J Emory Parker 🏳️🌈last night I became aware that apparently in the last 1800s there was serious discourse about whether ghosts wear clothes and if so:
- Why?
- Where do the clothes come from?
- Why?
- Where do the clothes come from?
incidentally, I also learned the reason we associate ghosts with bed sheets is that historically people associated ghosts with burial shrouds
but it's an interesting problem if you're trying to conceive of ghosts as some kind of natural phenomenon: why would any kind of clothing be involved at all?
Leo Ji@jaspar I think the phrasing of your question assumes that the discourse was serious and solemn, and if so, I'll point out that we have similar discourse about whether we really landed on the moon, whether aliens have previously visited the planet and so on -- to which we have similar specifically-pointed questions, but nobody really expects an answer to them
@leo my sense is it ran the spectrum like you'd see today: some folks are mischievously pointing out logical problems to point out that ghosts aren't real. Meanwhile spiritualists are actually trying to suss out how/why this might work. To others it's like arguing whether a hot dog is a sandwich.