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Why i am confident there are no ghosts.

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Re: Why i am confident there are no ghosts.

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My great grandparents lived in Wales, the Welsh are ghost believing and fairy fearing, leave a bowl of milk outside the kitchen door type of people. My great grandparents made a solemn oath to each other; when one died, that one would visit the living spouse as a ghost. They were true believers in ghosts and had real expectations. My great grandmother waited and waited, then died, poor thing never got her visitation.

However, when my daughter was 5 months old she had a splinter in her foot, I could not get it out, we were both in tears over this splinter. Both my parents had died the month before, my daughter started to giggle and pointed at nothing I could see, but, when I picked her up, the splinter was gone. Thanks mom and dad.

A personal reason, a painful loss of a loved one may be needed to believe in ghosts. Do I believe my dead parents relieved my daughter of her splinter; no, but it was a comforting idea since their deaths were so recent at the time and I had a deep feeling of regret. A belief in ghosts keep dead loved ones alive, very much like a belief in heaven. These beliefs can give comfort to those who have a fear of death and for those who cannot accept that death is final and that loved ones only live and exsist in memories.
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