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Old 01-12-2007, 11:06 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Thais believe in ghosts - how do you deal with this?
Almost every Thai believes firmly in the existence of ghosts. Many forum members have spouses or partners who are Thai. How do you deal with them when these beliefs are discussed? I tell my wife that I've never seen ghosts and I'm not sure what to believe. I've just always felt that humans have a very limited capacity to understand the universe and to claim conclusively that ghosts don't exist isn't possible. Perhaps village animists in Thailand have a pipeline to this other world. I respect their beliefs without believing something I can't verify.
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Old 01-12-2007, 11:12 PM   #2 (permalink)
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respect their beliefs without believing something I can't verify.
sounds about right, let them get on with it.
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Old 01-12-2007, 11:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I tell them to stop being so stupid.

It doesn't work, mind you.
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Old 01-12-2007, 11:57 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 02-12-2007, 01:15 AM   #5 (permalink)
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[quote=floorpotato;466999]I tell my wife that I've never seen ghosts and I'm not sure what to believe.


Iam not sure that its possible to see them but I know they exist I have know doubts in my mind after an experiance in a very old house in France with a spirit didnt see him but new for sure he was there and the moment he left .
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Old 02-12-2007, 01:16 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I didnt believe in Ghosts until I saw one in 16th Century 'The Bear' at Woodstock near Oxford in the UK.

But most so called 'sightings' are figments of the imagination....

I don't think mine was. It was SO real!
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Old 02-12-2007, 01:36 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I don't believe in religion but I do believe in ghosts. They are somewhere around me, I can feel. Brrrrrrr...
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Old 02-12-2007, 01:43 AM   #8 (permalink)
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The one thing i know, is that no ghost ever hurt, or helped, me yet. So real or not, i think their influence on this mortal plain equates to zero....
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Old 02-12-2007, 01:46 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Old 02-12-2007, 07:19 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I don't think mine was. It was SO real!
In your imagination it was real because your brain was unable to decypher as to what you really saw. If James Randi can offer 1 million $ to whoever can prove the existance of ghosts, and he's had no takers, then it's all aload of shite.
Grow up believers and stop believing something that was told to you as a child.
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Old 02-12-2007, 08:53 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Everytime we pass a graveyard or church we have the same ghost conversation. She seems to think when it gets dark the graves turn into the thriller video.
I tell her its not real and there are no ghosts but she adamant there are.
My double glazing has vents at the top which make a whislting / whinning noise in the wind some times. thats ghosts too.
Who knows maybe there are, but ive not seen em.
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Old 02-12-2007, 11:51 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Jesus Christ, Why would anyone believe a person that believes Thai politics are for real too.
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I told her to call me as soon as she sees one.
I really want to believe.
It did not work so far but I know why.
Thai ghosts do not like farangs...
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They've probably been reading farang stories of Peterpan "swatting Thais"
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Why should anyone need to negate another's beliefs? Does it really matter if someone else believes in ghosts or any other spiritual phenomena? A lot of Thais & a lot of people of other nationalities believe in ghosts, just as many more believe in some form of afterlife. If there is an afterlife, why can't there be ghosts?

If you don't believe in them, fine, but I don't see why a partner's belief is a problem that has to be 'dealt with'.
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If you don't believe in them, fine, but I don't see why a partner's belief is a problem that has to be 'dealt with'.
Well if they won't go somewhere or do something because of it, then it can be problem. Also, if they keep making a twat of themselves it tends to piss one off.
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I respect their beliefs without believing something I can't verify.
This is the pragmatic approach.

But also bear in mind we can't verify with 100% certainty they don't exist.
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