“Yes, I do. I was in a seance awhile ago, and it was pretty revealing.”
“Heck, yes, because they are real. They talked to me (at a seance).”
“I do. I had an experience … somebody knocked on a door and there wasn’t anyone there.”
“I believe in another world, so I do.”
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RoeDapple (anonymous) says…
No, but I believe rabbits lay hard boiled eggs....
Liberty_One (anonymous) says…
I expected the high school girls to say so, but a grown man who's an attorney?
75x55 (anonymous) says…
Yawn. Please stop hitting up on teenage girls downtown.
BrianR (anonymous) says…
RoeDapple (Anonymous) says…
No, but I believe rabbits lay hard boiled eggs….
The Cadbury Bunny?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_gEy...
johnadavies (anonymous) says…
Anyone can believe in anything in this country; that's the beauty of it!
Janice Heie - I've got to confess, it was me but I had to run!
jonas_opines (anonymous) says…
I try to keep an open enough mind that if I ever did encounter a ghost I'd be able to keep my wits and not turn into the babbling cretin that's always one of the first to die (and usually takes at least one other person out with him, or makes it worse for everybody else), but I still have yet to see a solitary ghost.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
Just The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, because Sinterklaas is watching, and you know.
..
Karma's a Bitch
autie (anonymous) says…
You and the cowardly lion.
No.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
Oh, hell no. Goodness.
"I expected the high school girls to say so, but a grown man who's an attorney?"
Ha!
"Yawn. Please stop hitting up on teenage girls downtown."
Double Ha!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
"Oh, hell no. Goodness." - T_O_B
Not even the Holy Ghost?
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
Well, Marion had been haunting these forums for years, and, only yesterday, an apparition!
blue73harley (anonymous) says…
My wife is still alive because I believe.
denak (anonymous) says…
Personally, I do not.
However, my mom was friends with a woman named Betty for years. Betty grew up in England in one of those old English Manor Houses. And Betty would swear up and down that there was indeed ghosts. She would tell stories about how the ghosts would move things around. How she would see them from time to time.
She honestly believed in them. She wasn't just pulling our leg or trying to scare us kids.
So, who knows. If they do exist, they aren't common and they don't appear in seances. The only thing one sees at a seance is their money disappearing.
Dena
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…
I don't believe in karma or payback, in fact that is just about my least favorite phrase.
I don't know if there are ghosts or not.
It is the Holy Spirit, not the Holy Ghost.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
... could just be a sheet with Holes in it.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
The doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning the Holy Ghost forms an integral part of her teaching on the mystery of the Holy Trinity, of which St. Augustine (On the Holy Trinity I.3.5), speaking with diffidence, says: "In no other subject is the danger of erring so great, or the progress so difficult, or the fruit of a careful study so appreciable". The essential points of the dogma may be resumed in the following propositions:
The Holy Ghost is the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity.
Though really distinct, as a Person, from the Father and the Son, He is consubstantial with Them; being God like Them, He possesses with Them one and the same Divine Essence or Nature.
He proceeds, not by way of generation, but by way of spiration, from the Father and the Son together, as from a single principle.
Such is the belief the Catholic faith demands.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
... I'm sorry... "shroud."
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
(Those Catholics and their wacky word ways....)
beatrice (anonymous) says…
Ghosts don't exist, Holy or otherwise.
I've seen Scooby Doo. There never is a ghost, its always just the mayor/shopkeeper/butler with a pillow case on his head.
As the late, great Freddie Mercury said, "I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman."
I_Bejewel (anonymous) says…
“I do. I had an experience … somebody knocked on a door and there wasn’t anyone there.”
— Janice Heie, health/wellness center owner, Aspen, Colo
....Sounds like someone ding-dong-ditched you Janice.
Music_Girl (anonymous) says…
Teenaged girls participating in seances? Was no one else bothered by that? Wow...
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…
Go back to your pit, girlfriend.
OldEnuf2BYurDad (anonymous) says…
How to get me to stop listening to you: Say "I was in a seance..."
KansasPerson (anonymous) says…
(LOL at OldEnuf) (and enjoying Famous!Marion's link to that classy looking car)
I don't believe in them. Every time someone has told me a "true" ghost story, I've seen all kinds of holes in it, but I'm too polite to say so, usually. What was that one I read about the other day -- "I was alone in the house and the radio switched over to classical music by itself; [deceased person] was really into classical music" -- HELLO, that happens to me and it's just a crappy radio or a bad antenna or poor signal, combined with two stations having frequencies right next to each other. There's always been an easy, rational explanation for every "ghost story" I've ever heard or read about.
And if you get people in a group, it's even worse. I used to work with a group of highly suggestible (is that the word I want?) people who all believed our work-place was haunted. Since they were predisposed to believe already, every unusual (but explainable) occurrence was immediately chalked up to being more ghost-evidence. It was like a group-hysteria.
In my opinion, you can believe in an afterlife or in the Holy Spirit (as Irish does) without believing that ghosts walk the earth.
cthulhu_4_president (anonymous) says…
What I believe doesn't matter, what matters is what the evidence shows.
Evidence.....anyone?
Music_Girl (anonymous) says…
I do believe there are certain things we can't necessarily explain but do I believe that every open cabinet door or every container falling off a shelf is a ghost? Heck no!
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…
I believe in zombies. Does that count?
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
This one time.....? at seance camp......?
Yeah, we loved to scare ourselves when we were young, too. Seances, late-night, wine-fueled walks through the cemetery... great times!
I think they left off the rest of Janice's comment, which was this: "Really weird coincidence, too--there was a flaming bag on my porch and when I stomped on it, my shoes became covered with this weird, sticky brown ectoplasm. Yep, it must've been a ghost, all right!"
Jersey_Girl (anonymous) says…
R_I stole my post!
beatrice - I never heard that Freddie Mercury quote. Thanks! My bit o' learnin' for the day.
Jersey_Girl (anonymous) says…
Pywacket - rotfmao at your entire post.
pace (anonymous) says…
Ghostology, like religion or mythology,
Skeptic or faithful owes no apology,
Many doors will open for the bold,
They will come to get your gold.
blue73harley (anonymous) says…
Casper!
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/casp...
hodgesmom (Dayle Hodges) says…
blue73harley: Love it! ;)
puddleglum (anonymous) says…
those chicks are hot. are you sure they are teenage girls? they look much older and mature.
there are ghosts everywhere. everybody knows that.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
"I believe in zombies. Does that count?"
Do you believe in Nazi Zombies?
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…
RI You know nothing. I know for a fact that at St. Johns we were told that the church no longer uses Holy Ghost, but now prefers Holy Spirit.
If you read the Catechism of the Catholic Church you will not find any mention of the Holy Ghost, St. Augustine does not dictate Catholic doctrine or belief.
You can try and contact him at a seance and asks him what he thinks about all this.
I have no problem with teens whether they be girls or boys attending a seance. It is none of my business.
denak (anonymous) says…
Ahhh, I loved Casper. His uncles were mean to him though.
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Jersey_Girl (anonymous) says…
Irish - let me get this straight. The Catholic church will "update" itself on the uses of the Holy Ghost (probably after viewing an episode of "Ghostbusters") versus the Holy Spirit but not condoms versus AIDS? Good to know they're on what's important!
Jersey_Girl (anonymous) says…
Sorry, Irish. Ever since PigPrune posted the blog about the Catholic church, I've been picking on you. My grandmother was Catholic and my very definition of a lady. Out of respect for her, I shall keep further comments about the Catholic church to myself.
ThatGirl2 (anonymous) says…
Liberty_One (Anonymous) says…
I expected the high school girls to say so, but a grown man who's an attorney?
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Why not? People believe in God--a completely unknowable and unseen yet omniscent being. How's believing in ghosts any different?
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
"RI You know nothing. I know for a fact that at St. Johns we were told that the church no longer uses Holy Ghost," Irish
Such civil discourse from the person that is always bitching about the lack of it on the commenting boards. Yet, again.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
Irish,
Maybe not.
I am only an ordained minister in The Church of the SubGenius.
"Eternal Salvation or Triple Your Money Back! ...
But I do know that you seem to lack the understanding of how your actions and how you treat others relate to the entire cycle of cause and effect. (karma - lite). Maybe your therapist or Fr. John can help guide you on your journey towards that understanding? Even at 63, you are never too young to learn the ethic of reciprocity.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
Irish -
I don't wade into religious debates on here, because, quite frankly, they are stupid. But, I do sing this every Sunday after forking over some cash to the church...
Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly Host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
And, I suppose, that is one ghost I do believe in. Although, I didn't read the question the way RI did.
dajudge (anonymous) says…
No. But, "I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks!" and not holy spooks, either, just the plain ones.
jimmyjms (anonymous) says…
I love that the most vociferous bible-bangers on this site are on this thread saying they don't believe in ghosts.
Mixolydian (anonymous) says…
I do believe in ghosts.....
But who am I going to call?
Valkyrie_of_Reason (Kathy Getto) says…
ThatGirl2 (Anonymous) says…
Liberty_One (Anonymous) says…
I expected the high school girls to say so, but a grown man who's an attorney?
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Why not? People believe in God—a completely unknowable and unseen yet omniscent being. How's believing in ghosts any different?
So true - but you forgot something - omnipresent and omnipotent. LOL Good to see 'ya!
Gootsie (anonymous) says…
Give up the ghost
Ghost of a chance
Ghost town
Ghost dance
Ghost of a smile
Ghost writer
Coincidence? I think not...
beatrice (anonymous) says…
"Naw, Janice is that gal who advocates eating raw food only and is probably always mildly loopy from malnutrition."
Nice catch Marion! I thought she looked familiar, and I think you might be right about the malnutrition.
Jersey Girl, the Mercury quote is from the song "Bicycle Race."
Jersey_Girl (anonymous) says…
beatrice - I'll have to actually listen to the words when I'm singing. Thank you!!
And when is the Ghost of Time gonna get here and make it 5:00 already?
Irish (Leslie Swearingen) says…
Fr. John does not believe in karma either. That is an Hindu belief.
We are taught to treat each other kindly, not out of fear, but out of hope.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
You are not teachable then?
I doubt that.
Cappy (anonymous) says…
I like a good ghost story but I don't believe in ghosts. Just like I don't believe in magic, but I'll probably go see Harry Potter this weekend.
jumpin_catfish (anonymous) says…
Nobody has any proof that ghost exist....but nobody has any proof they don't. I think there's a lot more to the universe then we are able to understand but with that said you really look like a dope saying ghosts talk to you.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
We all have the capacity to learn, even at 63.
Thats why we are Homo sapiens— "wise man"
Jersey_Girl (anonymous) says…
Irish - sorry, even out of deference to my grandmother, I can't stop myself. Karma is not based on fear. I can't say the same for Catholicism.
Jersey_Girl (anonymous) says…
If there is a ghost I'd like to meet, Freddie Mercury is at the top of the list.
pace (anonymous) says…
the Ghost I don’t believe in is a good Ghost, a just Ghost, a merciful Ghost. She’s not the mean and stupid Ghost you make Her out to be.
oldvet (anonymous) says…
I believe in the Holy Ghost, regular ghosts, ghostbusters and spooks...
beatrice (anonymous) says…
"Nobody has any proof that ghost exist….but nobody has any proof they don't."
Evidence of existence is required for proof that something exists, whether it is ghosts, bigfoot, Zeus, unicorns or WMDs in Iraq. Until then, the lack of supportive evidence of their existence is the proof necessary to claim that ghosts don't exist.
MissinLawrence (anonymous) says…
Ghosts...no
As a Catholic, we do now say Holy Spirit, for instance when we do the sign of the cross. But my mom says she remembers attending Catholic school and saying Holy Ghost and saying the mass in Latin.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
"Evidence of existence is required for proof that something exists...."
I can't even prove I exist (Descartes notwithstanding), the evidence sublimating as I type.