Do you believe in ghosts/life after death?

A very valid point. Even if energy was to be converted to another form, 'afterlife,' it doesn't account for how it continues to gain energy. Technically speaking, though, couldn't it gain energy from anything in the tangible world? I'm going against my own opinion here, but thinking outside of the box can't hurt. Many ghost shows use electric pumps, I believe, or equipment to help a spirit manifest. Supposedly, of course. In theory, couldn't this work?

I'm completely for accepting imagination is the cause, too.

There are unexplained videos. Ghost adventures, for example, had a brick fly in a room. It was examined by several specialists who all say there is no explanation and had valid reasons as to why. It sounds fake, maybe. Considering after that Nick and Zak were so desperate to get out that they jumped from a two story building fire escape with no idea where they were landing leads me to believe they were genuinely scared. I'm still with you, though, as a skeptic. You can never really believe television.

Do you believe in ghosts/life after death?

First of all, let me state that I am not a religious person in the usual sense of the word.
I am not attached to any organized group.
I do feel that there is more to life than what we currently generally know.

The term "life after death" is rather misleading, in my view.

I do not believe that the death of the physical body is the end of who we are. Rather, life continues,
but in a different form.

The atoms of that "form" vibrate at a very high rate, so that these forms are not visible to human eyes.
This would be much like animals being able to hear sounds at higher frequencies, that human ears could not pick up.

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The law of conservation of energy is an empirical law of physics. It states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant over time (is said to be conserved over time). A consequence of this law is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed from one state to another. ...

As for ghosts, they are merely earth-bound entities that do not realize that they have "died". Or, that they may be bound
to a specific location due to an emotional attachment of some kind.

I also believe karma plays into some of the things that you mention in the latter part of your post.

There are unexplained videos. Ghost adventures, for example, had a brick fly in a room. It was examined by several specialists who all say there is no explanation and had valid reasons as to why. It sounds fake, maybe. Considering after that Nick and Zak were so desperate to get out that they jumped from a two story building fire escape with no idea where they were landing leads me to believe they were genuinely scared. I'm still with you, though, as a skeptic. You can never really believe television.

There are unexplained videos. Ghost adventures, for example, had a brick fly in a room. It was examined by several specialists who all say there is no explanation and had valid reasons as to why. It sounds fake, maybe. Considering after that Nick and Zak were so desperate to get out that they jumped from a two story building fire escape with no idea where they were landing leads me to believe they were genuinely scared. I'm still with you, though, as a skeptic. You can never really believe television.

In cases like this, I ask myself "what value or knowledge have I gained from what I just saw?" In other words, part of my measurement for validity is Value or Knowledge.

This may seem like an odd way to validate something, but I find it useful to remember that experiences or sights which don't provide us with some value are essentially useless.

Sunsets are valuable just for how they look, but a flying brick (if that's what it really was) is really only valuable if it tells us something about how it moved, it's not intrinsically valuable in any other way.

Validity n value r distinct concepts.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Validity n value r distinct concepts.

I know. The point I was trying to make was kind of subtle.
You seem to be more of a "black vs white" type of guy so I'm not surprised you are oversimplifying.

rosborne979 wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Validity n value r distinct concepts.

I know. The point I was trying to make was kind of subtle.
You seem to be more of a "black vs white" type of guy so I'm not surprised you are oversimplifying.

I 've made no effort to surprize u.

Do u disapprove of the binary system of O and 1? (black v. white)

Woud it add to your happiness if the system were O, .5 and 1 ?

They were locked in a hotel for 12 hours at night, which had reportedly had 'ghosts.' They do lock downs and investigate all night. In the dark, they can only see with their night vision cameras. A brick flew from the floor across the room, which.. if some 'entity' is throwing bricks, do you think it's harmful? Just the shock of a brick, which would take quite a momentum/energy from a ghost to throw, would cause any normal person to fear it or question it. His reaction was to be in fear. In previous lock downs he had been scratched, pushed, and threatened. I think if anyone had those experiences, caution is the first reaction.

They were locked in a hotel for 12 hours at night, which had reportedly had 'ghosts.' They do lock downs and investigate all night. In the dark, they can only see with their night vision cameras. A brick flew from the floor across the room, which.. if some 'entity' is throwing bricks, do you think it's harmful? Just the shock of a brick, which would take quite a momentum/energy from a ghost to throw, would cause any normal person to fear it or question it. His reaction was to be in fear. In previous lock downs he had been scratched, pushed, and threatened. I think if anyone had those experiences, caution is the first reaction.

Wait a minute, what the hell is a brick doing just randomly placed in a hotel? Oh and this is a show right? How do you know they didn't ask the boom operator to toss the brick? Yes I know, I am skeptical by nature but I am not going to accept the fact that some hotel has random bricks laying around that ghosts like to pick up and throw around. You know if I was a ghost, that is what I would do, hang out in some hotel and toss bricks around.