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- RagingReid, on 10/30/2009, -6/+75People's imagination.
- Benjigga, on 10/30/2009, -2/+63Well, when two grown-up ghosts love each other very much ...
- coachmcguirk, on 10/30/2009, -2/+46Every single time, without fail, it is somebody in a costume who is none too
pleased with the arrival of "these meddling kids". - MacBookForMe, on 10/30/2009, -2/+39They come from our free mind...
- RudeTurnip, on 10/30/2009, -1/+32"Reality is what continues to exist when you stop believing in it."
-Philip K. Dick - ScottMcIntyre, on 10/30/2009, -1/+24I ain't afraid of no ghosts....
- shutaro, on 10/30/2009, -1/+18They come from electricity.
- hydrodev, on 10/30/2009, -0/+17So do you. Open your mind to the fact that he might be right.
See how the "open mind" argument sucks? - Bloodwine, on 10/30/2009, -4/+21I don't know, but I wish they would all go away and take the Ghost Hunters with them.
- gitargr8, on 10/30/2009, -2/+17Doesn't everyone know? Ghosts are caused by Chuck Norris killing people faster than Death can process them.
- Spartakip, on 10/30/2009, -5/+20The non existence of god sorta punches a hole in your theory.
- EliteBeat, on 10/30/2009, -1/+15When I was around 13 years old, I had some woods in my back yard that my sisters and cousins would play in. I told my cousin and sisters that the woods is haunted by "old man Jonson", who once owned all the land around us.
One night they all came running in the house screaming they saw old man johnson. My cousin even said she seen his head roll at here.
My point is that peoples minds trick them into seeing things.. - theghoul, on 10/30/2009, -0/+13When they turn blue, you could eat them. But be quick about it.
- Cornloaf, on 10/30/2009, -0/+13Why do ghosts have clothes? Did the clothes die too?
- shroommi, on 10/30/2009, -0/+13I've heard about plenty of haunted hospitals. Mental Hospitals.
- MikeRiley, on 10/30/2009, -1/+10It's not so much the ghost itself that scares people, it's the not knowing. Tell somebody a place is haunted and even if they are a skeptic, once the lights go out they will wonder "what if". It's the idea if you turn around you might see something. As well, once you have this sort of thing on your mind, you're likely to experience something not really there. The ghost that appears instantly in a mirror is more likely to cause a heart attack than one that slowly comes into view (like in The Unvinvited, for example). You have time to get used to the idea there's something there and it makes it less scary.
I believe in ghosts, I've lived in a haunted house all my life, but I have had a number of experiences I could label false (especially when I was younger) that were brought on by watching scary movies and all that. - mebbin, on 10/30/2009, -2/+11I always thought that they come from darkness, when I was a kid.
- Chainheart2, on 10/30/2009, -0/+9How do you know they're 4th dimensional beings?
- Beowulf2112, on 10/30/2009, -2/+10The imagination
- BoneheadFarker, on 10/30/2009, -2/+9One of these things is not like the others...
- Hetman, on 10/30/2009, -0/+7@reptarman. You are just making things up now. There is no evidence of beings existing in a fourth dimension.
- JediPilot, on 10/30/2009, -0/+7-If ghosts, then afterlife.
Sure, by definition of ghost.
-If afterlife, then a god MUST exist
Does not follow. - pinchduck, on 10/30/2009, -0/+6Yes. My wife has frequently told me to "throw out those shorts, they're dead". I know there is still life in them, though, so I keep them around. Maybe they are ghost shorts?
- jonnyeh, on 10/30/2009, -2/+8Do you believe you can fly?
- Blablah01, on 10/30/2009, -2/+8koth_Harvest.
- designerutah, on 10/30/2009, -1/+7The correct quote is, "Listen... did you smell that?"
- inactive, on 10/30/2009, -0/+6The first two lines in the article explain it all. If you think the place you are staying at is "disturbing" then disturbing things will manifest in your brain. The dumbassses at ghosthunters and ghostlab should point thier worthless "data collectors" at themselves.
- tsnipert, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5@reptarmanreptarman "Alternatively, what we perceive as consciousness may be a soul commandeering a human body, like a parasite. When the body dies, the parasitic soul will leave and return to the fourth dimension."
You watch too much Stargate - pinchduck, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5Yeah, the whole "in the dark" thing is a telltale. I'm guessing (pure speculation here) that hypersensitivity at night is an adaptation to guard against nocturnal predators from waaaaaay back in the day. Since there aren't many animals around that are going to eat us at night, our minds fill in the blanks with stuff that isn't there. That, in turns, spooks us. I have no way to test this, though, so it is only rubbish speculation.
- calcm, on 10/30/2009, -2/+7One would think the most haunted places on earth would be hospitals since most people end up dieing there. But I have never heard of a hospital being haunted.
I don't believe in ghosts. I think movies tend to make us freak out; especially when we were younger.
I have seen the Discover channel's story on "The Haunting in Connecticut" (a movie was even made about it a year or two ago). But I kept thinking to myself this supposed family is being haunted because their place of residence in Connecticut is an old mortuary. But, the people being embalmed where already dead. So, how could this haunting be true? A family member in the story (one of the son's) was suffering from cancer and I wonder if the added extra emotional stress of seeing a loved one going through cancer and cancer treatment may have had something to do with their "haunting". Just a thought......
- protodon, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5People are ridiculous to think that a ghost would only haunt people at night, if they were real. Maybe it's because humans are freaking scared of the dark and their paranoid thoughts can manifest a whole lot easier when you can't see *****. The same goes for alien abductions. I doubt aliens are coming from some far off galaxy and only choosing the dark side of our planet to abduct people from.
- brickwall99, on 10/30/2009, -3/+8That's a big ***** if.
And personally I'd still need more evidence for a god than that. - covertbadger, on 10/30/2009, -3/+8@reptarman
You are deliberately misrepresenting the word 'reason' to try and look clever. Stating that something is a reaction to an action is NOT the same as saying that thing has a purpose, which is what Hetman was referring to.
"believing in a higher power is nothing to sneeze at"
Yes, it is. It's complete bollocks. - brickwall99, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5So true.
- RudeTurnip, on 10/30/2009, -3/+8People that have smoked salvia have turned on those receptors during trips and subsequently relate to the "sensation of another presence" in purely biological/chemical terms, as they realized the sense is a figment of the mind.
- Hetman, on 10/30/2009, -1/+6Techinically the same rules could apply to sasquatches and the lochness monster or anything for that matter.
- pinchduck, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4Any and all phenomena are open to scientific investigation. Even if it's a journalist getting paid to take their SO for a night in a castle. Who would pass that up?
- DooM, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4That which has no evidence to support it can NEVER be 'likely'. Conjecture based on nothing is likely to be FALSE, actually.
- dgendreau, on 10/30/2009, -3/+7@reptarman "everything that happens is triggered by a preceding event"
Fine. By your definition, what preceding event triggered the existence of your god? - DooM, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4"Therefore, it is possible that if there is such a plane that life exists there."
I'll point you back to CovertBadger's Galactic Beer - you can make almost ANY ***** thing up and say it's 'possible'. That doesn't make it 'likely' or worth discussing. The smurfs could have made the universe and then implanted the knowledge of their existence in animators. The fact that the Smurfs exist and the universe exists doesn't mean that it's a likely scenario even though it's just as POSSIBLE and SUPPORTED as your goofy thing. - JediPilot, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4It is not closed-minded to ask for evidence, FFS.
- askantik, on 10/30/2009, -2/+6It certainly is a big ***** if. But either way...
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-Siddhartha Gautama Buddha - yournamehere, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4but the fourth dimension is 'time'... what does that have to do with ghosts? do you mean - in a separate plain of existence?
- WoWii, on 10/30/2009, -3/+7Crazy Homosapien brains.
- Denominator88, on 10/30/2009, -2/+6There's a warm liquid running down my leg! Are you getting this!?
- subliminalurge, on 10/30/2009, -5/+8Bah, reality is nothing more than a delusional state brought on by severe alcohol deficiency.
- adent1066, on 10/30/2009, -2/+5Boo-charest
Sorry ;) - FolkSong, on 10/30/2009, -0/+3Drawing things on paper is not the same as controlling reality. For a given 2-dimensional slice of my house, I have no power to control or change it in any meaningful way.
- doctechnical, on 10/30/2009, -1/+4"Did you hear that?!"
- covertbadger, on 10/30/2009, -1/+4"It would have control over everything that happens here in the third dimension and COULD have created everything we know."
Yes, or it COULD have been all created by some unimaginable superalien spilling his pint of galaxy beer. Making up stories does not mean any particular scenario is more likely. Speculation is worthless. -
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