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[apiphile]

I think I have an idea of what to write for this fic now. It's pedestrian, but it will be better than the 900-odd words of directionless, idiotic, characterless ooze that I have committed thus far. It does mean starting from scratch, but it shouldn't take more than a couple of days? I would say "a day" but I have a book cover and shit to do as well

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[wolfy_writing]

You gave wonderfully clear answers for four and five. I like it when someone can lay things so clearly.

The ghost thing is one of those questions where people who say they've had experiences nearly always end up describing something that sounds remarkably like what happens when you combine a person in a suggestible state, a set of preconceived notions about what they might expect to experience and what it means, and some minor oddities or coincidences. And I know that I am highly suggestible when it comes to weird feelings and minor sensory oddities, so I tend to come at these things with extreme skepticism. Which results in one of those neverending conversations where they keep insisting they're describing something totally different, and I keep thinking it sounds like the suggestibility thing

[apiphile]

Mostly I just hate the fluffy waffle that surrounds them. ;)

Oh, i've had conversations with people where I can explain in terms of neurology what's happened, but they don't want to know about it and insist that it's an inexplicable phenomena (and therefore a ghost) even when there is A PERFECTLY RATIONAL EXPLANATION. Oddly this sort of lies alongside my raging hatred of Hollywood movie insistence on punishing sceptics in scripts. "Oh they don't believe in aliens WELL WE'LL HAVE THEM EATEN BY AN ALIEN" and atheists are only ever atheists when we're being eaten by demons...

The ghost thing is one of those questions where people who say they've had experiences nearly always end up describing something that sounds remarkably like what happens when you combine a person in a suggestible state, a set of preconceived notions about what they might expect to experience and what it means, and some minor oddities or coincidencesI think the fact that how ghost experiences are perceived changes with time and within cultures certainly doesn't

[wolfy_writing]

I hate the skeptic-punishing thing. Also, the complete lack of a clue about what skepticism actually means. If there's a giant overwhelming pile of evidence pointing towards aliens or ghosts or demons or whatever, skeptics are going to become a lot more open to those possibilities. If someone starts running around going "No, there are no aliens! It's all experimental spaceships and people with strange genetic conditions" in the middle of Independence Day, he isn't skeptic, but a conspiracy theorist.

[apiphile]

It's kind of like they twist the meaning of the word to place sceptics in the position they've spent most of their time deservedly in... evidence-denying loonies. ;)