Do you believe in ghosts?

[JK Ferret]

Where's the 'sort of' option?!
I believe in things like supernautural bumps in the night etc.
But not ghosts.
However i know that my puzzle book and my voice are haunted...

[Stewart]

If the results of this poll are not a joke (currently 70% yes) then I'm leaving, never to return. The forum seems to have been taken over by the sort of people who watch Trisha and think Russel Grant is pretty much the same as Gandalf.

[JK Ferret]

If the results of this poll are not a joke (currently 70% yes) then I'm leaving, never to return. The forum seems to have been taken over by the sort of people who watch Trisha and think Russel Grant is pretty much the same as Gandalf.

Then i'm glad i'm not the only 'sane' person here (excepting the 5 or 6 others who voted no)

[Knoxville]

No and I've lived opposite a graveyard nearly all my life, my dad however believes in them without question, mind you he's a christian and there's no understanding some of the silly things they believe

[yamangman]

Ghosts - no.

God - no.

Goblins - no.

Ghouls - no.

Actually, I believe in very few things that start with G; I'm not 100% I believe in goats yet.

Seriously though, I'm very much a realist - I don't believe in Heaven, Hell, Fate, Curses, Ghosts, God, Speaking to the dead, and all that mush.

End of the day, we have what's around us, and you make the best job of it you can. Good things will happen to bad people, and bad things will happen to good people.

If I can't read about it in a good science book, then its cobblers.

This man speaks 100% pure common sense and truth, he has taken the words right from my mouth.

And this isn't just a disguised way of inflating my ego by saying I know what i'm talking about.

[daniel_owen_uk]

For me the whole ghost thing is rubbish, my ex used to believe in all that sort of thing, she said "You will never see anything as you aren't open minded enough", sorry but I don't need to be open minded to see things that exist, so why ghosts?

[yamangman]

That's just like people who say "if you're not willing to look for miracles you will never see them". It just extends back to times where God was used to explain the unexplainable. If I was so naive i'd say it was a miracle every time a woman gave birth or there was an eclipse.

[Ravens Nest]

Yes i do believe in ghosts, As i have seen one, but have a hard time believing in psychics

I posted near the end of this thread about my experience
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.p...ighlight=ghost

[yamangman]

Where's the 'sort of' option?!
I believe in things like supernautural bumps in the night etc.
But not ghosts.
However i know that my puzzle book and my voice are haunted...

Sort of? That's the worst opinion. It's a position you take so that when someone proves the matter conclusively that you can turn around and say, well, i did/didn't believe in them/Him/It really.

It's the worst sort of nonsense.

[Andy]

I've seen 2 in my lifetime, the first when i was around 12 and the second was my Nan who had been dead for around 5 years, who came to talk to myself and my mother the day before my Grandad died! Very Very Weird...

[silent ben]

The reasons i believe in ghosts are 2 fold.

1) Imagine you're in the 16th century, someone from the future shows you the radio tells you how it works (waves in the air) you're gonna say, "if it was in the air, i could hear, see, smell or touch it". Just because we cant detect ghosts yet, doesn't mean they're not there and we wont 1 day be able to detect them.

2) There have been mass visions of ghosts, cant remember where, but a whole street came to a standstill one day when a ghostly cohort of roman soldiers marched down the street, about 3 ft below ground level (the level where the roman road used to be)

For the record vaul, i've never watched trisha for more than 30 seconds, and russel grant is a big, fat gay

[MasterFlash]

I guess im not gonna belive in them until i see one with my own eyes

[Zedmeister]

You wouldn't expect to see ghosts in graveyards as not many people die in them

[Matt1eD]

2) There have been mass visions of ghosts, cant remember where, but a whole street came to a standstill one day when a ghostly cohort of roman soldiers marched down the street, about 3 ft below ground level (the level where the roman road used to be)

That was York.

[yamangman]

The reasons i believe in ghosts are 2 fold.

1) Imagine you're in the 16th century, someone from the future shows you the radio tells you how it works (waves in the air) you're gonna say, "if it was in the air, i could hear, see, smell or touch it". Just because we cant detect ghosts yet, doesn't mean they're not there and we wont 1 day be able to detect them.

2) There have been mass visions of ghosts, cant remember where, but a whole street came to a standstill one day when a ghostly cohort of roman soldiers marched down the street, about 3 ft below ground level (the level where the roman road used to be)

For the record vaul, i've never watched trisha for more than 30 seconds, and russel grant is a big, fat gay

Your reasoning is flawed, on many levels, the most obvious being that one day we may be able to detect them, so what? If that were true I would hazard by that time "ghosts" had moved within the realm of physical science and will be entirely unrelated to the supernatural as they are now. It would be like saying I believe in chickens.

The supernatural holds NO water without 'belief' and 'faith' in it's existence, without belief it is nothing, and once you go any distance to prove such existence, especially in the way you talk of detection, then it becomes a discipline of the universe.

[Matt1eD]

ooh philosophical, true and a good point.

Interesting. I like these threads; loads of good debates.