The State of the Dead: Hope or Humbug?

In the book of Daniel, it discusses something that is known as "The State of the Dead". It declares that the dead, (save for a few people), are sleeping in the ground, ashes, and tombs. They are not alive anymore, but are in a state that is a lot like dreaming.

I would love to believe that Ghosts are our loved ones coming back to check on us, and comfort us in our times of need. However, I do not feel that this is true. Everyone however is entitled to their own opinion, and the point of my blogs are to give people alternative possibilities, not to make their minds up for them, so please don't take what I say to heart.

So what is a ghost anyway? I believe that ghosts are most likely frequency shifts in time. However, for the point of this article let us put ghosts into two more familiar terms. We shall call the two categories Angels and Demons. Malevolent ghosts are forces that tend to be more demonic, they tend to threaten human life, use their abilities of invoking fear into us, and on occasion have been known to actually cause harm to the living. I also believe that "Shadow People" fall under this category. If you don't know what a shadow person is, then here are a few quick facts: Shadow people are mostly associated with night terrors and old hag syndrome. Usually they can be seen in the darkness as an even darker shade of black, and tend to mimic human forms. Red glowing eyes are also some times linked to this quick and very dark figures. This is why I call this group of ghosts demons.
On the other hand there are also ghosts who tend to be the exact opposite. They comfort us, and make our fears go away, and in some cases even protect us. Of coarse this is all on how individuals interpret what they feel, and see. I would place these types of ghosts under the angel category.

However, it is unfortunate that not many reports of good spirits are around, most deal with shadow people, or other malicious entities, but they do exist! Well according to some anyway. (The reports not the ghosts, because I have no proof of existence on either account. Angel or Demon).
This brings us back to the state of the dead. If indeed these spirits are the ghosts of our loved ones, what are the shadow people? I would almost entertain the notion of them being the ghosts of people who had done some seriously bad things in their life, but one would have to ask, don't they have loved ones as well? And why would they not visit them? Do they protect their love ones, and terrorize the rest of us? These are questions that would have to be asked. Personally I think the State of the Dead is some more gibberish in a book to inspire hope, and tries to solidify beliefs in a judgement day. Faith is a funny thing, one which requires no proof.