The Ghosts We Think We See

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  • Posted By: jsnyderjkyoo @ 10/31/2007 7:47:21 PM

    I think that there is something to the "six sense" or intuition or the "third eye" insight. It's been called ESP and the like.
    I am college educated. Lived around the world. Have had many "spirtual" experiences in my life. I believe that I am a human being having a spirtual experience. I believe that we have a purpose here, while on Earth at this moment.
    I believe that "Good" matters. Good intentions, moral decisions and when in doubt "listen to your gut", the advise that it is "giving" you is supernaturally, usually right on the money.

    • Posted By: Jsnyder6@students.depaul.edu @ 10/31/2007 8:40:29 PM

      "Spiritual senses" are real as prayer is real and supernatural. I don't have all the answers but, I do know that there are two supernatural forces the Bible talks about and they are the forces of darkness (evil), and the forces of light (good). We are currently in a spiritual warefare of good and evil which is not of flesh and bones. Most people that don't know the Bible, don't understand this. Your "gut" feelings are the touch of the Holy Spirit to walk in the right way. I hope that makes a little more clarification about "spiritual senses."

  • Posted By: Balloongopop @ 10/31/2007 8:39:33 PM

    You know... scientists can think and think all they want. They can experiment and try their best to explain everything that goes on in our world. Truth be told, humans know nothing at all. There could be a massive floating foot hovering right before you eyes, and you wouldnt know it because you can see it or feel it. But whose to say that there arent thousands of beings living around us? Whose to say that we dont come back after we die? Whose to say that theres a whole other world within our own... its just that none of us can see it? Suppose there are, and they want to stay secret from us.

    I dont know if I believe in ghosts and fortunetelling and witchcraft and all that jazz
    my point is
    no matter how smart you think you are
    you just DONT KNOW! you can know for sure.

  • Posted By: Phyllismarie @ 10/31/2007 8:39:21 PM

    My boyfriends deceased mother kept saying Claire to me. After three days I asked it there was a Claire in his mother's life. Yes, it was her sister-in-law. I am wearing I ring given to me about this time and asked if Claire had four children? Yes. I am agnostic. I have many who have passed or who were coming let me know. I am always amazed this is not an ordinary occurrence for most people and thought it was as a young child. Phyllis

  • Posted By: jn31 @ 10/31/2007 8:02:47 PM

    what about certain things that do appear in pictures you take? such as auras or big bright lights, above or beside someone? these just vividly appear in them is this what you are trying to say ? we imagine these types of things in the pic? even though we have absolutley no control over what is appearing in the picture but who or what we have taken the pic of.

    • Posted By: stinkydroolface @ 10/31/2007 8:36:31 PM

      LIghts could be reflections off other objects such as metal and such. A light seen in pictures are normally called orbs. Just a ball of energy believed to be a spirit,angel of some sort. Most can be debunked as being just dust particles. So, Orbs arent a good piece of evidence. A full body apparition and/or Evps are better evidence of the paranormal. And theres also Matrixing where the mind "fills" in the gaps or you think you see something that isnt there. You may see orbs with the naked eye. They are normally red or a bluish color. Some theory exists that depending on the color of orb is what the "mood" of the entity is.

  • Posted By: vancecrofoot @ 10/31/2007 8:28:30 PM

    There is absolutely no such thing as "ghosts" or "spirits". We made them up because we as humans (actually all mammals) are very selfish and we don't want to accept death as being final. We think we 'deserve' to live on forever in some way because we are 'so special', but we're not. We're nothing more than very smart mammals. (not always??? obviously). Do all animals get to come back in another form? If you said no, why not? If you said yes, why? What???s the purpose? Live renews itself. We die and make room for someone else to live. That???s the way it works.

  • Posted By: autm515 @ 10/31/2007 6:29:54 PM

    You don't know me, have never seen me, so therefore I do not exist? Hmmmm. Scary what some people dont believe.

    • Posted By: yogibear1979 @ 10/31/2007 8:27:59 PM

      No I have not seen you. But Idid see a message that you wrote. You don't know the purple dragon in my garage. You have never seenhim. Therefore you can't prove he does not exist. So if you don't believe I have a purple dragon in my garage you are just being close minded.

  • Posted By: vancecrofoot @ 10/31/2007 8:27:44 PM

    There is absolutely no such thing as "ghosts" or "spirits". We made them up because we as humans (actually all mammals) are very selfish and we don't want to accept death as being final. We think we 'deserve' to live on forever in some way because we are 'so special', but we're not. We're nothing more than very smart mammals. (not always??? obviously). Do all animals get to come back in another form? If you said no, why not? If you said yes, why? What???s the purpose? Live renews itself. We die and make room for someone else to live. That???s the way it works.

  • Posted By: Willie J @ 10/31/2007 8:25:57 PM

    Science doesn't try to "explain things away" Science tries to explain things. Much of magic or spiritual experiences attributed to the supernatural in the past has been explained to everyone's satisfaction as natural phenomena. The lights and shapes in a photo are almost always dust or reflected light. Try it. Take a picture with the lens facing almost directly toward a bright light. There will often be unexpected "blossoms" of light in the picture. A bright light behind the camera or the camera's flash will illuminate dust particles close to the lens that appear in the picture as glowing spheres that are somewhat indistinct, almost see through, because they are extremely out of focus.
    Not that I'm not spiritual... there was this "presence in the 100 year out house I grew up in that no one can explain.
    The most amazing thing to me is that the cutting edge of physics is identifying forces as manifestations of fewer and fewer forces. The theory is that eventually all forces, magenetism, electricity, gravity, etc, will be found to be forms of the same single force. If that happens, then science will have proven the existence of a single underlying force in the universe...therefore God! I see science as the ultimate worship.. learning all there is to know about God and his works.

  • Posted By: newstamra @ 10/31/2007 8:24:22 PM

    When I am on the phone with my Mom or my Daughter, My Aunt will ALWAYS call!!! If I am shopping with my Mom or out eating with my Mom or Daughter, my Aunt will ALWAYS call!!!!! This NEVER fails!!!!! We all have that "something" and have GREAT empathy......

  • Posted By: josephjohnson55555 @ 10/31/2007 8:18:26 PM

    The Catholic Church has been exorcising demons for many centuries. Stay away from Ouija Boards, Tarot cards, Psychics, witchcraft and the like. These open "windows" to demons. Those interested should read "An exorcist tells his story" by Father Gabriel Amorth, a Catholic exorcist Priest. He has been battling demons for decades and has information and knowledge in his book that will make your head spin like the girl in the Exorcist movie!

  • Posted By: paul92 @ 10/31/2007 8:16:40 PM

    supernatural as well as preternatural forces do exist and exist prior to and preeminent to the phenomenal world. science is the study of causality and no essential knowledge can be gained from that--only descriptive knowledge. belief in no supernatural reality is as much or more of a belief system than a belief in it, like atheism, a belief that one knows something about reality that one cannot--that there is no god. same with macro-evolution, do you not see that rediculous hoax? yes, all life is related, because a god made them that way, read "why colleges breed communists" and then say you still believe. no human is less than a word from the breath of god. and if you don't believe you live your life AS IF there was a god wanting you to act in a certain way.

  • Posted By: edelweiss @ 10/31/2007 8:10:36 PM

    If ghosts and spirits are merely fictions of the imagination, then so is God and Satan - which forces me in dispair to consider that all the complexities in living things and nature and the entire universe are merely the result of chance! I tell ya its easier to believe in the former than he latter.

  • Posted By: jn31 @ 10/31/2007 8:01:15 PM

    what about certain things that do appear in pictures you take? such as auras or big bright lights, above or beside someone? these just vividly appear in them is this what you are trying to say ? we imagine these types of things in the pic? even though we have absolutley no control over what is appearing in the picture but who or what we have taken the pic of.

  • Posted By: ipodpunishment @ 10/31/2007 6:01:59 PM

    I am not Christian but I believe in the super-natural. If you believe in a god you can't deny that miracles happen and in my opinion they are a super- natural occurance. Besides isn't there a holy ghost too? Just adding to the discussion.

    • Posted By: Megpie3 @ 10/31/2007 6:49:25 PM

      I am not Christian either but I have never been able to find the contradiction between Christianity and the paranormal. Can't a Christian believe, if they must, that God made us out of this energy that can be captured by science and the senses of the living? I also see no inherent contradiction between Christianity and evolution, either. Why is it impossible for Christians to believe that God made us that exquisitely resilient and adaptive? Wouldn't that fall in line with his perfection?

      • Posted By: JEskue @ 10/31/2007 7:57:51 PM

        I am one of the few Christians that believes Evolution is just another name for Creationism. I think Evolution supports scriptures creation. Most science has a tendency to support bible stories. Much to the dismay of most Christians who seem to feel science is a slap in the face to God. I love science. It continues to prove the existence of a creator. But Christians need to be willing to keep an open mind about it. Not all scientist are out to disprove God! And those who are have had little luck doing so. So we should lighten up. Just don't say it's wrong because it doesn't match what we had shoved in our heads. Open the Bible and read it and we might be suprised that science has, once again, proven scripture to be right. You are correct! There is nothing wrong with believing in the theory of evolution. I just call it-creationism.

      • Posted By: skelly123 @ 10/31/2007 7:43:45 PM

        You haven't found anything because you don't know where to look up in the Bible. Here are just two...Leviticus 19:31: ???Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." The reason God said this with such force is because He knowns that these beings cannot be trusted. Ask anyone with a certified haunting. They have tried to kill people and even children. And only the Living God can rescue us from them once they have infiltrated our house. Further, Christ called Satan the killer, liar and destroyer from the beginning. See John 10:10. Satan is also called the Angel of Light, and that means he can come in looking like a little dead child, or some sweet grandmother. but can quickly turn foul . So before we talk about "god" we need to find out which God we're talking about and what He actually SAID first.

  • Posted By: ritagoyer69@msn.com @ 10/31/2007 7:53:33 PM

    i do believe in ghost,s when my girl passed on i missed her so and still do,but in my dreams i have seen her AS a whole person once more and not the state she passed on in.that was like something you would see in a scary movie.but then about 6or 7 weeks after that i would see things ghost if you like it was her letting me know she was ok.like the frig.would open and close all by its self things would move in the house things she had given me.she always got in the frige cause she love potatoe salad and i always made it for her. i stopped making it after i lost her and have never made it again

  • Posted By: Becks @ 10/31/2007 7:51:27 PM

    Science is a good thing, yes but when it comes to seeing spirits and experiencing things alike it is not science. People see things and experience things for a reason, I believe, see and experience that there is more than just our physical selves. Whether you believe it or not, thats your beliefs, however people shouldn't shut it down if they don't believe in supernatural beings, ghosts or spirits, people should just let them be.

  • Posted By: Becks @ 10/31/2007 7:49:32 PM

    Science is a good thing, yes but when it comes to seeing spirits and experiencing things alike it is not science. People see things and experience things for a reason, I believe, see and experience that there is more than just our physical selves. Whether you believe it or not, thats your beliefs, however people shouldn't shut it down if they don't believe in supernatural beings, ghosts or spirits, people should just let them be.

  • Posted By: WitchyMel @ 10/31/2007 5:58:06 PM

    I believe that science is spirituality explained. If a creator exists (and I think there is one) then they would have to be pretty smart to create such complex systems such as human and animal life forms and plant forms all the way down to the very molecules that make them up. The fact that the body is made up of 80% (?) percent water and we can still walk around and appear to be mostly solid is amazing in itself. I don't understand why it seems like spirituality=stupid and science=smart when they are basically the study of the same thing from different angles...both sides are valid.

    • Posted By: skelly123 @ 10/31/2007 7:45:44 PM

      Both sides are valid and both sides definitely exist. In fact, Christ said so. The problem is,, what are we entrusting our lives to? God? Or the killer and destroyer of all mankind. See John 10:10.

  • Posted By: djay1234 @ 10/31/2007 7:44:17 PM

    There are no such thing as ghosts, You only think you see them but its really your mind playing tricks because if it were than more of them would appear to people and the shows that they say are filming these ghosts are full of it. it cause it isn't science its an animal or somthing like that because they could prove more than they show

  • Posted By: slicky1 @ 10/31/2007 7:38:40 PM

    Science does not have to go against the very grain of religion or Spirituality. In my mind science is the interpretation of what is too complex to comprehend ( GOD's creation ). This research is simply an attempt at translating what is otherwise incomprehensible supernatural event and should not be discounting the fact that there are anomalies in any scientific process that cannot be explained. Perhaps what we understand as "a scientific explanation" runs "parallel" to what we already know as the spiritual/supernatural .

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