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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
Neat photos! I don't know what to make of them.
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
Very nice pic's, Thanks!!
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
I very much like the composition of your photos, while simultaneously finding them entirely devoid of paranormal phenomena. The inclination of the human brain to see form and familiarity in randomness is a well documented and quite useful feature we have evolved, but the interpretation of that imagery is more likely to be based on personal inclinations and preconceived notions as to the existence of the non empirical world.
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
Mac you crack me up!!
In other words, your saying, you believe what you want to see, right? Well right now I want to see that ghost!!! Ha ha ha!!!
In other words, your saying, you believe what you want to see, right? Well right now I want to see that ghost!!! Ha ha ha!!!
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
You have to remember the circumstances.
Say a group of photographers went out one morning INTENDING to take a picture of a cloud that looks like a pig. Four hours later, that cloud actually appears. That is not random.
A cloud that looks like a pig is random.
Going out looking for it, before it happens, and then having that cloud appear is NOT random.
Another way of looking at it is that spirits may use the interplay of shadows in order to appear to us. Just as they may use random sounds in order to speak. Spirits may be able to manipulate shadows.+
Say a group of photographers went out one morning INTENDING to take a picture of a cloud that looks like a pig. Four hours later, that cloud actually appears. That is not random.
A cloud that looks like a pig is random.
Going out looking for it, before it happens, and then having that cloud appear is NOT random.
Another way of looking at it is that spirits may use the interplay of shadows in order to appear to us. Just as they may use random sounds in order to speak. Spirits may be able to manipulate shadows.+
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
What I'm saying is that if you begin with the supposition that ghosts exist, you are more likely to see them in your photographs, whether or not you set out to photograph ghosts. I'm saying that the brain is programed to see order or form where none may actually exist; that the appearance of an object, especially in a medium as notoriously deceptive as photography, does not prove its existence. Sure, spirits may be capable of the things you mention, but first they must exist.
Note that when I talk about the inherent deception of photography, I'm not attributing to the photographer a will to deceive. I'm talking about the myriad of factors involved in the mechanical process of capturing and reproducing an image, including light, lens, sensor, and so forth.
Note that when I talk about the inherent deception of photography, I'm not attributing to the photographer a will to deceive. I'm talking about the myriad of factors involved in the mechanical process of capturing and reproducing an image, including light, lens, sensor, and so forth.
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
You guys are way too serious!! Mac you sound like a businessman trying to sell something, but I'm not so sure if I want to buy it!! Ha ha ha!!
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
Are you sure, Witchy? It'll make your life so much easier, it replaces your microwave, your vacuum cleaner, and your TiVo, and it fits right on your counter top! It's even dishwasher safe! All for the low low introductory price of just seven easy payments of $69.99 (plus shipping and handling, of course!)!!
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
If Mac were to try and sell anything using logic and reason he would starve to death.
In the sales world the pucker approach tends to work the best.
In the sales world the pucker approach tends to work the best.
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Prepare for death & follow me.
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Of course, I'll take two!! NOT!! Ha ha ha!!
Andy I have no idea what your talking about!!
Andy I have no idea what your talking about!!
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
But wait, there's more!! Act now and we will double this offer and also send you, as a free gift, this lovely battery tap-light!!MacPhantom wrote:Are you sure, Witchy? It'll make your life so much easier, it replaces your microwave, your vacuum cleaner, and your TiVo, and it fits right on your counter top! It's even dishwasher safe! All for the low low introductory price of just seven easy payments of $69.99 (plus shipping and handling, of course!)!!
All you pay is shipping and handling!!!!
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Prepare for death & follow me.
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
Good lord Now I have two salesman on my hands!! It's a good thing your both cute!!
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
A series of photographs showing a ghost turning on and off a battery tap light would be extremely persuasive, even to a skeptical atheist like me. But they'd have to show both the ghost and the tap light clearly.
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Re: I Took A Picture Of A Ghost
Gentle lady, I take offense at being included in such rough company!witchy wrote:Good lord Now I have two salesman on my hands!! It's a good thing your both cute!!
Why, if it were not for your otherwise polite demeanor, I would regard your comment deleterious!!
All you that doth my grave pass by,
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Prepare for death & follow me.
As you are now so once was I,
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Prepare for death & follow me.