence that my orange is purple is that it's sitting in front of me already geneticall modified.
Many people have the supernatural gift of being able to 'see' or feel the presence of ghosts. Unfortunately also many people do not believe in ghosts and when people claim of seeing one, they think they are lying or they are mad. The reason most give is that there is no proof other than opinions and personal encounters. Well, there is no proof for a lot of things. There is no proof of God, there is no proof of Jesus being divine. And yet people still believe in them. I guess it's the same sort of thing.
I answered it just like atheist answer everything, by saying nothing. Maybe I should throw in an equivocal in there somewhere then you can comprehend it.
I answered it just like atheist answer everything, by saying nothing. Maybe I should throw in an equivocal in there somewhere then you can comprehend it.
You're very good at saying nothing, indeed it is all you do.
Just because you don't understand something, or don't want to hear it, doesn't mean it's 'nothing'.
This debate has nothing to do with atheists or atheism. I know you have a personal vendetta against anyone who lacks a belief in God, but keep it in it's proper place. Another example of your repeated attempts to derail and confuse debates.
You still haven't answered the actual question. Usually, that only happens when someone can't think of a real answer.
2. Who really has the authority to define those qualifications, as I am sure plenty of people who believe in ghosts and think they have seen them would have different answers.
To answer your question in regard to why only some people see ghost, I can only answer you with questions. Why is it some people don't see the word in a word jumble and others see it instantly? Why do some people only see one picture when there is a picture within a picture? I could continue with this and ask why one person has athletic ability, musical talents, math skills, etc.? The answer appears that we are either wired to or not wired for these things.
Because I have no musical abilities, can I conclude nobody has musical abilities? No, because I have seen others that are talented. In regard to seeing ghost because you don't have the ability does this mean nobody does? We all have some special talent, whose to say seeing ghost isn't one them?
There are mechanisms that allow things like athletic, musical, and math skills to exist. There is no known mechanism that allows for ghosts to exist as an entity without mass but somehow possessing a consciousness and, according to some, the ability to interact with the physical world, sometimes in a way that, according to still others, exceeds normal human ability. Should convincing evidence for such a mechanism come to light, I would reconsider my lack of belief. Until then, I see no reason to operate as though ghosts do exist.
Additionally, for anyone who doubts the existence of any type of ability, there exists ample evidence for those who care to look for it. They only need watch a talented person at work; a concert pianist, an Olympic runner, a math professor, and so on. The hidden word or picture can be pointed out to them. This is not true for ghosts: the only 'evidence' for them is countless unverifiable anecdotes. The tendency of the human brain to misremember, imagine, and leap to conclusions, is far more probable and demonstrable than paranormal entities.
Let me get this straight. You believe in a person's ability because you can see the results and because you can't see what somebody else sees then they are a lier. Sounds a lot like a closed-minded person that is prejudice to others peoples accomplishments.
Do you believe that the pianist feels the music before he even plays it or the artist sees his master piece before it is completed?
Do these people have passion? How do you know? You can't see it. Does passion exist? It is an invisible force. One might even say that passion is ghost like.
Merriam-Webster defines passion as
3: the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces
Let me get this straight. You believe in a person's ability because you can see the results and because you can't see what somebody else sees then they are a lier.
I have said several times that I do not think that all ghost stories are intentional lies. But if someone claims to see something that is basically impossible according to the laws of physics, and has not been and cannot be recreated in a controlled setting, then I think they are either mistaken, unintentionally exaggerating, or lying.
You seem to think that closed-mindedness = not agreeing with everything you think and believe. That is not true.
I require verifiable evidence before I operate as though something is true. This is not closed-mindedness. This is just refusing to be gullible.
Do you believe that the pianist feels the music before he even plays it or the artist sees his master piece before it is completed?
Do these people have passion? How do you know? You can't see it. Does passion exist? It is an invisible force. One might even say that passion is ghost like.
Merriam-Webster defines passion as
3: the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces
Those are examples of emotion or subjective perceptions of the world, both of which are explainable as functions of the human brain, and both of which have results that can be easily recreated and independently verified. I hope you can tell the difference between these things and a genuine, independently existing paranormal entity.
You have absolutely no idea what I am passionate about.
Also,
pas·sion
–noun
1. any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
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Once again, you dodge the bulk of a pertinent argument, in order to insult, confuse, or mislead. Do you resort to that when you have no real rebuttal to make?
humans are made of energy. logically when we die our energy or "souls" must exist since energy cannot be destroyed. if people can believe in angels and in god,ghosts shouldn't be too hard to believe in.
It's inaccurate to state that humans are made of "energy" - yes, we have energy, but we get it from food. This raises the question - do/would ghosts need to eat in order to maintain their existence (in other words, stay "alive")? Otherwise they'd use up the energy they already have, just as living humans do. Do you also think other creatures (non-human animals and plants) have souls and turn into ghosts, since every living thing has to have energy in some way or another? Also, while energy cannot technically be 'destroyed,' you're also misconstruing the already-mentioned dilemma of energy being able to be used up. In other words, we have to continue to eat to get our energy replenished.
We're also, of course, still faced with the problem of where ghosts go - if all the beings to ever live still inhabit the earth as energy, the earth would be crammed full of these things.
Moreover, there's no verifiable evidence to suggest that ghosts exist, or evidence to support the notion that consciousness (which is an emergent property of the brain) can be maintained and its personality preserved in the absence of the physical presence of the brain.
"if people can believe in angels and in god,ghosts shouldn't be too hard to believe in." I see your point, but I would say that people shouldn't believe in ANY of those things. It's all myth and superstition. A great book I'd recommend about it is "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark." The brilliant scientist and critical thinker Carl Sagan eloquently explains the perseverance of paranormal beliefs through history, and why the case for it is much less logical than we would intuitively believe.
logically when we die our energy or "souls" must exist since energy cannot be destroyed
The energy in the human body is a combination of three kinds of energy: chemical energy, heat and electrical energy. Chemical energy is stored in chemical bonds and electrical energy in electric potential differences between the cytoplasm and the intercellular fluid.
Heat is the useless kind of energy. There's not much you can do with it and it will simply dissipate through the air around you. The electrical energy becomes heat when the cells die and they can no longer maintain the potential differences. The only usefull kind is chemical energy. Bugs, bacteria and fungi breaks the bonds down to use the chemical energy for themselves. Some chemical energy remains in terms of bones.
This is what happens to all energy if energy is defined like it is in physics and chemistry.
Sometimes i do believe in ghosts where as other times i belive it is just super natural. Mnay people believe in ghosts like our anceiester and i believe it because i believe in God if there is God there has to be devil is'nt it? and one of my friends had also had such paranormal experiences. To tell the truth i am so dam scared of ghosts even in movies! but i also know there are many people like me who are also afraid. but some shows courage but deep inside him/her there is fear!
I have no idea if ghost are real or not. In my own experience I haven't witness a ghost. But still who am I to make that judgement. There has been millions of reported ghost sighting, but it could have just been a trick of the light. We will never know. So who knows the Earth is a big place anything could happen.
What is real and what is reality? Matter is constituted of 99.9% space and emptiness. At the quantum level reality's rules don't even exist. Do you really believe our own animal senses are 100% accurate at assessing a situation or event factually?
Secondly Ghost could simply be temporary manifestations of parallel universes and parallel universe people. Quirks in the space time continuum.
There are entities that can't be felt or seen or heard. There is TELEPATHY, a system that is naturally in-built and needs no explanation. There is DEJAVU that every human soul has experienced and INTUITIONS exist and you know they do. Human life and this World is bind together with forces which aren't physical. PARAPSYCHOLOGY has proved over and again the existence of such power. So many sciences were never accepted because they don't appear to normal eyes. Paranormal psychology is an evidence to such beings.
It is a possibility that there are powers unknown to human eyes such as Ghosts that exist in the Universe and they should not be ignored only because they are not visible.
And each one of us have had experiences (and it is quite not possible that you haven't) that can't be explained logically and for all that there is parapsychology.
I don't know.. But I think they exists.. But we, human beings, will never know how they look like, what they do, or if they even exists. I think we'll know that when we're in heaven.
Of course they are! If they aren't, show me your proof. I have heard many cases of ghosts in warehouses and mysterious shadows following people home. I, myself have witnessed many out of this world experiences. If you haven't experienced anything like that then please stop talking.
yes ghost are real but ya people over do it with the whole i had parinormal exsperinces but they are real they have pics of them and some are computerized buyt many are not but yes ghost are real.
yes ghost are real but ya people over do it with the whole i had parinormal exsperinces but they are real they have pics of them and some are computerized buyt many are not but yes ghost are real.
i didnt believe at first but i aked some people in my family and they have told me some pretty freaky experiences they had like some one sitting on the end of their bed and stuff like that so I'm a believer!!
Some believe they are real, some don't. It depends on what you think.
If they isn't any hard evidence, who's to say that they aren't real or not?
Inferences in the eye may smudge your eyesight, and you get what people believe as ghosts.
Pictures in a camera aren't to be trusted either, it's easy enough with photoshop and light tricks.
Video footage? No. A video can be edited as well.
As of current I am not sure, only because, everyone else from childhood has told me they don't or they do. But I can be wrong. Maybe they do exist. And maybe they don't. How am I supposed to know?
if it is not true..!! then why they call it as a ghost..?
people made them up, for entertainment. in the older days people did not have tv. they made stories. Cinderella is a story, its not real. similarly people made stories related to ghosts and supernatural beings. stories took a new turn here, and kept people engrossed.
There is something, but what it is or what they are is not known.
Would be nice to see the results if scientists with their equipment went in and did every experiment they could think of. Just to prove their existence a fact or a delusion.
Until there is no definitive proof I'll incline toward YES.
I have no obligation to state whether they do or do not exist. I personally believe they do, only because my parents have had encounters with this paranormal world, and I believe them. The realm and physics of ghosts appear complicated and almost unbelievable. However, I am firmly planted in the ground with my belief that ghosts, more or less, are entangled in our human world.
I think ghosts are real because when My mom and my baby sister were staying at my aunts hotel and my mom was in the bathroom looking in the mirror when my mom heard my sister say something and she went out to the room and asked my baby sister what she said and my sister said that she was talking to her friend and my mom thought she was joking and went back into the bathroom but left the door open. Then that’s when my sister said “Hi”. And my mom saw something in the mirror. And she turned around and it was gone. She ran out of the bathroom and she didn't see any thing. She then asked my sister again who she was talking to and she said her friend and pointed to the corner of the room. But there was know one there!!!!!!
they r real that's why.....u can find em......go 2 ghostlab.....ask d members....investigate.....search....tease 'em.....hhhahhahaaa....if u have d guts 2 do that.....they r real..if god is there then ghosts r also there.....believe 1 get free1.....if u believe in god then ghosts really exists....
Ghosts are part of the human culture as elements that help us relate to an afterlife, but upon understanding the cycle of life in a scientific way, based on facts, we can no longer consider ghosts as being existent.
The facts are simple, after an animal (/human) dies, he dessintegrate and no supernatural element remains. Only the elements that were part of the entity when it was alive, carbon, oxigen, nitrogen, etc.
ghost and other forms of the paranormal are only figments of our imaginations. Consider for example why what we consider to be scary and horrific only occur in the night. There are no ghosts or paranormal creatures that lure around in the day killing and scaring people. So why do we only see them at night? It's because of our evolutionary ancestors, who hunted and gathered in the day and crowded into caves to protect themselves from various animals at night. There is absolutely no difference between night and day besides the absence of photons yet we as humans always see the night as something to be scared of, and in fact we are partly right because our ancestors had to hide from predators that might be lurking at night.
There is know known mechanism in your small small world
No, there is no known mechanism in human biology which would allow for humans to become ghosts upon death. That is what he is saying. He is using logic to debunk the existance of ghosts, you are replying to him through the scope of personal experience as your small small world would imply.
You have no evidence as to the size of his "world" compared to yours. In fact I find one who does not rely on logic or afore mentioned knowledge of things like human biology when answering these questions are actually the one's whose "world" is smaller.
So what proof then do you have of ghosts, since you are so determined to belittle one who would disagree?
Who's to say we don't see things that aren't real? I've had a particular experience in my life which has hereto prevented me from denying the slim likelyhood of supernatural phenomena, but regardless I am human, and it is substantially more likely that it was not real than that it was. I've only heard of two other such experiences, one from another member in my family, whom I don't trust, another from 'a friend of a friend'.
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This can be explained by such occurences as conditional experiences, group-genetic mutations, and electromagnetic halucination. So, in other words, I'm just crazy. There are no supernatural experiences.
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The only ones that don't die alone are schizophrenic.
nah! ghosts aren't real. surely there would have been evidences by now that they are. but I really love to live in the world of fantasies and so I really wish they were;););)
there is evidence but its really up to you if you believe in them. i do because me, my family and my friends have all had experience with seiing dead relavitives things flying of shelves and weird noises but again its your choice wether you believe
really? evidence that only you and your family "supposedly" saw is not universal evidence if someone says they have seen no evidence or there is no evidence and really has never seen any evidence then that is absolutly correct to say there is no evidence. evidence are facts (fact:something we KNOW) proving claim "X" to be real, and since he DOESN'T know for a FACT that you saw those things, then to him its NOT evidence. I doubt you saw what you think you saw maybe you did but even if you did its only evidence YOU can see, no-one else so FACTUALLY he is correct. I don't mean to sound hostile I'm just saying.
Those out there who claim to have experienced a supernatural phenomenon probably experienced something that confused them, they don't have a real explanation for what happened, and they immediately resort to something like a supernatural being.
In my opinion, ghosts are not real. These ghost sightings could be caused by watching too much television thus leading to a wild imagination. I would think ghosts as illusions of the mind.
Yes we would. There are people still convinced that we have never been in space. No moon landing, no launches, just footage made in Hollywood. Even if something is logical to most, there will be someone that believes the opposite. For example those that believe God doesn't exist.
I dont belive ghosts are real :) - Why? - There is not 1 single , single , single shread of evidence. I do belive in Aliens, because its just inpossible for over 100.000.000 billion maybe more planets to exist , and only 1 of them to have life :D
ghosts are creations of one's own mind, you can say them as hallucinations which are created by one's own mind when under pressure. tales of ghosts are mostly heard by single person. whenever a group of people are involved their is always cross cutting in narration of the events of story. all my opponents are requested to verify what i just stated.
Ghosts are nothing more than the hope that there is something beyond death. The reason man dreamed up ghosts is so he would have the belief that when he dies, he doesn't go into a hole in the ground and rot. Of course, various churches soon replaced this idea with their different versions of "heaven", but it is hard to displace the deep-seated belief that no matter what, man will go on after death regardless of his deeds in life with conditional paradises.
Ghosts are part of the human imagination similar to magic. If 22% of all Americans believed that they experienced paranormal activity, what did the other 78% think?
I've never seen or felt a ghost, how can I know if they're real? I also have never seen that the earth is actually round, so I don't have certainty about it. But, does it really matters? In the end, if it is or it is not, is a triviality. But people is always trying to share with others their own beliefs, as if they were not convinced of them at all...
I agree with you because I've never felt a ghost either but however people have different beliefs. I believe on them, but i still have not seen them....
I agree with you because I've never felt a ghost either but however people have different beliefs. I believe on them, but i still have not seen them....
I agree with you because I've never felt a ghost either but however people have different beliefs. I believe on them, but i still have not seen them....
NO WAY because you watch so any movies and books that you start thinking things are there but they are just part of your imagination. Also there has been no proof as to whether they exist. When you see the photos of so called 'UFOS' they are just been edited to make a fake image and many of those people you here saying I have been abducted and I remember they cut my arm in these weird letters EYTFDYGJF. they have just done a publicity stunt which earnt them heaps of money and they cut themselves to make it more real.
Ghosts are just fictions of people's imaginations. Most of those people are kids or lunatics, where imaginary friends are common. It's like the "monster" that you had in your closet, the one I did not believe in. It does not exist.
Many scientists believe that ghosts are fake, but parapsychologists believe ghosts are real. Spirits are electromagnetic fields. Brain waves can make people see and hear many things. Electromagnetic waves can affect the nervous system. This can cause somebody to hallucinate. The eye can act as a TV screen. Instead of the person taking in images, they are transmitted out.
Another explanation for "ghost sightings" may be that the mind is just trying to "let off a little steam." NASA has shown that the human eyeball has a resonant frequency. There are eighteen cycles a second. The eyeball starts to vibrate in response to infra-sound. This causes a serious smearing of vision. In at least two hauntings low frequency sound may to blame.
People can put, fake ghosts in their pictures. By using a flashlight, a cigarette, a flash pack, and a camera, a person can create the effect of a mysterious light. Turn on the flashlight and walk toward the camera. When you are four to five feet from the camera, turn off the flashlight and light a cigarette. Have a friend set off a flash using the flash pack. Snap the shutter of the camera closed. This will result in a picture with mysterious lights in the background.
In conclusion, there are many explanations for ghost sightings. Some sightings are a result of people playing tricks and others are a result of hallucinations.
There isn't any ACTUAL proof of them, and it doesn't make sense in the first place. No facts back it up, so why should I think they are real? Are they souls or spirits or something? Well sorry to burst your bubble, but souls and spirits don't exist.
It is only the state of mind. You are God and Devil . If you are brougt up in godly way you will never know what a ghost is?. On the otherhand superstitious beliefs inculcated in childhood days will pose as Ghost
I have never seen one, people often see what they want to see, people also try to rationalize what they think they see as something more than what was actually there. There is no scientific justification for the belief in or description of reality as possibly containing ghosts.
yes they r real.it happened 2 me,when i was in germany.ever u can find them in india too.if the some1 believe in god,then there r ghosts too.want 2 know more-go 2 ghost lab,www.discovery channel.com..........
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Not in the sense that a dead person's spirit roams the Earth for some kind of unfinished buisiness. I do think (not believe, think) that it is possible that if something terrible happens, a negative 'vibe' of some sort could remain. Sometimes people feel uncomfertable in places where brutal murder happened, even if those people didn't know about what happened. I also don't exclude the genuinity of psychics/mediums, but I don't think they actually communicate with the deceased.
Actually I think all paranormal videos stating that there are ghosts in this building beware! and mediums communicating to the dead are all "scripted"...you know for entertainment just to scare people around.
this is just one source of entertainment to keep the gossip and stories going. i love talking about weird things, unnatural happenings, and sometimes even the school gossip and rumours. this is just another form of a rumour
mediums communicating to the dead are all "scripted"...
yea.. and this is one way for people who love to act to earn money and add fun to people's lives.
That's their job to earn money.
and we enjoy these movies and shows just as much don't we!
this is just one source of entertainment to keep the gossip and stories going. i love talking about weird things, unnatural happenings, and sometimes even the school gossip and rumours. this is just another form of a rumour
mediums communicating to the dead are all "scripted"...
yea.. and this is one way for people who love to act to earn money and add fun to people's lives.
That's their job to earn money.
and we enjoy these movies and shows just as much don't we!
I dont belive ghosts are real :) - Why? - There is not 1 single , single , single shread of evidence. I do belive in Aliens, because its just inpossible for over 100.000.000 billion maybe more planets to exist , and only 1 of them to have life
Empty words… Light enough to float far above one’s head.
I watch these words.
Some, the lighter ones, soar. Others drift.
All are meaningless, touching no one.
Always, eventually I forget they are there… accidentally crush them in my palms… for these words are fragile, are made after all, with just the ghost of substance.
There is little to no evidence against the existence of ghosts. Alot of people believe that ghosts do not exist, simply because their existence has not been scientifically proven
