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  1. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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  3. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Maybe it's his twin brother...
     
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  5. Bells Staff Member

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    So you are incapable of explaining why one chair looks like a part of it has disappeared, and why the other chair looks as though it has been spliced and the ends do not match up, and why the shadow on the chair indicates that the sun is shining top down and from the right, as opposed to the cars behind, the woman, her walking stick, the trees in the background and even the man behind her which all clearly show that the sun is actually to the left?

    The photoshop is so bad, that if you look at the chairs behind her, you can see two seats, clearly and they correspond with the two sets of legs of the chairs. But because the photoshop is so bad, the tops of the chairs do not correspond with the bottom parts of the chairs and the tops of the chairs look as though there should be 3 chairs there, all pointing in the same direction, but obviously not the same direction as the seats, because the light hitting them are from a different direction altogether.

    Before telling me I am nuking it, can you please explain these obvious discrepancies?

    The man in the black and white picture has a different brow and nose shape and size, not to mention short and thick black brows (the face behind the old woman has longer brows that are more protruding and they are also blonde or reddish in colour). The man in the black and white image has a much more pointed chin and tapered face, the man behind the woman does not at all, because his jaw is a lot more square shaped, not to mention the chin of the man behind the woman is actually longer and bigger than the man in the black and white picture.

    Could you please explain those discrepancies?
     
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  7. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    No..there's no discrepancies other than that between your brain and the photo. I can't explain that one, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with confirmation bias:

    "Confirmation bias, also called myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, or recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position."===http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
     
  8. Daecon Kiwi fruit Valued Senior Member

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    Wow. There's no way you can be that ironic without deliberate trolling.
     
  9. Bells Staff Member

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    And I am pretty sure that you are absolutely incapable of explaining what you are posting on this site.

    Let me know when you can explain how and why the bottom structure of those chairs do not match up with their backs of the chairs, and why the shading and light does not match up with the rest of the image. While you're at it, you could perhaps explain why the back of the upper most chair has a nice sticky tape bubble around it.

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    And why the face of the "ghost" who is apparently the grandfather does not look like the grandfather at all.
     
  10. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    I posted the entire explanation of that photo already. It wasn't even my explanation. It was the explanation of the granddaughter. You're only making yourself look foolish here with your imaginative nit-picking over totally normal things in that photograph. So what are you saying? The chairs, the woman, the cars, are also faked? Why would THAT be praytell? It doesn't make sense.
     
  11. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    You're right... those things ARE totally normal in a photoshopped photograph. Given that you are unwilling to even acknowledge the fact that the pictures have been altered, we can only conclude that you are either incapable of explaining this anomaly, and thus are ignoring it, or you are aware of it and are being intentionally dishonest.
     
  12. Bells Staff Member

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    I don't know what kind of photographs you take, but chairs do not normally have parts of their structure disappear in my photos.

    Not to mention the fact that the tops of the chairs do not match the direction the seat parts of the chairs are facing.

    Nor do my photos have large bits of tape plonked on them.

    So you are still unable to explain how and why the man's face is so different to who he is actually meant to be and why the chairs are so badly photoshopped?

    There are two different ways this could have happened. Either he was taped in, or he was standing on a chair behind her, and they photoshopped the chairs right behind her to remove his shadow from the grass and the chairs there. That would certainly explain why parts of the chair appear to be spliced in half and are floating over the seat.
     
  13. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    LOL! That'd "explain" it all alright. Do you even listen to yourself? You have lost all sense of what is normal in pursuit of proving your own conclusion. Ask anyone else here if they agree with your assessment. If they're honest, they'll say you're making something out of nothing.
     
  14. Bells Staff Member

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    They are more than free to examine the image.

    You are yet to explain why the backs of the chair don't match the base of the chair and why a structural part of the chair has disappeared into thin air and you can't even see the grass behind that part.

    These are pretty basic questions MR. You posted that image and declared it was a ghost. I am asking you why so many things in that photo do not match up at all and why it looks so badly photoshopped.

    Instead of trying to flub your way out of it, just prove to me that that is a ghost in the photo and explain why the tops of the chairs don't match the bottom of the chair and why there is tape going across the image.
     
  15. Daecon Kiwi fruit Valued Senior Member

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    Magical Realist, do you even listen to yourself? You have lost all sense of what is normal in pursuit of proving your own conclusion. Ask anyone else here if they agree with your assessment. If they're honest, they'll say you're making something out of nothing.
     
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  16. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    I think we're done here. Let me know when you come back to the world of reality again.
     
  17. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    The truth is, nobody here agrees with YOUR assessment of this... or, well, much of anything.

    You are deluded by your own desperate desire for ghosts to exist...

    If it's your "reality" you are expecting people to come to, you will be very, very lonely for a long time, at least on a science forum.
     
  18. Daecon Kiwi fruit Valued Senior Member

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    Why do you so desperately want to trick people into believing that ghosts are real?

    What do you hope to gain from it?
     
  19. Bells Staff Member

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    Can't explain those discrepancies?

    Perhaps it is the chairs that are ghosts.........? Hence why they are so disembodied.. And perhaps the metal parts are recycled metal, trying to return back to its previous form..

    Pretty ironic considering you are saying this in a thread you started about ghosts in photos.

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  20. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Of course he can't... he rarely, if ever, has before, and he seems to have no intention of doing so now... and yet, he insists on proclaiming what he is saying as truth.
     
  21. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    When, o when will Bells return from the fantasy world of physics and cause vs. effect to the "real" magical world of monsters, ghosts, global conspiracies and deadly vaccines? I'd excommunicate her if I were you.
     
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  22. Light Travelling It's a girl O lord in a flatbed Ford Registered Senior Member

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    I am just going to add my experience to this, make of it what you will.

    Many years ago, I had a photo taken with my girlfriend. It was in the centre of a small town with a number of people walking around. The photo was taken in broad daylight and by a friend. It was taken on a film camera (not digital) and this was before the term photo bombing had been heard of.

    Anyway, there was just me and my girlfriend standing next to each other. But when we had the photos developed there was a woman standing in between us, slightly behind but with legs inbetween ourselves. She was so close that she would have been touching us and it would have been impossible for us not to have noticed her. However we were definitely alone when it happened.

    It was the days before Internet. So other than talking about how weird it was and showing a few friends nothing else happened. I don't know what it was. I just always put it down to a strange unexplained experience.

    Sorry but I no longer have the photo. But I wonder how many other people have stuff like that and never post on line or make it public.
     
  23. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    There are a couple possibilities with it - my wife had a similar instance with a photo she took, where a single frame of film was double-exposed, resulting in a ghostly image overlayed atop a photo of some of our friends. It was actually quite stunning - I'll have to see if she still has it!
     
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