Ghosts/Spiritual entities

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  1. Romulus211 Proconsul

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    Do you believe in ghosts?
  2. Melanthropist Well-Known Member

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    No. But I'm still scared of the dark and feel like there is one around whenever I get freaked out.
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    No. I'm inclined to think that anybody who does is either ridiculously paranoid or a woman. Women tend to be frightened by the slightest noise because they are scared of spooky skeletons. Men, on the other hand, decide to blame it on the cat and go back to playing text-based adventure games. I like to idea of a ghost hanging around. He can watch me sing in the shower, I don't care, he deserves his entertainment. And I sing in the shower a lot. I don't even have to be in the shower to burst into song. I normally lean towards foreign music, like Gaelic and German and Spanish, because I don't know how I'll sound if I try to pronounce the music. I usually sound quite good, though speakers of the language might disagree with me. My favorites are Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile and Ooo Poustarades, though I've memorized a bunch of German songs like Was In Der Zeitung Steht and Sie Ist In Mich Verliebt. I might partake in singing a few songs in mindless humming and "da da da"s, and it almost always leads me on to Night of Nights.
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    Nope, but if they somehow do exist then that would be pretty cool.
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    I believe in ghosts. Just not the Hollywood version of ghosts.
  7. stupified619 Well-Known Member

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    So what is your definition of ghosts?
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    They are dead people or animals, but they are not necessarily bad. I can't really describe it. I'll try to find a good definition.

    edit: kinda like souls that are like connected to the building or the people. For example, let's say so and so hung himself in his basement. Then I think So and so might still "haunt" the house. However, I do not believe so and so's ghost is evil, just kinda like a lost soul. It's really hard for me to explain.
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    I believe in ghosts. I think they are lost spirits or a sort of Purgatory.
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    If they are in Purgatory, how are they on the planet as well?
  11. Achtung Kommunisten! Well-Known Member

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    He means they're stuck here as something like punishment or to seek some kind of absolution. I think.
    I don't believe in ghosts, I think the idea someone's spirit (my preferred word for 'spirit' is 'personality') hangs around here is ridiculous, and I have always reserved a special hate of those who prey on the bereaved or take celebrities around old castles. Perhaps such people misrepresent 'mediums' (Pheonix Wright's medium friends are pretty cool), but if things like 'the Michael Jackson seance' are meant to be taken seriously, it makes the world of ghosts look like a bad and unconvincing joke at best.
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    I'm having an urge to start a topic titled ''Do you believe in Santa Claus''.
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  13. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    -_- You don't have to come on here and just mock people's beliefs you know.
  14. Toast Well-Known Member

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    ooooOOOoooooOOOoooo spooky skeletons

    What have you experienced to convince yourself of the existence of ghosts? Whenever I ask that of a spiritualist I never get a straight answer.
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    Oh come on, that's a no-brainer. EVERYONE knows Santa exists.

    Wait, that wasn't what all these religious and spiritual threads were for? Well fuck.
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    I cant prove it and Im not gonna try to. I think I have had experiences with ghosts, but again, I will never know, nor do I care to find out. I just think they might exist.
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    Then again, anything might. Most, if not all, "ghost sightings" have been quite easily debunked.
  18. Toast Well-Known Member

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    What kind of experiences? I'm interested to hear some hilarious stories.
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    Well they arent gonna be hilarious I can tell you that much. Quite boring actually. One time my brother was sitting in his room on his computer and he went to the bathroom. He came back in his room and the light was off and the switch was down (it was on when he left.) He turned it on again. About a half hour later, he left his room again, and came back to the light being off and the switch being down.


    Another time my sister was taking towels upstairs and the upstairs TV went on and then off. And then on again.

    Another time she went upstairs to get something and radio went on. She came back down to tell us and we went back upstairs and it shut off on our way upstairs.


    I have a few more if you wanna hear em.
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    At home, we had a lamp that would randomly turn itself on and off. The radio would do that as well.

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