We Live In A Haunted House (ritual, Earth, crucified, virgin) - Page 4

LilChrist · #31 05-17-2004, 07:21 PM

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But what if a ghost is kind of a "spiritual signature" rather than a lingering soul? Kind of like... you walk in wet sand and leave footprints, then go swimming and drown. Your physical body dies. Your soul flees and goes where it belongs. But those footprints are still there... they are still a reflection of your life, of you as a living being, of your ACTIONS as a living being... perhaps ghosts are something similar.

I tihnk I finally have somewhat of an understanding of what you were trying to say...so here's my anology, what I think based on what I think I understand. If you drown, of course your body is going to die, and of course your footprints are going to be there until some water or wind wipes them away. Ghosts can not be a reflection of actions, as they are moving. Reflections of actions as a living being would be something like a home video of a father and son playing around together. A video or photograph or diary. Not actually you. A projection of what you were at some point in your life, not a wondering soul or ghost. How you put it, it makes it as though ghosts are figments of a persons imagination, which in many cases are true. But, that's my anology based on what I think I understand.

Runt · #32 05-17-2004, 08:41 PM

Yes! Like a metaphycial videotape showing a being at a certain time in his or her life but not actually being that being. I would guess that if ghosts do exist, and if I am right that they are not wandering souls so much as an imprint of a creature's life at a specific point in space, then they are created something like this: an important event in a human life that had a huge impact on them, charged with emotion, is strong enough to live an imprint. Unfortunatly, I think violence and death are VERY descriptive of that kind of emotionally charged event, which may account for the fact that ghosts often seem frightening.

Runt · #33 05-17-2004, 08:41 PM

Yes! Like a metaphycial videotape showing a being at a certain time in his or her life but not actually being that being. I would guess that if ghosts do exist, and if I am right that they are not wandering souls so much as an imprint of a creature's life at a specific point in space, then they are created something like this: an important event in a human life that had a huge impact on them, charged with emotion, is strong enough to live an imprint. Unfortunatly, I think violence and death are VERY descriptive of that kind of emotionally charged event, which may account for the fact that ghosts often seem frightening.

LilChrist · #34 05-18-2004, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Runt

Yes! Like a metaphycial videotape showing a being at a certain time in his or her life but not actually being that being. I would guess that if ghosts do exist, and if I am right that they are not wandering souls so much as an imprint of a creature's life at a specific point in space, then they are created something like this: an important event in a human life that had a huge impact on them, charged with emotion, is strong enough to live an imprint. Unfortunatly, I think violence and death are VERY descriptive of that kind of emotionally charged event, which may account for the fact that ghosts often seem frightening.

But, if you are right, then ghosts don't really exist, right? They ARE merely figments of peoples' imaginations. Of course, even if you agree with that, I don't mostly.

LilChrist · #35 05-18-2004, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Runt

Yes! Like a metaphycial videotape showing a being at a certain time in his or her life but not actually being that being. I would guess that if ghosts do exist, and if I am right that they are not wandering souls so much as an imprint of a creature's life at a specific point in space, then they are created something like this: an important event in a human life that had a huge impact on them, charged with emotion, is strong enough to live an imprint. Unfortunatly, I think violence and death are VERY descriptive of that kind of emotionally charged event, which may account for the fact that ghosts often seem frightening.

But, if you are right, then ghosts don't really exist, right? They ARE merely figments of peoples' imaginations. Of course, even if you agree with that, I don't mostly.