Originally Posted by scott free (Post 9709840)

That is 100% pure lie.

Originally Posted by Bump (Post 9685292)

I did live in a shitty apartment complex in Lawrence, KS for a year.

My stereo shelf speaker system would just turn on at all random hours of the day. 3 am. 6 am, noon, 2 pm, 6pm, etc. Just random times and pretty often. It would just turn on and start playing a CD on full blast.

When I moved out, that never happened again and I still have the radio too because it makes a great stereo for the computer.

Maybe a ghost? It was creepy.

Originally Posted by bevischief (Post 9709967)

Seriously this made to 14 pages with this clown starting it?

Originally Posted by BigRichard (Post 9710188)

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Originally Posted by Kaepernick (Post 9713064)

Here is a curveball...

There are 317 million people in the USA according to the CIA World Factbook.

160 million are Protestants.

76 million are Catholics.

3 million are non-denominational Christians.

Call it 240 million Christians.

So how do people who consider themselves to be Christians reconcile a belief in ghosts when the bible precludes the possibity? Lost souls go to Purgatory, they don't get to hang around on earth causing trouble for people.

There are no such things as ghosts or no such thing as God. If I ever saw a ghost, that would be a very bad thing for me as it would mean God doesn't exist.

Originally Posted by InChiefsHell (Post 9670983)

8 videos in this series...pretty compelling. If he's faking it...it's a pretty good fake.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrChansu...ow=grid&view=0

Originally Posted by Kaepernick (Post 9713064)

So how do people who consider themselves to be Christians reconcile a belief in ghosts when the bible precludes the possibity?

Originally Posted by Ebolapox (Post 9673476)

I'm of the belief (both as a skeptical molecular geneticist and as a lay person) that there are things we don't understand. is it possible that the things that are seen/felt/heard are ACTUALLY supernatural? I doubt it. is it possible that they're manifestations of some sort of energy that we don't know of? sure, why not? remember, einstein tells us that all matter is energy. when you die, it's possible that some imprint of you is left behind in the form of energy. will we figure it out soon? who the hell knows?

but the idea that people believe what they want to believe and see what they want to see is absolutely true from an evolutionary standpoint... read Michael Shermer's 'The Believing Brain.' it goes into great depth on the supernatural, facial recognition, pattern recognition, etc. in other words, MANY things that are complete nonsense/coincidence get interpreted as 'spooky' because we, evolutionarily, recognize certain patterns for our survival as a species. cool stuff.

Originally Posted by Kaepernick (Post 9713094)

All I know is the human brain is an enigma to me. People fell their legs itch months after getting amputated. I've had some darling hallucinations while deprived of sleep. Visual and aural. I'll believe in ghosts when I see one, which will be never.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 9713093)

Where does the Bible do that?

Originally Posted by Kaepernick (Post 9713099)

It is the part about dead people going to Heaven, Hell or Purgatory upon death. There is nothing in the bible that mentions the souls of dead people staying on earth. The only mention of ghosts in the bible are things like the Apostles mistaking Christ for a ghost who then corrects them. The Apostles believed in ghosts, but then they believed in a lot of crap before they followed Christ.

The Bible mentions angels and demons. No ghosts.

Originally Posted by Ebolapox (Post 9673490)

here's the thing about proof of that sort of thing... do you know how difficult it is to get scientific funding these days? DAMNED hard, right next to impossible in some cases. we'll put it this way with regard to the supernatural:

the first legit proof of the supernatural, verifiable and peer-reviewed, would net the finder the following:

1) nobel prize/huge scientific cred of some sort (this is huge, believe it or not)
2) funding for LIFE

that it HASN'T happened, to me, is evidence that we either don't have the tech for it yet or that it just isn't there (I'll accept either as viable possibilities)