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Do You Believe That Ghosts/Apparitions Exist?
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:45 pmby New Zacharianasville
Hey guys, another poll here. This time I will try to start a conversation so the power hungry admins will not shut me down for just polling. So do you guys believe in ghosts/apparitions? I am undecided, mostly because I have no experience with them. I would like to hear everyone's opinion, and commentary backing their belief, thank you.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:47 pmby Nanatsu no Tsuki
I believe there are things out there that we do not understand. But, are there ghosts/apparitions? No idea. I have seen or felt a few things but I can usually explain them by, for example, me being inebriated.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:48 pmby Greater Narkova
Honestly, I do believe they exist, as I know people who have experienced them, including within my immediate family, and I have seen things out of the corner of my eye plenty of times, so I certainly believe they are there, and why I believe firmly it is not to be toyed with.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:50 pmby Socialist Nordia
No. Ghosts are at about the same level of realness as God to me.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:51 pmby The Lone Alliance
There might be something, if that something is mass hysteria, hallucinations, Infasound, mirages, time distortions, brain glitches, or ghosts who knows.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:02 pmby The Foxes Swamp
yes but no idea what they are
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:04 pmby Barboneia
Probably not.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:09 pmby The Islands of Versilia
Not really. I do think there are things that we do not understand and are likely something that would conflict with our current scientific knowledge. Do I believe in fully sapient or sentient ghosts/apparitions? No, I don't. Do I believe in some kind of supernatural/paranormal force? Yes, I do. It's kinda hard to explain.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:14 pmby Ifreann
To quote Tim Minchin, in all of history every mystery ever solved has turned out to be
not magic.
New Zacharianasville wrote:the power hungry admins
Oh no, I've become possessed by the Spirit of the Rolling Eyes!
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:15 pmby Socialist Nordia
Are there really this many people who believe in ghosts?
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:17 pmby Ava Ire
No, I don't really believe that the souls or spirits of the dead roam the earth. That being said, though, there are still some things out there that I'd be perfectly fine not messing around with.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:17 pmby New Zacharianasville
I wonder if this thread will be shut down since I said a brief insult about admins.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:21 pmby Ashmoria
no I don't believe in ghosts and as an atheist I cant understand why anyone would. what would be the mechanism for life to exist after death?
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:21 pmby Yumyumsuppertime
No, I don't. I think that people can talk themselves into believing that they experienced something supernatural without actually being mentally ill, but I don't think that they exist outside of people's heads.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:33 pmby Jumalariik
Yes. Who could not believe in Fatima?
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:36 pmby Farnhamia
Theoreticka wrote:Yumyumsuppertime wrote:No, I don't. I think that people can talk themselves into believing that they experienced something supernatural without actually being mentally ill, but I don't think that they exist outside of people's heads.
Where did religion start ? Actually, where did the holy men and women gain the power to perceive a nonphysical, magical world ? The answer is mental illness.
<looms ominously> Let's be very careful how we push the "religious belief is a mental illness" thing, shall we? That way lies anger and red text.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:36 pmby Jumalariik
Theoreticka wrote:Yumyumsuppertime wrote:No, I don't. I think that people can talk themselves into believing that they experienced something supernatural without actually being mentally ill, but I don't think that they exist outside of people's heads.
Where did religion start ? Actually, where did the holy men and women gain the power to perceive a nonphysical, magical world ? The answer is mental illness.
50k people at Fatima were insane? k.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:38 pmby Troperia
I believe ghosts exists but I mostly think they usually stay put in their graves instead of scaring people for no reason.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:39 pmby Yumyumsuppertime
Theoreticka wrote:Yumyumsuppertime wrote:No, I don't. I think that people can talk themselves into believing that they experienced something supernatural without actually being mentally ill, but I don't think that they exist outside of people's heads.
Where did religion start ? Actually, where did the holy men and women gain the power to perceive a nonphysical, magical world ? The answer is mental illness.
That's an answer that manages the neat trick of being simultaneously reductive, unprovable, and likely wrong. Religion most likely started as an attempt to explain natural phenomena, and developed from there into a series of increasingly more complex beliefs over the course of thousands of years. Mental illness has almost certainly played a part from time to time, especially with the prophets who had especially intense visions, but there's nothing to indicate that this was the starting point.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:47 pmby New Zacharianasville
I have my own personal beliefs about what God is and what the afterlife and the meaning of everything is, but I respect all beliefs too. After all, anyone's guess about this subject is just about as credible as anyone elses, its all a guess. Literally any one of us could be right, including atheists too. We cannot know what awaits us for certain. The reason I choose to believe is because everything that ever existed, is existing, or will exist, is the result of a bunch of long complicated coincidences that are so complex and precise, that I have trouble absolutely 110% ruling out the intervention of some mysterious higher power. Then again, it could be anyone elses guess.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:02 pmby Conscentia
If ghosts exist they're afraid of scientists.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:04 pmby The Liberated Territories
I've seen a lot of shpirits.
hic!
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:05 pmby Kitsura
Conscentia wrote:If ghosts exist they're afraid of scientists.
Maybe to ghosts, scientists are ghosts and the ghosts are scientists? Spooky huh? No but seriously ghosts haven't been proven empirically therefore they probably don't exist.
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:07 pmby The Holy Empire of the Spaghetti Monster
Could be. Could not be.
I hooe there are, just so the world can be more interesting.
Pretty much the same way I feel about gods. Is there a term for that?
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Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:08 pmby Conscentia
Kitsura wrote:Conscentia wrote:If ghosts exist they're afraid of scientists.
Maybe to ghosts, scientists are ghosts and the ghosts are scientists? Spooky huh? No but seriously ghosts haven't been proven empirically therefore they probably don't exist.
