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  • wisely@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneworld rule
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    5 days ago

    Just was discussing this with a friend the other day. In school they taught us cursive, how to balance a checkbook, do math by hand since a calculator will rarely be around. How to develop film, going in person to ask for job applications to fill out. Using paper maps, writing physical letters and mailing them. Doing research in libraries and using encyclopedias. The Dewey Decimal System. Skiing in the snow, observing fireflies. Learning about checks and balances, democracy.


  • I’m an atheist too besides some interest in Buddhist philosophy. I consider what I saw as more like something residual, not a conscious soul walking the Earth. But honestly I have no idea.

    I do like the idea that something could exist still scientifically undiscovered though. In modern times we can’t just go into the wilderness or hop on a boat and make a new discovery. The low hanging fruit has been found before we were born, and in a way it has made things more mundane.


  • wisely@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneI'm on this site for memes
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    6 days ago

    It happened over 20 years ago. I wouldn’t believe it myself if I hadn’t seen it and had someone point it out to me. My friend didn’t even say anything so there was no expectation for what I would see when I turned around. It wasn’t a creepy setting, being daylight and eating lunch. I haven’t seen any since then.

    I make no claims on what a ghost is, it could just be residual or glimpses through time, glitch in the Matrix, who knows, probably not a conscious being and it did fade away so possibly not even permanently around. All I know is there appears to be some rare phenomena that can be pointed to and briefly observed by multiple people. Of course there is only my word on that and I am just a person online so it makes sense to be skeptical especially in modern times. Given the topic seemed a fun place to share my experience.


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    People used to have big families and lots would die at home. Also a lot of people would die at psych wards and many lived there.

    Houses now have fewer people, and people are more likely to die at a hospital. Most houses today are not that old, while a house from the 1700’s would have hundreds of years for people to die in it.

    If you want a modern ghost maybe look in an ICU unit or possibly a new cemetery. My friend once silently pointed out a ghost to me outside in the daylight outside an old mental hospital that had been converted to a school. She was a white mist just walking down the hill wearing a gown, no shoes but for some reason her head wasn’t visible. I want to say looked like maybe late 1800’s early 1900’s.



  • wisely@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMr Rule
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    17 days ago

    Life is much simpler being a regular middle class kid living with your parents than an adult millionaire everyone knows and expects money from. He never knew what actually being broke and responsible for yourself or a family as an adult was.