(May 11, 2018 04:54 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]"British Prime Minister Winston Churchill loved to retire late, take a long, hot bath while drinking a Scotch, and smoke a cigar and relax. On this occasion, he climbed out of the bath and naked, but for his cigar, walked into the adjoining bedroom. He was startled to see Lincoln standing by the fireplace in the room, leaning on the mantle. Churchill, always quick on the uptake, simply took his cigar out of his mouth, tapped the ash off the end of his cigar and said "Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me at a disadvantage." Lincoln smiled softly, as if laughing and disappeared. Churchill smiled in embarrassment."---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln's_ghost
Speaking of *Lost* elsewhere... Given the
Smoke Monster's ability to mimic dead humans, it raises the remote possibility of a supposed legitimate apparition (eluding common explanations) not having anything to do with an actual remnant of the deceased. But instead being the shape-shifting of some plasma lifeform.[*]
Or more likely to have the ability: An alternate entity grounded in higher dimensions or even the "
grey-goo" technology of the future or current ET probes. Of course, the question would then arise of what agenda could possibly be behind such hauntings. Might be nothing more than the arbitrary, prankster tendencies of an adolescent of the species, or simply the output of totally non-human interests and thought processes.
Also, should something as exotic as an atemporal being be involved in such masquerades, it would arguably be pointless altogether to speculate about the "why" of the behavior. The latter's causal relationship to this level of existence would be hierarchical (vertical) rather than the moment-by-moment, horizontal chain of causes and effects which creatures like ourselves experience (time-flow as just another
quale). As Kant contended, influence from an eternal or timeless stratum would be simultaneous rather than moment-by-moment. Woven anonymously into the lawfulness and history of the phenomenal world. However, any direct manifestations of "spooks" would still seem to be unnatural interference. But since they're never actually confirmed to any skeptic's satisfaction or receive a reliable public validation, such "interference" remains anonymous behind conventional explanations, chains of coincidences, "waiting indefinitely to be explained", etc. A single individual or small group of individuals may be empirically satisfied by their direct encounters, but they never sway the mainstream knowledge establishment and thus conventional reality survives.
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[*] In 2007, V. N. Tsytovich and colleagues proposed that lifelike behaviors could be exhibited by dust particles suspended in a plasma, under conditions that might exist in space. Computer models showed that, when the dust became charged, the particles could self-organize into microscopic helical structures capable of replicating themselves, interacting with other neighboring structures, and evolving into more stable forms. Similar forms of life were described in Fred Hoyle's classic novel *The Black Cloud*. --Galnet Wiki
Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities (2007)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...150630.htm
Plasma Aliens May Live Inside “Black Clouds” In The Universe (2012)
https://astronaut.com/plasma-aliens-may-...-universe/
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