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[–] 55 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Would there even be a human race? If ghosts existed think of all the animal ghosts, think of all the dinosaur ghosts.

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Ghosts stuck. Planet moves. People safe👍

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    So every year the earth revisits a given spot in the ghost trail?

    So the closest ghosts, on any given day, are the ones who died on the same date. So the death anniversary of a loved one would mean they are at their nearest point.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Well no, since our entire solar system is also moving. While we may return to a point that's similar to last year relative to the sun, we've still moved in relation to everything outside that frame.

    Think of a car moving down the highway and you're in the back seat. You scoot over to the other side, throw some trash out the window, then scoot back. In relation to the car you're back where you started, in relation to the trash you threw... You're down the highway you filthy litterer.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Our galaxy is also moving through the greater universe, so those ghosts will be long dead ghost corpses floating still in the greater void if/when earth ever swings by again.

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    [–] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    There would be no one.

    There is not an ethnic group alive who either isnt hated by another or has hatred for another.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Really? I mean, I mostly hate billionaires.

    Wait, how many people can a single ghost take out over the course of its existence? Can a billionaire ghost take out more people than one who died below the poverty level? How long is a ghost's existence? Is it unable to move on because it hasn't yet eradicated everyone it wants to? What if it is just unable to for whatever reason? Does it simply roam the Earth forever harming other people that it didn't even intend to originally?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Maybe, disdain for those people is one thing, but European powers have engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide over the past 500 years on a global scale inconceivable in previous eras of human history, in part because it wasn't possible with the tech available during most of that time.

    Every country in the Global South has a horror story associated with people of European descent (not present day, from the past) which is pretty far reaching if you think about it, as they make up 80% of humanity.

    That's not something anyone today needs to necessarily feel bad about personally but the systems of exploitation that concentrated wealth amongst the 20% still exist today in different forms.

    Just ask Emmanuel Macron who is marching around Africa to find another region to exploit after Sahel countries (Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso) united in ridding themselves of French neocolonialism.

    Violent settlement, transatlantic slavery, indentured servitude, the creation of a global race based caste system. It's not that some semblance of these concepts didn't exist everywhere. It's the scale and persistence that matters.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    True but consider: People from the actual Caucasus.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    This is the funniest and most accurate skeptic claim I as a white man and paranormal investigator have ever seen. I swear, lack of sun exposure killed something in the Caucasian male's self preservation instinct. I think it was having to go out in Nordic snow.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    A similar argument is one of the reasons episode 8 sucks.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Let's see, are you talking about Yoda, one of the most powerful Force users we know of, after literally becoming one with the Force, having the power to summon lightning on a planet that is stated to be intricately connected with the Force and the Jedi, or are you talking about the scene where the whole point is that Luke's force projection could have no physical impact, but Kylo still let that get to him, thereby perfectly encapsulating both of their arcs?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    what does this implies? caucasians would sucide to enact their revenge on the turks?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    ghosts specifically target white people, or that ghosts being white are associated with white people only.

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