Carolina Cancerinadewi and Cassandra Cameron

Indonesian culture believes ghosts and they are often starred in media, fairy tales and folklores. Since childhood, we are exposed to the concept of ghost. It affects on our way of thinking about the concept of the afterlife.

Ghosts are an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous. According to the Collins Dictionary, a ghost is disembodied soul, a dead person haunting the living.

Ghosts are the spirits of the dead

Those who have unresolved business in the world and their problems must be resolved in order for them to crossover.

Ghosts are evil spirits

Some people have seen them Some people that are close to us claimed that they saw/hear/feel the presence of ghosts. Some TV shows such as Most Haunted and Ghost Hunter proved the existence of ghosts.

Empirical

Visual, auditory, smell and touch. Technology: Infrared sensors, temperature sensor, etc
Atmosphere of the environment Presumed fear Deductive Inductive

Emotion

Logic

Atmosphere of the surrounding

Cemetery Hospital Morgue Old and abandoned places

Stories that say a certain place is haunted Fear

Presumed thinking

Visual: apparition, transparent creatures, moving objects (seen or caught on tape). Auditory : terrifying, other worldly and strange. Olfactory : flower scent in unlikely places, etc. Tactile : chills, goose bumps, sweeping motion.

Some people said that they have seen ghosts Justification: But these senses are just the tools for us to acquire information from our surroundings. These information are then processed by our brain. The problem is that our brain can easily be tricked, for example: optical illusions. We also knows people with perfectly working senses, but defect in their brain makes them get the information differently compared to normal people. Reliability questions: Why only certain people see ghosts in the first place? From where did you get the information? From people?

Language: Platos philosophy. Something that you are born with Scientifically: People acquire information through senses, but all depends on the brain that processed it. If people can think differently, maybe how the brain process information is also different to one another. sixth sense = a supposed intuitive faculty giving awareness not explicable in normal perception.

Mathematically: according to this article Higher Education Fuels Stronger Belief in Ghosts: higher education is linked to a greater tendency to believe in ghosts and other paranormal phenomena, according to a new study. While 23 percent of college freshmen expressed a general belief in paranormal conceptsfrom astrology to communicating with the dead31 percent of seniors did so and the figure jumped to 34 percent among graduate students. Relatively strong knowledge.

Science The Law of the Conservation of Energy Thomas Alfa Edison attempted to make a machine that allows the living to communicate with the dead.

My close friend have seen ghosts (personal sightings) Can you trust the claim of a stranger, whom you barely now and doesnt have the title or the expertise in the area? Its hard to believe in a strangers opinion about a strong issue as we lived in this deceitful world. Bias: friend Weak knowledge to other people, strong to the friend Relatively weak

Shows such as Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted proved them Ghost Hunters is a show consisting paranormal investigators trying to give rational explanations to the paranormal activities in haunted places History: T.A.P.S which is a real paranormal investigative company which is based out of Rhode Island. They were taking on cases long before they got their TV show. Strong knowledge, making them professionals. Most Haunted is also a show that the only explanation for what is going on is paranormal activity

(Sightings in their video clip) WOK: Perception Science: advanced tools Strong, they tried to involve science when they know science and paranormal stuff doesnt exactly mix They listen to what clients claim their experiences in the area have been and they try to find explanations for them. They check out ventilation, wiringanything that could be causing side effects that are similar to a paranormal experience. Clearly states that in about 80% of their cases they find causes for the clients experiences that have nothing to do with the paranormal activities.

(video clip) They used psychics and medium. Weak knowledge for people who believe in absolutes science. Mostly emotional (cries, fall down, possessed). Weak cause emotionally biased, every visits get ghosts. But what if they are true phenomenon? But since it is emotionally based people tend to not believe it. Art: how they kept saying they saw things but their video cameras only pointing at faces and no where. Makes the show questionable and seems its purpose is only to entertain

It also comes from our culture and perspective If people believed in seeing is believing, most likely wouldnt believe in both shows

Raised more questions for example if so many people have died shouldnt there be ghosts everywhere we go? Cloudy answer If the souls of real dead people roams the earth, it implied that theres no heaven.

A person died once and he/she will be judged before Christ. Ghosts are the fallen angels sent by Satan to mislead people and make them turn away from God. They look like familiar people, but actually they are fallen angels masquerading as our loved ones. 2 Corinthians 11:14 tells us that Satan and his angels are able to disguise themselves as helpful spirits.

We arent really sure about the existence of ghost. But if they do exist, the theory of fallen angels are appropriate. Bias: view on this matter as a Catholic, believe in the Bible.

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