Ghosts?

What if ghosts really exist and have a presence?

Some people believe in ghosts and spirits and say that they can see them and communicate with them but not everyone believes them. Maybe they really can see them and maybe there really is an afterlife? If ghosts walked this earth as plainly as people do and could communicate with us as plainly as we can talk, a great deal of our life's questions would be answered, beliefs changed, and maybe even chaos would arise if there are evil spirits.

We would be able to see everyone that has died, but would they still be themselves? People would be able to see their loved ones that have died but would it be worse if they could never truely be with them, even though they can see and talk to them? History would be far easier to understand since there would be people who have lived through it to tell the tales. Would their still be religion and beliefs that peoples' souls go to heaven or hell? What if people started thinking that hell was being kept on earth after we died as a ghost to roam forever? However, we would be able to know what happens to our souls after we die, but is that really what we want to know? Would there be good ghosts and bad ghosts or deamons? Would that depend on how that person was when they were alive? How would the horror movie industry change? There are so many more questions and theories that would arise if ghosts were as much a part of this world as people.

I think the most important questions to try and answer here are the ones of religion, loved ones, and good vs. evil ghosts. First there would absolutely still be religion or something that people have to believe in. Everything that has happened in the past has been mostly caused by religious arguments of some sort so I don't think that it would just disappear. Even if there are ghosts I think that there will still be some sort of basis so that people would be able to reason as to why they are here. After all most religions have an aspect of an afterlife of some sort that explains what happens to peoples' souls once they die. If there is still religion then there has to be good and evil spirits. All of our religions determine our values of what is good and bad. Those who have done bad in their life or were angry would become deamons or angrier spirits than those who were good and led descent love filled lives. However, if there are deamons then would there be angels? Of course! Angels have to offset the deamons and bad ghosts. Then there might be wars between them but that's a discussion for another time. As for whether we would get closure from the loved ones that we lost, I think that it would be infinitely harder to overcome. We would still be able to talk to them and see them, but not touch them or feel their warmth. It would be a comfort of some-sort but ultimately, it wouldn't be the same.

If there were ghosts it definitely change our opinions of horror movies! Especially if there are real-life deamons walking about.

Overall, if ghosts were able to wander about the earth in plain sight, then it would greatly change life's many philosophical questions about religion and the afterlife.