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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts) Tue Mar 19, 2019, 08:29 PM Mar 2019

I have a good question, ... I am not sure I expect a good answer

While in the hospital my only choice for entertainment was cable TV. Anyway, I was watching this program on The Travel Network.... about Ghosts and Ghost hunters. About wandering souls that seem to get lost between Dimensions.

Some of it was pretty scary but my question is this... Dinosaurs were around 65 million years ago. If there are Human ghosts and spirits why are there no Dinosaur ghosts... or Wooly Mammoths? Or sabertooth Tiger Ghosts...?

just for once I would love to see some Ghost Hunter record some EMF signal off the Charts...that could only be a Diplodocus or T-Rex. I mean, come on!

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I have a good question, ... I am not sure I expect a good answer (Original Post) yuiyoshida Mar 2019 OP

There are. A HERETIC I AM Mar 2019 #1

ROFLMAO! yuiyoshida Mar 2019 #2

Because only humans (and a subset) are stupid enough to believe in this stuff. erronis Mar 2019 #3

Question like that would get me an hour or two in detention at the Catholic school rurallib Mar 2019 #4

If animals don't have souls, then what are Ghost Riders in the Sky sarge43 Mar 2019 #5

While we are in detention we can talk about the a little rurallib Mar 2019 #6

IN One episode there was a doggie ghost yuiyoshida Mar 2019 #7

I can think of several explanations. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #8

A HERETIC I AM

(24,368 posts)

1. There are.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2019, 08:32 PM

Mar 2019

They just hide behind the couch,

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)

2. ROFLMAO!

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 19, 2019, 08:35 PM

Mar 2019

GOOD one!

erronis

(15,258 posts)

3. Because only humans (and a subset) are stupid enough to believe in this stuff.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2019, 08:46 PM

Mar 2019

One of the problems with all those extra neurons and synapses in people that don't have enough to do to keep them busy.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

4. Question like that would get me an hour or two in detention at the Catholic school

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2019, 08:47 PM

Mar 2019

But their answer was that animals do not have souls and therefore could not turn into ghosts.
Only humans have souls.
Does that make sense? Never did to me.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)

5. If animals don't have souls, then what are Ghost Riders in the Sky

Reply to rurallib (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 19, 2019, 08:53 PM

Mar 2019

riding and chasing?

Joining you in detention.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

6. While we are in detention we can talk about the a little

Reply to sarge43 (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 19, 2019, 09:05 PM

Mar 2019

Yeah, well we never heard Ghost Riders in the Sky in the Catholic liturgy.
Actually, IIRC, they did not believe in ghosts. Only post dead were in purgatory, heaven or hell.
only bad boys like me would believe in ghosts.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)

7. IN One episode there was a doggie ghost

Reply to rurallib (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 19, 2019, 09:42 PM

Mar 2019

That belonged to its female master in a Castle in Scotland... there was a portrait of both sitting in a chair.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,857 posts)

8. I can think of several explanations.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2019, 01:17 AM

Mar 2019

If the spirits of living things can sometimes hang around after the body has died, perhaps the spirits can only hang out for so long. Not millions of years. Maybe it goes somewhere else, maybe it simply fades away like smoke.

Or, more probably (at least for me) is the dinosaurs and almost all other animals just don't have a spirit essence that survives bodily death.

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