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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo
Thats actually pretty cool.
I'll put it this way, I am willing to accept that we can not explain everything about how things work, what goes on in this world and outside of this world. We never will. I think the word " ghost " is a word that makes the proposed topic sound a little childish. I think the " supernatural " is something that we just don't know about necessarily, something outside the realms of our understanding. All I know is, the stuff I saw with my sister was real... We were not hallucinating.
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I'm assuming you put quotations around "supernatural" for the same reason I would. My problem with a lot of people is that they tend to believe that unexplained occurrences are "supernatural" by default. It's basically fabricating a basis for belief out of the lack of a rational explanation. I think the Ancient Aliens meme sums up the fallacy best: "I don't know, therefore aliens." It could easily say the same thing with; "I don't know, therefore ghosts", or "I don't know, therefore supernatural".
Another issue I see is that people have a tendency to label something as unexplained (or not able to be explained) when they have not exhausted all possible options, and probably are not in a position to do so effectively. And, of course, the last option a reasonable person wants to consider is that their own minds and emotions are playing tricks on them. I'm not saying that's the case for you and your family, but I would bet my life that it's the case for a majority of the supernatural-supporting community.
I would wager that if everyone who has experienced something they could not explain had their own personal scientists, neuro scientists, psychologists, and camera crew to help them come to a decision regarding matters such as these, a very large majority of those people would find a lot more reasonable explanations than they would have come to on their own.
But since that's not a reality for most people, they are left to their own analysis, and unfortunately, most people find that to be the most credible of all for some reason.