Do you believe in Ghosts?

Like you, Armandii, I don't have a faith but that doesn't mean I despise people who do. However, I'm not sure I'd equate belief with courage. It seems to be something that's either there or it's not. I have a feeling many of us are hard wired to need a god figure, much as pack animals need to idolise a leader. Obviously my wiring is a bit non standard.

 

No, I really don't mean to be offensive. Goodness knows whether there is a god or not. I don't think I have the answers. I just don't believe and never have. As a small child I was constantly in trouble for not closing my eyes and praying in assembly. But I couldn't, because it seemed like hypocrisy. I've always been fascinated by the way some people are equally certain that there is something there, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turned out that, as well as all the cultural factors, there was something genetic about it as well.

 

Thing is we're debating the bleedin' obvious, things we know and understand. Is there anything left to understand or have the scientists discovered everything there is to know?
Before you completely dismiss mediums. There was a program on the telly the other night about a police department in the US (forgot what state) who used mediums to find missing people. Their searches had come to a complete dead end.
One man went missing and one woman drew a map of the area and put a cross where the body of that man lay. The police found that body in the exact place. Spooky eh?
In another case, another medium showed the exact spot where a murder victim was buried by a tree in their garden. You still don't believe do you lol.
I think there is scientific reasoning how they knew, but we yet don't understand the science.

 

Id question the medium i tell you they are preditors!

 

Most are, some aren't

 

I'm not convinced it's a fact yet because I don't know the reason for it, but there is a reason. There is a reason for everything.

 

Example: We can't understand why a seemingly normal person would kill his wife and children. It's out of our comprehension isn't it?

 

Maybe the industry just needs regulating :WINK1:

 

I've enjoyed reading this thread, although it's gone a bit off topic latterly. I have never seen a ghost, and I'm not sure I'd want to. However, other people have told me of their ghostly experiences, and I have no reason to disbelieve them. Some people are more attuned to such encounters than others, I guess.

 

I admire and respect anyone who can work in this difficult field of psychology. I am not strong enough to even contemplate what a day's work might comprise.