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Do you believe in ghosts, deamons, spirits, etc... interesting night.
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Chrishuff1
Platinum Member
So are you saying you welcomed it? 😕
Not every half-assed theory, but one might be proven correct, hence the open options. If you look back through history you will notice that the world being round and not the center of the universe were once thought to be half-assed theories also. 😉
As for why women may believe more then men, many of us have a 6th sense when it comes to our children. This might give us an advantage in accepting something supernatural.
Yup.
Scientists are working on measuring these things, such as why prayer (even anonymous prayer) seems to help people recover. They are using EEGS, EKGS, double blind studies, etc to start to measure the unseen energy that we seem to have within us and between us. Just like there is sexual heat/tension you can feel between people, there are other kinds of energy between people that is palpable by those who are sensitive to it. And like all energy, it doesn't just disappear... it just changes form.
It's real, and it's natural. People are just either scared of it and start getting superstitious about it or just try to pretend that it doesn't exist.
*shrug*
NikPreviousAcct
No Lifer
I believe in angels and demons.
StormRider
Diamond Member
Just reading your description gave me the creeps. For some reason I get scared by thoughts of ghosts and stuff. I had a hard time sleeping after I saw the Sixth Sense because I kept imagining things in the dark.
A funny thing happened the other night. I was home by myself, playing around on the computer, when I hear these voices from the living room. I'm like WTF? So I go check and the TV is on. I go, "What the....?", turn the TV off and all of a sudden my wife starts laughing from the bedroom. Little wench snuck in the house when she got home from work, turned the TV on and hid in the bedroom. 😀
Well, i guess if you ignore science, everything is open. What would i rather believe... that a ghost really did jump on my bed and visited me, or my brain just went haywired for a few seconds and i hallucinated something?
And what does the past have to do with the present? Just because i flipped the coin previously and had 3 heads in a row... that doesn't make this flip of the coin any more likely to land on a head or tail. This current flip isn't dependent on past results.
True, some people thought the world was flat in the past... but those who believe the world was flat or round, had no evidence for either. 99% of all 'paranormal' activites can be explained... just because the 1% that can't, doesn't mean it's necessarily something else.
6th sense... LOL we had a huge discussion on this in a critical thinking class. The truth is, there is no 6th sense... people just pay more attention to things that they expect to happen. A mother walks out the room, then has a funny feeling something is wrong... goes back in the room to check on the infant, and it's ok. So she forgets about it and leaves the room again. But 1/10 times, as she goes back into the room, she sees the infant is sleeping in a strange position, or needs help... then she attributes it to a 6th sense she had, but all those other times when her sense were wrong, she didn't pay any attention to them.
Ferrari355
Golden Member
I had sort of a weird experience once. It was about 6 or 7 years ago. My dad and I were in his room trying to fix something when all of the sudden the curtains started moving and a really really cold wind blew through the room. My dad got up to close the window, but it was already closed. Every door and window in the house was closed and locked. Where did the wind come from if the windows were closed?
Edit:I should add something. My dad believes in ghosts and he thinks that's what it was. It's not the only "weird" thing that happened at that house. Another time, him and my uncle were sleeping they were woken up by a strange noise coming from the back yard. The next morning they went into the back yard and there was something that looked like a little crop circle in the grass. He also thinks that was a ghost or something because the gate was locked from the inside, so he thought no one could get in.
Edit:I should add something. My dad believes in ghosts and he thinks that's what it was. It's not the only "weird" thing that happened at that house. Another time, him and my uncle were sleeping they were woken up by a strange noise coming from the back yard. The next morning they went into the back yard and there was something that looked like a little crop circle in the grass. He also thinks that was a ghost or something because the gate was locked from the inside, so he thought no one could get in.
StormRider
Diamond Member
Next time she startles you, just let out a big fart -- that will teach her a lesson! 😉
You can always start here.
There are no answers to these questions that we ask, and anyone who thinks they have it all figured out is fooling themselves.
There are no answers to these questions that we ask, and anyone who thinks they have it all figured out is fooling themselves.
I do think there is something akin to lost souls or ghosts. I swear up and down till this day that I saw a ghost as a child. I remember being awake because my alarm woke me, and I never went back to sleep. My alarm never rang again, or in other words I did not dream that my alarm rang. So anyway I went downstairs to get breakfast and saw the ghost. Nobody believes me and I am skeptical of ghost stories anyway, but I will never forget that experience.
I remember as a little kid waking up one night to what I believed was an alien looking through my window. I couldn't make it out very well, but it was tan with large piercing blue eyes. I was too frightened to scream or move, and after what felt like an eternity, I pulled the sheets over my head. When I became brave enough, I pulled the sheets back and saw that it was gone. I quickly ran to my parents room.
I slept with my parents for about a week before they made me start sleeping in my own bed. I was still too frightened to sleep, so I would sneak into my parents room after they fell asleep and sleep on the floor next to their bed. We had very tall windows in that house, they went from the ceiling to the floor, and the blinds left about 2 feet of the window exposed at the bottom. For about a month I would watch 3 figures walk to the front door of the house, 2 adults and a child. Frightened, I would close my eyes. When I opened them the adult woman would always be right next to the window staring at me. When I opened them the next time, the cycle would start over. 3 to the front door and then the woman to the window.
This has been probably 17 or 18 years ago, so I may have been dreaming. If I look at any pictures of me from that timeframe though, I was very pale, tired looking, with huge black bags under my eyes. I'm not sure I believe in any of this now, but I wouldn't discount anything as much. As a child I was a believer.
I slept with my parents for about a week before they made me start sleeping in my own bed. I was still too frightened to sleep, so I would sneak into my parents room after they fell asleep and sleep on the floor next to their bed. We had very tall windows in that house, they went from the ceiling to the floor, and the blinds left about 2 feet of the window exposed at the bottom. For about a month I would watch 3 figures walk to the front door of the house, 2 adults and a child. Frightened, I would close my eyes. When I opened them the adult woman would always be right next to the window staring at me. When I opened them the next time, the cycle would start over. 3 to the front door and then the woman to the window.
This has been probably 17 or 18 years ago, so I may have been dreaming. If I look at any pictures of me from that timeframe though, I was very pale, tired looking, with huge black bags under my eyes. I'm not sure I believe in any of this now, but I wouldn't discount anything as much. As a child I was a believer.
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