107 Billion dead yet so few ghosts?, page 1

This fact got me to thinking.... If there have been that many people died in history then why so few ghosts?

Is this "proof" that the whole ghost and spirit thing is hogwash? Surely we should see them all over the place right?

There are currently seven billion people alive today and the Population Reference Bureau estimates that about 107 billion people have ever lived.

What say you ATS?

BBC news do the dead outnumber the living

It's an interesting article anyway

reply to post by wellsybelieves

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i heard about a so called "passing over". ghosts are supposed to be spirits, which haven't passed over and roam the earth. reason could be unfinished business or loved ones, that are still alive.

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So as not to completely waste this post, I'll pretend that I'm a religious nut, and say this:

It's because all of the good people are in Heaven, and all of the baddies are in Hell. Those few ghosts that are occasionally seen, are just the sad souls whom are trapped in purgatory. They don't even know that they're dead.

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ooops....Nevermind X2 ....Delete....
I thought your post was directed at the OP.

I'm obviously not very attentive at the moment.Since that is you.

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The informational realm and the material realm are extremely incompatible (it's complicated but it's the difference between stasis and change, which is as fundamental as an incompatibility can possibly be) and it takes a lot of expertise and determination to "catch up" to the relentless reconfiguration of the material realm if you aren't inherently part of that constant flurry of readjustment. A good analogy is trying to communicate with the people on a passenger train as it whisks by, as you stand on a platform next to the tracks. To those people on the train, you showed up for a moment and then vanished. You can see the train carrying them speed away, but to them, you disappeared as soon as you showed up in the window. Good luck trying to get a message through, as they sit there and do their crossword puzzles or converse with one another - or sleep. Their actual experience of sailing along at 50+ mph is motionlessness. Their realm is completely incompatible to yours, and yet you both exist as human beings within an overarching reality confine.

The capacity of mediums to see and talk with dead people is due to a very rare "glitch" in how their minds process external information coming into their brains for inclusion within their "memory data cloud". "Spirits" are a unique form of information, and most mind/brain data processes don't allow that form of information to be processed (preventing it from being unduly influential) in a version of cognitive dissonance. Mediums are inherently dysfunctional in that sense, although this dysfunction does have its own value, since it's responsible for humanity's awareness of its own eternal nature, even while it's engaged in its corporeal development stage. No human culture that's ever existed has been free of the conviction that there is more to heaven and earth than what can be seen, and this is why.

The reason why there's no real concern - from that side of the veil - that we (on this side) learn the actual relationship between their realm and ours, is due to the fact that they know that we'll all end up there anyway. Besides, they had to go through the whole pain-in-the-ass of not knowing, so why should we be let off easy. They're people after all. No mystery there either.

Originally posted by wellsybelieves
This fact got me to thinking.... If there have been that many people died in history then why so few ghosts?

Is this "proof" that the whole ghost and spirit thing is hogwash? Surely we should see them all over the place right?

There are currently seven billion people alive today and the Population Reference Bureau estimates that about 107 billion people have ever lived.

What say you ATS?

BBC news do the dead outnumber the living

It's an interesting article anyway

I think the truth of the matter lies in the fact that most people are simply too stupid to ever become ghosts. I don't mean this as an insult to the vast majority of humanity, but I refuse to believe that human beings are by default sentient. A good chunk of people lack any degree of awareness beyond their own petty thoughts, then factor in total lack of awareness. It is rare for a person to be perceptive, and it is common for ghosts to be locked in a certain time-frame, repeating the instance of their death or some other event over and over again as if the world never changed, funny that.

Here is the thing though, suppose ghosts do exist, how do they exist? Seriously how would ghosts exists? If I had to guess they exist within the Earth Geomagnetic field. And what seems to happen ever few ten thousand years or so? A polar shift that reboots said Geomagnetic field......... Funny that problem solved. Every few thousand years they get erased when the field fade as the poles shift. If parts of the field stay around(if the field just becomes really, really weak but some of it remains) it could mean many different things.

For example the "soul" (see www.iol.co.za... )
could transfer to the Geomagnetic field.

What happens next depends on a key factor: Is what it the quantum perspective that is being imprinted or is it merely a recording?

If it is a recording it stands to reason that it should disappear when the geomagnetic field begins to fade. It may take several pole shifts for the recording to be wiped out. If it is a quantum perspective then, that is probably beyond my reasoning capabilities but I will still give it a try:

Suppose the QP(Quantum perspective) has to endure a geomagnetic fading. If it survives it should be able to become very powerful, as it can recover in the renewed Geomagnetic Field(what happens if a QP survives dozens of go though?) If a QP doesn't survive as the faded Geomagnetic Field may not be able to store all the data of so many souls, where does it go? I would imagine it would be sucked into the nearest large geomagnetic field: the Sun, as energy cannot be created or destroyed(or something like that). Or the QP could get stuck on another planet/solar system/ who knows?

Originally posted by icepack
reply to post by wellsybelieves

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i heard about a so called "passing over". ghosts are supposed to be spirits, which haven't passed over and roam the earth. reason could be unfinished business or loved ones, that are still alive.

That's an interesting statement. Do you or any-other ATS member here believe there are ghost or spirits on-board sunken submarines or still in the bowels of navy ships at the bottom of the sea's?
What about the planes of WWI and WWII or any conflict, to include bombers that caught fire and blew-up in midair, are their spirits in those vast area's of the sky and oceans?

These has always interested me, YES, I'm a believer, but then again, my culture still to this day pays tributes to our ancestors.
My husband has told me stories of his second tour in Vietnam and his friend that whispered in his ear warnings.
He said he actually seen him twice and neither of those times was he Drunk or Stoned, Scared The Sh*t Out Of Him!
But they where like brothers and to this day, my husband still does not talk about the events but he also believes .
I would like to know more, I also believe spirits stay behind because of unfinished business or to protect the ones they love or care for most.
Seriously, what do you think?

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Do you or any-other ATS member here believe there are ghost or spirits on-board sunken submarines or still in the bowels of navy ships at the bottom of the sea's?

i don't know. the expression s.o.s. (save our souls), could mean, save our souls, even if our bodies are drowned ? maybe it is important, that the body is recovered for the soul to be redeemed.

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