If you believe in ghosts, demons, angels, gods etc. without evidence, what is to stop you from believing in anything without evidence?

I feel if someone can convince themselves of the nonsense that thousands of religions fabricated (this is a fact as they logically cannot all be true), they can convince themselves of anything, and at that point, you're not dealing with someone who lives in reality, and maybe, you should avoid them, as the next thing they make up, may be about you.

On 1/21/2026 at 10:41 AM, perpetually said:

you know what bugs me about that? the threshold for heaven is so high if you're Christian. if I were to convert right now, died and went to heaven right now, nobody that I know would be there.

Its not as high as you think, its impossibly high if you try and get in by your own merits or try and justify why you should get in. Thats why there's such an emphasis on faith in God/Jesus to let you in through the super abundance of his own forgiveness.

On 1/23/2026 at 4:29 AM, Sheila89 said:

I believe in ghosts,but I call them spirits. I strongly believe our loved ones come around when we need them most... I've seen my father, my grandmothers and my mother. When I was a child , when my dad moved us to Moses Lake ,our house backed up to a old pioneer graveyard..my bedroom window faced it. I was around 7 I saw a few spirits

Ft Lewis Washington is haunted too.

you saw spirits? I'm intrigued. tell me about it!

On 1/24/2026 at 1:35 PM, perpetually said:

you saw spirits? I'm intrigued. tell me about it!

Yes I have,

First time I stayed overnight at my husband. We were sleeping on the pull out couch I woke up to go to the bathroom,and saw a spirit that looked like his grandfather walking to the kitchen from his grandma's bedroom,saw him quit a few times.

Another was in June 2002, we were up late, about 3;30 am. Saw my dad who was staying in Arizona that turned out to be the time of his death..as we found out later.

That was a couple of times.

11 minutes ago, Sheila89 said:

a spirit that looked like his grandfather walking to the kitchen from his grandma's bedroom,saw him quit a few times.

What did he look like? Transparent? How like a living person?

I've had a couple of similar experiences of my own, but I'm veryyy prone to hypnogogic hallucinations and I was either half asleep or just awake. Occam's razor: it was a product of my mind.

On 1/25/2026 at 10:24 PM, perpetually said:

What did he look like? Transparent? How like a living person?

I've had a couple of similar experiences of my own, but I'm veryyy prone to hypnogogic hallucinations and I was either half asleep or just awake. Occam's razor: it was a product of my mind.

He was slightly transparent..but after my husband's grandmother passed,he seemed to have left the house.

On 1/25/2026 at 8:04 PM, Sheila89 said:

Yes I have,

First time I stayed overnight at my husband. We were sleeping on the pull out couch I woke up to go to the bathroom,and saw a spirit that looked like his grandfather walking to the kitchen from his grandma's bedroom,saw him quit a few times.

Another was in June 2002, we were up late, about 3;30 am. Saw my dad who was staying in Arizona that turned out to be the time of his death..as we found out later.

That was a couple of times.

Supposedly this explains it "From a scientific standpoint, experiences like these are best explained by well documented interactions between perception, memory, sleep physiology, and coincidence rather than external entities. Waking during the night, especially from partial or disrupted sleep, places the brain in a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state where dream imagery can intrude into waking consciousness, producing vivid, realistic figures that feel externally present and emotionally meaningful; these are common, especially in unfamiliar environments or during stress. The mind naturally constructs familiar human forms using stored memories, which is why apparitions often resemble relatives. In the second account, the perceived timing alignment with a death is an example of retrospective meaning making and coincidence amplification, where countless unremarkable perceptions are forgotten, but the rare instance that later aligns with real events is remembered and reinterpreted as significant. Large scale studies in cognitive neuroscience and psychology consistently show that such experiences feel profoundly real to the person having them, yet do not require any nonphysical explanation to account for their occurrence."

So basically... people experience the above because of a number of combined factors.

If it was caught on camera, then you have something actionable.