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Originally Posted by HeadPimp
I know from personal experience that they exist. Enough odd encounters to convince me of that. Now I don't think they are quite as common as the TV shows make them out to be, but there is something non-corporeal out there.
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Every ghost story seems to be like this. An odd encounter that the participant can't quite explain. Why do you think it's a ghost and not a God? What makes you believe that it is a ghost instead of just some bizarre random coincidence?
Believers have something in them that makes them want to believe it is a ghost. I look at a bizarre situation, a bizarre thing that happened, and I sort of scratch my head and think "WTF?" I need more than "man that's really weird, it must be a ghost."
If the idea of a ghost was never planted in our heads. How would we conclude that there was a ghost just because a situation was bizarre? What is present in that situation that says "hey, it must be a ghost."
The internal desire is similar to a highly religious person thanking the Gods for saving their child in a car crash. Yet I always wonder, why would this great God put the kid in the car crash to begin with? Anyway, that's a different subject… But it's the same internal desire. The wanting to believe in something because we cannot explain it "rationally."
Are there ghosts? Are there Gods? Are there aliens? I don't know, there could be, I am open to the possibility, but I need way more than "my child was saved in a car crash" or "the coin jar moved to the living room" as proof.