may be "their version of the truth " was not a good term to use ?? - ( forgive my inelegance in putting my thoughts down in type ) - OK lets try again , we all know that according to the sceptics " anecdotal evidence " is not acceptable as it cant be "proven " to the satisfaction of the thing we loosely term as "science " ( which covers a multitude of sins
) in that the results of the "observation " are not repeatable under "scientific " conditions , but how does one repeat a one off event ??
no my problem with the skeptics - is this attitude of its not possible because WE have not witnessed it - and even if we did - we would STILL dismiss it as delusion ( insert what ever term you want here ) - and that those reporting a one off phenomena - possibly witnessed ONLY by them , must be somehow crazy , delusional etc etc - ignoring the possibility that the witness HAS factually reported an event which WAS real and was NOT an hallucination etc etc , thus implying that anyone who has had ,or believes in the possibility of such rare events happening - is crazy ( by their so perfect standards ?? )
( at this point i will remind you all of the old adage that " the truth is sill the truth , even IF that truth is known ONLY to one person " )
and lets be fair here - there ARE some out there who would dismiss ( for example ) a UFO landing on the lawn of the white house and the occupants being greeted by the president on world TV as a hoax ,( heck some say the moon landings where faked ) - because they could not go poke the aliens and satisfy themselves they WHERE real - or that the event could not be replicated under controlled conditions ( OK very extreme example here - but you get my drift )
so basically its a "no win " situation for ALL sides at the moment - we the "believers" cant PROVE the existence of ghosts - whilst the skeptical can not PROVE they don't exist - as how DO you find a level of evidence that will satisfy every one on earth ?? - its like religion , i often wonder how many skeptics are "religious" which implies "faith" ?? the very thing we believers are slated for having
i guess at the end of the day - when we do die - then and only then will we know if any of us where right or wrong ?? - and about half of us are gonna be mighty disappointed
in the mean time , i suppose it keeps us ,sceptic and believer alike amused
ho hum ....................