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LiberalAndProud

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46. You're right, you know.

Reply to Ghost in the Machine (Reply #9)

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 10:04 PM

Jul 2013

If I were to personally experience what you have done, I would likely be convinced. I believe you when you relate your encounters, and reading such tales gives me pause. Still, I am not able to place full faith and credit without personal experience to inform my belief.

I have the same problem crediting my brother's purported experience of hearing the voice of God -- not the still, small inner voice, but an external auditory sound. Your personal experience cannot translate to evidence for this skeptic. Surely something unexplained is happening. Is it a ghost? I must answer, I think probably not. And I think we must leave it that you believe in ghosts, and I do not.

Some part of me hopes to be proven wrong. I love a good ghost story.

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If there is something like spirits, supernatural, ghosts, any of that crap.. [View all] snooper2 Jul 2012 OP

Meet Harry Houdini REP Jul 2012 #1

hmmm libodem Jul 2012 #2

Right. Shadowflash Jul 2012 #3

Why do ghosts always have clothes on? zappaman Jul 2012 #4

Here ya go: frogmarch Jul 2012 #5

I will be nakkid. zappaman Jul 2012 #6

haha! frogmarch Jul 2012 #7

They don't Cherchez la Femme Oct 2012 #8

Shouldn't all ghosts be buck nakkid? left-of-center2012 Oct 2012 #10

Only if they're good looking! I don't want any ugly and naked ghosts handing around my place! RKP5637 Mar 2013 #43

Some people will NEVER believe, unless/until they have their own personal experience... Ghost in the Machine Oct 2012 #9

So do ESP believers, Alien Abduction believers, Faith Healers, And the Romans thought Zeus changed.. Logical Oct 2012 #12

Sorry, but you should know that I don't suffer fools lightly... Ghost in the Machine Oct 2012 #13

LOL, I love it you mentioned unicorns! Explains a lot! n-t Logical Oct 2012 #15

Yes, it apparently explains your lack of reading comprehension...n/t Ghost in the Machine Oct 2012 #17

The "sitting down on chest" thing is called "old hag." Dash87 Feb 2013 #41

Thank you for the info... but, if you re-read my post, I never said that Ghost in the Machine Feb 2013 #42

You're right, you know. LiberalAndProud Jul 2013 #46

I had a 'weird experience' left-of-center2012 Oct 2012 #11

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Behind the Aegis Oct 2012 #14

7 Billion people on this planet, nobody could have pulled it off by now? snooper2 Oct 2012 #16

Did you understand what I wrote? (Well, what Carl Sagan wrote.) Behind the Aegis Oct 2012 #18

Absence of evidence is great evidence of absence cpwm17 Oct 2012 #19

Not quite. Behind the Aegis Nov 2012 #20

The default position is that the something isn't true when there's no evidence for the something. cpwm17 Nov 2012 #21

No, it isn't. Behind the Aegis Nov 2012 #22

In the context of this thread, whole new realities, such as "spirits cpwm17 Nov 2012 #23

It appears we are talking about two different things. Behind the Aegis Nov 2012 #24

Sagan was aware of the distinction William Seger Nov 2012 #25

Sagan was aware, but cpwm17 didn't appear to be. Behind the Aegis Nov 2012 #26

Another Sagan quote: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." cpwm17 Nov 2012 #27

I agree with that statement as well. Behind the Aegis Nov 2012 #28

Evidence does not equal proof cpwm17 Nov 2012 #29

No, it doesn't, but it is a good indicator. Behind the Aegis Nov 2012 #30

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I have spent more than one night in more than one "haunted hotel" zappaman Feb 2013 #35

Yeh....what you said. CanSocDem Feb 2013 #40

BOO !!!!!! nt clarice Feb 2013 #37

Jeez dude! zappaman Feb 2013 #38

lol....I'm a spooky girl. nt clarice Feb 2013 #39

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