004 – They Say This Place is Haunted (or Why I Don’t Believe in Ghosts)
on January 25, 2012 at 12:01 amTraditional mythology regarding spirits and ghosts is that they haunt a place or thing indefinately until a certain criteria is met (an item and/or lover returns etc) or it is generally exorcised by some mumbo-jumbo of a religious service or exorcising ritual. The silliness in this thought process is that during a world catalysmic event, like a super volcano or extinction-event level asteriod strike, this thing or place that the spirit is “haunting” is likely to be destroyed. Where does this leave the spirit? Does it now just hang out in a void? If the Earth was destroyed in totality would spirits just hang out on fragments of what was once the place or thing that they were tied too?
The greatest actors in the world are those that claim to talk to ghosts, exorcise ghosts, or simply hunt ghosts like some type of expect big game hunter. While it is metaphysically wonderful that the brain and the human senses can play tricks on us there is really nothing that proves ghosts or spirits or angels or demons even exist; there is more to prove that none of these can exist and we can thank the candle of science for that (or spit on the wick because you love make-believe). Now I quite enjoy make-believe as long as it stays in the realm of make-believe and doesn’t try to make itself reality.
Haha, that’s true, nothing lives forever but the undead. Have fun haunting the meteorites! I’m not totally sure what to think about ghosts. Their existence makes no sense, yet I’ve known enough people who are certain they’ve experienced something. I’m sure more earthly stimuli and imagination account for most of it, but sometimes I have to wonder if there’s not some phenomenon going on that we don’t understand, even if it’s not ghosts in the spiritual sense. As for all those TV shows like Ghost Hunters; yeah, they come across way too much evidence for it not to be an obvious hoax to maintain viewer interest.
I think the mind has these wonderful abilities to betray us whether it is on purpose or is just the mind processing latent sensory imput from our previous day(s) activities. I like make-believe, don’t get me wrong, but I have a bit of trouble taking anyone seriously when they talk about the reality of spooks. I somewhat blame the bookstore for this; have you seen some of the people who shop these sections!
(OK, I shop them too… for research!)
So my brain ran off for a bit thinking about how you should start making tshirts and then I was thinking that there could be a reversible one for the candle of science and wick spitters and I could switch it based on my mood. Then I realized that wearing a shirt declaring myself to be a wick spitter onner might leave a very wrong impression and would likely be inappropriate for work. You win again, science.
All hail the wick spitters.
Science. Will. Win. You’re attempts to foil Science though make for an entertaining premise for an MTV reality televison program…
“Just because something can’t be explained doesn’t mean it becomes yours.” Addressed to a priest – ironically enough, on the TV show Being Human, UK version (and said by a character who’s a werewolf – he’s refusing to believe that his ‘condition’ could be demonic-possession, and quite right he is too)…
Sadly, like most animals we have a tendency to see patterns that aren’t there (superstition). Even pigeons do that. Staying scientific is hard for our ape brains. But I own a T-shirt that says “Don’t Doubt My Scienceness!!!”…
I am jealous of your shirt ownership!
http://store.sluggy.com/product.php?productid=15&cat=3&page=1 You need envy no longer! (You could of course just copy the image and use T-shirt transfer paper to make your own… not that I’m endorsing copyright-breaching!)
Much thanks for the link!
A ghost with nobody to haunt is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen.
It’s like a dog with no squirrels to chase or blimps to catch fire in Lakehurst, NJ… something like that.