No.

That about does it.

I've drunk a few as well

I believe in the existence of fuzzy pictures and double exposures.

I do not believe in the existence of floating dead people.

Ghost in more of a peaceful form is what i am talking about. And cheers.

I don't believe in ghosts no, or anything other supernatural for that matter.

But the problem



But the problem with experiencing that sort of thing yourself, is that you put yourself in a situation where your brain really starts to make weird connections. I mean, putting yourself in the dark on a graveyard, or in a house, your brain just puts normal things together so that they form something abnormal. Normal sounds, and shadows quickly become a ghost or something.

Not sure about ghosts- we've got proof in the form of orbs that may or may not be dust particles, static voice recordings that may or may not contain voices of the dead, etc. Nothing really solid. But, as the saying goes "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."



Careful there- US Air Force officials recently stated that during the cold war, about 18 nuclear missles, in their silos, were suddenly disarmed, while a glowing light was no further than 30 feet in the air above the main gate, spooking the guards (who were ordered to keep it from entering the base.) Then there's a European country (Belgum or Switzerland, I think) that actually treats UFOs as something more than a mass hallucination. Then you've got unexplaned "radiation" burns, strange scars, EM interference, radar blips for said objects, symptoms of PTSD around certain areas/objects after an apparant "abduction" incident, missing embryos (as in, no embryo but no sign of miscarrage)...

There's more evidence for UFOs than there is for ghosts (well, more evidence that's harder to explain away.) But it's all still circumstantial- they may be aliens or some unknown phenomenon, but it's really unnerving when you're staring at the 5% of reported cases can't be explaned.

Ghosts are not something that is at all, in any way possible. Everything we have ever learned about just about anything related, points to:
Memories, personality, thinking, basically everything at all that makes a person a person is directly linked to physical aspects of the brain.

Ghosts would require that all those completely physical things can somehow still exist in a non-physical being. This is not possible. If anyone who believes in ghosts can, say, come up with a realistic mechanism for how such a thing could function within the laws of physics, that would lend SOME credence to the idea of their existence.

And they are not something you have to "experience to believe". They are something that if you "experience" them, you need to evaluate your mental health, or why you may have been hallucinating at that particular time.

Why do I get the feeling this thread isn't going to last long?

To answer the question.... kinda. I'm open to the idea, but honestly I'd have to experience it first hand to truly say yes since I only trust myself in regards to things like this. And I've yet to experience a ghost.


(As a side note, I did have an experience with something else when I was younger, but I've not a clue what it was; all I know is it scared the [censored] out of me and managed to open a window that we never opened and was nearly painted shut)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Ghost

I don't know if it's been posted already or not, but how come ghosts have clothes on in at least half the sightings?

If you died in a wheelchair, and became a ghost, would you get a ghostly wheelchair and be damned to wheel around in an alternate "realm"?
Just curious.

But no, I do not believe.

I'm very skeptical, but open to evidence. If anyone can provide strong, testable evidence and a clear definition of what a ghost is I'd be willing to consider the claim.

"Ghosts" as in ghosts that wander around going Ooogey Boogey Woo to people? No.

I do however belief in "spirits" as such due to my religious beliefs. (And I dont mean of the drinking variety)

As long as there isn't any better proof than the 'many sightings', I'll place about as much value in ghosts and aliens as in the many completely accurate and reliable reports of the kingdom of Prester John.

Do I believe in ghosts?

I am a ghost.

No, I most certainly don't believe in ghosts, for a number of reasons.

First, they represent some glaring logical flaws related to what we do in fact know about science.

For instance, if a ghost were to be invisible, then it couldn't see anything either, because light passing through an object cannot be absorbed by that object by definition.

Another thing is how on earth they manage to wear clothes; even if you do believe that we have a soul separate from our physical body, our clothing sure can't be said to be part of it.

Not to mention the notion that "ghosts" can somehow walk through walls yet are able to stand on the ground. The ground isn't some magical limit, it consists of matter just like the walls, and walking on it requires one to be corporeal.

Second, even though technology for recording events is more readily available than ever, nobody ever manages to record a sighting of a ghost! All we see on video on the subject is people riling themselves up, claiming they are experiencing something to which they can present no proof.

Or how about how ghosts supposedly can have memories of their lives when nothing of their brain remains. Without the part of your brain that contains memories, you have none.

As a man who believes in science and enlightenment, I refuse to go along with anyone who wants me to abandon logical thinking in favour of believing in fairytales.

That's one of the things that drives me insane the most. People seem to think that memories are stored in a person's soul. Then how is it possible that a person can get amnesia due to brain damage, or even worse, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia due to brain damage? How can brain damage completely change someone's personality if someone's personality is not in their brain but in their soul? My point is not to claim that there is no such thing as a soul, but even if there is it certainly isn't there for our memories and our personality. Of course, the self-imposing question now is "what is it there for then?", but that's a question for a different topic, one probably not on these forums.

There you have it.

In my opinion believeing in ghosts is just another way of trying to convince oneself that our lives are not just a brief blink of existence in timeless non-existence. So enjoy life while you're still alive to do so

Only if it had a use at the right moment... Like at gunpoint and preventing my death...

Higher chance of them being Cybermen than dead people that wandering the earth looking for naked people.

Dead people DO float.

Unless you cut them up and put the-- Oh... OH!! That's not what you meant... Err... TO THE ARKAYER-MOBILE....

Yup, I do indeed believe there are ghosts.

Dead people can float in the air just look at The Big Lebowski.

I shall quote you on the internet for ever when this question pops up.

No, of course not. To believe that ghosts are real you'd have to believe all kinds of things about the world for which exist no evidence whatsoever.

I'm open to the possibility of anything exisiting, but untill I see solid proof I don't believe it does. It's partially why I'm not religious, faith alone isn't enough for me. Any other issues on that front really shouldn't be discussed here.

So no, I don't believe in ghosts.

Don't play dumb, Veeno. You're better than that.

Santa Claus 'sightings,' are in most cases, very nice people who decide to get paid a pittance to make kids happy by dressing as Santa.

We don't live in the Scooby Doo universe, so a similar parallel cannot be drawn with ghosts.