Ghosts, what are they? Do they even exist? How would we protect ourselves from them? Can we go to places of worship to chase them out? Can we place religious symbols in our living place? Can we organise religious gatherings with priests to chase of ghosts using prayers?
God! Why are we even haunted by them???
Haunting makes us question reality not just because haunting plays with our emotions and deludes our consciousness, but that the reason for haunting makes least sense in reality.
Sometimes it even gives enough evidence to believe in fantasy such as the reality stone from Avengers series. Have we all been deluded by reality stone that we get haunted by non-existing problems than the actual existing problems in reality.
Taking a broader view raises the question of why ghosts haunt us. Ghosts haunt us because we have a faith about ghosts that their powers are beyond humanly strength and they could torture and destroy us completely.
More than the capabilities about ghosts, now focus turns towards whether or not these inhuman powers exist. Do we really have hopeless problems in human life? Do those problem result in torturous consequences? Can they be fatal? Can they fatality go beyond a mere few? Will it carry on for generations?
The unacceptable truth about reality is that it gives us an answer of yes to all the previous questions. What is strange is that ghosts have never been the reason for all those consequences. Instead it had always been humans.
Child labor, deforestation, rapes, child infanticide, women trafficking, genocide, wars, pollution, corruption, oil spills, poverty and in many other ways we are being tortured and murdered for generations. But none of that does haunt us. We don't spend our precious time in fighting against the real problems. Instead we have faith, we spend millions, we exploit our time, and educate our children in the fight against nonexistent problems.
We know our monsters. We even know how to kill them. But, we create delusional faith on what our conscience would call as stupidity, and focus all our efforts into fighting that stupid monster.
Here's where we should ask the question again, “Are we seriously affected by reality distortion”.
