I believe in ghosts.
But I don't necessarily believe that they're dead people experiencing some after-life. In that regard I'm not sure. I've never had any personal paranormal experiences... but after what my mother has experienced, I'm convinced that they exist.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism" - Carl Sagan. (I lol'd)
What if ghosts are actual people in another universes leaking through; some sort of quantum effect? I wonder if this ends up being the case and science actually figures this out, how many people will STILL cling to the idea of a spirit world?
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ~Carl Sagan
I believe in hyperactive pattern recognition coupled with the inclination to assign intentional agency and the willingness to favor assumptions over investigation.
Somewhere, there is something incredible waiting to be confused for aliens.
If it's actually another world like ours, it is not a spirit world, which implies something other than normal people living out their lives, merely separated by interdimensional space. If you want to think a spirit is nothing more than images or bleed-through from a parallel world, that's great and something we may be able to test one day. However, I would expect that most people that believe in a spiritual plane would reject this concept.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ~Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ~Carl Sagan
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