Saying you believe that ghosts exist is a statement of opinion, but saying that a ghost visits you regularly is a statement of fact.
Again, I moved the thread to Great Debates because it called for evidence as well as opinions:
AFAIK, the thread belonged in Great Debates from the beginning.
It’s the ellipses.
You’re kidding me. Didn’t you and I very recently have an argument about a thread with a far more controversial topic that you steadfastly insisted would not, should not, could not be moved to Great Debates? A thousand apologies in advance if I’m thinking of a different mod.
Replying to myself here in the hopes that Meenie will perform this simple experiment and report back.
Okay, I will try to do it when I get out of work later tonight. I just got a new set of D&D dice so I can use those.
Oh, D&D dice! Well, that cinches it, Marcus MUST be real.
Czarcasm, I don’t think asking for anecdotes and if evidence exists is the same as calling for evidence.
In all the years I have been a moderator on this board, I have found that when it comes to the supernatural, asking for evidence will always start a debate on what is valid evidence and what isn’t, and the same goes for the photographs requested. If the OP had stuck with the first two questions, I would have no trouble leaving it in IMHO.
That’s the thing. The OP wasn’t really asking for evidence but rather if there’s ever been any. Leave off the first two questions and it could have been in GQ.
How did it go?
(Can understand if you don’t want to reply though…if it went well, then to say so would open door to demands to replicate/upgrade test w/ witnesses, etc. and if it didn’t go well, you’re probably coping w/ some readjustments and introspection.)
Oh, and props to Vinyl Turnip for the Hypernormal Challenge back on Page 5, that was some serious funny.
I’m also waiting with interest!
If she comes back, I’m expecting some back-peddling, excuses, and a lot of smilies.
Really? I expect a glowing report of a highly successful experiment. Whether it has any basis in fact takes us back to Dio’s either/or hypothesis.
I don’t expect such a report, since I don’t think she’s a liar and I don’t believe in ghosts.
If we do get a glowing report, I’ll…still not believe in ghosts. Which means I’ll hope she repeats the experiment with a (hopefully real :)) impartial judge.
And if she reports that, well…call me when she and Marcus turn up in Scientific American. This is a message board. I can’t imagine anything anyone could write that convinces me that ghosts are real, unless she has Marcus come sneak a peek at me and describe what he sees.
It just so happens that I have the ability to teleport, and have been on many grand adventures. I would be more than happy to demonstrate my ability, but there are a few potential complications.
First, there’s a time distortion problem. Even if I spend hours in the other location, when I return “home” no time has passed–so to an observer watching me, it would look as though I’d never left. Also, I’m invisible to others while teleporting, and unable to affect people or objects in any way. And finally, when I return to my base location, I can’t remember anything I’ve seen or heard on my journey.
I don’t talk much about my abilities because I know there will be skeptics, and I just want to fit in with “regular people.” It’s a burden sometimes, being special.
How do you know your adventures are “grand”, then? Maybe they’re just mediocre, like Aspen in the off-season or EuroDisney.
Every so often, he comes back wearing rubber pants and covered with lime Jello.
Well, that’s what Jesus told me.
Can you prove it?
he’s unable to affect people and objects in any way. That would include changing into rubber pants and smearing one’s self in jello before removing those two objects from their location in the teleport back.
Also, an observer would notice an instant change of pants and the sudden appearance of jello coating on the observee.
No, I’m afraid your theory simply does not hold muster.
The mystery about the grand adventures remains total and I am highly skeptical of such outlandish claims.