Athenian... you sound confused.
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If most ghostly encounters are really just tricks or flaws of our minds, then how do we explain photographs of them?
Personally.. I do not believe that we are "capturing ghosts" on film. I believe that they are one of a few things... 1) angel... 2) sprit... 3) other
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Do horror movies/stories corrupt our imaginations and make our logic become clouded and disabled from fear or worry?
"disabled
from fear or worry?" No.. I'd say quite the opposite.
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Why do we cross through the dark forest with simple ease in blissful carelessness yet other times we do not even dare try to because of a fear of being watched or encountering something we do not wish to?
Why does my sister love oyster stew and I hate it? I depends on the individual. I'm afraid of dark forests... but I know others who aren't. We are just.. different.
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If ghostly beings do exist are they really any threat to the physical being?
No
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Is there really any benefits to believing in ghosts?
No... None that I can think of... Though... I don't see ghosts as what many people believe ghosts to be.
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If they do exist, what is the point of interfering with them, or ghosts interfering with us for that matter?
well... that is a tricky question for me.. but.. I don'y see a point off-hand...
hope that helped!

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ummmm ok that scary i suppose we all do have a ghostly encounter but some people just dismiss it cos the are narrow minded prejudice or naive they are the skeptics of these sort of things like we hu have had an encounter and think that its more than what it may seem will start to have more and become believers because they cant explain what has happened and the naive skeptics will also keep having them too but wont notice because of their blissfull ignorance