1 RT = 1 random thought on ghosts

(This gon be challenging but let's see)

Ghosts as anthropological phenomenon.

They are truly universal, found in all cultures across space and time. This makes them an entity equivalent of God himself.

I can think of a culture that believes in ghosts but has not yet reached an understanding of Gods.

The ghosts being a culture universal means that humanity is afraid of all things in the dark. Including humanity itself.

I like to believe that good people go on to become evil ghosts, and bad people become benign spirits. Death as the line of character assymetry.

Shivji being both Bhootnath (Lord of spirits) and his cultural association with cannabis can't be coincidental.

All phenomenon around underworld is historically linked to psychoactive substances.

Indian ghosts have a language of their own, with a complete grammar and even some literature. https://twitter.com/Shatrubhanja/status/1259706328852938757?s=20

If you believe in ghosts, you must also believe that social media is full of ghosts. https://twitter.com/Shatrubhanja/status/1227264041652895744?s=20

All ghost stories and movies encode creator's childhood trauma.

Ghost bodies can't be touched or experienced by human bodies. Think of this as a reduction in dimension.

2D objects can exist in a 3D world but can't interact with 3D objects like they interact with each other.

Lateral thought:

Japan is big on ghosts, they have probably the most colorful array of ghosts and ghost stories in.the world.

They also have anime.

These are related phenomenon. Both anime and ghosts are 2D things.

All that weird hentai stuff also probably has psychological roots in spirits and ghosts of the Japanese imagination.

Example: Akkorokamui is a part-human part-octopus monster spirit.

The fact that ghosts can't survive the day but can survive the night proves that moonlight is not just recycled sunlight, it is qualitatively and elementally different.

Talking about ghosts and moon, guess where else are they found united.

शिव -> शशिधर and also भूतनाथ

Any future AI worth its name will be closer to ghosts than to humans in a spiritual sense.

Some ghosts are cute.

All of us are a little bit spooky to everyone else. In a way we are all ghosts to each other.

Ghosts are waterproof and technoproof. They also do not get electric shocks.

Ghosts being waterproof, you know what means right?

There are ghosts in the sea too.

Can't think of anything else.

This thread is now over. It lived a long happy life of 18 tweets. Now it will become a ghost thread.

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