…is a term usually thrown about by people that don’t understand the term when they have nothing of actual substance to add to the conversation.
I sometimes I like watching these “Ghost hunting” shows cause theyre just silly. Its always the same sh*t in every episode. Poor audio clips of recordings, poor quality video “proof” of something they call a apparition. Most of the time when they cant figure out what made the noise/sound they say it was a ghost. Its just silly, & fun entertainment.
Hahahahaha. Skeptics tend to think that they can literally explain everything. Actually, the die hard skeptics AND believers alike seem to be so arrogant, and they all seem to think that they’re so smart that they know for sure the spirits are or are not real. Every scientific phenomena deserves research, and paranormal studies have not yet come up with anything proving or disproving the existence of a ghost or a spirit.
I mean, just think, we live in a universe full of randomly scattered rocks, minerals, gases, etc and by pure luck, there is at least one known planet that can support intelligent life.
What I’m saying is, we live in a universe where literally anything could be possible… The existence of spirits included. Or it could all be a figment of our imaginations. I sincerely do not believe any one person is capable of saying that spirits do or do not exist. There really is some compelling evidence for both sides of the debate, but no concrete proving/disproving evidence.
Even with so much scientific research, none of us has ANY idea of just what this universe is capable of showing us. We do not know everything.
If you have proof, then show it. Otherwise all you have is “Hahahahaha. argumentum ad ignorantiam.”
I’m a skeptic, I strongly doubt that ghosts are real, and I know for certain that I cannot “literally explain everything”. I’d bet no one here believes that of themselves. Another thing I know, there’s no way that “literally anything could be possible”. I can think of several not possible things in our universe-with-its-rules-and-such, without much effort. I won’t be flapping my arms and flying to work in about an hour and a half, for instance. I’ll have to drive there, even though I’d rather not. I would suspend time and put it off indefinitely, but that’s also not possible.
These shows are arguably entertaining. There shouldn’t really be an argument about their educational value. Literally.
Well said. This is exactly the way I explain how Santa Claus is real.
Solidarity!
The thing is just because you don’t know something doesn’t mean you get to make up an explanation. “We don’t know therefore ghosts/magic/god” is not a reasonable argument.
Ghost Adventures is fun to watch if you treat it as a TV program. Not much else on TV is real, anyhow, so it doesn’t make much difference. I do think they go to some interesting locations that have significant history or folklore associated with them, and often it’s places I wouldn’t have otherwise known about.
Of course you don’t have a vested interest in misleading anyone about the actual nature/existence of denizens of the spectral realms, do you? :dubious:
fake
Most of the shows make you think only the guys on camera are there, neglecting to show the guys arming the camera, the mikes and the lights, as well as the director and his assistants.
I was just binge watching a new to me psychic show, paranormal home inspectors. Great fun. One episode the guy that is the registered inspector up in Canada is walking through some house with his clipboard and checking off the complaints, and as he is walking through the living room he says something like ‘hm, they report something wrong with the aquarium. I don’t do fish tanks, that’s completed.’ and walks on past. ROFL. And no matter what he discovers [like doors not hung properly, foundations tilted, electrical system is shorting out across the plumbing] then they run in some whackjob who finds some ghostie reason for it. sigh But it really is fun to watch, and just goes to demonstrate how the producers don’t want an honest discovery, they want crap that sells commercials.
Well, this thread is plainly proof of zombies
I know this post is a year old, but I find this line of ‘reasoning’ hilarious.
The events depicted in the Avengers and Lord of the Rings movies must be real too! They are far too detailed to have been made up!
I’ve gone on “ghost tours” many times when on vacation, and will continue to do so. I don’t believe in any of the stories, but the best tours have the best storytellers (and others just flop). It’s not about believing, it’s about suspending disbelief for the purpose of the story (which is hard to do on a TV show with ads for tampons and penis pills every 10 minutes - and that’s why I don’t watch). Attention to detail is good. But as you infer, it doesn’t make it true.
Ellis Dee, don’t go dragging Santa Claus into this discussion, lest I have to get medieval on your ass. Some things are sacrosanct. 