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OR Guy · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:51 am Post subject: Ghosts

Do you believe in ghosts?

http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/localnews/10-28-Wash-Jeff-ghost
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amom · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:17 am Post subject:

Sure, why not?
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Brant · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:38 am Post subject:

Nope. It would be silly for me to believe in ghosts when I don't believe in the guy in the sky.
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dick · Journeyman Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 3134

I believe that the "Ghost of Tom Joad" is a good tune.

I also believe that if you say "biggie smalls" three times in a mirror, the dead rapper (Notorious BIG) will appear and start shooting the room up.
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amom · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:45 am Post subject:

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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

I believe that there is the potential for a scientifically explainable phenomenon where the energy left over from a dying organism is expressed in currently unexplainable apparitions that may or may not take the form of the deceased, possibly moreso because of the observer's subliminal mind than its actual appearance.

I do not believe that a person's consciousness can continue to exist and roam around after that person dies. Although I'd love to be proven wrong because that would be very fascinating.
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Brant · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:07 am Post subject:

Hey, I have no problem with people believe in a spirit world. To each their own. But I don't believe in anything that I can't see or can't be proven scientifically.
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SSSS · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:46 am Post subject:

no-I do not
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freethinker · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:14 am Post subject:

I believe in ghosts because no-one can stop me..
Populating this cold and calculating world with friendly
avatars who provide comfort and advice displaces the
strict determinism of scientific reductionism, with the
very un-scientific concept of free-will...
I'd rather live in a jungle, with Don Quixote, than in a
laboratory with Dr. Faustus...
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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

I don't know what you just said but I loved it.
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freethinker · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:49 am Post subject:

Thanks, Cy...it was a thinly veiled rebuttal to Brant's call
for physical evidence...
It's that old mind-body question, 3,000 years later...
I just figure that, if i subject my children to a belief in
Santa Claus, and sprites and fairies...and I witness what
a wonderful developmental tool it is, then I would be a
hypocrite if i did not allow myself to believe in something
that could not be reproduced in a controlled experiment...
More exists, Horatio, Between Heaven and Earth than can be
dreamt of in one single philosophy...
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SSSS · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:00 am Post subject:

Hey-easy on Santa Claus-I still believe! Laughing

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freethinker · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:22 am Post subject:

Yes, SSSS, Santa Claus does exist, and i can prove it...

If Santa were real, then there would be presents under the tree...
There are always presents under the tree...
So the concept of Santa is real.
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SSSS · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:50 am Post subject:

works for me !!
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