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    8 months ago

    If ghosts are real… then every living thing, cockroach, dogs, fish, fleas, birds, they get ghosts too, billions upon billions of ghosts flooding, saturating the universe.

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      8 months ago

      Not likely. Ghosts have their origin in human souls. When the physical body does, we continue existing in non physical worlds unless we reincarnate on earth again. Ghosts are probably some kind of middle area for some reason.

      The physical world is the hardest for the soul since we experience separation and good / evil, and also animal like-traits like competition and lack of resources. But it’s a great way to evolve spiritually if you want to.

      That’s my 2 cents on it at least.

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          8 months ago

          There’s a point where you have to question whether sentience is present vs the ability to react to the world… Mostly in flies (which have some of the lowest neuron count of any animal) they just fly towards smell and light etc. - they don’t get angry or upset or noticibly happy and that’s not too far beyond a light switch reacting to you pressing it.

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          8 months ago

          Maybe the word I should have used was “cognizance”? Edit: Probably not but the right word isn’t coming to me

          If ghosts were real and we only saw human ghosts, I would have to assume either ghosts are species specific; meaning you can only see ghosts of beings that were the same animal as you. OR the soul is an evolutionary step and humans are the only species that made it far enough to have ghosts

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            8 months ago

            If I was in a world where ghosts were real I would have to assume other “spiritual” aspects from different cultures are real too. So maybe you can only be a ghost of you’re spiritually adept enough 🤷‍♂️