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PJMcK

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15. Yep, me too!

Sun Oct 28, 2018, 03:10 PM

Oct 2018

The entire experience of entertainment is to entertain! It doesn't have to be real!

I love a good science fiction tale if the authors get most of the Science right. I love a good fantasy, such as Harry Potter or Tolkien's Ring, where the authors create a consistent and logical universe for their stories. And I do love a good supernatural scary movie/novel/TV show if there's an exciting and coherent tale behind the inevitable gore and violence.

In reality, I just don't believe there are ghosts or spirits existing amongst us. They could be here in some extra dimensions but there aren't any scientific observations, only anecdotal ones.

In one of his lectures, Lawrence Krauss observes that eye-witness testimony carries profound weight in our legal systems. In Science, however, eye-witness testimony is laughably ineffective. That's why we have to build machines like the Hadron collider or the LIGO gravitational wave detectors: our human senses are incapable of detailed observations.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] mysteryowl Oct 2018 OP

A bright white cloud was hanging in my room once mahina Oct 2018 #1

Wow, actually shook your bed! mysteryowl Oct 2018 #3

This is what I'm talking about I love ghost stories. Corvo Bianco Oct 2018 #2

Ha! Peace out demon! Ha mysteryowl Oct 2018 #4

The vibe it gave off was evil so we all jumped to that conclusion. Corvo Bianco Oct 2018 #6

Woooo... okay. I had not heard about it before. Now I know, thanks. mysteryowl Oct 2018 #7

When I was too young to go see the movie "The Exorcist" mysteryowl Oct 2018 #5

Something followed him home for sure Corvo Bianco Oct 2018 #8

That may very well have been what happened. mysteryowl Oct 2018 #9

Love your story of ghosts in the house...and your story about your owl sighting.... asiliveandbreathe Oct 2018 #10

Thanks for sharing your owl story. They are majestic beautiful creatures. mysteryowl Oct 2018 #12

Sorry PJMcK Oct 2018 #11

Same... But a good haunted house movie/story Dr Hobbitstein Oct 2018 #13

Yep, me too! PJMcK Oct 2018 #15

don't believe in them. flotsam Oct 2018 #14

An alternative thought PJMcK Oct 2018 #16

Nice post! red dog 1 Oct 2018 #19

Well, thanks PJMcK Oct 2018 #22

It does tymorial Oct 2018 #31

Deep thought and response, there, tymorial (n/t) PJMcK Oct 2018 #35

I assure you we exist in a multidimentional universe. mysteryowl Oct 2018 #17

How does one do that? Control-Z Oct 2018 #20

This may be more information than what you wanted, but here you go... mysteryowl Oct 2018 #24

I think those are all good ideas NJCher Oct 2018 #34

Mediumship mysteryowl Oct 2018 #36

Nine years ago, staying at my parents house while my Dad was in the last stages of the cancer that.. LudwigPastorius Oct 2018 #18

K&R red dog 1 Oct 2018 #21

I have been 'feeling' ghosts since I was about 8 yrsold. Not many and none were scary. demigoddess Oct 2018 #23

My night in a haunted house in July, 1969... GReedDiamond Oct 2018 #25

Ouija boards don't work in the dark Zambero Oct 2018 #26

I've "tried" Ouija Boards a few times... GReedDiamond Oct 2018 #27

I Lived In A House With A Ghost PaulX2 Oct 2018 #28

It's amazing how the human brain works. defacto7 Oct 2018 #29

I missed a payment to my exorcist and got repossessed jberryhill Oct 2018 #30

a GOOD ONE! Zambero Oct 2018 #32

+1 malthaussen Oct 2018 #37

I'm the ghost in my house. Solly Mack Oct 2018 #33