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Originally Posted by filtherton
I just want to point out that there isn't necessarily anything scientific about having a stock supply of "reasonable" answers.
The need for ghosts to not exist can be just as irrational as the need for ghosts to exist.
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I would go even further and say that the need for ghosts to not exist
is just as irrational as the need for ghosts to exist. This, however, has no relevance to the question of whether ghosts exist or not. They don't. I have as much confidence in this as I do that dinosaurs no longer exist. This has nothing to do with my needs but, rather, a lack of any credible evidence.
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Originally Posted by Deltona Couple
OK. Let me try a different concept to see if this can give you maybe a little insight. Do you believe that love exists? I know I do. Can I bring you PHYSICAL evidence of love? Can I show you a picture of love? No I can't. Does that mean then that love does not exist?
Ghosts, entities, paranormal contacts are all classifiable as something that is not what we normally experience in a physical world. I can FEEL love, that feeling i get in my stomach when I see my wife after she has been visiting family for a few days. I cant take a picture of it, but it is there. I have had a few abnormal encounters in my life. A figure I have seen standing at the foot of my bed when I was a child. Having a conversation with my best friend one afternoon when I find out later that evening that he died in a car accident the day before. I can't explain it. I can't PROVE it. But I know in my heart that they are real and exist. Now if someone were there WITH me, would THEY have seen my friend? I don't know. Maybe not, maybe it was only meant for me to see? I can't explain that part.
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Is this a compelling argument to you?
First of all, ghosts are typically depicted as physical entities whenever stories of their appearance are told to us. You can see them and hear them. They sometimes move things. These are all physical actions and thus they are, by definition, physical. I find it hilarious that people have tried the "you observe them with your mind" approach to ghosts. Without specific knowledge, this reduces ghosts to personal hallucinations or delusions...
I think you have a very narrow view on what other people consider evidence. No one can take a picture of an atom but there's plenty of evidence that they're there! The same thing can't be honestly said of ghosts...
What you feel in your heart is not compelling evidence...