By Reverend Mark Hunnemann
Read also: Residual Haunts and Energy
This is the third and
final in a series on residual haunts. The most insurmountable hurdle which the
theory of residual haunt faces is the second law of thermodynamics. It is an
absolute law according to scientists, which means that there are no known exceptions.
We must remember that these are God's laws because He created them...when
looking at this law we can learn something about its creator. It's absoluteness
expresses a finite picture of our infinite God's immutability--God is
unchanging just as these laws are unchanging. The fact that they cannot be
broken is a faint mirror or God's omnipotence. Romans 1:18ff tells us that some
of God's attributes can be seen in nature. I want to touch on a couple of
issues before leaving this topic.
1. The tape recorder
is a false analogy. We have all heard or said a million times that residual
energy acts like a digital recorder. Sounds interesting, but does it? An
analogy is an analogy...I recognize that. But if the analogy turns out to be
sufficiently dissimilar to the reality it is attempting to mirror, then the
mirror is cracked...it is a false analogy. When we stop for a moment and look beneath
the surface we see how the digital recorder (or any human made recording
device) is utterly dissimilar. How so? A residual haunt is allegedly a cluster
of impersonal energy which gets triggered and plays back some original
incident.
It takes a person
with intelligence to design and build a digital recorder....try building one!
The point is that the creation of a digital recorder is the conscious act of an
intelligent human being...or the machines they create to make them.
And...someone consciously has to push the start button. The recording material
has been chosen and created/formed to collect the data...some kind of magnetic
tape or digital equivalent. But, and this is the dissimilarity, residual haunts
have none of this--it is all impersonal. One danger of using the recorder
analogy is that it tacitly introduces an element of personalness...creative
act...intentionality and conscious action--but the medium of nature is where
the residual "taping" takes place, and nature is thoroughly
impersonal. For example, what causes the action to start? Well, in the case of
a digital recorder the person decides to turn it on and presses the on button
with his finger..the person/finger is the cause of the effect (recording data
or playing it back). However, in the case of a residual haunt there is a
causeless effect...there is nothing to start the taping or play back. O there
are anniversaries, but anniversaries are substantively nothing--they have no
ontological staus (emotional status, but not matter). An anniversary cannot
cause anything to happen in the external world as it has no fingers or
equivalent.
Well, how do you
explain the energy that is often connected to certain objects or parts of a
house? "The Haunted Collector" with John Zaffis has this as their
thesis behind the show. If the second law applies to paranormal reality then
why are there energy clusters connected with these haunted collectibles, which
can be detected and measured? Does that not show there are exceptions to these
alleged absolute laws? Nope. Satan is a brilliant military tactician. He has
brought about this energy-centric worldview, which gave rise to the notion of
residual haunt. He also knows a good thing when he sees it--what better way to deceive
folks into letting them co-exist with diabolical spirits than to fool them into
thinking it is all harmless residual energy? What is causing that clock to
light up the EMF? If it is not natural in origin, then a demonic spirit can
easily "haunt" an object...making it appear to be innocuous. That is
the very sad thing about the theory of residual energy--it has put many, many
people into a false sense of security..
