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I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.

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I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 8:49 pm
I think ghosts of some sort are more likely than gods. Ghosts are relatively undefined. God is over-defined. Someone could "prove" ghosts real by proving there is a phenomenon that makes people see things that are not there (already proven). To prove gods real, well, we have to change virtually everything that is real.
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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 8:51 pm
I used to be kinda into this stuff and live in a town that makes a shit ton of money in "Ghost Tours". Ghosts are not likely. A person dies with their brain dies, there is no "lingering image".
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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 8:54 pm
(May 17, 2012 at 8:44 pm)Shell B Wrote: Pictures of the Plymouth County Hospital, for those who are curious.

https://www.google.com/search?q=plymouth...17&bih=714

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/imageBank/g...burn-H.jpg

Picture of the building I was talking about. Only good one I could find on google.
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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Cool fucking house! I would live in that.
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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm
(May 17, 2012 at 8:51 pm)Annik Wrote: A person dies with their brain dies".

That isn't entirely true nor accurate. Although brain death is a legal indication of death in many jurisdictions what about an anencephalitic patient that has almost no brain?
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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Well, to be honest, everything that makes up a person is in the brain. When the brain dies, everything the person was dies with it. A person without a brain is just a body.
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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 9:09 pm (This post was last modified: May 17, 2012 at 9:10 pm by Paul the Human.)
That's more like a biological machine. The mind that makes it a person is gone.

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May 17, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Quote:Well that has now pushed me to definitely believing it was my mind playing tricks on me.

A miracle for the holy icon of the dog's asshole. One more and the catholics can make it a saint.

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RE: I don't believe in Ghosts but I have seen one.
May 17, 2012 at 9:30 pm
(May 17, 2012 at 9:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Well that has now pushed me to definitely believing it was my mind playing tricks on me.

A miracle for the holy icon of the dog's asshole. One more and the catholics can make it a saint.

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It is probably already one. Last time I checked there was over 9000 saints.
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May 18, 2012 at 12:24 am
That's a whole lot of fucking miracles, isn't it?
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