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A tale of ghosts and pulled muscles and the fabric

I like the way you think

Magic though I'd call simply just something we have currently not managed to explain and formularise. Magic is just a word, same as once star was just a word. They believed all sorts of things, from the sun being pulled across the sky to it being glued to some godly fabric. Now we are investigating with far more thorough method, but same time some scientists are working on proving that all we experience is just a simulation - not easy to stay 'sane' among all these ongoings lol

I have experienced 'things' impossible to just explain, alas my father sending me one of his song shortly before my mum died too, could of course just have be a coincidence, an extremely amazing one, but still a coincidence, same as a lot what we come across that appears almost 'too good to be true' might not even be true at all, and thus isn't good either (not to mention that the subject of 'good' and 'bad' is a tricky one all in its own right).

Love Quantum Physics though, so much fun to twist the mind around even more strange things as if just swimming to keep the head above water wouldn't be already plenty of effort

A tale of ghosts and pulled muscles and the fabric

btw, this blog entry is in its own right an experiment in regards to what really had me ponder. That is why I said it will probably be misunderstood. It was never about the ghost, but about how we evaluate. And looking at the answers, most concentrated on the ghost, not the questions raised about how we actually determine what is 'real'.

I would surely have done the same thing, concentrate on the ghost story I mean, and tried to offer explanations based on my belief systems and experiences. Seems this is how our minds work?

A tale of ghosts and pulled muscles and the fabric

Ah Ken_19, thank you heaps for a wonderful post!

Yes, it could be all sorts of things, and I have indeed in my mind investigate all sorts of possibilities too, including those you mentioned, and like I said - I do not really know whether something did 'attach' itself or not. In all truth this to me is almost secondary, or 'otherdary' sort of, lol, as in truth I only used the graveyard happenings to show how we end evaluating due to belief systems/preferances and previous experiences (may it be our own or heard of experiences).

What interests me and what I ponder is how we investigate and how we arrive at conclusions, and how we can ever be certain a conclusion is the correct one, if even science only ever has its 'there and then' level of knowledge available, which indeed can be lacking as previous cases in science have proven. Many of us will just accept reality at face value and not bother to try understand it further, while others will investigate to varying degrees, but it seems the human mind is in need to eventually always arrive at a judgement of 'truth'. It appears to me we can not handle uncertainty, not knowing, not understanding, and even though we often surely arrive with wrong conclusions, it seems we need them for the stability of our minds..
...as well as that of course we are often forced to draw conclusions as actions are required, which might be the overall driving force behind our need to conclude and judge? Even when we encounter phenomenas or situations where no action is required, it might just be the habit/drive that leads us to do it anyway?

So yes, that strange pain is slowly fading, and I have no idea whether I have a 'spirit' in this house, but due to my belief systems, my experiences and preferances, eventually I will probably come to decide one way or another, as that seems to be what we do/need to do, even under the risk of wrong conclusions...

A tale of ghosts and pulled muscles and the fabric

@ GoDaniel

don't give me ideas!

A tale of ghosts and pulled muscles and the fabric

@ GoDaniel

Yes, I too was considering what issues might drive me to visit graveyards
I shall claim pure scientific interest in that afterthingy!

Joking aside, I just like the peace and to ponder mortality, and graveyards seem a good place to ponder the later :)

A tale of ghosts and pulled muscles and the fabric

@ Ed1941

Yes, if the pain persists I will definitely go see a doc about it, ty for the advice ^^ and I have heard many stories about 'ghosts' too, and have myself come across some strange phenomenas as well, but it seems so very difficult to prove anything via scientific method but then I am also left to question the limitations of science.. so in truth I guess I am just wondering whether I should give into 'belief' in hopes I by potluck hit the truth and not just in regards to this graveyard visit, but many other subjects too...

RE: Do we have complete free-will???

Had an intense discussion about this some point with my son who is a physicist, currently working on his doctor title, and he threw heaps of things at me that went waaaayyyy over my head, having to do with dices and all sorts

To me free will is real tricky, for we appear to be the result of previous experiences and influences, so any decisions we make are sort of pre-determined due to that, at least in my view. Nature/nurter (manipulations?) seem to set us on a path, and every choice we make can be traced back in a sort of red line. So while we theoretically for example have the choice between vanilla and chocolate ice-cream, there will be a reason why we choose one over the other. I doubt it can be a truly spontaneous decision. There is no such thing as a true 'new leaf' in our books of life, as the pages before already tell a story, and every line still to come is linked to what's already written down, in my opinion at least.