Comments on: Orbs

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:58:18 +0000

Hey Eshu, I caught a few orbs in my camera at work. I have posted the pic on my blog. And you can right click the pictures all you want and you can download the original because I release it to the public domain.
http://superstitionfree.blogspot.com/2008/11/orbs-at-work.html

By: Know your atheists - Eshu « Right To Think

Know your atheists - Eshu « Right To Think — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:56:22 +0000

[...] him through a link from Daylight Atheism, and now his weekly investigations into everything from ectoplasmic orbs to people who touch animals are one of my favourite parts of the [...]

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:38:01 +0000

I’ve never really understood the deal with orbs. Why would one expect a camera to pick up an image of a soul, anyway? If one accepts the whole spirit world concept, and, presumably, that people have souls, wouldn’t it make more sense for it to be the other way around? That is, the camera, being an unconscious machine, composed of matter, without a soul, should not be able to see floating souls, while a person, being partly a spiritual entity, should more likely be able to see other souls floating around. It really doesn’t make sense to believe that the semi-spiritual entity should have no ability to see the orbs, while a digital camera should see them.

By: yunshui

yunshui — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:37:23 +0000

An ex-girlfriend of mine was a big fan of the execrable “Most Haunted” TV show, with Derek Acorah and Yvette “AAAARGHIFELTSOMETHINGBRUSHPASTMYLEG!” Fielding. They were big on orbs, and I remember alienating myself from her family by openly scoffing at the orbs on screen one evening. A piece of fluff does not a ghostie make, but you try telling that to a True Believer.

By the way, Orbs By Beans proved fascinating. Who knew bad photography could be so compelling?

By: Eshu

Eshu — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:47:25 +0000

A lot of people do that for copy-protection reasons, so it might not be fear of scrutiny. If they really believe it they shouldn’t fear scrutiny… so when people do fear it, perhaps on some level they know they might be wrong?

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:03:01 +0000

I looked at “orbs by bean”.

When I looked at the pictures, I noticed that a cheesy javascript is used to prevent you from right-clicking the picture. Probably to discourage anyone from saving a copy of the photo on their hard drives. It’s silly because if you look at any picture on the net, you’ve downloaded a copy to your machine (which can be retrieved). Also there’s nothing to prevent me from viewing the page source and downloading a copy from the url in the code. If they don’t want anyone saving a copy of their photos for closer scrutiny, then they shouldn’t be posting them on the net at all.