Ghost story

[Raistlin]

I've been a skeptic pretty much my whole life. As a kid, I was an atheist and a skeptic towards any paranormal crap. Yet I loved ghost stories, and wanted them to be real far more than I ever wanted god to be real. I grew up on Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Ghost stories are just cool and scary and exciting.

But my realism and rationality won out in the end, and it's tough to get too excited anymore about things that are so obviously fictional nonsense -- especially when so many people actually believe in them. Boo logic!

[theundeadhero]

Ghosts don't exist!

[Jiro]

Ghosts don't exist!

THEN WHO WAS PHONE

[Christmas]

Everytime I heard a ghost story, I have to wear diapers to sleep.

I am a timid little hamster that like to make cute poo poo.

[spirit]

Ghosts don't exist!

Existence may be a dimensional term.

Some things that exist aren't summed up so easily as to exist.

[theundeadhero]

And some things go over your head due to the limited time you've been here such as me posting ghosts/zombies/undead whatever don't exist in every thread that mentions them since 2001 when my name has undead in it

[Raistlin]

Existence may be a dimensional term.

Some things that exist aren't summed up so easily as to exist.

This may be the most meaningless and nonsensical post I've ever seen on this message board. Congratulations.

[spirit]

Existence may be a dimensional term.

Some things that exist aren't summed up so easily as to exist.

This may be the most meaningless and nonsensical post I've ever seen on this message board. Congratulations.

Why? Just because something exists, that doesn't mean that it "exists" our understanding of what exists is limited.

You aren't even aware, most likely, of the several dimensions of reality around yours. Of course, it's nonsensical, it's 4th dimensional.

If life after death exists, it's obviously something we rarely witness first hand as a objective experience. If such things truly exist, their obviously filtered or inhibited by what limited observations we are able to make and do make.

[spirit]

This beautiful tunnel is in Ohio. I recommend the trip to Ohioans.

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[Remon]

Wooo ghost tunnel.

[spirit]

Wooo ghost tunnel.

I don't know if a photo does it justice. But, it's a huge tunnel. It's sort of cool.

[Jessweeee♪]

My aunt kept getting mysteriously locked out of her house but then she yelled I LIVE HERE NOW SO LEAVE ME ALONE and it stopped happening.

[spirit]

My sister had a haunted dorm room, she basically did the same thing. And it left her alone. She is, was a skeptic but she is a far more open minded skeptic than she once was.

[Citizen Bleys]

Just because something exists, that doesn't mean that it "exists"

Actually, that's exactly, literally what it means. Putting a word in quotations doesn't change its meaning. If you want to use a word other than "exists," try, you know using that word instead

You aren't even aware, most likely, of the several dimensions of reality around yours. Of course, it's nonsensical, it's 4th dimensional.

The 4th dimension is time. I hope most of us are already aware of the existence of time. The past is generally rather well documented. More well documented than it should be, really. Who wants to lose a job opportunity at the age of 50 because of something they said when they were 12?

[spirit]

I was using it as a example, not a literal scientific argument.

Anyways, if you're not going to think creatively, abstract, with me, I don't see the point of having a conversation.

If you would, will, it's apples to oranges.

The meaning of a word is not the same thing as the concept of a word. We only have a limited understanding of the meanings of words. How we define things often changes over time, take that for the fourth dimension.

1. an idea, esp an abstract idea: the concepts of biology
2. philosophy a general idea or notion that corresponds to some class of entities and that consists of the characteristic or essential features of the class
3. philosophy
a. the conjunction of all the characteristic features of something
b. a theoretical construct within some theory
c. a directly intuited object of thought
d. the meaning of a predicate
4. ( modifier ) (of a product, esp a car) created as an exercise to demonstrate the technical skills and imagination of the designers, and not intended for mass production or sale

a : the thing one intends to convey especially by language : purport b : the thing that is conveyed especially by language : import
2
: something meant or intended : aim <a mischievous meaning was apparent>
3
: significant quality; especially : implication of a hidden or special significance <a glance full of meaning>
4
a : the logical connotation of a word or phrase b : the logical denotation or extension of a word or phrase
— meaning adjective
— mean·ing·ly \-niŋ-lē\ adverb

Language is a limitation to understanding the universe. I know you might disagree and I don't have the time, interest, to explain the concept to you. You might have time to disagree and put together a argument,that's fine. And logic, well that's like math, and although there's plenty of that to go around, their will always be more...Trying to define things because of equations and calculations is purely academic. These things are validated by human existence, but ultimately their is far greater depth to the universe.



Take coding for example though, in abstract sense. (Don't know what caused the hovering underline ^)

Well, I program in C++, and really isn't something you can't do. At least it is the most flexible programming language. If you want something flexible, take C. And I'll give you some more advice: Take C++. C has some really annoying things that C++ fixes. There really aren't limitations. And C and C++ are good. They're the ones you'd start out with, and the ones I'm continuing in, but if you really liked classes in C, you could try Java. It's really class - based.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_t...#ixzz1GloQdzD7

You might be surprised how often reality is compared to a computer.