Oh...

And no, I really don't believe in Ghosts. David has tasked his readers to fess up again this week, so here it is.

I'd LOVE to see a ghost, but never have, and don't really believe I could. I know millions of people have claimed to see them, but I think it's a testament to the minds ability to trick the eye or ear. Folks want to believe, and that's cool, but it don't make it so.

I'd LOVE to see a Bigfoot, or Nessy, or a woman in my bed who looks like Brigitte Bardot at 19, in the flesh...



but I don't think there is such a thing, or ever will be. That shit doesn't happen to guys like me. I know, I need to believe in it to make it happen, but there are some things that just seem beyond the scope of possibility. Seeing a ghost is also one of those things. Boy howdy, would I LOVE to, but I never have, and it doesn't seem possible to me, so I have little faith.

People invest so much energy in these ideas, they end up manipulating themselves into seeing things that aren't there. Happens all the time, even in politics and love, to the extent that I think it must be a totally natural state of the human mind. Next thing you know you're telling yourself that the sweet, plump little woman that makes you so happy is your Brigitte, and that's enough. She's not the total package, but she loves you, and she's probably the best package you're gonna get. Maybe it's a defense mechanism, like that black shield membrane that falls over a sharks eye just before it takes a bite out of a surfer. Easier to deal with than the truth, but who knows what the hell that is?

I love a good scare, like the next person. And of course, being a history dude, I'd LOVE to be able to see someone from the past. I get a huge charge out of people saying that they've walked over something like an old Civil War battlefield and actually seen soldiers marching by. I saw a thing once about a place in England where people see Roman soldiers marching out of one wall into another, where an old Roman road crosses under a house. God, I'd LOVE to see something like that! It would rock!

Now, there are things that happen to people that are difficult to understand or explain. But just because something is inexplicable, doesn't make it spiritual. I hope with all my heart that there's an after world. There's folks I'd like to see again, or for the first time. But thinking about it rationally, between funerals, I don't think there is one. I don't think there are spirits, and that's that. I know, DULL!

And dig this, if there ain't no scary or weepy ghosts, how can there be a Holy Ghost? OK, that's another story. I'm of two minds, and Dave will probably get to that eventually. I don't want to give him the bum rush.