If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?

[Esquilax]

Good question...but I do believe that there are evil forces, demons, that may be able to impersonate a dead person.

Do you have any reason to believe that they would/could/actually do that, or are you just connecting two beliefs that you have in order to maintain them, apropos of nothing?

Note that I didn't ask if you have any reason to believe they exist at all: I know that you don't, and I don't want to waste a post asking that just to get a bible quote as an answer, as though that's sufficient reason to believe anything.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Only naturalist, materialistic fundamentalists believe there is no such thing as the supernatural. Every other sane being on the planet agrees that it exists.

It's a good thing that atheists are such a small part of the overall population, otherwise we would be in HUGE TROUBLE.

Why was this poor chap banned?

Take a guess.

[Cyberman]

Better yet, take a look at the Staff Log.

[Anomalocaris]

If you don't have any evidence for the cause of something, it's not denial not to leap to a conclusion based on absolutely nothing, and that goes against every shred of evidence ever collected.

Now, I'd really like it if you could answer my question: do you really believe in ghosts? Doesn't that contradict the forty page thread you made telling us the only two choices for our afterlives was heaven or hell?

Good question...but I do believe that there are evil forces, demons, that may be able to impersonate a dead person.

Repeat after me:

"What I believe is worthless"

"What I believe does not have to correlate with reality"

"I need to demonstrate my beliefs on founded on evidence and reasoning which can survive scrutiny by those who have taken the time to be better at scrutiny than those of us who are christians"

If you do nothing but chant those three lines for the rest of your life, your life would already be far better spent than in pursuit of an infantile fraud of jesus.

[Losty]

[Revelation777]

Better yet, take a look at the Staff Log.

what is a "poe"?

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Good question...but I do believe that there are evil forces, demons, that may be able to impersonate a dead person.

Repeat after me:

"What I believe is worthless"

"What I believe does not have to correlate with reality"

"I need to demonstrate my beliefs on founded on evidence and reasoning which can survive scrutiny by those who have taken the time to be better at scrutiny than those of us who are christians"

If you do nothing but chant those three lines for the rest of your life, your life would already be far better spent than in pursuit of an infantile fraud of jesus.

My life is just fine thank you.

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While I have my own private opinions regarding ghostly happenings, which I don't intend to expand on here, your OP isn't evidence of what you're trying to assert. I could equally well say if there's no such things as Martians, how do you explain these pictures of UFOs? Here's the stumbling block: first you have to establish that the pictures are of supernatural phenomena. It's not up to us to establish that they're not.

Your track record on this is like that of an extremely sheltered virgin - you keep jabbing away but miss the hole every time.

I am curious and would like to hear your private opinions regarding ghostly happenings. Please do share.

Ground Control to Major Stimbo, come in...

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Good question...but I do believe that there are evil forces, demons, that may be able to impersonate a dead person.

Do you have any reason to believe that they would/could/actually do that, or are you just connecting two beliefs that you have in order to maintain them, apropos of nothing?

Note that I didn't ask if you have any reason to believe they exist at all: I know that you don't, and I don't want to waste a post asking that just to get a bible quote as an answer, as though that's sufficient reason to believe anything.

A Bible quote is very much a reason for me to believe

[Cyberman]

I am curious and would like to hear your private opinions regarding ghostly happenings. Please do share.

Ground Control to Major Stimbo, come in...

This is Major Stimbo to Ground Control
I've answered this before
Now you're floating
in a most peculiar way
Does your mouse work very different today?

[Revelation777]

What you believe is irrelevant. What you can demonstrate is all that counts.

As for my aforementioned private opinions, perhaps some other time. Or perhaps never. I already said I don't intend to exoand on them here.

Is it because your reasoning may include something outside of science?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm sure that no one would ever resort to chicanery in an effort to publish a photo that could well become very famous (while retaining copyright, no doubt).

[Cyberman]

what is a "poe"?

A species of troll; a person who portrays themselves as (typically) a religious fundamentalist with the sole intention of causing mischief. Generally reviled by all sides. Named after Poe's Law. See also Stimbo's Corollary to Poe's Law.