# Discussion from 'ghost stories' thread in Great Debates \[posts moved from GD\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-from-ghost-stories-thread-in-great-debates-posts-moved-from-gd/544014 "2010-06-21T16:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Drew\_Kit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Drew\_Kit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drew_Kit)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-from-ghost-stories-thread-in-great-debates-posts-moved-from-gd/544014/3 "2010-06-21T16:48:07Z")
> [@Post your ghost stories here, and I will debunk them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ghost-stories-here-and-i-will-debunk-them/543674/354): > > I agree. Then again, Shakespeare didn’t say “natural philosophy” and the evidence for Hamlet’s ghost is pretty strong. He’s listed in the playbill. Natural philosophy means physics, and I never claimed Shakespeare wrote in the same way I didn’t claim he name-checked you, Horatio. Nice you can recognise an everyday quote though and react with a modicum of humour tho’. “You don’t know how your parents reacted. You know how they remember reacting a decade later. I’m not calling them liars, but that’s a different situation.” Yes, they could misremembering and I could be misremembering, but at some point enough people who have experienced a unexplainable event should be investigated rationally, not sarcastically. That’s the history of science in a nutshell. > [@Post your ghost stories here, and I will debunk them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ghost-stories-here-and-i-will-debunk-them/543674/354): > > Do me a favor and spare me the condescension. From this thread, you don’t know anything about how I see the universe. You’re getting some idea of how I feel about folk tales. Oh puhlease spare me the victimhood. Would it be condescending of someone who experiences synetheisa to say to someone who dismissed synetheisa as delusion to say “I feel sorry that you can’t see the colours in sounds the way I do”? Is that evidence synethesia doesn’t exist? No. So stop whining and debate without pulling rank or forget about this whole ‘fighting ignorance’ pretence. > [@Marley23](#): > > He was not being a jerk as far as the rules are concerned, and sarcasm is not an ad hominem attack. As far as you interpret the rules. Are you sure you are of the temprement both to take part in a football match and referee it? Because most referees prefer to stay neutral. At first impression you don’t seem to be, Diogenes seems better suited to that but it doesn’t seem a good idea for the judge to be part of the prosecution. > [@Marley23](#): > > Calling someone else “Doughball” would be a personal attack. Just as well I didn’t then. Would it be a personal attack if I was to call you a ‘heid the ba’ - and if so, can you explain why? > [@Marley23](#): > > You made the discussion personal when you said “In a way I feel sorry for you.” That’s where that tack came from, and **Czarcasm** responded to that. He’s correct that it’s a condescending thing to say. Ah, there’s the rub though. I wasn’t condescending to him I’m sure you’ll agree, and I had no intention of condescending towards you - at the time. I apologise if that sounded that sounded like condecension to you, but I don’t know you, you haven’t earned any respect from me yet, and you aren’t going about it the right way by demanding it. For a start, if I was condescending, I was condescending to you not him. I repeat, is it condescending of someone who experiences synethesia to say that they are sorry that people who dismiss them as deluded are > [@Marley23](#): > > You were also borderline junior-moderating. No, I wasn’t, I was expressing an opinion as a poster who had been treated perfectly reasonably by Diogenes among others. You see, when I have moderated debates I don’t get involved because I know it would be impossible to maintain neutrality. This thread promised my ‘ghost story’ would be debunked, but when you failed to do that you resorted to ‘moderating’ in a biased manner. I can see why you just want to move on. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-from-ghost-stories-thread-in-great-debates-posts-moved-from-gd/544014)._