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How do we explain ghosts?

wasapi said:
Good film about something many want to believe. Still, a movie, made up for entertainment purposes, and left for interpretation by viewers as to it regarding the "spirit" or "soul".
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I am always amused by those movies showing clothed ghosts rather than naked ones.

When those who combine the ghost (spirit if you like), with the notion that it inhabits another body in a further incarnation, it gets more complicated and the absolute absurdity is revealed. What does the ghost/spirit look like when it takes up residence in the embryo? Never could get a lucid answer from Scorpion on that one.
 
Thor 2 said:
I am always amused by those movies showing clothed ghosts rather than naked ones.
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Most fiction in my experience explains this by suggesting that the appearance of the ghost is based on the person's self-image. So the ghost wears the "default" style of clothing that the person most commonly wore in life.
 
arthwollipot said:
Most fiction in my experience explains this by suggesting that the appearance of the ghost is based on the person's self-image. So the ghost wears the "default" style of clothing that the person most commonly wore in life.
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There are many functional gaps in the how's and why's of ghosts.

While there are a few naked ghosts reported the majority are not and are usually wearing the clothes they had on at the time of death or their favorite outfit or the outfit they wore the most. You have no idea how happy I was to log a report of a ghost wearing a hospital gown in a building that was once a hospital (at least someone was consistent). In almost every case the ghosts are wearing what the viewer expects them to be wearing.

What I've never been able to reconcile is why a single room is reported to be haunted while the adjoining rooms are not. In my view it's usually a case of infrasound. What I never understood even as a hardcore believer was how that concept was supposed to work. I have the same problem with the mechanics of a haunted house as well. Why is the ghost stuck inside?

There are so many aspects to ghosts and hauntings that are blindly accepted without any thought as what the rules or metaphysical laws must be. Much of legitimate parapsychological research has focused on trying to shoe-horn in explanations to old wive's tales instead of starting from zero and asking better questions (starting with "Is this even real?").
 
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Succubi aren't clothed, are they? Of course, I suppose one can do the deed while still clothed. And besides, those aren't ghosts exactly I guess, more like, what, demons, angels, something like that?

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One take-away from this self-image thing is, this takes "the power of positive thinking" to a whole new level. You may be fat, pot-bellied, short, squat and hideous to look at; but if you keep telling yourself you're actually Adonis incarnate, and a walking babe magnet, then, when you die, if you happen to become a ghost, then a handsome babe magnet is what you'll become for the space that you're a ghost.

This is a pretty straightforward Pascal's wager. When you're dying, it makes sense to practice cultivating this self-image.

What, no ghosts? No problem, just something to do while you're waiting for the reaper, can't hurt. But just in case ....


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Okay, just in case it isn't clear: Kidding!
 
The old TV series Ghost Whisperer kind of set a standard for how we " understand " this stuff.

Even psychic types and paranormal exspurts use it as a framework for thier act.

We can appease them, drive off evils and bring them to peace with whatever, when it suits the needs of the living.

Pop culture influence from other sources has become part of it all, but most tends to be regional.
 
abaddon said:
Think so. Some of the graphics were "interesting" to a teenage lad, nudge, nudge.

It's still in a doc box in the spare room along with MM2, PH, DMG, Demigods, and several others. Nostalgia is an odd thing.
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I recall that Deities and Demigods had some similarly "interesting" illustrations.
 
Axxman300 said:
Technically a ghost is a paranormal being who was once a living human being.

A spirit can be a ghost but can also be what the Woo Dictionary calls: An Elemental being. A non-corporeal entity like a fairy or leprechaun or harpy or demon. These were never human.

Neither exist.
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Very astute, mister Axxman300. 10 points to Griffindor.
Also, ghosts are transparent.
 
Axxman300 said:
Technically a ghost is a paranormal being who was once a living human being.

A spirit can be a ghost but can also be what the Woo Dictionary calls: An Elemental being. A non-corporeal entity like a fairy or leprechaun or harpy or demon. These were never human.

Neither exist.
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Many a nun in the past would take issue with you on the "demons not existing' point. Many have claimed impregnation and subsequent pregnancy as the result of a visit by an incubus. Those devious sexual demons even managed to get their offspring to bear a resemblance one of the visiting priests.
 
Thor 2 said:
Many a nun in the past would take issue with you on the "demons not existing' point. Many have claimed impregnation and subsequent pregnancy as the result of a visit by an incubus. Those devious sexual demons even managed to get their offspring to bear a resemblance one of the visiting priests.
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The problem with "Demons" is that they're proprietary to whichever religion a believer belongs to. Their powers vary from western to eastern religions depending on how badly those religions feel they need to frighten their flocks into submission.
 
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^Hah! Not a bad way to go, I guess, if you believe in that sort of thing!
 
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