Survey shows more Brits believe in ghosts than a god

[AtheistAJ]

That's what I heard on Sky News. I think it's the work of movies and castles, and movies about castles. What to make of that?

 

[Aqualung]

I think it's kind of funny. Ghosts are like your spirit floating around. I would think that people who believe you actually had a spirit (that your "soul" wasn't just some nerve connections) you would "logically" think there was something behind that. Weird.

 

[Halcyon]

Doesn't surprise me, most people i know are non-religious, but at the same time are open minded to the paranormal.

I imagine its totally opposite in America, but then 1/3 of yanks do believe that the sun orbits the earth

 

[AtheistAJ]

I would think that people who believe you actually had a spirit (that your "soul" wasn't just some nerve connections) you would "logically" think there was something behind that. Weird.

Yeah me too. Like I said it must be the media and folk tales.

 

[michel]

I saw a T.V programme not long ago. One in which people can pay to go to some Castle (forgive me, I forget which), that is said to be haunted.


The crowd that paid to go turned up at night time, and were led through the long corridors, by a gide who had nothing but a dimn lantern. Throughout this, the 'guide' was talking to them, telling the sad and sorry tale; he kept stopping at various points, and explained which poor person had suffered at that point.

By the end of the tour pretty much everyone in the group was a bag of nerves; some reported feeling chills, others had heard something..........(The whole trip had been followed by a camera man; there was no sound that one could hear on the tape, and there wre no apparitions).................

 

[AtheistAJ]

There was nothing on tape because those ghost hunters were scared stiff and were hallucinating.

 

[michel]

There was nothing on tape because those ghost hunters were scared stiff and were hallucinating.

Err..that was the point I was trying to make..though I would say,not hallucinating, more a case of reacting to suggestion.:help:

 

[Darkdale]

That's what I heard on Sky News. I think it's the work of movies and castles, and movies about castles. What to make of that?

I'd be willing to bet that this has almost always been true in the UK region and in Scandinavia. Historically, the spirits associated with dead ancestors and with nature have always been more revered by Northern Europeans than any other culture.

 

[Mike182]

I imagine its totally opposite in America, but then 1/3 of yanks do believe that the sun orbits the earth

california, to be precise

we have our senses, we can feel, see, hear, smell and we can taste

we can also fool these senses, if we go about it in the right way! if your in a castle, at night, walking down a long corridor, hearing stories about people suffering great pains, and then you are told that their spirits still reside in these places, yes - you will feel cold shivers

 

[Aqualung]

I'd be willing to bet that this has almost always been true in the UK region and in Scandinavia. Historically, the spirits associated with dead ancestors and with nature have always been more revered by Northern Europeans than any other culture.

I think a lot of latin american/south american people have reverred them at least as much.

 

[Tez]

Im a Brit , My family are not really that religious but most of them have said that they have seen a ghost and nealy all of them believe in spirits. So I can believe the survey.

- Tez