Believe in ghosts?

[kiwikid]

Do you actually live in a haunted house, suspect that your new home is haunted, or know someone close whose home is haunted?

[kiwikid]

I voted no. I was just curious if anyone here did.

[kim_eh]

No. Come on, dead people coming back to life... no.

[Black_Kat]

You really can't KNOW that for sure. :-) But I've gone through some pretty creepy things...creepy and unexplainable...Just remember this really long quote from How the Ghosts Stole Christmas (X-files, Season 6)

SCULLY: These are tricks that the mind plays. They are ingrained cliches from a thousand different horror films. When we hear a sound, we get a chill. We-we see a shadow and we allow ourselves to imagine something that an otherwise rational person would discount out of hand. The whole... Mulder...? (it seems he's left her on the lower floor...alone...she follows him up to the second floor quickly) The whole idea of a benevolent entity fits perfectly with what I'm saying. That a spirit would materialize or return for no other purpose than to show itself is silly and ridiculous. I mean, what it really shows is how silly and ridiculous we have become in believing such things. I mean, that... That we can ignore all natural laws about the corporeal body- (MULDER tries to open a locked door obviously oblivious of the ramblings) that-that we witness these spirits clad in-in their own shabby outfits with the same old haircuts and hairstyles never aging, never... Never in search of more comfortable surroundings-- it actually ends up saying more about the living than it does about the dead.

MULDER: (trying another locked door, oblivious) Mm-hmm.

SCULLY: I mean, Mulder, it doesn't take an advanced degree in psychology to understand the... the unconscious yearnings that these imaginings satisfy. You know, the-the longing for immortality the hope that there is something beyond this mortal coil- (MULDER tries another locked door) that-that we might never be long without our loved ones. I mean, these are powerful, powerful desires. I mean, they're the very essence of what make us human. The very essence of Christmas, actually.

(They both turn as a door creaks open slightly all by itself. A light is on in the room behind it.)

MULDER: Tell me you're not afraid.

SCULLY: All right. I'm afraid... but it's an irrational fear.

Irrational...:laugh: Not that you'll read all of that, but! :laugh:

[jeaniesing]

My house does not seem to be haunted.... and I don't blieve I've ever lived in a house that is haunted. But I do believe there are restless spirits out there and have been involved in a situation or two that cannot be explained otherwise....

[Ralph'e']

I do believe there are restless spirits out there and have been involved in a situation or two that cannot be explained otherwise

that maybe, but not in the human-lookin form that movies portray ghosts as.. i don't think they can be visible to the naked eye, or maybe they r seen in other unnoticed forms such as strange mists etc.. i dunno, they had this thing on on ghosts in discovery channel which explains it a heap better .. :p ..

[Black_Kat]

Discovery...ahh, the channel for alllll us geeks! :laugh:

I believe that everything has a spirit, be it a rock, tree, person...I also believe in Reincarnation. That the spirits recycle themselves as they die. I just have my own basis. *taps head**gets dizzy* My SMRT brain to rely on these things. I don't exactly think that the spirits of the dead just float around dragging chains and moaning about lost loves for all eternity. <<< Though 'tis a very nice story nonetheless! :)

[Shona]

boo

[Ralph'e']

> eek <<<!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!