Spooked? Whats your take on ghostliness?
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 2nd at 1:33am 2006


I have a few ghost stories to share. All from the same location but believable enough to suit most.

The question: Do you believe? Simple as that.





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Posted by FatStrings on Sun Apr 2nd at 2:43am 2006


i have an interesting viewpoint on this one
being catholic i believe in purgatory
i also know many people who have lost someone close to them and say they have felt their presence
my theory is that though maybe not ghosts a soul in purgatory may let's say "visit" their loved ones

please don't turn this into a religious debate




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Posted by Hugh on Sun Apr 2nd at 4:26am 2006


I saw somethin' white and spooky and floating and ethereal in my old house back in the day, which could have been a ghost seeing as people were murdered there back in the day. Not that it looked like anybody, but it fit the quintessential definition of ghost.


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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 2nd at 4:27am 2006


You know Orph, not every thread has to have "Recently" in the title, and this one is straying more than a bit from the point of the term "Recently". I think its a fairly interesting thread to post, it just has no place under the "Recently..." blanket. Anyways...

I'm undecided as to my viewpoint on things like this. On one hand, my view of the world is almost entirely scientific, and as such I don't really see any logical reasoning behind a lot of superstitions. On other hand, you do hear a lot of stories and even come across the odd thing yourself that doesn't quite add up in the world as it is normally explained. For those reasons I voted perhaps.






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Posted by French Toast on Sun Apr 2nd at 4:31am 2006


I don't buy any of it. Just like everything else in the world, science will soon enough disprove all this.



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Posted by mazemaster on Sun Apr 2nd at 5:20am 2006


How exactly is science going to disprove something that cannot be experimentally tested?





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Posted by Vash on Sun Apr 2nd at 5:24am 2006


I usually see moving objects in the darkness, but I don't really remember any ghostly experiences. I've also had the typical "corner of my eye" viewings, which are insanely creepy when you're a nine year old home alone.



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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Apr 2nd at 5:26am 2006


? posted by mazemaster
How exactly is science going to disprove something that cannot be experimentally tested?

it wont.....theres entirely too many unexplained phenoms though to say absolutely and unequivocally that they do not exist....same kind of mindset as with the ufo sightings, etc.....

never seen a ghost, but ive definately seen some wierd s**t in my day...

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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sun Apr 2nd at 6:31am 2006


I really don't believe in ghosts, but I wish I could go through an experience that would change my mind, just for the fun of it.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Apr 2nd at 9:22am 2006


Yeah, I think ghosts are real. Coz in the Bible it says that a witch brought Samuel's ghost back from the dead.


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Posted by Andrei on Sun Apr 2nd at 9:54am 2006


Me wonders. What if the "incidents" that people qualify as encounters with ghosts are actually the result of involuntary psychokinesis?



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Posted by Gwil on Sun Apr 2nd at 10:51am 2006


Ghosts. One of those things that i'd like to think exist as a curiosity, but when it comes to being alone in a dark house (or whatever), you will convince yourself blind that there's no such thing :P






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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 2nd at 1:23pm 2006


? quoting ReNo
You know Orph, not every thread has to have "Recently" in the title, and this one is straying more than a bit from the point of the term "Recently". I think its a fairly interesting thread to post, it just has no place under the "Recently..." blanket. Anyways...

Really, I see it decidedly differently I guess. Many of the movies we post are pre-WW2 yet, they are in recently watched. Many of the books are pre-1980 and yet, we post them in recently read.

People die daily. Who's to say that one of them won't be mentioned in this thread?

Anyway, I will think of a more apt title topic for the next "Recently" thread. Perhaps "Recently Crapped" to see what was for supper.. Maybe we can get some interesting recipe's.





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Posted by French Toast on Sun Apr 2nd at 3:17pm 2006


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How exactly is science going to disprove something that cannot be experimentally tested?


Hmm... okay. What I meant was people who claim to be ghost hunters and search for various clues. Like taking their dogs and watching them hover to certain areas of a "haunted" area. Or those like orb things.

I'm saying that science has already disproven many things that people thought were signs of ghosts, and will be able to explain what those flying orb thingys are that people talk about.




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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 2nd at 3:24pm 2006


Regardless of when the films/books/whatever were made, they were still watched or read or listened to recently by the people talking about them, hence the justification of the word recently in the topic title. The point of this thread is (quite clearly, given the poll) - "do you believe in ghosts". Thats not really something that has any relation to time or the term recently.

I'm not trying to say "this is a crap recently thread, make a better one next time", I'm saying "stop using 'recently' in thread titles just for the sake of it" <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">






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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 2nd at 5:12pm 2006


? quoting ReNo


I'm not trying to say "this is a crap recently thread, make a better one next time", I'm saying "stop using 'recently' in thread titles just for the sake of it"

Point taken, but what if the realization happened recently? What if the ghost visited last night?

I think its close enough to serve the purpose. Although, my belief extends to years ago and it was not recent.





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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 2nd at 5:30pm 2006


Yeah, I guess it COULD relate to recently, but it doesn't necessarily relate to recently, and in fact probably doesn't. I guess I just think that unless you are specifically asking for recent events (such as is the case with the recently watched, recently read, etc...), it seems silly to put recently in the topic name. Plus the uniformity of having so many threads with the same word in the title seems to annoy me for some stupid reason <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Apologies for the derailing here though - as I said before I do like the idea of the thread and don't want to destroy it with this!






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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 2nd at 5:51pm 2006


OK, next thread "Recently Riled" we can post events like this that piss us off.

Next we can have "Recently annoyed" where we debate just how recently I annoyed Duncan.

Then, the killer thread, "Recently consented" where I bite the bullet and bow down to the wiser course of action.

Then to make things well rounded we can post "Recently Derailed" where we can dig through all the Snarkpit threads and post examples of thread topics gone south. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

XXXOOOXXX Duncan.





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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Apr 2nd at 6:01pm 2006


pppfffttt...in that case, why not just make one never ending thread called "recent bulls**t" <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

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Posted by Toast King on Sun Apr 2nd at 6:25pm 2006


Ive seen some quite weird unexplanable things before, especialy at my school. It is very old, and is built on a farm, on top of a graveyard. And people have been murderored there, and at sleep overs at the school I have observed strange happenings.


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