Ghosts.  I like to keep an open mind about most things but I thought that ghosts were hokum.  Ten years ago I bought a haunted house as most of you know.  That changed my mind completely of course. I started out looking for logical explanations but after a few months of relentless events I realized that there weren't any.   I don't claim to know what they are.  Most people believe they are the spirits of the dead.  I have no idea if that's right or not.  But something has been messing with me in a big way since I moved in here.  For our new members check out my New Ghostly Manifestations thread.

There are heaps of things I've come to believe lately that I never did as a child. One of the main ones is to never trust the media.

But what do you mean by conspiracy theory? Because a lot of people misuse that term for any narrative not presented on the media.

Flat earth is not completely without it's positives. Any sufficiently silly theory allows you to join the conversation and slowly ramp up the stupidity of your claims until even the flat earthers want nothing to do with you. I may or may not have done this and it may or may not have been very entertaining on many occasions. I think I even pulled in a fellow slinging.org member into the fray at one point. Though that was not my intention.

Anyways back to the subject at hand.

Those who know me know I do believe in some conspiracies.  There are plenty that have been admitted to after the fact by the conspirators themselves so no need to delve into flat earth or whatever. In my experience the only difference between a believable conspiracy theory and an admission of guilt is about 6 months to 20 years. Obviously this does not apply to things like the earth being supported on the backs of four elephants, although I sorely wish it did.

Anyways...enough of that. RM, I'm going to have to take another look at that ghost thread. Are you still having experiences? Are they sort of maintaining their level of ghostliness or has it ever peaked to a horror movie crescendo?

Morphy wrote on Dec 12^th, 2024 at 6:07am:


Unfortunately the hauntings have been minimal for a while now.  Every once in a while something weird will happen or there will be a random wall tapping but the activity level has been very low.  People have suggested that they're saving up energy for something big.  I have no idea.

   I was pretty much dumbfounded.  My hand was extended as if I was going to open the door. I just stood there, frozen in that position for the longest time.  It was the mother of all WTF moments.

You're a better man than I Rhonan. I have a mischievous sense of humor. I truly don't mean it as making fun. More like playing the fool myself to get a reaction.

But I do really respect your view. One of my favorite things in the world is listening to other people's stories and their views on various topics. Political and spiritual especially.

Even if I strongly disagree or can't understand how they could believe what they do, trying to understand from there point of view is really interesting to me.

And I find virtually everyone has at least one important thing to teach others..

jw wrote on Dec 13^th, 2024 at 7:27pm:


100% brother.