Was Ebenezer Scrooge really visited by 3 spirits?

[Iron Woode]

or did he suffer from a seriously guilty conscience and were the "spirits" really just a manifestation of that guilty conscience?

Discuss.

 

[DaveSimmons]

And what about poor Bill Murray, did he really live the same day over and over again for years on end?

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
or did he suffer from a seriously guilty conscience and were the "spirits" really just a manifestation of that guilty conscience?

Discuss.

As Dickens wrote the story he was in fact visited by 3 spirits. That was the whole point of the emphasis at the beginning about Marley having been "dead as a door-nail".

 

[Bateluer]

Wasn't it entirely fiction?

 

[Leper Messiah]

maybe he had some rye bread with that one fungus in it and had the equivalent of a bad trip?

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Wasn't it entirely fiction?

I am supposing that someone like scrooge exists and had an epiphany.

So therefore his spirits would be explained by a guilt complex.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Wasn't it entirely fiction?

I am supposing that someone like scrooge exists and had an epiphany.

So therefore his spirits would be explained by a guilt complex.

If some such person existed, it tells you nothing about the experiences of this particular fictional character.

But if you randomly select a hundred stingy ghost-visited geezers you could use them to assign probabilities to find the most likely source of Scrooge's visitors, e.g.

Real Ghosts - 10%
Guilt - 40%
Mental Illness (schizophrenia, dementia, etc.) - 20%
Drug and Alcohol abuse - 30%

You would then be able to claim that statisically the most likely cause of Scrooge's visitors was guilt followed by booze or laudanum.

< dolby > SCIENCE! < /dolby >

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Wasn't it entirely fiction?

I am supposing that someone like scrooge exists and had an epiphany.

So therefore his spirits would be explained by a guilt complex.

If some such person existed, it tells you nothing about the experiences of this particular fictional character.

But if you randomly select a hundred stingy ghost-visited geezers you could use them to assign probabilities to find the most likely source of Scrooge's visitors, e.g.

Real Ghosts - 10%
Guilt - 40%
Mental Illness (schizophrenia, dementia, etc.) - 20%
Drug and Alcohol abuse - 30%

You would then be able to claim that statisically the most likely cause of Scrooge's visitors was guilt followed by booze or laudanum.

< dolby > SCIENCE! < /dolby >

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