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0bsessions:
I find irony in the misspelling of "competent."
That aside, since it's come up here, perhaps someone can explain the following phenomena to me:
I'm a skeptic as far as the idea of ghosts and such goes (I don't really believe in angry spirits floating about, but conversely I find it hard to swallow that consciousness is a fluke of nature that just kind of ceases to exist after eighty odd years). A few years ago, an ex of mine dragged me to a local cemetery with my camcorder and we went by said cemetery with it at around eleven at night. As we passed, odd lights and weird artifacts (In video terminology, an artifact is random static or flickering) showed up. The artifacts ONLY showed up through the camcorder's LCD, but not to the naked eye (I didn't think to check the viewfinder at the time). When we went home afterward, the artifacts were nowhere to be seen upon replaying the video.
I'd assume there's some sort of scientific rationale beside this, as judging by her idea to do it, there must be prior precedence for it. Anyone able to explain it to me?
0bsessions:
MiniDV handycam variety. Your basic consumer level film camera. I'm fully aware of things that can fuck with film and all, but the weirdest part of it is that it's never pulled the same thing on me before (And I've done plenty of night shooting) and it didn't actually record to the film (Which was the absolute weirdest part to me). Feel free to take this with a giant grain of salt, as I've got absolutely shit all to back it up other than my word.
imapiratearg:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 05 Jun 2008, 11:48 ---Heh, I guess I come across as equally stupid seeing as I refuse to believe in ghosts, but as long as the evidence shown to me consists of youtube videos only, I feel my case is justified. Show me a ghost, or hard, scientific proof that there's the slightest chance they may exist, and I'll start doubting.
--- End quote ---
I can't really give you physical proof, but I can give you anecdotal proof of sorts:
Last summer, some of my friends and I decided to go sit on top of the mausoleum in a graveyard on the outskirts of town, so we did. While we were in there. I saw an orb (which is some sort of manifestation of energy), we heard laughing and the sound of voices from on top of the hill, but we were the only people in the graveyard (however there were houses nearby, so that may have been the source), and we heard the sound of footsteps on the grass roughly a few feet away from us yet nothing moved. One of our friends was sitting on the ground when he suddenly lapsed into a trance and went silent. Dylan, the probably the most shamanistic of us assumed someone had "walked" through him and he had me help him do energy work on Tim. It was strange.
imapiratearg:
Yeah, I understand. I've always been skeptical about their actual existence, but I like to think that energy can exist in such a way because it's more romantic and interesting than "You die and then that's it. Afterwards is nothing."
Barmymoo:
I have an MP3 player! This is super exciting! I've just transferred every CD I own onto it (that wasn't very hard, I only have ten) and now I'm listening to it and feeling all happy. It's probably very wrong to be so overjoyed at a material possession but it's a material possession that plays my favourite songs and lets me listen to the radio when I'm at college 8-)
In other news, we had a really interesting discussion in Law today. To be honest, it was actually mostly me and my teacher with a few contributions from two of my friends, and the rest of the class just sat and listened to us. I fear sometimes our talk goes over their heads (not because they're stupid, you understand, but because they think they are). Anyway we were having a debate about whether or not sex (as in the biological component of gender) was socially ascribed. My standpoint was no, because sex is dictated by whether you are born with a womb, vagina and ovaries, a penis, testes and whatever else guys have, or a combination thereof. I said that the thing that was ascribed was gender, and that in humans it's inherently connected to sex whilst in animals it can be more easily seperated. My teacher was quoting some feminist whose name might have been Julie (I can't remember) and saying that sex was also ascribed, but he didn't seem to be able to back it up very well.
I really love our Law lessons when we get talking like this. It sounds like I'm being arrogant when I say that one of the things I really love is having someone to talk to who's on the same or a higher intellectual level, and therefore they don't just concede for simplicity. I know perfectly well that I'm not all-knowing and I'm totally crap at most things, but when it's a subject I'm interested in and good at, I want to discuss it with someone who also knows what they're talking about.
Anyway the point of that ramble was to say that I have no idea why I was so grumpy this afternoon. I think it was lack of sleep and a really, really boring lesson on medieval German literature.
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