my ghost picture re-visited

[BUZz UK]

If a ghost wouldn't show up to our eyes, why would it show up on film?

If you think about the way a camera takes photos, it doesn't really make much sense does it?

[GHoSToKeR]

If a ghost wouldn't show up to our eyes, why would it show up on film?

If you think about the way a camera takes photos, it doesn't really make much sense does it?

God/Ja/Jehovah/Allah/Buddah/Extra-terrestrial/Ghost/Spirit/Apparition/Elvis [delete as applicable] works in mysterious ways, my friend.

[Oneironaut]

Umm, a ghost? Are you serious? Let's consider the two possibilities as to what this could be:

1) A common lens flare, something every photographer is familiar with.
2) A disembodied representation of the memories and experiences and personality of a dead human being, which somehow transferred itself into a tiny orb floating by your head. An orb which has the strange property unknown to any other object in that it emits light visible to cameras but not to human eyes.

Seriously, how do people believe such weird things? You wouldn't believe how many images there are with lens flares on the Internet that people swear are ghosts. Let me teach you a little something about your camera: sometimes there will be smudges of light on your pictures that do not represent actual objects in front of the camera. There is no way to avoid lens flares in all your pictures; every photographer knows that lenses in certain lighting conditions will reflect light in this annoying way. There's nothing supernatural about it at all.

Plus, ghosts do not exist. Your memories and personality and all that stuff are complex arrangements of neurons firing around in your brain. Once you're dead, that's it, game over. Although I can see the appeal of pretending otherwise, there is no evidence at all that anything in nature will preserve the contents of your brain somehow after you die.

I'm actually glad that ghosts don't exist. Sometimes I like to jack off or take a shit and I don't want to think that my dead grandfather is looking down on me all the time.

[BUZz UK]

Case closed, lol.

[LIP]

Umm, a ghost? Are you serious? Let's consider the two possibilities as to what this could be:

1) A common lens flare, something every photographer is familiar with.
2) A disembodied representation of the memories and experiences and personality of a dead human being, which somehow transferred itself into a tiny orb floating by your head. An orb which has the strange property unknown to any other object in that it emits light visible to cameras but not to human eyes.

Seriously, how do people believe such weird things? You wouldn't believe how many images there are with lens flares on the Internet that people swear are ghosts. Let me teach you a little something about your camera: sometimes there will be smudges of light on your pictures that do not represent actual objects in front of the camera. There is no way to avoid lens flares in all your pictures; every photographer knows that lenses in certain lighting conditions will reflect light in this annoying way. There's nothing supernatural about it at all.

Plus, ghosts do not exist. Your memories and personality and all that stuff are complex arrangements of neurons firing around in your brain. Once you're dead, that's it, game over. Although I can see the appeal of pretending otherwise, there is no evidence at all that anything in nature will preserve the contents of your brain somehow after you die.

I'm actually glad that ghosts don't exist. Sometimes I like to jack off or take a shit and I don't want to think that my dead grandfather is looking down on me all the time.

How can you be sure? Have you ever died? Yes, theres no evidence saying there is ghosts, but theres also none proving they dont exsist.

The way you wrote that made it appear as fact, but it's not. It's your opinon.

I'm not decided on the matter - and wont be untill i see one in real life or untill i die.

[exhashsmoker]

case closed! lol

[Oneironaut]

How can you be sure? Have you ever died? Yes, theres no evidence saying there is ghosts, but theres also none proving they dont exsist.

Of course I can't be absolutely sure that the afterlife, the Tooth Fairy, and leprechauns aren't real. But they are so unlikely that there's really no reason to take them seriously. The Tooth Fairy doesn't exist, leprechauns don't exist, and the afterlife doesn't exist.

There is a mountain of evidence supporting the idea that everything about your consciousness and experience is encoded in the neurons of your brain, which are doing nothing but following the laws of physics. If anyone wants to propose that there is possibly such thing as an afterlife, they're going to have to show that there is some possible mechanism that preserves the information encoded in those neurons, and they're going to have to show how it works. The idea that your consciousness could float around in some non-physical form after the destruction of your brain is, with the amount of evidence we have (none), exactly as plausible as the idea that your digestion will float around in some non-physical form after your intestines die, or the idea that your computer files will float around in some non-physical form after you destroy the computer.

If it weren't for the emotional comfort of pretending you can live forever, nobody would take such nonsense seriously.

The way you wrote that made it appear as fact, but it's not. It's your opinon.

I'm not decided on the matter - and wont be untill i see one in real life or untill i die.

I am decided on the matter. Not 100%, but to the same certainty that I believe leprechauns and unicorns and fairies don't exist. If I did see absolute undeniable proof of a ghost, leprechaun, unicorn or fairy, and I could be sure I wasn't hallucinating, I'd have to change my mind, but it would be quite a surprise because these mystical beings are almost certainly not real.

[Skrappie]

On a serious note though folks, is anyone here not superstitious yet still believe in ghost?

By superstitious i mean religious and generally believes plausible situations?

[BabyFacedAbortion]

On a serious note though folks, is anyone here not superstitious yet still believe in ghost?

By superstitious i mean religious and generally believes plausible situations?

Me

[Oneironaut]

On a serious note though folks, is anyone here not superstitious yet still believe in ghost?

By superstitious i mean religious and generally believes plausible situations?

I don't get what you mean by "religious and generally believes plausible situations", but I don't think it's possible to believe in ghosts and not be superstitious. Ghosts are a superstition, as far as I am concerned.

Definition of superstition - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: su·per·sti·tion
Pronunciation: "sü-p&r-'sti-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English supersticion, from Anglo-French, from Latin superstition-, superstitio, from superstit-, superstes standing over (as witness or survivor), from super- + stare to stand -- more at STAND
1 a : a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation b : an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition
2 : a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary