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A friend and I are arguing over ghosts.
I think it’s akin to astrology, homeopathy and palm reading. He says there’s “convincing “ evidence for its existence. He also took up company time to make a meme to illustrate our relative positions. (See image)
(To be fair, I’m also on the clock right now)
What do you think?
How can you dismiss a book you’ve never read? You have to admit thats a bit shoddy. Even if you’re sure that the book is a crock of shit you won’t know why its a crock of shit (and which rebuttals to apply) until after you’ve finished reading at least part of it.
Regarding the other stuff: I don’t have the time to get into the weeds on the matter with everyone here so I’m considering this comment here to be my official statement.
You seem like an extremely gullible person.
you seem like an extremely close-minded person
To fantasy creatures? Yes, I am close minded towards things that cannot be proven or disproven because they don't exist in the first place.
What a ridiculous hill you've chosen.
You are an unserious person.
Why so you care? If you want to discuss, sure, but why go out of your why to just name call people on the internet simply because they disagree with you? Get a life
Why do I care that people believe in fantasy stuff? Because we live in reality and people wasting their time on this crap is counter productive to society.
Use your brain. Read more than just that one book that agrees with your feelings.
Of course ghosts don't exist, humans made them up. It's that simple. It doesn't require any additional thought. If there were ghosts, they'd be EVERYWHERE. There'd be animal ghosts, there would be virus ghosts, there would be neanderthal ghosts. They'd overwhelm the surface of the planet, and they aren't and they don't. Mystery solved. Use your precious life and energy on real things instead of this, again, ridiculous shit.
You remind me of Peter Dinklage's character in this clip here
Cool. You just remind me that I'm surrounded by people who are willing to believe in nonsense with zero proof and it makes me sad. You are a fool. Good day.
Not really lol. Read this post. This post was literally made because my friend and I were disagreeing on this topic. So if my friend was willing to believe in 'nonesense' why would he post?
I won't call you a fool but you're definitely a grumpy little fella. Try taking a nap and having a nice warm bowl of soup. Maybe put the phone down for a bit and go outside. Don't worry we all have our ups and downs, you'll feel better eventually.
I love it when people fall into this one...
I SAID "Good day"!
Okie dokie
If a book claims something that's fundamentally impossible by the laws of physics, I don't need to read it to dismiss it.
This is literally the same justification the church gave to Galileo when they refused to look through his telescope. His discoveries violated what they thought to be the laws of physics at the time, so they knew he was wrong and therefore was no need to even look fo themselves.