Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

[Ryujin]

There's being terminally and dangerously naive abd there's being a killjoy...

Take it from me who somehow manages to be both... At the same time...

I was 9 years old. I also spent a fair bit of time, a couple of years before that, reading "Chariots of the Gods" and picking apart Von Daniken's assumptions.

So i suppose that's a fair statement.

 

[soviet]

Almost everyone in the developed world walks around with a cameraphone in their hand and sleeps with it next to their bed. If ghosts and bigfoots (bigFEET) and so on existed we would have evidence of it by now.

 

[Clint_L]

I was 9 years old. I also spent a fair bit of time, a couple of years before that, reading "Chariots of the Gods" and picking apart Von Daniken's assumptions.

So i suppose that's a fair statement.

Good for you, and that's not being a killjoy, that's being rational.

Also, Von Daniken's assumptions were extremely racist as well as being ludicrous, so double good for you.

 

[Clint_L]

Almost everyone in the developed world walks around with a cameraphone in their hand and sleeps with it next to their bed. If ghosts and bigfoots (bigFEET) and so on existed we would have evidence of it by now.

Sasquatch's, sure. Seems pretty unlikely that something like that could exist without some credible evidence surfacing long before now.

Ghosts...what would even count as evidence?

 

[soviet]

Sasquatch's, sure. Seems pretty unlikely that something like that could exist without some credible evidence surfacing long before now.

Ghosts...what would even count as evidence?

You're asking me what kind of evidence I think a cameraphone might be able to provide?

 

[MoonSong]

I was 9 years old. I also spent a fair bit of time, a couple of years before that, reading "Chariots of the Gods" and picking apart Von Daniken's assumptions.

So i suppose that's a fair statement.

In your defense, who is handling an eight year old "Chariots of the Gods"? (But again I was like that age when I got my paws on "Caballo de Troya"*)

*In the Spanish speaking world there is a journalist turned writer who started writing about UFO then moved into gnostic/new age spirituality. His magnus opus is Caballo de Troya the supposed found eyewitness account of time travelers to the first century. While he really gets a lot of detail about Roman customs, he also copies profusely from the Uranthia Book and the Gnostic Gospels.

 

[CleverNickName]

You're asking me what kind of evidence I think a cameraphone might be able to provide?

I think the point they were trying to make was, who can say whether or not a ghost would even show up on film? There are plenty of ghost stories where ghosts aren't visible at all, or they are only visible to a single person in a crowded room, or not responding to light (no reflection, no shadow, etc.) So if you have a photo of something that is supposed to be invisible, is it evidence that the ghost exists, or evidence that ghosts don't exist? Is it even "evidence" at all?

 

[Professor Murder]

Like a lot of supernatural or fortean weirdness, I am agnostic when it comes to ghosts. I don't actively insist that they are real, and I expect that any given ghost siting has a non-ghost explanation. But if I were wrong, I would accept it. Ghosts are possible but unlikely.

 

[Ryujin]

In your defense, who is handling an eight year old "Chariots of the Gods"? (But again I was like that age when I got my paws on "Caballo de Troya"*)

*In the Spanish speaking world there is a journalist turned writer who started writing about UFO then moved into gnostic/new age spirituality. His magnus opus is Caballo de Troya the supposed found eyewitness account of time travelers to the first century. While he really gets a lot of detail about Roman customs, he also copies profusely from the Uranthia Book and the Gnostic Gospels.

Correction. I got "Chariots of the Gods" when I was 7. I got this one when I was 8. Got Vallee's "UFOs in Outer Space" when I was maybe 10. I still have the last 2, but my copy of Chariots got ripped off by someone decades back.

 

[Morrus]

Word on my area is that the genuine won't charge for their services. Nothing yells "I'm a fraud" louder than an invoice.

There are no genuine people who can talk to the deceased.