are ghosts real, and why are people so convinced that they are?

Question

i don't believe in ghosts, how do i convince others?

i believe in magic, the devil, jinnies and angels but believing in ghosts would mean not believing in gods ability.

Answer 1

You can't convince them really. There's no proof on either side. Just believe in what you want man.

Answer 2

What many people think of as proof that ghosts exists is merely something they've experienced but can't explain in any other way than saying that it was a ghost.

People who are unable to sleep for several days because of an illness, for example, might hallucinate and "see" dead relatives while he is still awake. A person who didn't know it was the brain taking time out to "dream" while awake might believe that his dead relatives came back to comfort him in his illness.

Photographs of ghosts (orbs, etc.) are little more than way-out-of-focus specks of dust or other airborne particles too close to the flash and lens of the camera.

Still other photographs are merely misuse of the camera. A shaky hand can cause blurs. A person who doesn't know how to properly use the "night portait" setting on a camera might see "energy" from distant lights.

When people visit a "haunted house" they've usually been told what "ghost" is there and where. That biases the visitor--even subconciously--and the visitor will then "feel" something.

John Edward and other "psychics" who claim to talk to the dead are only skilled in an art called "Cold Reading". A major factor in a successful "Cold Reading" is the psychic tossing out very vague references ("I'm seeing water.") and the person being "read" only remembering the "hits"--the vague references the psychic got right--and forgetting the "misses".

While it's comforting to think our dead relatives aren't really gone, there is always an explaination to a "ghostly experience". It's just that the person who experienced it may not know what it is other than to believe it was a ghost.

Answer 3

Ghosts, specters and apparitions have been proved since Edison made film. The fact that you disbelieve, does not support the evidence. To convince someone who has seen, felt or sensed them is an impossibility. Much like proving the world flat.
Disbelief is a good reason for research and a great cause for understanding. Take some time. Hunt for the physical proof of existence. As you do this you will find that you are more than what you seem. Enlightenment , no matter the subject is a beautiful thing. It is also our reason for being.

Answer 4

Because some have experienced ghosts. Why are people so convinced miracles are real? Why are people so convinced magick is real? Why were people so convinced the world was flat?

People need to realize that we live in a reality where practically anything is possible. Sure you can convince others, but I won't help you decay their enlightenment.

Answer 5

Ghost are demons, demons can take any form, I do not think a God, being almighty would, let the dead hang around, even if they had unfinished business to attend to. Demons are fallen angels and have the same power as Angels do. They like to inhabit places were a traumatic event took place. This is called a territorial stronghold. Usually called hauntings. "Stronghold" Greek strong's fortress, or prison-fortified place. 2 Cor 10:3-5. Remember the story of the Gergesene Demoniacs in Matt 8:28-34. (Mark 5:1-20, Luke 8:26-39) If you’re not religious, you may want to read it. This territory had a stronghold of demons over it, not to mention one man (Personal stronghold-possession) who had a legion of demons in him. Mark 5:9. Jesus freed the man, and in so doing freed the territory of its stronghold/haunting. When the demons went into the swine, the demons did not like the swine, so they drown the swine, this also killed the pigs that the Pagan worshippers used to sacrifice to their God's and killed that business off as well. Jesus healed the land and killed the Pagan worshipping (they used the pigs to sacrifice for food for their god’s) business for a time. My point is, demons are Ghosts and dead people are not.
http://christianblogs.christianet.com/1138793779.htm
http://www.prodigalsonmagazine.com/walk/2006/03/can_demons_be_ghosts.php
http://www.spiritualcuriosity.com/curiosity/spirit_enc.htm

Answer 6

how does believing in ghosts detract from the Belief of God, the bible talks of ghosts,
1 Samuel 28:7-19
Matthew 17: 1-8
Luke 16 19-31
and the list goes on and on

Happy 2007

Answer 7

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Answer 8

You don't convince them. It's much easier to say a ghost (a god, an angel, an ET, a leprechaun) did something than to actually investigate something and use critical thinking skills.

Answer 9

How to convince them that ghosts are not real?? You cant, if a person sees a ghosts you cant tell them they did not.

Answer 10

How do you convince a person who has seen a ghost that they do not exist? Wouldn't it make more sense to ask how they can convince you?