Do you think ghost exist? Why or why not?

Ghosts definitely exist, but not in the undead/spirit kind of way.

Last I heard he had left Korea and was living in Saudi Arabia.

Ghost=air movement

No way.

No.

There are no ghosts. Ghosts would imply a spirit which would also imply the ability to continue living when actually dead.

This defies everything we've ever known about science.

Ghosts= suggestion, natural phenomena, delusion, paranoia, and downright silliness.

If someone told me they believed in ghosts, I'd feel compelled to question why the think they need to believe in ghosts. Is it an inability to accept their own mortality and the fact that they and everyone they know will be dead forever at some point?

I think there are a lot of emotional/psychological factors that become apparent with any belief in the supernatural.

No, and anyone that believes they do is a complete moron.

"This defies everything we've ever known about science"

I guess you can take some comfort then in knowing we still have new dimensions to learn about.

My brother and his wife lived in a house that was haunted by a ghost. They both saw if frequently. None of the kid's friends would come to the house because it appeared one night when some friends were there and scared the crap out of them.

I say no simply because there is no solid video evidence. With 7 billion people on the planet and maybe as many cameras, if they existed, somebody would have legit video or other physical evidence. I am not saying it is an impossible concept, but if ghosts were true there would be evidence.

I have never seen, heard, smelt, or felt a ghost. Thus I tend to believe they do not exist. But hey, that's me.

Traveler wrote:

I say no simply because there is no solid video evidence. With 7 billion people on the planet and maybe as many cameras, if they existed, somebody would have legit video or other physical evidence. I am not saying it is an impossible concept, but if ghosts were true there would be evidence.

Why would you think that? A ghost, as understood by the general populace, would be a spirit - NOT a physical being. That is, not made up of protons and electrons and so forth. As such, there does not seem to be any reason to believe that they would reflect light and be susceptible to image capture by camera, video, etc.

Of course this begs the question as to how then ghosts are "seen" by human eyes. However, assuming that ghosts exist would seem to imply that humans are actually spirits inhabiting a physical body until death. Thus, it would not be too surprising that one (pre-death) spirit might be able to "see" another (post-death) but would interpret this seeing as if it were coming through the detection of light (as with ordinary vision).

For the record, I have never "seen" a ghost. Nor do I believe that such things exist. Still, the "logic" that is tossed around to disprove things like ghosts, an afterlife, etc. is almost always quite lame and really doesn't prove much of anything.

Of course there are ghosts.

I'm not saying there are ghosts in the afterlife kind of way exactly. But, perhaps it is possible for people or things to leave an electromagnetic resonance of some sort that can be seen by the brain under certain conditions. Alternate realities have pretty much been accepted as somewhat legitimate so I wouldn't totally doubt after resonances of energy and thought are possible. Our thoughts are after all only electrical impulses. The likelihood they can be duplicated in another dimension is crazy but not altogether inconceivable. Stuff that we used to think was magic is now considered science so I won't play ghosts out just yet. I'm a fairly logical agnostic so this is weird considering but who is to say there isn't a way the presence of a "ghost" might be explained someday in a rational fashion we would have once perceived as cuckoo.

007run wrote:

I'm not saying there are ghosts in the afterlife kind of way exactly. But, perhaps it is possible for people or things to leave an electromagnetic resonance of some sort that can be seen by the brain under certain conditions. Alternate realities have pretty much been accepted as somewhat legitimate so I wouldn't totally doubt after resonances of energy and thought are possible. Our thoughts are after all only electrical impulses. The likelihood they can be duplicated in another dimension is crazy but not altogether inconceivable. Stuff that we used to think was magic is now considered science so I won't play ghosts out just yet. I'm a fairly logical agnostic so this is weird considering but who is to say there isn't a way the presence of a "ghost" might be explained someday in a rational fashion we would have once perceived as cuckoo.

You don't even understand what an electromagnetic resonance is, do you? Admit it.

Electromagnetism has been well understood for a century now. The thorough exploration of its phenomena, applications, and curiosities has been under way for at least that long. As an example of how well understood it is, consider the fact that you're reading this on a machine that has been designed, top to bottom, to take advantage of the physics of electricity and magnetism and this text may have even been sent through the air encoded in an electromagnetic wave on its way to your computer.

So when you do all this hand-waving about things that might "leave an electromagnetic resonance" for the brain to "see", and you bring up random, unrelated, untested physics hypotheses like alternate realities out of left field, and you write hilariously about the likelihood of electrical impulses being "duplicated in another dimension", and you mix all of those words together in a jumbled mess that doesn't really say anything, keep in mind that there are engineers and physicists that actually understand what these things mean and in what context they are defined.

And they laugh at you.

I heard a scientist once say that when a person lives 70 years on the planet, they almost always have an incredibly regular routine, walking in the same spots on the same steps, opening doors at the same time in the same manner, etc. And when you simply remove the person from the equation, like when they die, the sounds and air movements associated with that person's actions can still occur. I don't know if there's any truth to that, but it makes sense to me.

Also the one reliable source I had for ghost sightings ended up being a raging alcoholic.

No. Ghosts are another one of those things that humans have conjured up to make us think we have spirits and we are different than the rest of the animals. But we're not. We're just animals that have developed the ability to do some pretty interesting stuff like read and write. Go to a bar on any Friday night and you can observe us returning to our animal roots. We aren't any more special than the other animals that nobody ever sees a ghost of, like chipmunks, lizards and tuna. We just think we are more special. And if the rest of the animal kingdom doesn't have ghosts, why should we?

Doubt it. I feel the same way about ghosts as I do God. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But I've never seen either. Nor have I seen proof that either exists or doesn't exist. Agnostic.

yo you wrote:

I have never seen, heard, smelt, or felt a ghost. Thus I tend to believe they do not exist. But hey, that's me.

But have you ever tasted one?

Do those that don't believe in ghosts believe in God? Seems to be one in the same?

ghost busters wrote:

"This defies everything we've ever known about science"

I guess you can take some comfort then in knowing we still have new dimensions to learn about.

My brother and his wife lived in a house that was haunted by a ghost. They both saw if frequently. None of the kid's friends would come to the house because it appeared one night when some friends were there and scared the crap out of them.

I can take comfort in the fact that either you or them are either lying or mistaken about what they saw.

And that's that.