Y’know. I guess if a ghost can slam doors and possess clown dolls and toss tennis balls through your ceiling and rearrange your furniture and live inside your TV, there’s no reason they couldn’t log into your computer, log into their old email account and reply with something typically, frustratingly cryptic.
Not sure what cleans ectoplasm off your keyboard, though.
See, this is the problem. Even when ghost communication by email works, the recipient doesn’t believe it.
Well, I doubt that a gay colleague would have sent me links to a hot-babe site, so it was at best an impostor spirit.
A little more information is needed.
What you’re asking is, has there been planetwide experimentation along the lines of emailing dead people. To see whether they email back. Whether the dead people email back. Whether you can EMAIL DEAD PEOPLE. And whether they will EMAIL YOU BACK.
Is this correct?
Of course. But they have to use dead operating systems and dead email clients, and they’re hard to come by.
Even if they find one with a working Eudora, OS/2 and Amiga machines can’t get on the net, so frustrated ghosts can only keep bashing the Any key into eternity.
I keep emailing Marilyn Monroe for nudes but she hasn’t responded yet.
Bobby Weir e-mailed me threatening to file stalking charges once !!!
For a very long time, Jews and Christians buried people naked but wrapped in shrouds. Ghosts were depicted as either corpses wrapped in shrouds or as animated shrouds. Now a days, most Jews and Christians are buried in formal wear. But ghosts are often depicted as in white sheets of unspecified origin.
This is in General Questions, so I’ll factually answer the OP:
Heh.
That only happens if the ghosts send dirty emails with nudes.
The dead, unsurprisingly, are dead. That’s why they’re called that. But don’t worry, you can still frighten and annoy the living after you’re long dead. Deathswitch will take care of that for you.
Oh, I’m sure she’d be thrilled. “Hi honey, wish you were here. And I guess you soon will be. This dank and gloomy crypt needs a woman’s touch.”
Anyway that’s the closest you’ll get to emails from the dead.
I’m not suuure that’s ectoplasm.
But what difference does it make what you’re buried with? The general assumption seems to be that a ghost is just a spiritual manifestation of a dead person - their physical remains are still back in the coffin. An actual physical resurrection would be something like a mummy, a vampire, or a zombie.
But if ghosts are just a spiritual manifestation, then what are they wearing? The ghosts of their clothing? This implies that inanimate objects have the same immortal souls as human beings have.
In keeping with the GQ nature of this thread (i.e., none), then the fact (note - not a fact) is that ghosts are a manifestation of how the person saw themselves, and would therefore be expected to be wearing clothes (except for nudists, I guess). More information (or more accurately, guesses by people more [del]crackpot[/del] spiritual than me) here.
Damn straight! That’s why God made the right choice with OSI.
The dead are way past text, and instagram, and tweeting, and geotagging is useless for them. They use aethernet.
Winner declared.
Nonsense. You’ll be fine. There’s certainly no need for everybody to be a polymathic scientist / engineer / savant.
What there is a need for, IMO, is for folks to reject the silly superstitions, tribalism, blinkered faith, and emoting-mislabeled-as-thinking which were the hallmark of the Dark Ages. Those are the character shortcomings that prevent a crowded, heavily armed, and deeply interconnected planet of 7 billion version 2.0 chimps from getting along safely.
Your debunking of Ralph’s silly question was spot-on.
Let’s suppose that the dead can poke at a computer electromagnetically. They then have something like the capabilities of a kernel-level debugger: read/write access to physical memory, CPU registers, and so on.
I use a kernel debugger pretty much every day and have been for over a decade. But I have no idea how to send an email via one, despite having complete low-level control over the computer. I could, given a bit of time, read emails. But writing one? Not going to happen. There are just too many intermediate steps for sending one.
I guess I could overwrite someone’s email with spooky words, but that seems lame to me.
It’s Windows in hell.