Have you ever seen a ghost

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Aha! Another realm. How do you confirm that?

Incorrect. You CAN prove a negative by showing that its existance would contradict facts that can be demonstrated by repeatable experiments. A good example of that would be the resurrection of the dead, which is a Flagrant violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.Such would be like smashing a cup & saucer on the streat and then snapping your fingers and having all the broken shards come back together as a cup & saucer again .



BTW Sands, What sort of rigorous, serious scientific investigations have their been of Ghosts?
Now I recant calling you names but I want to know WHY you responded with sarcasm when I spoke of actually doing the WORK of investigating this for myself to find out the Truth? Truth is perhaps the ONLY thing in this Cosmos that I actually value more than myself .

By proving a negative, you'd have to show the non-existence of something? How do you show non-existence if you have nothing to work with? You cannot prove a negative, only a positive. But first you'd have to figure out which is the negative (nothing) and wihch is the positive (something).

Bringing dead people back to life is more in the nature of starting an automobile than using the tremendous power of a finger snap for the trivial exercise of defying the second law of dynamics. The secret government laboratories in charge of finger snap technologies have never revealed the secret work they are doing so I am not at liberty to disclose their latest discoveries involving not only left handed finger snaps but octopus tentacle snaps and the basic social forces released by a raised eyebrow.

Insofar as conservation of information and consciousness is concerned there is now a truth commission comprised of theologists, CIA electroencephalograph experts, morticians, and proctologists investigating reports of a ghost stegosaurus trapped somewhere in the New York subway system that is voraciously consuming ghost rats which is at odds with the current theory that stegosauruses were strict vegetarians.

IMO, bringing the dead back to life is an act of God. The underlying biochemical processes may be mundane, but I believe they are both cause and symptom, just another link in the chain of cause/effect. When dead people are rescusitated, it is very much a miracle. To be sure, they are usually still on the operatibng table or in the ambulance. Has anyone ever come back to life putrid & rotting, like something out of George A. Romero?

Alright Sands, from this point foward dont expect anything you say in this thread to be taken seriously since you wont take others seriously . BTW, you really must know Not know Jack Sh1t about chemistry, biochemistry, and thermodynamics to liken reviving a dead body to starting an automobile. Ever heard of something called Entropy?

To prove a Negative, you must show that something cannot exist. Of course, all that has to be dont to disprove a negative
is provide an example of this thing which is claimed to not exist.

that's not the same thing. you just discussed causality which isn't exactly proving it doesn't exist but rather proving that a set of actions does not cause something else to happen.. i'm discussing existence (as to the topic of this thread relates to the existence of ghosts). if someone claims something exists but no one else ever sees it or records it, how can you prove that it isn't there?

I never saw anything like that, but eep. *scratches head* I drew something that would resemble some annoyance bothering me for some time and causing issues. "Ok if I were to give my paranoya, or bad luck, or strange feelings of intrusion an image. What would it look like?" I drew a round head, horns, crazy stareing eyes, and a big fat phsyco grin all over his, infact small, 'face'. Honestly, this now creaps me out a little.

It creeps everybody out, what you just described. IF you're a human being, you're never completely immune to superstition. Superstition and spirituality aren't the same thing. But they're close. "Getting the creeps" is the atavistic response common to all of humanity.

Well, if you are going by that logic, the second law really disproves ghosts as well. I mean, where are they getting the energy to keep thinking and moving?

Ambient Infrared/UV/X-Ray/Gamma Radiation, Geomagnetic Field, Light, Dark Energy? In theory a life form of such type, would rest like a reptile and it's cells would have a battery-like system to charge up, then discharge for functionality. Although if efficient enough, it could even function 24/7. However in both cases it wouldn't have too much physical mass (as too much mass, would require too much energy to move), so they'd be rather small in total density. There's a lot of energy flowing everywhere, from geological to cosmic sources, so it's possible. In fact you could classify such a being as a animated plant, rather than an animal. Although like a living thing, it would need to consume natural resources to repair damaged cells over time on occasion, and emit some sort of waste (dead cells).

I don't believe in ghosts in a sense of dead relatives, but I believe in ghost being a type of life form (possibly alien) that was observed in the distant past, and became folklore and myth, and it was mistaken to be a typical ghost. I'd say most cases of ghost encounters are superstition, not a ghost but something else, or delusion. I can't say I've see a ghost, because the definition is rather subjective depending on belief and culture.

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Interesting. Modern physics does suggest the existence of higher dimensions, though AFAIK this has yet to be experimentally proven. Furthermore, it was once thought that "spirits" were beings from higher dimensions passing through 3-space. BTW speckles, there ARE other places where Ghosts could get their energy. Energy is really not all that uncommon in the universe ya know .

yeah, we just suck at harnessing it for our own use and manipulation.