Coastaljames
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But that doesn't preclude someone seeing one.
Nope. And millions have. Through every epoch, in every country in the world.
But that doesn't preclude someone seeing one.
Qutie. Something is going on, even if a ghost as a 'discrete non-corporeal entity' doesn't exist.Nope. And millions have. Through every epoch, in every country in the world.
Something is going on
Now that is the question is it not? I'm working on it.People see ghosts. And always have. That's fact.
Now...what is a ghost?
Maybe but they're better than celebrities who have no other discernible skill, qualification or talent at all, telling what we should be doing.This is one of the main problems with celebrity scientists. When speaking on subjects outside of their narrow specialisation they are unqualified to do so and their opinions are no more valid than those of any random person on the street.
Personally, I find hardline dismissive pontificating scientists as knobby as zealous religious nutbags. I'm a Christian but find anti-abortion rethoric as disgusting as Prof. Dawkins' recent statement that it was "immoral" to give birth to a baby with Down syndrome. Both as bloody fundamentalist as each other!
I was beginning to feel like the only Philomena Cunk fan on here .. she's ace ..Philomena Cunk, in the 2016 Screenwipe, asking him "Can you imagine what it must feel like to be sucked off through a hole?" made me laugh.
We have a friend who went to school with Brian Cox and he is VERY bitter and twisted!BTW I used to work with Alice Roberts, and I'm not at all bitter and twisted.
Umph, there was an astronomy programme on a wee while ago with BC and Dara O' Briain where for once we actually WANTED to hear what Cox had to say since that is his area. But O'Briain would not let him get a word in edgeways.Maybe but they're better than celebrities who have no other discernible skill, qualification or talent at all, telling what we should be doing.
We have a friend who went to school with Brian Cox and he is VERY bitter and twisted!
Yes, I laugh but being at school with Brian Cox must have been tough.Sorry to hear that about your friend.
Umph, there was an astronomy programme on a wee while ago with BC and Dara O' Briain where for once we actually WANTED to hear what Cox had to say since that is his area. But O'Briain would not let him get a word in edgeways.
He does always seem to have a very fake and forced smile in the way of only someone who's never spontaneously laughed at another person's loud fart .. perhaps that's a problem for Brian Cox ? .. he's not a bad bloke but he never seems relaxed bless him..We have a friend who went to school with Brian Cox and he is VERY bitter and twisted!
People see ghosts. And always have. That's fact.
Now...what is a ghost?
Not just say it doesn't happen.
He does always seem to have a very fake and forced smile in the way of only someone who's never spontaneously laughed at another person's loud fart .. perhaps that's a problem for Brian Cox ? .. he's not a bad bloke but he never seems relaxed bless him..
Of the stuff of his I've seen, he seems genuinely into what he's into but not a 'natural' in front of the camera which is fair enough ..I've met a few people who regularly talk to groups and are very good at it but find it horribly stressful. There are numerous accounts of actors vomiting before going on stage.
Maybe he's just really stressed by it?
Not a big fan of his. Anyone that is so dismissive, like Dawkins, Izzard can fuck off these days.
Aliens, time travel and sentient A.I don't require us to revise the laws of physics as we currently understand them. Ghosts do.Note that the modern church of 'yoof science' permits countenancing a whole range of once-fringe Fortean staples. Alien life, Check. Time travel, Check. Artificial Intelligence becoming sentient, Check.
Ghosts.....absolutely not, and anyone who wonders as to their confirmable presence is certifiably insane. Whyis this a totemic step-change too far?
Interesting. So: because there have not been (so far) any repeatable physical measurements made, or indisputable records captured, your conclusion is that ghosts in any sense other than multiple mass perceptual delusions cannot exist?Aliens, time travel and sentient A.I don't require us to revise the laws of physics as we currently understand them. Ghosts do.
...is misguided?And I'm not convinced that a superior sniggering certainty, predicated upon the shaky reductionist perspective that absence of evididence constitutes an absolute, universal and eternal evidence of their absence in any and every context..
Firstly you have the problem of a soul existing seperately from a body.
Personally I favour John Keel's Ultraterrestrial theory, which at least has the advantage of being a grand unifying theory of all paranormal manifestations. But as yet there's no real scientific grounding to it.
I wonder if that is why I find him so unbearable on the radio but much less so on the TV? He is relaxed away from the TV cameras and just lets it all out?I've met a few people who regularly talk to groups and are very good at it but find it horribly stressful. There are numerous accounts of actors vomiting before going on stage.
Maybe he's just really stressed by it?
Why more valid?
Aliens, time travel and sentient A.I don't require us to revise the laws of physics as we currently understand them. Ghosts do.