Do you believe in ghosts? Paranormal stuff?

[Majora]

S.Peelman said:

No, utter nonsense. There’s no logical reason for that to be true and everything always has a rational explanation, whether you have one ready or not. I have no reason to believe in things I cannot see or detect in some way. Darkness is just the absence of light, and the world is exactly the same in it.

So right as I type this I’m in the attic, and I hear cracking and tapping sounds all around me, even though there’s nothing and no-one here with me. A less informed person could be thinking this is a ghost, but no, it’s just the wooden beams in the roof that are stretching and moving.

‘Life’ is just a very complicated chemical reaction, nothing more, and when we ‘die’, our molecules will get scattered again to be used in another complicated chemical reaction sometime later, there’s no need for ‘spirits’.

I usually agree with your posts entirely, Peelman (seriously, you could be my buddy) but not here. I agree with you that logically it makes no sense and life is so very complicated, but I truly believe we don’t (as humans) know even half as much as we think we do. I really, logically speaking, agree with your whole post. But there is so much we just can’t explain, and - bear with me, here - maybe there is something that defies “our” sense of logic. Maybe, maybe not. Again, I agree with the premise of your post and I am loathe to say I might believe in such vague concepts such as god or ghosts, but I truly feel maybe there are things we just don’t understand or even know about. Anyway, this is a very interesting thread and I value your opinion greatly ?