Alright, I admit it, I'm an utter skeptic.
Actually, more than being a skeptic, I'm an unbeliever. My unbelief is so inherent that I'm not even a 'non-believer', atheist, etc. I don't mind religion, I coexist with it peacefully, I think/feel/believe that all the shitty things done by religious folks are done in the name of religion, not because of religion or spiritual beliefs.
That being said...
I have had it up to HERE with people getting defensive that I should, upon them speaking to me about ghosts, question their beliefs. When you start talking about your ghosts to me, you are involving me in your beliefs and, well, once you bring me into the picture, yes, I will explain that the house I live in is: a) older than yours, b) probably seen more deaths, and c) has a more intimate history, and d) makes way more noises than your house.
You'd think I'd hear more disapproval about the gay/trans thing, but honestly, what people get most angry (actually angry) with me about is how I refuse to listen to any talk about ghosts. People have literally turned red because they insisted location(s) in old houses I had spent more than ten times as much time as them in were haunted.
Am I the only one? I don't know why my rational friends who know I don't get religion would suddenly start to defend their beliefs of ghosts to me. It's not like it's a belief in their holy books or what not. It is so profoundly superstition and, in fact, in a grain AGAINST/blasphemy in their respective religious beliefs.
Am I alone, Mello? Anyone else here have to tell most of the people close to them, at one time or another, that they need to nix the ghost talk lest they listen to you shoot them down?
Sincerely
Future Miss Skepticism 2011