A rather large bunch of people,
obviously lliterate, most of them in industrialized countries, living under the enlightment of the XXIth century... who believe in ghosts!


TEH FEAR!!!
(fred foobar Yeah, whatever..., Wed 9 Jul 2008, 8:38, 7 replies)

"obviously lliterate"
There has to be a word for making an ironic typo like that :)

(Unless, of course, that's another b3ta meme I didn't know about).

EDIT: And I would have gone for "mostly literate" instead...
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 8:53, closed)

^^
On a similar subject: XXI^th?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 9:19, closed)

Cockbrush -
I think it comes under Muphry's Law:

home.pacific.net.au/~bangsund/muphry.htm
(Mr. In-Between has regretted posting this ever since, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 10:05, closed)

Hound of Cullen's Law
Any post criticizing another's spelling and/or grammar will invariably contain spelling and/or grammatical errors.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 9 Jul 2008, 13:00, closed)

ahh the internet
where - if people loose an argument - they will pick apart the text you have posted. Even if they know what you have said. Even if what you have said makes perfect sense.
I agree with you on this - Just imagine if you'd never heard a ghost story or watched a horror film... just imagine if you wern't pissed or high on drugs... would you still see the same things?
( SiX and his hat, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 13:40, closed)

Back to the topic...
If there's one thing I've learned as an engineer, it's that no matter how much you think you know about something, there will always be a surprise or two. The world, it turns out, is a much stranger place than our ancestors ever would have guessed- who would have thought that a bit of germanium doped with boron could result in people all around the world being able to type messages to each other in real time, or that we could carry a week's worth of music in something small enough to fit into my shirt pocket?

Therefore until conclusive proof is brought forth one way or the other on the issue of ghosts and whatnot, I'm willing to keep an open mind. Most of it can be easily explained away, but there's that one-in-a-million story that comes along that defies all logic. And just because a data point is inconvenient doesn't mean that you can simply ignore it.

We don't know what the answer is, and cannot know for sure. Therefore labeling something as a ghost seems to be reasonably convenient for now.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 9 Jul 2008, 13:59, closed)

There are more things
in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 9 Jul 2008, 21:01, closed)