If you do not believe in any afterlife, how do you explain incidences where people see ghosts or talk to dead?

Question

By talking to the dead I mean like those people on tv. For the record, I do not believe in ghosts either. I am just looking for explanations, like when peoplle say dishes will break etc. I do not know anyone else who doesn't believe in ghosts, so i need opinions from others. Thanks!

Answer 1

Uh...... delusions?? Hypnosis? Gullibility? Ignorance?

Take your pick.

Answer 2

I do no believe in ghosts. Read some psychology. There is an area of the brain that when stimulated, causes people to see such things. There are also mental illnesses, drugs, tumors and other medical conditions that explain incidences such as that. Where multiple people see a ghost in the same place, there is also a psychological category for that, as well as scientific explanations for when it is really not in people's heads. I think science will explain most of it, whether it is physics, geology, or psychology. Just because we can't find the answer doesn't mean that it has to be ghosts. People always find supernatural explanations for phenomena they cannot explain. (ie, demon possession for tumors and schizophrenia)

Answer 3

A major feature of spiritism is claimed communication with the dead. Since the dead “are conscious of nothing at all,” communication with such dead persons is actually impossible. (Ec 9:5) God’s law to Israel forbade anyone’s inquiring of the dead and made the practice of spiritism a capital offense. (Le 19:31; 20:6, 27; De 18:9-12; compare Isa 8:19.) And in the Christian Greek Scriptures the statement is made that those who practice spiritism “will not inherit God’s kingdom.” (Ga 5:20, 21; Re 21:8) It, therefore, logically follows that any claimed communication with dead persons, if not a deliberate lie on the part of the claimant, must be from an evil source, a source that stands in opposition to Jehovah God.

The Bible clearly indicates that wicked spirits, demons, are this evil source. A case in point is “a certain servant girl” in the city of Philippi. She used to furnish her masters with much gain by practicing “the art of prediction,” one of the things related to spiritism. (De 18:11) The account plainly says that the source of her predictions was, not God, but “a demon of divination,” a wicked spirit. Hence, when the apostle Paul expelled the wicked spirit, this girl lost her powers of prediction. (Ac 16:16-19)

Answer 4

The Bible says that a dead person cannot return to the living.
It has been proved many times that the Spirtualist mediums are being deceived by the spirit of the devil.
Jesus says that the devil can come as an angel of light to temp man. If he can appear as an angel of light, it would be easier for him to appear as the spirit of the departed ones, or dead persons.

Once there was a man who wanted to test the truthfulness of the mediiums who claim to have ability to contact the dead.
So he asked her to call his elder brother whose name he gave to the Medium.
After a while the medium was able to call his brother. He asked several questions about their house, father's name, mother's name,. his birth-day, birthmark, and what was the nickname that they call him at home. The spirit of his brother answered everything correctly.

But the man said to the medium: "You are all liars! I am the only child of my parents. That spirit must be an impostor. He must be the devil himself!"

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going. (Ecclesiastes 9:10

10 But man dies and is laid away;
Indeed he breathes his last
And where is he?

11 As water disappears from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dries up,

12 So man lies down and does not rise.
Till the heavens are no more,
They will not awake
Nor be roused from their sleep.

Job 14:10-12.

13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and[f] of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. (Revelation 16:13,14)

Answer 5

thinking Jesus is "lifeless" and God a supernatural being, this does not ask your self me thinking the liberal lean in direction of the social and humanitarian factors of society, wherein the conservative view usually is dismissive. Chemistry and physics and different psychological examine coach that there is in certainty power in actual products so this does not ask your self me the two given the conservative propensity for pushing aside technological awareness. additionally, technological awareness shows that people are lots greater observant than we had concept in the previous, and are in all possibility nonetheless lots greater observant than those examine coach. seem up "micro-expressions" for one occasion. And thinking those skills, which persons collectively with fortune tellers etc. are possibly extremely attuned to, could contain very lots of religion and empathetic psychology, this area additionally isn't superb. I even have come to have self assurance that for the time of maximum situations a liberal approach is greater keen to seeing opportunities and questions while a conservative approach looks greater centred on preserving a standing quo, a particular mindedness; by employing distinctive function of the names of the ideologies on the least: liberal/conservative. yet another commentary regards the asserting "in case you're no longer liberal whilst youthful you have not got any coronary heart, if no longer conservative whilst old you have not got any concepts" to paraphrase. And this is humorous with the aid of fact examine repeatedly have shown the quantity of neural degeneration that happens in simple terms approximately logarithmically as people age... So precise the asserting could greater properly say that conservatives in simple terms have neither coronary heart nor concepts. thrilling learn you cite!

Answer 6

I never rule out anything, until I have a good reason to do so. Impossible or improbable are the criteria. So far I've ruled out Elvis sightings, virgin births, satan, God, the easter bunny and the tooth fairy. I'm working on Santa, but he's hanging tough! I think ghosts are likely, since I've ruled out all the other places dead people can go!

Answer 7

How do you explain why you think they're real experiences?

Many people (theists) say they've felt God's power too.

It's all just an induced psychosis. The mind playing tricks.

Talk to the dead? Like, go to great grandma's grave and say, "Hey. How ya doin'?"?

Answer 8

Delusions. Self-hypnosis. Mass hypnosis.

Wishful thinking.

Lisa
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/secularhumanism/

Answer 9

is it not possible to be skeptical of ghosts or people who claim to talk to the dead AND simultaneously believe in life after death?

Answer 10

Jumping to preformed conclusions without critically examining other hypotheses. Happens all the time in all sorts of fields.

Answer 11

The same way I explain why people started to have experiences with UFO's AFTER humans invented a way to fly.