i am fascinated with ghosts.
[{"role": "system", "content": "In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. Descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike visions. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a \"s\u00e9ance\". The belief in the existence of an afterlife, as well as manifestations of the spirits of the dead is widespread, dating back to animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures. Certain religious practices\u2014funeral rites, exorcisms, and some practices of spiritualism and ritual magic\u2014are specifically designed to rest the spirits of the dead. Ghosts are generally described as solitary, human-like essences, though stories of ghostly armies and the ghosts of animals rather than humans have also been recounted. They are believed to haunt particular locations, objects, or people they were associated with in life. The overwhelming consensus of science is that ghosts do not exist. Their existence is impossible to falsify, and ghost hunting has been classified as pseudoscience.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not very superstitious or spiritual but I know a good amount about ghosts, I think. Of course they're basically spirits or apparitions of the dead."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am quite spiritual but I am not sure what I believe about ghosts. When my mother died, I know I felt her presence and a lot of freaky stuff happened."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh okay, well what I find interesting is that ghosts are described so differently. Some people say they're an invisible presence but others say they're translucent and wispy."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Have many people actually SEEN these apparitions? I would love to know more."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "As far as I'm concerned nobody since I don't really believe in them haha. But that's also because the existence of ghosts rides on the existence of an afterlife."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you believe in an afterlife? I have built my life believing that there must be more than what we can see and what exist in the physical world."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am agnostic, meaning that there could be but there isn't enough proof for me to believe currently. There are lots of religious practices associated with ghosts, like exorcisms and funeral rites."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have read a great deal of historical and apologetic literature based on whether or not there is a God and I came to the conclusion that there IS a designer and I believe he is God. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "See, I completely respect that but I personally don't feel that way currently. Another thing that I find confusing is there seem to only be human ghosts, but what about animals?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't believe animals have souls with a free will that we, as humans, posses. I am not into theology! lol I just have opinions and I have faith!"}]