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The screaming ghost photo

#1
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"In 1984, a teenager was a victim of a fatal car accident. A photograph that was taken shortly after the incident includes an unexpected image that still affects the man who took it and provides further evidence of a force or existence beyond what is considered rational.

The unfortunate teenager died shortly after the accident involving his black vehicle. It only took the local police minutes to reach the crash scene that evening. As a matter of procedure, one of the police officers took photos of the accident with a 35mm film camera for the record.

When the pictures were developed, the police were both puzzled and shocked by what they saw in one of the frames.

Clearly visible above the open driver's side door is what appears to be the head and shoulders of a young man. The face of the young man is contorted in an open-mouthed scream.

Is it the spirit of the young man re-experiencing the last moments of his life?

Or could it be a powerful psychic impression left on the scene by the terrified mind of the teenager in his last moments?

Most everyone who views this photograph agrees that it is at the very least interesting, and at the most hard evidence of spirit or psychic phenomena that science cannot yet explain. The police officer who took the photo has reported that he is still shaken by seeing the picture.

Note that the photo, taken in 1984, was taken well before the Photoshop era, which made it easy for nearly anyone to alter images.

And If it is just a trick of light, as some skeptics might suggest, it is indeed a remarkable one."

http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostphot...-Ghost.htm


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Note the red checkered shirt. I wonder if that is what the teen was wearing when he died?
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What was innovative about Kant's dual conceptionism (interpretation of enslavement to natural mechanism and governance on one side; interpretation of noumenal freedom from such on the other side), is that it eliminated the conflict between two seemingly incompatible ways of explaining the same occurrence. In a way it anticipated the future of a computer game which goes all-out in terms of keeping its virtual reality very separate from its equivalent of a transcendent reality (our world, or the players who are manipulating their avatar characters in the game).

For instance, imagine it's a game of such technological sophistication that the VR characters actually do think for themselves (and have experiences). They explain their "minds" by the brains they easily discover inside their skulls (via all that game violence getting them strewn around with the guts of their bodies). Investigation reveals that their decision-making and will is the result of just more mechanistic processes of their world (the relational inter-dependence of its detectable spatial phenomena). However, from a higher perspective some of those game characters are also being controlled by their transcendent counterparts which can't be detected (the players). Sergeant Marvo believes his every act and speech is completely explained by the physical processes of his body (a scientific study would verify that). And yet 13-year old Todd Queezy is controlling him like a puppet on the "other side". The latter's "transcendent" manipulations get converted into the natural explanations on the virtual side, or integrated into the scheme of how that world functions according to its own internal story.

Plus, there's more than just the "free will" thing, or the behind the scenes "freedom from the appearances and answers of that game world". A variety of extraordinary coincidences and happenstance pareidolia matters could be conceived in a dual manner. The aftermath of a teenager suffering a fatal auto crash, and having a weird pareidolia shape arise in a photo of the accident, should be expected to have a scientific or statistical remedy (IF the whole affair is not outright fake, fraud, etc). What would be truly bizarre is if this supposed oddity did not have a perfectly physical, probabilistic, or psychological explanation. As well as any significance, purpose, or meaning -- applied to it by those who knew the kid -- being equally exposed by experts as bogus imagination and selective bias. "That a percentage of random events will sometimes converge to yield a false meaningful circumstance is an expected consequence of the quantitative legacy of this universe and how it mechanistically operates."

What these potential ultra- computer games of the future might eventually make more obvious than what Kant's neck-deep overdose of specialized nomenclature could, is that there can be transcendent meaning and goals which can intrude upon nature and yet still be perfectly pissed-away as random chance or lacking any underlying pattern or connective framework to justify their truly being significant or indicative of this world being nested in another level. To the skeptical they are not proof of anything because they indeed do not qualify as such in systems that have been honed to discard such rubbish possibilities as serving no good purpose. But to believers or the gullible or whoever that want to infer significance in isolated events or in "noise" that seem to lack a verifiable support which would make them thus worthy, perhaps the "covert message" from the transcendent game players has been received and has an impact.

Which is not say that Kant's "dual conceptionism" finds its true calling in the "computer" metaphysics bandied about today. His approach was far better because it doesn't introduce yet another stratum of "relational, inter-dependent spatial phenomena" that the computer resides in which itself would then need to be explained by yet another similar situation, and so in infinite regress. He introduced something completely different (but accordingly unknown in terms of verifying the right conception), that could put an end to the nonsense habit of "causality" being treated as more fundamental than existence (among other things). For humans, objects of space and time seem to inherently demand an origin and continual analysis and re-analysis, by their very characteristic of being such. Whatever a noumenal level would be, it wouldn't or shouldn't need an origin.

Arguably the block-universe type of eternalism would be an example of not requiring a cause (just weld all events / object-states together in a higher dimensional structure). But few if any would contend that qualifies for Kant's empty placeholder, for a variety of reasons. Besides... The unfolding, synchronized phenomenal continuum in each of Leibniz's windowless monads (an earlier version of "knowable" things in themselves) had a vague resemblance to a personal version of a block-universe, and Kant rejected Leibniz's supposed "rational proving" of such (or at least, that being the only possibility / option).
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#3
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The fact that paranormal phenomena often accompanies synchronistic occurrences does indeed suggest some higher level workings behind the scenes. One evening I was talking to one of my voices Michael and outside my window I saw a perfect paredoilia of a kid's face complete with moving mouth. Clearly the image was the shadow of moving foliage from a tree cast upon the apt wall, but the timeliness of it struck me as something quite magical. Could they both be true--the random patterns of blind physical events AND the guidance of some higher intelligence? You certainly raise that profound possibility. One thing I've noticed with experiences like these is that they are always much more self-evident and meaningful from the inside than from the outside. Describing it to others often makes one feel abit silly and delusional. This suggests to me a sort of a priori power in the experience of the transcendent that doesn't rely on the intra-physical time-based causality of our material world. That points to the eternalist nature of that higher level whereby sequential and empirical causality is overridden by the immedate presence of something timeless and otherworldy. Though not exactly overridden. Perhaps reappropriated is a better word.

Another "foilage ghost"


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