hotkebab said:
Physcially, everything dies.
Depends on your definition of death, it would perhaps be more accurate to say that "physically, everything
de-coheres". All the particles that make up our bodies were once little bits and pieces of many other things, then they cohered together and formed us, and when we "die" they will de-cohere and go off to form little bits and pieces of many other things again. So in that sense what Crow said was true, nothing dies, ever, it merely changes.
Yes, i think so, There is supernatural world. We can't see.
But i want to tell one other thing, you can't see ghosts, It has two reasons:
1. If you don't believe them, then you will not able to see them
2. Our eyes don't have capacity to see them, but animals have, so they can see.
To address your second statement first, human eyes have no significant differences from the eyes of other animals that would account for them being able to see ghosts but us not being able to see them. The moment even one human being claimed to have seen a ghost it proved that, if ghosts really do exist, then in terms of our eyes we can see them just the same as animals can. If there really
is a difference between animals and people it would be in the brain, not the eyes. Not in the sense data itself, but the way that data is interpreted (more on that in my response to Soulful's post).
To your first statement, for now I'll just rephrase your statement in a different way: "If you see them, it's
because you believe in them." but I'll go into a little more detail about what I mean by that in my response to Soulful below.
Soulful said:
I do believe in ghosts. I distrust my doubts. I don't know the HOWs or whys of the ghost and spirit world, but I figure there is validity to people who time and time again share personal accounts and experiences with ghosts. That kind of information isn't easy for me to discount. It seems kind of close-minded to do so, to be honest. I don't mean to offend, I just have heard so much from people I trust that it feels close-minded for me to say "You're mistaken or making it up", just because I don't share the same level of awareness or experience. But I can understand how hard it is to believe something like that. To each their own.
It could be that the experience
itself is real (in that
something definitely happened) but that it contained certain ambiguities, leaving the door open to personal interpretations. In that case I wouldn't question that
something had happened, but only their
interpretation of what happened.
Like I said in response to Roger, it can be argued that: "If you see them.
it's because you believe in them." That is, if a person experiences something that is difficult to define concretely, that has room for personal interpretation,
all of us will seek to interpret what has happened according to our own preferred semantic model of reality.
If a belief in ghosts is my preferred model of reality, I'm likely to interpret the event in terms of the paranormal. If my preferred model includes a belief that angels, I'm likely to interpret
the exact same event in terms of a religious encounter. If a belief in aliens, it'll be in terms of UFOs. And if my semantic model of reality includes a belief that such events simply do not happen, then I'm likely to interpret things in those terms, maybe even claiming that the whole thing was "A figment of my imagination", or even that
nothing had happened at all!
This only becomes a problem when people assume that their model is
definitely the "correct one" and that all the other models are
definitely the "wrong ones", because it leads people to discount relevant information on the grounds that it doesn't fit their particular model so therefore it
must be wrong. This applies equally to everyone who does this sort of thing, whether the belief is that it was
definitely ghosts,
definitely aliens, or (like in your example) that it
definitely didn't happen at all.