Anyone Ever Experience Anything Paranormal?

backseatLover12 said:

dignin said:

OMGkatwoman said:

dignin said:

chadwick said:

tiring & lazy are the closed off minds & souls. put your mind & soul to work in ways one has never believed. it is all at our fingertips, lots even closer

So what is it that your mind and soul are doing that are different than mine?

Are you admitting you have a soul?
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I'm trying to figure out the finger waving. What is it's purpose?

And to answer your question, no, I don't believe we have a soul, in the sense that it becomes a ghost when we die.

We are a collection of our biology, experiences, memories and most importantly our story.

When we die, that's it, we return to the earth. Nothing more, nothing less.

Then, explain what you think a ghost is.

Nothing. There is no evidence of ghosts, therefore I have to conclude they do not exist.

I can only guess they are a symptom of an over-active imagination or maybe mental illness.

explain gettysburg, pennsylvania where countless residence & visitors hear black powder rifles, cannons & hear voices, hear weeping, mouning & see apparitions at a constant... ppl of all walks of life have experiences there. folks even catch apparitions on film - camera or video

backseatLover12 said:

dignin said:

backseatLover12 said:

dignin said:

OMGkatwoman said:

dignin said:

chadwick said:

tiring & lazy are the closed off minds & souls. put your mind & soul to work in ways one has never believed. it is all at our fingertips, lots even closer

So what is it that your mind and soul are doing that are different than mine?

Are you admitting you have a soul?
[-X

I'm trying to figure out the finger waving. What is it's purpose?

And to answer your question, no, I don't believe we have a soul, in the sense that it becomes a ghost when we die.

We are a collection of our biology, experiences, memories and most importantly our story.

When we die, that's it, we return to the earth. Nothing more, nothing less.

Then, explain what you think a ghost is.

Nothing. There is no evidence of ghosts, therefore I have to conclude they do not exist.

I can only guess they are a symptom of an over-active imagination or maybe mental illness.

I read your post differently, I read it as you believed we become ghosts when we die. Thanks for clarifying.

Energy is everywhere. Everywhere. Whether we see it or not does not prove that it is not there.

I agree with you about energy being everywhere, but I will trust in the physicists to figure that stuff out....not the psychics. That kind of stuff makes my head spin a bit and I feel way out of my depth.

not only psychics see ghosts or experience the happenings

chadwick said:

explain gettysburg, pennsylvania where countless residence & visitors hear black powder rifles, cannons & hear voices, hear weeping, mouning & see apparitions at a constant... ppl of all walks of life have experiences there. folks even catch apparitions on film - camera or video

Secondhand accounts don't mean anything. Anecdotes...its not data, its not measurable, and every time a hard science skeptic goes boogeyhunting they come up empty handed for a reason.
People who believe in vortexes find vortexes, people who believe in ghosts find ghosts, people who believe in evidence find...no evidence.

chadwick said:

we don't have to go ghost hunting, they come to us. i could go to some lost ass desert & would get something at some point. take yourself to the 4 corners area. but then again you are closed up.
no offense but that's how im reading your posts. but that's ok.we all are unique & special in our own ways.

i'll now look up the bird-cage theater... thank you for that

It was one of the coolest places I have ever been! It's in Tombstone and everything on the inside is original...the card tables, the piano, the art, the bar, the poker room downstairs...with bullet holes in the walls and stage...very cool that you can see the tables where Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday dealt cards. Supposed to be haunted as hell.

I take issue with the "closed up" idea...you can't be closed off to gravity. You can't be closed off to electromagnetism. Positrons will penetrate your brain whether you believe or not...the forces and energies of the universe can't be available to some and not others, they are universal.

dignin said:

rgambs said:

chadwick said:

we don't have to go ghost hunting, they come to us. i could go to some lost ass desert & would get something at some point. take yourself to the 4 corners area. but then again you are closed up.
no offense but that's how im reading your posts. but that's ok.we all are unique & special in our own ways.

i'll now look up the bird-cage theater... thank you for that

It was one of the coolest places I have ever been! It's in Tombstone and everything on the inside is original...the card tables, the piano, the art, the bar, the poker room downstairs...with bullet holes in the walls and stage...very cool that you can see the tables where Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday dealt cards. Supposed to be haunted as hell.

I take issue with the "closed up" idea...you can't be closed off to gravity. You can't be closed off to electromagnetism. Positrons will penetrate your brain whether you believe or not...the forces and energies of the universe can't be available to some and not others, they are universal.

Great point

Somewhat...you can't necessarily feel electromagnetism or positrons emissions with the human body and so devices need to be designed to measure them. That leaves the believer crowd open to suggest we just haven't found a way to collect the data yet... It isn't the weakest argument they have but it's not as effective as they might think, given the nature of the scientific process.

i'll look it up