ghosts

[Thig Lyfe]

are they real

[Lex Luthor]

Originally Posted by scott free

That is 100% pure lie.

So where are the documented and confirmed sightings?

I would think that with the billions of potential ghosts out there (one for each person who ever lived on this planet), a documented and confirmed sighting for ONE ghost isn't a lot to ask for.

[bevischief]

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

[warpaint*]

Originally Posted by Bump

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.

Mine did that too while I was living in a house in Liberty and quit once I moved out. For several months it was just during the day and sometimes while I was sitting right in front of it in the living room reading or whatever. First time it happened in the middle of the night at like 2 AM and I came screaming down the hall w/ a baseball bat thinking someone was in the house freaked out of my mind. The volume was turned up pretty high which contributed to scaring the crap out of me coming straight out of a dead sleep. I started turning the volume down to 0 when I was done w/ it before bed and the problem was solved but it would still happen periodically during the day.

That was ten years ago (when I moved out), I still have it, and it hasn't happened since so it was something about that house.

[BigRichard]

Originally Posted by bevischief

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

If you don't like it then you can

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by BigRichard

If you don't like it then you can

that gif never gets old

[Kaepernick]

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.

[MOhillbilly]

Originally Posted by Kaepernick

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.

Purgatory isn't Christian.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by InChiefsHell

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

Would somebody please explain to me how ghosts can walk throught walls AND can open cabinet doors, move chairs, throw objects, break windows? Are they in the physical world or not? If they are not in the physical world and are just a spirit without mass, then how do grab stuff?

Must be magix.

[Simply Red]

I saw a ghost of Marilyn Chambers ass in the air. I was NOT scared at all.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Kaepernick

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

Where does the Bible do that?

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Ebolapox

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.

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.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Kaepernick

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.

You should read the handbook. It states: "Live people often ignore the strange and unusual."

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Donger

Where does the Bible do that?

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.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Kaepernick

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.

Sorry, but that isn't what you stated. You stated: "a belief in ghosts when the bible precludes the possibity?"

Not mentioning ghosts doesn't mean that the Bible precludes the possibility of them existing.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Ebolapox

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)

Or extraterrestrials or bigfoot or Nessie or witches or vampires. Good luck with all that stuff. Not an iota of proof in the bunch.