I did this for my English debate in class, sooooo… yea… I thought I would be nice and share it with anyone who is also doing this topic (: So i will generously give this to you and post some things that you will hopefully care about ASAP!-
This house is against the motion “ghosts exist”. To open, we will quote “there are no haunted places; just haunted people.” This quote suggests that ghosts are in a person’s imagination; not in a certain ‘haunted’ place. There is no evidence to prove that these nocturnal stereotypical spirits exist. These ghost that supposedly possess ‘magical powers’ and seem to avoid large crowds seem to never be captured on programmes like ‘ghost hunter’ and ‘most haunted’. And surely, clothes don’t follow spirits to the afterlife? Do any of you have any solid evidence that ghosts exist? People commonly say that they’ve seen a ghost or have had a ghostly experience, but evidence do they have to prove this? (Pause) Nothing. All they have is a load of photo-shopped photos and proven hoaxes to attempt to back up their argument. So if the all look the same, act the same, surely, this is just a seed that countless horror films and ghost stories has embedded in our imagination?
We quoted that there are no haunted places only haunted people and we stated that it is your imagination.
For example if you go to a dark house that is said to be haunted you tell yourself to be on alert and your senses pick up on small things that usually wouldn’t bother you during the day.. Your mind also imagines some of these senses because you have alerted yourself to certain things so much.
Ever felt like someone’s watching you? Or had an inexplicable feeling of fear or terror? This could be due to infrasound. Infrasound is a sound lower than 20 hertz, which is below the lower limit of human audibility. You can’t consciously hear the sound but your ears can still sense it. The fact your conscious mind can’t understand where these sensory inputs are coming from completely messes with your emotions causing your body to create the feeling of fear, dread or panic.
This would then also say why ghosts are so stereotypical, you imagine what you think a ghost is and that is the outcome of what you think you have found.
A believer might say, “Well don’t be silly, there are so few ghosts because only people become ghosts, because only people have spirits!” I don’t buy this argument because the arguers contradict themselves with stories of ghost men with spectral dogs and even of inanimate objects that appear as apparitions; entire doors and windows, even events that play out as “ghosts”. Does a gunshot have a spirit? Does a horrible fire have a spirit? If so, shouldn’t be haunted by all of the ‘dead’ furniture as well? We clearly aren’t.
Ghosts come in one form – that just happens to be human – who is conveniently what we bipedal-chimps want to see, and not say a dead cow hovering at the end of one’s bed. Have you ever heard of the legend of oceans being haunted by ghostly plankton?
-why don’t we see ghosts of other less popular animals, we see ghosts of cats, dogs, cows even but why not elephants? Lions? dinosaurs even… imagine waking up to a T.Rex staring back at you from beyond the grave what about spiders and flies, we should have hundreds of flies haunting us, i must have killed about 300 flys in my life, this year alone probably about 20 or 30… Ants i have probably killed about 10,000 ants this year! in my life probably over 100,000 why aren’t i haunted by 100,000,000 ants?
Why do ghosts always appear stereotypically in clothing we think of in a certain period of history, Victorian ghosts are almost always wearing old style coats and hats… not everyone was wearing a hat back in the Victorian era, another fact why are ghosts always wearing clothes anyway? What are clothes, manmade material that grips onto us, why isn’t a ghost attached to a house or the planet when it dies? Why don’t we see ghosts dragging houses around down a street? what is the definition of what a ghost can carry when it dies, if your touching the floor surely the house you’re in would become “part” of your spirit and fly with you, I can see it now large mansions flying in the sky attached to some poor souls foot…
But why? What’s the point of coming back to report on a murder that happened about 200 years ago? The god damn murderer by this time is dead along with these children and their children… you serve no purpose at all!
Newton’s laws of motion state that ‘for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction’. If ghosts walk then they must be applying a force to the ground and the ground must be applying an equal force on the ghost. This means that ghosts must be made of matter and not energy, as pure energy would not be able to stay on the floor without passing through it.
Also sticking to the theory that ghosts are made of energy how can we explain the myth that when ghosts enter a room the temperature suddenly drops? When a hot object is put next to a cold one, in order for the hot object to cool down, heat energy flows from it and into the cold one. This would work if ghosts were made of matter as they would be able to absorb the heat energy of the room and reduce the temperature, but as they are supposedly made of energy the typical belief that ghostly presences cause sudden chills is false.
We mentioned before how nobody ever captures a picture of a ghost and that there are so many programmes available to edit photos and video. Live TV can even be edited as well by having a small delay.
To conclude, we believe that ghosts DO NOT exist. We have backed up are arguments with many cases and have proved that ghosts are in our imagination. The fact that they are purely based by a seed that countless horror films and ghost stories has embedded in our minds, just sums up what we are proving;
GHOSTS DO NOT EXIST!
Thank you for listening. J
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