Magical Realist - this is for you ;)

[DaveC426913]

Wrong. It's analogous to claiming every day billions of people all over the planet drive cars without having an accident and that fact along refutes the claim that driving cars is unreliable.

Reliable does not mean infallible. Vision is reliable for 99% of what we do. But it's not infallible. Neither is memory. And you still deny the very fact of pareidolia.

You cannot possibly be sincerely in denial about so many critical aspects of paranormal research.
Anyway, there's no point in going over this again.

The difference between you and me is that I invoke established, well-documented science, whereas you regurgitate YouTube and GhostHunters TV.

 

[Magical Realist]

Reliable

does not mean infallible. Vision is reliable for 99% of what we do. But it's not infallible. Neither is memory.

Right. A car is reliable but not infallible. A doctor is reliable but not infallible. And perception is reliable but not infallible. I never claimed otherwise. Its reliability is well established by it being relied on by billions of people everyday. Case closed.

And you still deny the very fact of pareidolia.

When have I denied that? I take that into account with every sighting of an apparition or figure.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've stayed at a couple of haunted B&B's and nothing happened.

Of course.

 

[wegs]

That would be fun. There's a cemetery in Old Town San Diego where they have Halloween events. (Interesting/useless fact - when they built the roads in Old Town they built them over parts of the cemetery, so there are little tiny brass markers in the pavement where people are buried.)

I'm surprised that it's legal to build a road over a cemetery. Seems unethical, at the very least. I'd be interested in the accident stats on that road. lol

 

[Michael 345]

Of course.

Weird when even ghost think ER weird

 

[DaveC426913]

Right. A car is reliable but not infallible. A doctor is reliable but not infallible. And perception is reliable but not infallible. I never claimed otherwise. Its reliability is well established by it being relied on by billions of people everyday. Case closed.

Precisely.
And cars still kill people in unusual circumstances; doctors still kill people in unusual circumstances, and people still see unreal things in unusual circumstances.
We agree - most of normal life proceeds apace, but unusual things still fall afoul of our perceptions.

 

[wegs]

This is pretty fascinating. Ancient magic. Humans have been ghost busting for a long time, it seems.

http://www.faena.com/aleph/articles/a-babylonian-book-of-spells-to-ward-off-evil-spirits/

 

[sweetpea]

This is pretty fascinating. Ancient magic. Humans have been ghost busting for a long time, it seems.

It been around for yonks. It may be a spin-off from the belief in a god thing. Or vice versa.