Is Your Office Haunted?

WormholeFiend writes "You know Halloween is around the corner when websites like Forbes.com releases a story wondering about the supernatural. From the article: 'Maybe the spirits have decided that spooky mansions and creepy battlefields are passé. Maybe they want to cash in on the glamour of corporate life. Maybe they just wanted the sushi.'" Anyone out there have any encounters with a spiritual Milton?

Comments

To those who doubt the paranormal

[LeonGeeste]

If you really think ghosts and all are fake, then how about this: put up, say $1000 of your own money to the first person to scientifically prove they exist. You wouldn't do it right? Because you know you'd be out $1000.

There are no ghosts

[Anonymous Coward]

Only religious simpletons believe in the supernatural.

A spectre is haunting my office desktop

[ir0b0t]

Its the spectre of open source.

All the powers of unix are pressed into struggle to exorcise this spectre: GNU and BSD; Apple and Linux; hackers and crackers; script kiddies and my grandmother who can't even use an aol client and wishes she could have her old typewriter back.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as open source by its opponents in Richmond?

It is high time that open source advocates openly publish their views and their aims and meet this nursery tale of open source with a party manifesto.

. . .

Brrr . . . spooky . . . .

Happy Halloween!

Can I get partial credit?

[gad_zuki!]

I've worked with many credulous people and our offices are haunted. After a little investigation I've found the ghosts:

1. Mysterious cold draft: The HVAC vents

2. Mysterious shaking: Skyscrapers are designed to sway a little in the wind.

3. Mysterious misc: humans are spending more time indoors than outdoors thus the ghosts have "moved" with them. No, people are just letting their imaginations run wild wherever they go.

4. Mysterious flicker of the light: florescents going out.

Above mixed with "it only happens when..." thus it must be supernatural is nothing but selective thinking.

The only truly ghoulish things I've found in my office ironically were:

1. The jehovah's witness who keeps the Watchtower laying around and preaches to new hires. Sorry, but missionary work on the job should be grounds for an immediate firing. Period. Unfortunately, I would think american politicians and judges would quickly call this some sort of discrimination due to vested interests.

2. Setting up a special prayer room for a muslim students at my old school. Hey, I'm all for it, but say I declare myself a discordian tomorrow can I get a chaos room full of nerf guns and classic videogames? Thought not. Double BS standard. My imaginary friend is just as real as yours.

3. Email chains full of "pray for so-and-so." Well, if so-and-so's kid is dead or if they have cancer I doubt some clasped hands are going to make any difference. Sorry, but life is rough. Sometimes really rough, and people have my sympathy, but I won't "share in a prayer with you" thank you ever much. Not to mention, the root question of begging the god who gave so-and-so cancer to take it away seems to spit the face of the whole allowing god(s) to control human affairs. The religious never seem to see it this way.

4. Email chains from the Dali Lama. Oh please, just because you're into Eastern religion doesnt make you *any* different than the Catholic down the hall. The snobby white suburban buddists have more disdain for Christianity than I do. You're both on par with my imaginary friend Eris, but just afraid to really admit it.

I may seem anti-religious, but I just wish people would keep it to themselves for once.

Randi is a fraud.

[Seraphim_72]

Tell you what, I will give you $1 million dollars if you prove evolution is real. Whoa, slow down. Here is your one celled organism, you have 2 weeks to "evolve" a monkey. What? You need more time? ...nope - I make the rules, I, Sera decide what is fair for the paranormal, not you. Is it fair? Certainly it is. Obviously as the scientist in this equation, I have proven that Evolution is false, you have two weeks to evolve a monkey to prove me wrong. No one has evolved a monkey in 20 years so I must be right. Right?

Point is - if I get to set the test I can always prove you wrong...always. If you really look at the sub-amazing Randi's tests they all are shell games that the house wins. It is no big deal if I offer a million dollars if I know I will win from the get go.

Sera