whats the diffirence between ghosts and spirits?

Question

theyre both dead and freaky.. whats the diffirence?

Answer 1

Spirits Take The Human Form.............Ghosts Fly Around In Cotton White Sheets...........ex. CASPER............

Answer 2

I agree with Jason but there are 4 types of haunting: Residual, intelligent, entity and poltergiest. All fit the desprition of demons being disguised as ghosts exept "Residual" like the battle of Gettysburg war where lots of people died. So much psychic energy there brought on by an emotion death... left a paradox a type of time loop repeating almost the same events over and over again with the same out come. A place where the space-time continuem is shattered... its frozen at that time speeds up the haunt then back to normal. Science can explain that there is a creator even philosophy can but the bible only talks of demons and not ghosts. Psychical Science is the theoretical study of the paranormal not proven fact or false but a theory. Science is always right and so is God. Science is the search for fact, Philosophy is the search for truth, metaphysics is the search for the meaning of existence and religion is the search for belief. What if god was an ascended Alien the most powerful being in the universe? Would he still be the one true God.... of course. You are right but you could also be wrong we know all we know about God through the Bible but not all there is to know about science quite yet. You need faith in God but you also need not just knowledge but the understanding of science to it. I am a Gnostic Christian and believe in both the Bible and science equally because we still physically need science to survive in this world not just faith but both, right?

Answer 3

Ghost is the term for an earthbound emination. Usualy (but not always) created by the death of a person. A Spirit is an entity that has an existance in the Unseen Realm, but that never necessicarily ever had a human body. The Sidhe and Djini are examples of Spirits.

Answer 4

The word "spirit" sometimes has a religious connotation and may refer to a residual "personality".
A Ghost can also be referred to as an "apparrition", "entity", "manifestation", "specter", or "presence".
Determining a difference between these labels can be complicated, especially when you factor in not just ghosts of people, but ghost pets and other animals, ghost ships, phantom cars, and hauntings that involve alleged demons.
Then you have the "residual" hauntings and "intelligent" hauntings that require further classifying of your ghost!

Answer 5

A ghost is either the essence of a person or an imprint of that person on the environment. A spirit may or may not have ever been corporeal or even human.

Answer 6

Ghosts are local and more personal.
Spirits are more general and symbolic.

The Ghost of Sleepy Hollow
The Spirit of Liberty

1 : an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms
2 : a supernatural being or essence: as a capitalized : HOLY SPIRIT b : SOUL 2a c : an often malevolent being that is bodiless but can become visible; specifically : GHOST 2 d : a malevolent being that enters and possesses a human being
3 : temper or disposition of mind or outlook especially when vigorous or animated
4 : the immaterial intelligent or sentient part of a person
5 a : the activating or essential principle influencing a person b : an inclination, impulse, or tendency of a specified kind : MOOD
6 a : a special attitude or frame of mind b : the feeling, quality, or disposition characterizing something
7 : a lively or brisk quality in a person or a person's actions
8 : a person having a character or disposition of a specified nature
9 : a mental disposition characterized by firmness or assertiveness
10 a : DISTILLATE 1: as (1) : the liquid containing ethyl alcohol and water that is distilled from an alcoholic liquid or mash -- often used in plural (2) : any of various volatile liquids obtained by distillation or cracking (as of petroleum, shale, or wood) -- often used in plural b : a usually volatile organic solvent (as an alcohol, ester, or hydrocarbon)
11 a : prevailing tone or tendency b : general intent or real meaning
12 : an alcoholic solution of a volatile substance
13 : enthusiastic loyalty

Ghost:
Etymology: Middle English gost, gast, from Old English gamacrst; akin to Old Saxon gemacronst spirit, Old High German geist spirit, Old Norse geiskafullr full of terror, Gothic usgaisjan to frighten, Sanskrit hea anger
1 a : the life principle or vital spark : the soul regarded as the seat of life or intelligence -- now used chiefly in the phrase to give up the ghost b archaic : the spirit of man as distinguished from the body : the conscious being
2 a : a disembodied soul; especially : the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness b : APPARITION, SPECTER
3 : SPIRIT, DEMON ; especially : a harmful or malevolent disembodied human spirit regarded as a power to be propitiated or averted by religious or magical rites
4 obsolete : PERSON
5 obsolete : CORPSE
6 : a mark or visible sign left by something dead, lost, or no longer present : REMAINS
7 a : a faint shadowy outline or semblance : TRACE b : the least bit : IOTA, PARTICLE -- usually used with preceding negative
8 : a false image : REFLECTION: a or ghost image : an unwanted or false image on a photographic negative caused by internal reflections in the camera lens b : a faint spurious line appearing in a grating spectrum as a result of a defect in the ruling of the grating c or ghost image : a faint double image appearing on a television screen as a result of the reflection of signals from external objects (as buildings) before they reach the receiving antenna
9 : one who does literary or artistic work for and in the name of another ; specifically : GHOST-WRITER
10 : a tissue, cell, or other structure that does not stain normally because of degenerative changes; specifically : a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin
11 : a light band that alternates with a dark one or runs through a dark mass, appears on a tooled or polished surface of steel, and indicates a zone of material made harder by a difference in composition
12 ghosts plural but singular in construction [so called from the fact that the eliminated person is called a ghost] : a word game in which a player names a letter of the alphabet to which each succeeding player adds a letter that makes part of but does not complete a word, a player being eliminated from the game usually after five instances in which he has either completed a word or been guilty of adding a letter that does not contribute to making a word
13 : PHANTOM
14 : an outline of a former crystal shape or rock structure bounded by inclusions that make it visible and outlined by bubbles or foreign substances

Answer 7

In the bible the term ghost is also the soul of the person and the spirit is " the breath of God " - " He that breathed life into you " and now that your dead , the spirit returns to God .
The soul sleeps ( or travels , depends on what you believe in . )

Answer 8

A ghost is something that refuses to rest.
A spirit wants peace before it can move on.
Same term, different wants.

Answer 9

Ghosts are of dead people, Spirits you drink

Answer 10

They're like the same but different words for different cultures and beliefs. Kinda like the meaning of god. Mostly its just one person. but just a different name for the culture and belief of the people.