You do, when you tell people that their very real and tangible experiences that defy conventional explanation, were merely ... Because we’re afraid to die and we want to be special. Encounters with things that “survived” death in some way feeds both, it makes us special today and gives us hope that death is not the end tomorrow.
You think yourself so superior that you discern our error while we remain blissfully self-deceiving. That is pretty much the opinion I see you expressing here, though more diplomatically.
Everything your mad about came out of your head NOT my writing. I never said I’m superior AT ALL. The question of the thread was “why do people believe in ghosts”, I gave the answer from psychology. And BTW if you’d bothered to read the article it also presents psychological reasons for why people believe.
I sure hope you don’t believe you can read minds, because you’re WAY off. I don’t think I’ve “discerned” anybody’s error. I’m pointing out that there are good psychological reasons people WANT to believe. Heck there’s thing I WANT to believe in, and ghosts once were on the list. One of the primary reasons I walked away from that is those awful “ghost hunting” TV shows, they’re so pathetic, either desperate to believe or desperate to scam people (can’t decide which) so I walked away. When they all get canceled I’ll consider believing again. But if I choose to believe I’ll know why. I don’t see how knowing why I do irrational things makes me superior, doesn’t seem to stop me.