Thais believe in ghosts - how do you deal with this?

**buad hai** · 05-04-2008, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by obsidian

i ignore it

Same here. Pointless to try to change the mind of anyone whose "knowledge" is based on anything like faith.

**Marmite the Dog** · 05-04-2008, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Spyker

Ghosts are one of them .

Idiot.

**Spyker** · 05-04-2008, 04:49 PM

Ignorant idiot .

**buad hai** · 05-04-2008, 05:38 PM

Absorbent and yellow and porous is he....

**Frankenstein** · 05-04-2008, 06:01 PM

I've hung out at supposedly haunted sites at the right hours, attempted rituals to summon spirits, played with ouija boards, and even tried to invite God into my life as well, but he never showed up either.

So in conclusion I am either spiritually impervious or just a realist.

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 05-04-2008, 06:20 PM

Flippers are the same, you can use it to your own entertainment. Before Sandra and I went out to see a movie once I rushed back to our room when she was waiting for the lift and opened all the cupboard doors and drawers.

We got back a few hours later and she shit herself when we got in the room.

**Northern Scum** · 05-04-2008, 06:25 PM

Anybody who believes in ghosts is in the grip of advanced mental illness.

bkkmadness · 05-04-2008, 06:34 PM

I think ghosts are a definite possibility and we may find evidence of them in the future.

There has just been too many ghost sightings throughout history to completely discount the idea.

**Marmite the Dog** · 05-04-2008, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

There has just been too many ghost sightings throughout history to completely discount the idea.

Most people believe in a god too, but it's still a crock of shit.

**Norton** · 05-04-2008, 06:56 PM

Easy to deal with folks who believe there are ghosts everywhere. I have convinced all the village folks I have two or three in the house and a couple in my yard. Sure keeps the riff raff away. Much better than guard dogs or an alarm system.

The other day, 3 old ladies were sitting around talking about the ghost at the pond near our village. I quizzed them a bit about when she appears and what she looks like. It seems she can be heard crying near the pond when the moon is full but no one has the nerve to go to the pond so no one has actually seen her. I told them I was going to the pond the next full moon to have a talk with her to see if she would give me a winning lottery number. After a moment of stunned silence, one of the old ladies asked me if I was afraid. I told them she was probably just lonely and needed someone to talk to so why be afraid. They gave me the "dead man walking" look one would give a condemned man but did add if she told me the lottery number and I survived the ordeal, would I share the number with them.

It's a waste of time trying to convince folks there are no ghosts so I have a great time with all the ghost stuff in Thailand and have found it is best to humor the believers.

bkkmadness · 05-04-2008, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

There has just been too many ghost sightings throughout history to completely discount the idea.

Most people believe in a god too, but it's still a crock of shit.

But how many people claim to have seen God?

yes yes I know there's a few, but not nearly on the scale of ghost sightings.

Why are you so convinced that there is no such thing as ghosts Marmite? What's the one main reason that makes you say 'its a crock of shit'?

**Texpat** · 05-04-2008, 07:09 PM

Ghosts are more popular and don't have religion. God doesn't believe in them.

Incidentally, very few people have been killed in the name of ghosts.

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 05-04-2008, 07:45 PM

Animals can see and hear stuff we can't, we put it down to God and ghosts and whatever because we are an irretrievably stupid and arrogant race.

What animals know and what is beyond space is beyond our comprehension but we can't accept that, being the best species and all - so we make it up in what ever context suits us.

**Marmite the Dog** · 05-04-2008, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

Why are you so convinced that there is no such thing as ghosts Marmite?

Because there's no proof.

**stroller** · 05-04-2008, 08:19 PM

How would you know ghosts don't have religion?I'd think quite a few of them do. God would "know", not believe, and he (assuming you mean the Christian god) has not commented on the existence of ghosts. But he demands people do not worship anything besides him.

**stroller** · 05-04-2008, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Because there's no proof.

That's why it is called a "belief". Plenty of witness acounts though, and case studies where no plausible explanations for phenomena are found.

**Norton** · 05-04-2008, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Because there's no proof.

Nitpicker.

**Tao** · 05-04-2008, 08:37 PM

Most of us are guests in a foreign country. We have no business telling the natives what they should and shouldn't believe in. If they want to believe in things that go bump in the night then let them. I'm not racist, but i hate immigrants to the UK and other countries demanding (and often getting) things their way. I'll never be like that.

**Northern Scum** · 05-04-2008, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by stroller

Plenty of witness acounts though

When your 'witnesses' are morons like these it's a safe bet that they are full of shit.

bkkmadness · 05-04-2008, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

Why are you so convinced that there is no such thing as ghosts Marmite?

Because there's no proof.

So unless there is scientific proof you believe that it cannot possibly exist?

Perhaps it's something we are incapable of proving yet?

**stroller** · 05-04-2008, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Shitman

When your 'witnesses' are morons like these it's a safe bet that they are full of shit.

Yawn...
Showing a few unreliable witnesses does not disprove or discredit anything.

**Marmite the Dog** · 05-04-2008, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

So unless there is scientific proof you believe that it cannot possibly exist?

Not at all. If there's not any scientific proof, I am unwilling to believe it exists.

Luckydog · 05-04-2008, 09:57 PM

The missus got up the other morning and said a Ghost had been touching her foot. I hadn't the heart to tell her it was the Dog's tail......she wagged it when I came into the room!

**Jet Gorgon** · 06-04-2008, 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by stroller

How would you know ghosts don't have religion?I'd think quite a few of them do. God would "know", not believe, and he (assuming you mean the Christian god) has not commented on the existence of ghosts. But he demands people do not worship anything besides him.

The Holy Ghost? hehe

**Jet Gorgon** · 06-04-2008, 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by Norton

It's a waste of time trying to convince folks there are no ghosts...

And a waste of time trying to convince folks that there are.

You either got the sight or you don't. And, once physicists come up with the calcs that prove that there are, well, it won't be so cool to talk about ghosts anymore. Another dimension, folks, another dimension.

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