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To: Finny

Everything your mad about came out of your head NOT my writing. I never said I’m superior AT ALL. The question of the thread was “why do people believe in ghosts”, I gave the answer from psychology. And BTW if you’d bothered to read the article it also presents psychological reasons for why people believe.

I sure hope you don’t believe you can read minds, because you’re WAY off. I don’t think I’ve “discerned” anybody’s error. I’m pointing out that there are good psychological reasons people WANT to believe. Heck there’s thing I WANT to believe in, and ghosts once were on the list. One of the primary reasons I walked away from that is those awful “ghost hunting” TV shows, they’re so pathetic, either desperate to believe or desperate to scam people (can’t decide which) so I walked away. When they all get canceled I’ll consider believing again. But if I choose to believe I’ll know why. I don’t see how knowing why I do irrational things makes me superior, doesn’t seem to stop me.


124 posted on 09/06/2014 3:26:27 PM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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To: discostu
Of course you never said you are superior! DUH!!!!!! You SHOWED that you think you are superior.

Read back on your posts and read the responses to them. I am obviously not the only one who understand that you THINK yourself superior to people who believe in ghosts because -- AS YOU HAVE STATED REPEATEDLY IN DIFFERENT WAYS -- you understand that people who believe in ghosts are behaving irrationally, seeking comfort, wanting to perceive themselves as "special" and "living forever" and that is why they interpret these things as "ghosts" instead of what you assume are simply mis-read average phenomenon. Different words, SAME POINT.

Come on. Be responsible for your own positions and stop trying to weasel out of them. You INSULT people when you tell them they didn't really know what they saw but YOU do because you "understand" their "psychological need" to believe something you reject -- something you reject because you've never experienced it.

141 posted on 09/07/2014 10:26:13 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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