if the answer is no, can you explain all the reported sightings of ghosts etc?
2006-09-19 01:32:04 · 37 answers · asked by The Way 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
yes i do
2006-09-19 01:33:24 · answer #1 · answered by me! 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I find it hard to believe, but most believers of the world's main religions believe in "life" after death. Resurrection, reincarnation etc. They even believe in some kind of heaven. There is no basis for any of this - mainly old stories, or mythology, passed down from one generation to another. It is just an accepted part of their faith. What we know for sure is that once we die our bodies decay. What we don't know is what happens to our "spiritual energy or life force" at the moment of death. Because we do not have a definitive answer it leaves open the door for religious groups to fabricate all kinds of answers.
Are there ghosts? I would say not. Sightings can easily be attributed to overactive imaginations, optical illusions, and coincidences. Noone has ever proved the existence of ghosts.
2006-09-19 01:56:25 · answer #2 · answered by D M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I can only explain what I've seen with my own eyes and that I haven't seen any sign of any "ghostly presences" I refuse to take the word of someone elses experience to form my own opinion.
If I see a ghost or find another reason to believe in life after death, then I'll be sure to come back and let you all know.
As for seances and the like... all use NLP, Derren Brown proved this on national TV.
Again, whether there is life after death.... I will have to see, but if I'm proved wrong, you will never know!
2006-09-19 01:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by Ellie29uk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No
"if the answer is no, can you explain all the reported sightings of ghosts etc?"
None of these sightings have ever been proven, because people say something does not make it real. Somethings existence needs to be proven before it can be used in an argument like this.
But I suppose believing in life after death and ghosts is just people wanting to believe there is more meaning to our pathetic short existence. If people could come to terms with the face we die then rot and thats it the sooner they can lead a happy life. Why waste 2 hours a week a church when you could be doing something that is equally as futile.
2006-09-19 01:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by Barry Von Leotard III 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Spiro - no one is going to want to "explain all reported sightings of ghosts."
For a ghost sighting to be taken seriously it has to be proved and it is up to the people who believe in ghosts to come forward with some convincing evidence.
The logic is as follows... You can not prove a negative, for example, I'm pretty darn sure that Father Christmas doesn't exist, but I can't prove it. If the real Father Christmas suddenly turned up and was proved to exist, that would blow my theory out of the water and I'd be glad to change my opinion on his existence. Until then I'm keeping it.
By the way - the same goes for yetis, Loch Ness monsters, aliens, fairies, goblins, witches, Iraqi WMDs, etc etc...
2006-09-22 08:50:52 · answer #5 · answered by Mike N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some ideas of ghosts are that they're the 'shadows' of people's lives, caught up in our visual field doing the same things over&over again. or that they're simply portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. but those are just theories.
you could explain the whole concept of ghosts on the popular supernatural thing of it- "i've seen a ghost, i've played a ouija board, i've hung around in a basement where ten kids died". so that's just people, stirring things up for the fun of it. it's the same thing with UFOs- people trying to claim fame by touching the unknown. or programs like 'world's most haunted' bullsh**
but that doesn't explain a lot of things poltergeist activity, or some clever ghost stories.. but people have died violently or suicidally everywhere, and its not like you see ghosts all over the place.
2006-09-19 01:45:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do..but my own belief is that we join the great white light...this has a different time scale completely ie: 100 years on earth could be 1 spirit year. I also think we choose to come back to earth if we want
I worked in a home for the elderly many years ago and there was a terminally ill resident who wasn't very popular and shunned any one who tried to befriend him, I persevered and became good friends it turned out that he was scared to die because he was frightened to meet his brother 'on the other side' I spent many nights talking to him and telling that there was nothing to be frightened off and that when he passed over it would be okay..I also asked to let me know that...anyway a few months later he did die (with only 3 members of staff at the funeral,myself included) and for the next few nights at home strange things happened..1) the sofa was rearranged one morning (nothing to scary in that but it just seemed odd. 2) waste paper basket found in the hall (again not to scary) but the third time was when we awoke early one morning to find all the wardrobe doors open!..... we were never scared and when I laughed and said out loud 'You see Mr **** there was nothing to be scared of.......we never had any more odd things happen but I am convinced that this poor old man was at peace and had come to let me know that everything was okay(this is honestly true!)
I am also very pschic..but I would Never dabble into it..I have a many odd experiences
2006-09-19 06:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of it. They say if you're a human, your next life will be an animal and if you're an animal, there next life will be a human. But insects and bugs just die. When you do switch lives, as they say, you won't remember anything because i think god will erase your memory. I don't know what happens when you die again.. I think i've heard a ghost and seen one once. My granny died in this house, and everytime i go in the room where she died, she died on her bed, it sounds like something is moving over me because i can feel air, but no windows are open, the air conditionings are off and as soon as i leave, the air is gone. and at my ex step daddy house downstairs i thought i saw a white floaty thingy sway into the office. my mama said it was probably my ex step daddy Father because he loved offices or some stuff like that and she said when she slept down there it always felt like something was staring at her.. SCARY STUFF! I'M SCARING MYSELF!! it's true though
2006-09-19 01:37:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is certain about a soul changing bodies. The styles, manners, gait, and other personality traits however seems to be replicated from generation to generation. Good aspects of one's personality may get repeated acceptance whereas the bad side may come to a permanent end immediately with the death of the person in possession of it.
2006-09-19 02:06:31 · answer #9 · answered by orsel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in life after death! I have just spent the last 2 sundays at a spiritualist church and was contacted by a close member of the family and I was told things that only they would know! how would the medium know that without life after death!
2006-09-19 01:56:25 · answer #10 · answered by michmac75 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely believe in life after death. It is logical to believe we have received a consciousness for a reason not to have it abandon us at death. Also the fact that we have a conscience suggests that there is a basis for ultimate good and evil.
2006-09-21 19:25:10 · answer #11 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋