Writer's Block: Spirits

[packbat]

Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever encountered one? View other answers

First: "believe in" is the wrong phrase. I don't believe in torture, but it still exists.

Second: to my recollection, I have never encountered anything that appeared to be a ghost.

Finally: based on my knowledge of the sciences (from physics to biology to neuroscience to computer science), the existence of ghosts strikes me as not merely implausible, but downright ludicrous. fin.

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xkcd #373.

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There have been societies researching psychic phenomena since 1882 or earlier without fruit (http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2006/06/pretty_soon.html) - not even byproducts like the mortar, glass, and gunpowder given us by alchemists. I have better things to do with my time than research a dead field.