Do you believe in ghosts?

EL

What? Is that the misinterpretation of the year or what!

Trust me, it's not. I don't believe in anything, and I'm perfectly healthy!

Chi Meson

I believe in being healthy.

That and odors, of course.

Evo

Not now.

What next, no Easter Bunny?

Math Jeans

Well...you believe that you are healthy! You also believe in the laws of physics and that you are a member of PF.

For this not to be true, then this world would have to be a dream to you, you are actually lying in a hospital bed asleep and in bad condition, not an owner of a computer, and living in a world where there is a completely new set of physical laws.

Generally, if you don't believe in anything, you are medically brain dead.

turbo

No, and no Red Rum, either! Get a grip or you'll shoot your eye out!

Math Jeans

No. I don't think that muR deR is going to go away.

Evo

...bbut...he write's to me....wonderful missives.... I just got a new one tonight. I'd pay him for these. (don't tell him I said that)

turbo

Go back to the ballroom, deny the existence of the apparitions, and concentrate on the real. No power tools for you, no pellet guns or BB guns, and nothing that can cause large cuts, dismemberments, or random mechanical failures.

If you don't get some smarts, you've got to move into a save to survive!!

Huckleberry

I think that when a person's vision is rendered useless then they must rely on their other senses to identify their surroundings. We rely heavily on our vision, so when it is removed we have to be more imaginitive in drawing conclusions. If someone believes in ghosts then any unidentified sensory input could be attributed to such a thing. Maybe this is why ghosts often appear at night when people are afraid.

I don't know how much the dark causes belief in ghosts. A rational mind seeks a cause to an effect. Without vision there are more unknown sensory inputs and more opportunities to attribute the cause to a supernatural entity. It seems simpler to me to just say 'I don't know what that is' than to demand of myself some rationalization of the world.

What ratio of blind people believe in ghosts and how does that compare to sighted people?

rhuthwaite

I went to a ghost town the other day... it was scary!!! It's an old abandoned lumbar jack village that no one has lived in for over half a century. The houses are all falling appart and it's in the middle of nowhere (no cellphone reception or electricity!!)
And apparently a ghost of a little girl haunts the area....

The story is that one evening she went to call her dad for dinner, she was seen at one second standing on a huge mound (like a small hill size mound of compressed saw duct/wood shavings) and the next moment she was gone. The villagers believed that she had sunken into the sawdust moud and they spent days digging trying to find the body, but they never did. There have been many sightings of her in the village when people lived their and then she would vanish as though they had been hallucinating.

I was standing on that very hill of saw dust looking down at the village when I was told that story, very spooky!!!

zoobyshoe

The Norwegian meant something religious or paranormal.

EL

No, I accept the fact that I'm healthy. I accept the fact that the laws of physics work well. I accept the fact that I am a member of PF.
Facts are supported by (scientific) evidence. Belief is not.

Thanks, I'll remember that one!

Bombini

It seems to some of you guys that you think that people who believes in ghosts are brain-damaged (my father dropped me on the floor long time ago xD). This threads name is "do you believe in ghosts?". I just showed my opinion. AND even some of the greatest minds of the world were religious as can be. So start by teasing them instead of a guy who believes in ghosts or get a life!

rewebster

Bombini----you're part of a Mensa experiment

EL

I'll go for the "get a life"-option then.

Moridin

Belief can both mean 'conviction/accept thing with evidence' and 'accept things without evidence'.

Well, cognitive hallucinations are nothing strange - people get it all the time.

EL

And since there are no (scientific) evidence for ghosts, a belief in them certainly belongs to the second class.