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Mine only works with a few family members and danger situations. Sometimes I just know things or feel I'm guided to the right answer or choice.
Equally I'm very analytical and feel that it's just a case of putting together the right things.
Odds and sods me.... 
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I have a sixth sense and on many an occasion it has proved to have been right.It keeps me in touch with everything that is going on around me and also everything that is hidden from me too  |
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we only tap into a part of our brains this is a fact - i think sometimes we use a bit extra - god knows what we would be able to do if we could use it all |
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I don't want to challenge anybody's beliefs here but this is my _iew on it.
I tap into mine. It gets stronger if I do more meditation or am at peace and relaxed. At these times I am especially at harmony or in tune with whatever is going on around me.
If somebody I know thinks of me then I often contact them just when they want to speak to me.
Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
I also had a warning in a dream from my ex mother in laws deceased driver (?!) that her husband was going to die in a car crash a day or so before hand but I didn't understand the meaning of the warning at the time and he duly did.
I have seen a vision of my funeral and I know when I am going to die. This gave me quite a lot of peace actually.
I have sat with clairvoyants far superior to myself as they reeled my life story off to me in great detail and even suggested that I go to the toilet when my bladder was full.
I am a normal and otherwise sane person with a professional career in a scientific subject. I don't have any problem integrating the various aspects of my life.
I have much more I could tell you about but that's probably enough for now.
Finally; I should add that my abilities came on because of spiritual practice and I was as skeptical as hell before hand. I therefore don't have a problem with skeptics. You must judge with the evidence according to all your available senses: anything else is delusion. Xx |
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" Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
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Did ya mate thank ya for his warning? hee hee |
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" Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
Did ya mate thank ya for his warning? hee hee "
An interesting point. If you foresee do you intervene or not? Ever seen the film "Sliding Doors"? At the time though I didn't know why I shouldn't go I was just told: "Don't go".
Perhaps you can also begin to appreciate the big responsibilities that come with these abilities.
Sometimes there are things that at first you'd just rather not know. |
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"I don't want to challenge anybody's beliefs here but this is my _iew on it.
I tap into mine. It gets stronger if I do more meditation or am at peace and relaxed. At these times I am especially at harmony or in tune with whatever is going on around me.
If somebody I know thinks of me then I often contact them just when they want to speak to me.
Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
I also had a warning in a dream from my ex mother in laws deceased driver (?!) that her husband was going to die in a car crash a day or so before hand but I didn't understand the meaning of the warning at the time and he duly did.
I have seen a vision of my funeral and I know when I am going to die. This gave me quite a lot of peace actually.
I have sat with clairvoyants far superior to myself as they reeled my life story off to me in great detail and even suggested that I go to the toilet when my bladder was full.
I am a normal and otherwise sane person with a professional career in a scientific subject. I don't have any problem integrating the various aspects of my life.
I have much more I could tell you about but that's probably enough for now.
Finally; I should add that my abilities came on because of spiritual practice and I was as skeptical as hell before hand. I therefore don't have a problem with skeptics. You must judge with the evidence according to all your available senses: anything else is delusion. Xx"
Replicate it for james randi and you will find yourself a million dollars richer.
My guess is you won't get the money. |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one."
I think I may have told my mate not to go as well  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I've never been in that situation to be honest, so I couldn't give you an answer on that. But if I were to hazard a guess, I'd like to think I'd try to stop them? I suppose on the flip side though, there's always the chance that you could be ridiculed by someone if you were to offer such advice.
I do like the fact that you can appreciate the _iew of the skeptic though, and I'm afraid thats me in this instance. No disrespect intended to your beliefs though.
On a lighter note, I recall my sister once going to see a clairvoyant, and she was running late. As she was on her way there the clairvoyant actually rang the house to ask if she was still coming, I couldn't help thinking 'well can't you tell me'  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
I think I may have told my mate not to go as well "
That's what I was thinking too, and if he was a close mate he'd know to trust your sixth sense as it must have been evident before. So why not tell him?
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Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
I think I may have told my mate not to go as well
That's what I was thinking too, and if he was a close mate he'd know to trust your sixth sense as it must have been evident before. So why not tell him?
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Good question. As I said before it was a clear sign that I should not accompany him.
Supposing he was destined to have an accident anyway and I had stopped it that time? Would the one that possibly followed it have threatened or taken his life instead? i.e, was it better to let it happen and have him walk away from that one. This is what I accept for better or worse.
In summary: this is a very complex moral maze indeed and there are no simple answers. Every action (or inaction) has a consequence but then this applies to each of our lives in general anyway. |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
I think I may have told my mate not to go as well
That's what I was thinking too, and if he was a close mate he'd know to trust your sixth sense as it must have been evident before. So why not tell him?
Good question. As I said before it was a clear sign that I should not accompany him.
Supposing he was destined to have an accident anyway and I had stopped it that time? Would the one that possibly followed it have threatened or taken his life instead? i.e, was it better to let it happen and have him walk away from that one. This is what I accept for better or worse.
In summary: this is a very complex moral maze indeed and there are no simple answers. Every action (or inaction) has a consequence but then this applies to each of our lives in general anyway."
Did the voice tell you not to worry, he would be ok ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"we only tap into a part of our brains this is a fact - i think sometimes we use a bit extra - god knows what we would be able to do if we could use it all "
It is believed by many that, human beings use less than 10% of their brain. This is a misconception because each and every part of the brain has a known function. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I also had a warning in a dream from my ex mother in laws deceased driver (?!) that her husband was going to die in a car crash a day or so before hand but I didn't understand the meaning of the warning at the time and he duly did.
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So you had a warning that someone was going to die in a car crash but you only understood they were going to die in a car crash after you had been informed they had died in a car crash?
This sounds suspiciously like you had no idea they were going to die in a car crash and you filled in the blanks that they were going to die in a car crash after they died in car crash.
Also if you know when you are going to die can you let us know on what date so we can take the piss when you're still here afterwards |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I also had a warning in a dream from my ex mother in laws deceased driver (?!) that her husband was going to die in a car crash a day or so before hand but I didn't understand the meaning of the warning at the time and he duly did.
So you had a warning that someone was going to die in a car crash but you only understood they were going to die in a car crash after you had been informed they had died in a car crash?
This sounds suspiciously like you had no idea they were going to die in a car crash and you filled in the blanks that they were going to die in a car crash after they died in car crash.
Also if you know when you are going to die can you let us know on what date so we can take the piss when you're still here afterwards"
Or stick a bet on it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I have sat with clairvoyants far superior to myself as they reeled my life story off to me in great detail and even suggested that I go to the toilet when my bladder was full.
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Yeah,I think you'll find we all do that. It's got nothing to do with a third eye but an overwhelming desire to not piss your pants |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Mine also intervenes in times of danger. My mate was going on a trip to the shops in his car when we were on holiday and I would usually have gone with him but a voice said to me "don't go with him". He had a car crash on the way back that would have really made a mess of me. I thanked my guardians for the warning on that one.
I think I may have told my mate not to go as well
That's what I was thinking too, and if he was a close mate he'd know to trust your sixth sense as it must have been evident before. So why not tell him?
Good question. As I said before it was a clear sign that I should not accompany him.
Supposing he was destined to have an accident anyway and I had stopped it that time? Would the one that possibly followed it have threatened or taken his life instead? i.e, was it better to let it happen and have him walk away from that one. This is what I accept for better or worse.
In summary: this is a very complex moral maze indeed and there are no simple answers. Every action (or inaction) has a consequence but then this applies to each of our lives in general anyway."
How did you know he would walk away from it?
I'm sorry, but I'm not sold on this as it implies I'm not in control of my own life, that there is some higher intelligence that has preordained when I will die - and thus when I was to be born xx years previously.
Personally, I think people who think they have some sort of supernatural power are a bit loopy tbh. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I have sat with clairvoyants far superior to myself as they reeled my life story off to me in great detail and even suggested that I go to the toilet when my bladder was full.
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Also we could spend all night discussing your use of the word clairvoyant in the same sentence as the word suggested.
Ever considered you're really suggestible? |
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This dream stuff is nonsense, sorry. Think of all the hundreds of dreams we have - one of them is bound to come vaguely true. If there were people whose dreams really did come true - or there were psychics - then they'd be employed by massive corporations to give them an edge. They'd be employed by the emergency services and police. There'd be evidence.
Sorry, its just wishful thinking and forgetting all the times you're wrong. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Common sense?"
what is that ????
I know there is something like a sixth sense, as when I was a kid (about 8) I got knocked off my bike. I did a fair bit of damage to my face, nothing too serious.
My dad rung a friend to go round to break the news to her about my crash, when he arrived my mum answered the door to him and said I know why you're here. He has had a crash he has hurt his face but he is okish, she then told him where I got knocked off but no one had told her. The poor bloke was more shocked that she knew.
Or is this mother's intuition? |
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Personally, I think people who think they have some sort of supernatural power are a bit loopy tbh."
I don't think they're loopy...they just really like the idea that they're special and convince themselves its true.
Or they like the money that psychics fleece off of grieving people. |
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"Common sense?
what is that ????
I know there is something like a sixth sense, as when I was a kid (about 8) I got knocked off my bike. I did a fair bit of damage to my face, nothing too serious.
My dad rung a friend to go round to break the news to her about my crash, when he arrived my mum answered the door to him and said I know why you're here. He has had a crash he has hurt his face but he is okish, she then told him where I got knocked off but no one had told her. The poor bloke was more shocked that she knew.
Or is this mother's intuition?"
Your mum probably knew you'd been riding your bike, right? and she guessed that something was wrong when your dad's friend unexpectedly showed up.
She put two and two together and got the right answer.
No intuition or special powers needed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'll add another log to the fire..
My mothers tea towel drawer told her there was blood in the kitchen...
My brother had cut his hand an hour earlier and legged it to a&e with one of her tea towels wrapped round his hand.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll add another log to the fire..
My mothers tea towel drawer told her there was blood in the kitchen...
My brother had cut his hand an hour earlier and legged it to a&e with one of her tea towels wrapped round his hand.
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A tea towel drawer told her? Have you any idea how ludicrous that sounds? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll add another log to the fire..
My mothers tea towel drawer told her there was blood in the kitchen...
My brother had cut his hand an hour earlier and legged it to a&e with one of her tea towels wrapped round his hand.
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If he used one of her tea towels from the tea towel drawer its a safe bet there was some blood in the drawer or on it
Just call me Sherlock |
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"I do!!! Completely...!
Family of loons us, but heh ho
Shall I start the story about my guardian angel ?  "
Good to see the expected spread of _iews and some intense debate.
I sound like a crack pot for posting this stuff I know but there it is. Lets at least have a balanced debate.
The nagging thing is to read the signs correctly and often I am not so good at that so you'll have to bear with me (smile).
This is quite different to guessing but then unless you have directly experienced it for yourself; the normal reaction is to dismiss is as total nonsense.
.... Did you notice the second half of my user name is Loon |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm also gonna poke further and tell you that I used to talk to the old man who owned our family home who had passed away!! And our house has a few other gouls, only one goes bump in the night.
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Any biters or is that a separate topic??
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I like to keep an open mind so would be interested to hear people’s _iews, or, indeed, experiences of such things."
I use my sixth sense on here re meeting etc and its served me well.
Never had a bad meet or met anyone horrible. If things dont feel right, i dont do it. simples |
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By (user no longer on site)
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There is no sixth sense. There is no empirical evidence for it's existence. People like to think it might exist as it explains people getting "warnings" about dangers etc. But most people only remember those instances and forget about the majority of times when they had no "warning". The human mind always looks for patterns in behaviour and it's enviroment. We ignore all the other data because we WANT to believe. Don't believe me? Ask Derek Acorah to give you a reading or whatever nonsense he does, then ask Derren Brown or James Randl to do the same. |
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"I like to keep an open mind so would be interested to hear people’s _iews, or, indeed, experiences of such things."
NONSENSE
The pre-requisite for a 6th sense is that everything is pre-ordained and life is subject to fate's whim ! The fact is fate lies with yourself, to deny this is self delusional  |
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My last snippet is that my (assume- guardian angel) whipped the steering wheel away from my hands and saved me from a head on collision after a crazy truck over taking manoeuvre...
I had frozen with fear at that stage.
And now I'll say nite nites my sixth sense beholders and those who are not xx
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"I like to keep an open mind so would be interested to hear people’s _iews, or, indeed, experiences of such things."
I have always believed in this.. I am very very perceptive with people close to me... have always trusted my feelings.. Sometimes I have had things happen that I can not explain.
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By *vana sukalotWoman
over a year ago
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My friend whom I've known all my life, when she was with an abusive ex, I used to get a gut feeling as to when he was going to cause her harm, even when me and my friend wasn't in the same area I knew when she was going to get hurt, as crazy as it sounds, unfortunately I was right but its also saved her life a few times... |
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"My last snippet is that my (assume- guardian angel) whipped the steering wheel away from my hands and saved me from a head on collision after a crazy truck over taking manoeuvre...
I had frozen with fear at that stage.
And now I'll say nite nites my sixth sense beholders and those who are not xx
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I knew you were going to say that !
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"There is no sixth sense. There is no empirical evidence for it's existence. People like to think it might exist as it explains people getting "warnings" about dangers etc. But most people only remember those instances and forget about the majority of times when they had no "warning". The human mind always looks for patterns in behaviour and it's enviroment. We ignore all the other data because we WANT to believe. Don't believe me? Ask Derek Acorah to give you a reading or whatever nonsense he does, then ask Derren Brown or James Randl to do the same."
Very good. I had been waiting for this _iewpoint to come forth....
Now I want you to absolutely prove beyond shadow of a doubt that this stuff does not exist. Oh: And if you can somehow do this (no body has so far) then the mass psychological damage you would do to mankind would be incalculable.
And whilst you are at it I would like you to identify what makes something alive and why? What happens when it is dead and what "leaves" to make it dead? Where is its aliveness?
Where is your self and what defines your self? Does yourself inherently exist? My _iew is that the self does not inherently exist and I am not alone in this i.e. it arises from a set of circumstances. My mother was this my father that I was brought up there etc etc.
I want you to sit in meditation every day for hours every day for about 6 months to a year and totally try to prove that this stuff does not exist with all your concentration.
If you use the proven techniques for long enough and regularly enough then "something" will happen to you and it will come as quite a shock when you have to reconsider what you think "reality" actually is.
I was doing exactly this and staring at a Talisman when my body gradually became numb from my toes all the way up to my head when I lost my hearing and my sight and then my consciousness lifted right up out of my body. I nearly shat myself when this happened and dropped back down into my body again. I was so shocked by it that I didn't practice for a number of months whilst I got over it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Some of the peoples responses to the posters who have said they believe and have explained their situations are childish. I personally think that although u may not believe don't ridicule the persons story |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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Depends what you mean by a "Sixth Sense"! I do not believe that life is pre-ordained or that we can get warnings about danger that may happen if we do this or that, except where we know doing this or that is a silly thing to do!
I have no idea if it is real, but in my sphere of reference, it is calling my sister, who I talk to infrequently and her saying "I was just picking up the phone to ring you"! Coincidence? Maybe. Improbale? Yep! Magical? No! It is also buying things similar at similar times to family members...
Mind you, we were all brought up in the same place, got our values from the same people, were taught by our peers in a small area of the town we lived in. So perhaps it is just that upbringing. But rather than decry what others have said, I will keep an open mind.. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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My brother-in-law used to get frustrated that my sister and I just knew what the other was going to say or had whole conversations without exchanging a word. After 21 years he does it too.
Sixth sense? Yes, if that sense is familiarity, knowing each other really well and able to use the clues our other senses give us and apply them to the context. |
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What is so laughable about clairvoyants, at least in the UK, is that they have a 'market price' Most aim for approx 45/65 pounds per session...some cheaper..Call me a cynic if you must, but to me that smacks of them pitching prices they know are generally affordable, clients are gullible, but not generally 5,000 pounds gullible.
Now it seems to me if they could actually see into the future that information would be priceless..Mmm feels like a nice little earner to me! |
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My mum used to do a lot of work as a medium.. her pay... "cup of tea" oh and sometimes a cake..
She was very popular... and I am guessing quite good at what she did..
I do think that some people nurture it from childhood... and that we could all be more intune but belief of what is real and not are taught to us..and we start to lock away these other talents.
I think there is a reason we only use part of our brain... and that with practise you can open up more of it. |
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"My mum used to do a lot of work as a medium.. her pay... "cup of tea" oh and sometimes a cake..
She was very popular... and I am guessing quite good at what she did..
I do think that some people nurture it from childhood... and that we could all be more intune but belief of what is real and not are taught to us..and we start to lock away these other talents.
I think there is a reason we only use part of our brain... and that with practise you can open up more of it. "
What reason?... |
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"My mum used to do a lot of work as a medium.. her pay... "cup of tea" oh and sometimes a cake..
She was very popular... and I am guessing quite good at what she did..
I do think that some people nurture it from childhood... and that we could all be more intune but belief of what is real and not are taught to us..and we start to lock away these other talents.
I think there is a reason we only use part of our brain... and that with practise you can open up more of it. "
I know quite a few mediums personally not cos I've paid to see them and they say that what they have is a gift and those that charge stupid prices are usual ones that are trying to con. I know one lady who only charges £10 but then that money is given to the spiritualist church as it needs a new roof and she is part of the committee there so it's not for her advantage |
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"My mum used to do a lot of work as a medium.. her pay... "cup of tea" oh and sometimes a cake..
She was very popular... and I am guessing quite good at what she did..
I do think that some people nurture it from childhood... and that we could all be more intune but belief of what is real and not are taught to us..and we start to lock away these other talents.
I think there is a reason we only use part of our brain... and that with practise you can open up more of it.
I know quite a few mediums personally not cos I've paid to see them and they say that what they have is a gift and those that charge stupid prices are usual ones that are trying to con. I know one lady who only charges £10 but then that money is given to the spiritualist church as it needs a new roof and she is part of the committee there so it's not for her advantage "
Well if she can indeed tell the future shouldn't be too difficult to raise the money for a new roof! |
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"My mum used to do a lot of work as a medium.. her pay... "cup of tea" oh and sometimes a cake..
She was very popular... and I am guessing quite good at what she did..
I do think that some people nurture it from childhood... and that we could all be more intune but belief of what is real and not are taught to us..and we start to lock away these other talents.
I think there is a reason we only use part of our brain... and that with practise you can open up more of it.
I know quite a few mediums personally not cos I've paid to see them and they say that what they have is a gift and those that charge stupid prices are usual ones that are trying to con. I know one lady who only charges £10 but then that money is given to the spiritualist church as it needs a new roof and she is part of the committee there so it's not for her advantage
Well if she can indeed tell the future shouldn't be too difficult to raise the money for a new roof!"
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"There is no sixth sense. There is no empirical evidence for it's existence. People like to think it might exist as it explains people getting "warnings" about dangers etc. But most people only remember those instances and forget about the majority of times when they had no "warning". The human mind always looks for patterns in behaviour and it's enviroment. We ignore all the other data because we WANT to believe. Don't believe me? Ask Derek Acorah to give you a reading or whatever nonsense he does, then ask Derren Brown or James Randl to do the same.
Very good. I had been waiting for this _iewpoint to come forth....
Now I want you to absolutely prove beyond shadow of a doubt that this stuff does not exist. Oh: And if you can somehow do this (no body has so far) then the mass psychological damage you would do to mankind would be incalculable.
And whilst you are at it I would like you to identify what makes something alive and why? What happens when it is dead and what "leaves" to make it dead? Where is its aliveness?
Where is your self and what defines your self? Does yourself inherently exist? My _iew is that the self does not inherently exist and I am not alone in this i.e. it arises from a set of circumstances. My mother was this my father that I was brought up there etc etc.
I want you to sit in meditation every day for hours every day for about 6 months to a year and totally try to prove that this stuff does not exist with all your concentration.
If you use the proven techniques for long enough and regularly enough then "something" will happen to you and it will come as quite a shock when you have to reconsider what you think "reality" actually is.
I was doing exactly this and staring at a Talisman when my body gradually became numb from my toes all the way up to my head when I lost my hearing and my sight and then my consciousness lifted right up out of my body. I nearly shat myself when this happened and dropped back down into my body again. I was so shocked by it that I didn't practice for a number of months whilst I got over it."
if there's no evidence to prove something exists then you don't need to provide evidence that something doesn't exist. the ones claiming existence are the ones are the ones making fantastical claims. the burden of proof is yours. |
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"My mum used to do a lot of work as a medium.. her pay... "cup of tea" oh and sometimes a cake..
She was very popular... and I am guessing quite good at what she did..
I do think that some people nurture it from childhood... and that we could all be more intune but belief of what is real and not are taught to us..and we start to lock away these other talents.
I think there is a reason we only use part of our brain... and that with practise you can open up more of it.
I know quite a few mediums personally not cos I've paid to see them and they say that what they have is a gift and those that charge stupid prices are usual ones that are trying to con. I know one lady who only charges £10 but then that money is given to the spiritualist church as it needs a new roof and she is part of the committee there so it's not for her advantage
Well if she can indeed tell the future shouldn't be too difficult to raise the money for a new roof!
Mediums don't tell the future. And even with fortune telling its only the path your on at that moment."
If one medium could contact the dead under strict lab conditions a fortune awaits! |
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The 'sixth sense' isn't supernatural, it's unconscious perception of subtle cues from the environment, coincidence, and responses to triggers and social interaction. Plus as has already been mentioned, this retrospective form of the sixth sense where it is interpreted as such only after the event.
Also sixth sense is the wrong term, there are far more than five. Hunger, balance and hot/cold for example.
And for my last point, if it existed, which I don't believe it does, it wouldn't be supernatural, it would be natural and there would be a scuentific, measurable explanation.and everyone would be able todo it to some level.
Every mystery ever solved has been proven to be.... Not magic. |
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"The 'sixth sense' isn't supernatural, it's unconscious perception of subtle cues from the environment, coincidence, and responses to triggers and social interaction. Plus as has already been mentioned, this retrospective form of the sixth sense where it is interpreted as such only after the event.
Also sixth sense is the wrong term, there are far more than five. Hunger, balance and hot/cold for example.
And for my last point, if it existed, which I don't believe it does, it wouldn't be supernatural, it would be natural and there would be a scuentific, measurable explanation.and everyone would be able todo it to some level.
Every mystery ever solved has been proven to be.... Not magic."
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"My mum used to do a lot of work as a medium.. her pay... "cup of tea" oh and sometimes a cake..
She was very popular... and I am guessing quite good at what she did..
I do think that some people nurture it from childhood... and that we could all be more intune but belief of what is real and not are taught to us..and we start to lock away these other talents.
I think there is a reason we only use part of our brain... and that with practise you can open up more of it.
I know quite a few mediums personally not cos I've paid to see them and they say that what they have is a gift and those that charge stupid prices are usual ones that are trying to con. I know one lady who only charges £10 but then that money is given to the spiritualist church as it needs a new roof and she is part of the committee there so it's not for her advantage
Well if she can indeed tell the future shouldn't be too difficult to raise the money for a new roof!
Mediums don't tell the future. And even with fortune telling its only the path your on at that moment."
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Just knew I would post on here..lol
My aunt was a medium and told me I had it to and for a time I could use it but scared myself too much but I know there some one in our house |
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Just knew I would post on here..lol
My aunt was a medium and told me I had it to and for a time I could use it but scared myself too much but I know there some one in our house |
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"Mediums and psychics are not the same"
Well they come under the same umbrella.pseudoscience con artists who prey on people willing to buy into the b.s
There are hundreds of studies on it and not one has proven it to be reality.
The fact people have anecdotal evidence does not mean anything.
The whole subject is a piece of pizz to test,yet no test ever prove positve |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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"The 'sixth sense' isn't supernatural, it's unconscious perception of subtle cues from the environment, coincidence, and responses to triggers and social interaction. Plus as has already been mentioned, this retrospective form of the sixth sense where it is interpreted as such only after the event.
Also sixth sense is the wrong term, there are far more than five. Hunger, balance and hot/cold for example.
And for my last point, if it existed, which I don't believe it does, it wouldn't be supernatural, it would be natural and there would be a scuentific, measurable explanation.and everyone would be able todo it to some level.
Every mystery ever solved has been proven to be.... Not magic."
I have a rather analytical mind and am more drawn to science than anything. As such I completely agree with this post - the only thing I would like to add is this: Recent studies have confirmed that teh so called Placebo effect can actually podruce positive changes in a person as can positive thinking. While I do not believe in psychic/ mystic etc stuff - I would not dream of criticising anybody for using/ believing/ enjoying it and I do not doubt those people are genuinely getting something out of it. |
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There are between 9 and 21senses. The feeling of heat/cold (this is not touch), pain.
I'm still a skeptic. But I find it more of a believable phenomenon than some invisible entity judging every thing I've ever done. |
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"There are between 9 and 21senses. The feeling of heat/cold (this is not touch), pain.
I'm still a skeptic. But I find it more of a believable phenomenon than some invisible entity judging every thing I've ever done. "
but they do appear to have blind faith in common |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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just sit in chat on a fake profile, then organise a 'reading' party with your medium profile...
you will tell them all they have told everyone and make a killing.... |
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"The 'sixth sense' isn't supernatural, it's unconscious perception of subtle cues from the environment, coincidence, and responses to triggers and social interaction. Plus as has already been mentioned, this retrospective form of the sixth sense where it is interpreted as such only after the event.
Also sixth sense is the wrong term, there are far more than five. Hunger, balance and hot/cold for example.
And for my last point, if it existed, which I don't believe it does, it wouldn't be supernatural, it would be natural and there would be a scuentific, measurable explanation.and everyone would be able todo it to some level.
Every mystery ever solved has been proven to be.... Not magic.
I have a rather analytical mind and am more drawn to science than anything. As such I completely agree with this post - the only thing I would like to add is this: Recent studies have confirmed that teh so called Placebo effect can actually podruce positive changes in a person as can positive thinking. While I do not believe in psychic/ mystic etc stuff - I would not dream of criticising anybody for using/ believing/ enjoying it and I do not doubt those people are genuinely getting something out of it."
A very fair point, but it's my experience that, besides the undoubted financial scams that are inherent in the 'industry'..the placebo effect it provides is usually a short term relief masking how people deal with death, health, and relationships. Often this delays, and can damage the process of how people come to terms with life events. |
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By *icky55Man
over a year ago
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I have a link with two people, I seem to know where they are or if they want to talk to me, even if they are some where they did not plan or expect to be.
It feels some how strange and scary when they say how did you know. |
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"I have a link with two people, I seem to know where they are or if they want to talk to me, even if they are some where they did not plan or expect to be.
It feels some how strange and scary when they say how did you know."
Facebook status? lol |
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By *icky55Man
over a year ago
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"I have a link with two people, I seem to know where they are or if they want to talk to me, even if they are some where they did not plan or expect to be.
It feels some how strange and scary when they say how did you know.
Facebook status? lol"
one is 80 years old, i dont think so |
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Sixth sense yes I believe we do.....
My daughter was involved in a car crash the other day , her fella who was driving didn't have his belt on, she told him to put it on as she felt something bad may happen so he put it on ......
5 minutes later there involved in a headon crash and both walk away with minor bruising , the car was wrecked !
Blind luck?
Or something else? |
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How many times has she said to someone put your belt on and nothing happened?
People never remember those.
Like I said pyschic ability is easily testable,no one has ever shown to be physic. |
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"How many times has she said to someone put your belt on and nothing happened?
People never remember those.
Like I said pyschic ability is easily testable,no one has ever shown to be physic."
Hey me I'm just glad I got my daughter back ok.
If people could see the future they'd all be multi-millionaires .......I think were talking about some kind of inbuilt sense that's forewarns us when something bads about to happen to us , and maybe its something we've lost as we've evolved.
It's something that can't be proved a bit like religion , you can't prove that god exsists yet billions believe he does ! |
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over a year ago
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"How many times has she said to someone put your belt on and nothing happened?
People never remember those.
Like I said pyschic ability is easily testable,no one has ever shown to be physic."
I'm not knocking your _iew but how do you explain wanting to go and see some one in a place they were not expected to be, and had not spoken to them in months. |
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"How many times has she said to someone put your belt on and nothing happened?
People never remember those.
Like I said pyschic ability is easily testable,no one has ever shown to be physic.
Hey me I'm just glad I got my daughter back ok.
If people could see the future they'd all be multi-millionaires .......I think were talking about some kind of inbuilt sense that's forewarns us when something bads about to happen to us , and maybe its something we've lost as we've evolved.
It's something that can't be proved a bit like religion , you can't prove that god exsists yet billions believe he does ! "
Surely if at one time we had this power.evolution would bring out the ability,not fade it away.
The evidence of no god is pretty conclusive to me.some people may take more convincing.
Psychic abilty is 100% testable
Peoples stories about how they thought something is goin to happen is not proof.
I've thought I saw someone I know then walked around the corner and they were there,not the person I thought I saw.that is nothing amazing,its just probable that it will happen.
Its all going down the road of mind reading,palm reading,astrology.its all just a bit of fun.nothing more than that.
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Pyscic wins the lottery.
There's a good reason why |
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"There is no sixth sense. There is no empirical evidence for it's existence. People like to think it might exist as it explains people getting "warnings" about dangers etc. But most people only remember those instances and forget about the majority of times when they had no "warning". The human mind always looks for patterns in behaviour and it's enviroment. We ignore all the other data because we WANT to believe. Don't believe me? Ask Derek Acorah to give you a reading or whatever nonsense he does, then ask Derren Brown or James Randl to do the same.
Very good. I had been waiting for this _iewpoint to come forth....
Now I want you to absolutely prove beyond shadow of a doubt that this stuff does not exist. Oh: And if you can somehow do this (no body has so far) then the mass psychological damage you would do to mankind would be incalculable.
And whilst you are at it I would like you to identify what makes something alive and why? What happens when it is dead and what "leaves" to make it dead? Where is its aliveness?
Where is your self and what defines your self? Does yourself inherently exist? My _iew is that the self does not inherently exist and I am not alone in this i.e. it arises from a set of circumstances. My mother was this my father that I was brought up there etc etc.
I want you to sit in meditation every day for hours every day for about 6 months to a year and totally try to prove that this stuff does not exist with all your concentration.
If you use the proven techniques for long enough and regularly enough then "something" will happen to you and it will come as quite a shock when you have to reconsider what you think "reality" actually is.
I was doing exactly this and staring at a Talisman when my body gradually became numb from my toes all the way up to my head when I lost my hearing and my sight and then my consciousness lifted right up out of my body. I nearly shat myself when this happened and dropped back down into my body again. I was so shocked by it that I didn't practice for a number of months whilst I got over it."
You are wrong to assume I have to prove the none-existence of a sixth sense. The onus is on YOU to prove it's existence. Look up Bertrands Teapot and see why you are coming at it from the wrong angle. |
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All my life I have seen stuff , I don't ask for it too happen , it just does.
I cannot make it happen so I believe all this Derek Anchora stuff is shite .
I have stood in graveyards and churches and nothing , but have had stuff fly about ( thankfully that does not happen very often anymore) and seen things in everyday places.
I really do not understand any if it and am reluctant to find out . |
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"All my life I have seen stuff , I don't ask for it too happen , it just does.
I cannot make it happen so I believe all this Derek Anchora stuff is shite .
I have stood in graveyards and churches and nothing , but have had stuff fly about ( thankfully that does not happen very often anymore) and seen things in everyday places.
I really do not understand any if it and am reluctant to find out . "
Why the reluctance? I would be booked in for rigourous testing asap. But then these abilities always seem to disappear under controlled conditions. Funny that. |
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"All my life I have seen stuff , I don't ask for it too happen , it just does.
I cannot make it happen so I believe all this Derek Anchora stuff is shite .
I have stood in graveyards and churches and nothing , but have had stuff fly about ( thankfully that does not happen very often anymore) and seen things in everyday places.
I really do not understand any if it and am reluctant to find out .
Why the reluctance? I would be booked in for rigourous testing asap. But then these abilities always seem to disappear under controlled conditions. Funny that."
haha
yeah as soon as any of these people with supersense powers are in a room with a man with a white coat and a note pad they suddenly become 'normal' again and blame it on the pressure
i blame it on the fact they are bullshitters or cant tell the difference between fantasy and reality |
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"All my life I have seen stuff , I don't ask for it too happen , it just does.
I cannot make it happen so I believe all this Derek Anchora stuff is shite .
I have stood in graveyards and churches and nothing , but have had stuff fly about ( thankfully that does not happen very often anymore) and seen things in everyday places.
I really do not understand any if it and am reluctant to find out .
Why the reluctance? I would be booked in for rigourous testing asap. But then these abilities always seem to disappear under controlled conditions. Funny that."
Yep , quite agree , which is why I said that I do not believe that people can control what happens.
The men in white coats would have to wait a long time for anything to happen as it can be years apart . |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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Does anyone remember Doris Stokes? A well known medium who told anyone who would listen that when she died, she would send back a clear message..
She died in 1987 and to date, no such message has been received by any of her followers...
I do however find John Edward a little mystifying! Unlike the standard questions which lead or draw out the needs of a subject. He relates information and prefers the subject to just say yes or no! Best I can come up with is pre-knowledge...  |
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"I have a sixth sense and on many an occasion it has proved to have been right.It keeps me in touch with everything that is going on around me and also everything that is hidden from me too "
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"There is no sixth sense. There is no empirical evidence for it's existence. People like to think it might exist as it explains people getting "warnings" about dangers etc. But most people only remember those instances and forget about the majority of times when they had no "warning". The human mind always looks for patterns in behaviour and it's enviroment. We ignore all the other data because we WANT to believe. Don't believe me? Ask Derek Acorah to give you a reading or whatever nonsense he does, then ask Derren Brown or James Randl to do the same.
Very good. I had been waiting for this _iewpoint to come forth....
Now I want you to absolutely prove beyond shadow of a doubt that this stuff does not exist. Oh: And if you can somehow do this (no body has so far) then the mass psychological damage you would do to mankind would be incalculable.
And whilst you are at it I would like you to identify what makes something alive and why? What happens when it is dead and what "leaves" to make it dead? Where is its aliveness?
Where is your self and what defines your self? Does yourself inherently exist? My _iew is that the self does not inherently exist and I am not alone in this i.e. it arises from a set of circumstances. My mother was this my father that I was brought up there etc etc.
I want you to sit in meditation every day for hours every day for about 6 months to a year and totally try to prove that this stuff does not exist with all your concentration.
If you use the proven techniques for long enough and regularly enough then "something" will happen to you and it will come as quite a shock when you have to reconsider what you think "reality" actually is.
I was doing exactly this and staring at a Talisman when my body gradually became numb from my toes all the way up to my head when I lost my hearing and my sight and then my consciousness lifted right up out of my body. I nearly shat myself when this happened and dropped back down into my body again. I was so shocked by it that I didn't practice for a number of months whilst I got over it.
You are wrong to assume I have to prove the none-existence of a sixth sense. The onus is on YOU to prove it's existence. Look up Bertrands Teapot and see why you are coming at it from the wrong angle."
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"How many times has she said to someone put your belt on and nothing happened?
People never remember those.
Like I said pyschic ability is easily testable,no one has ever shown to be physic.
Hey me I'm just glad I got my daughter back ok.
If people could see the future they'd all be multi-millionaires .......I think were talking about some kind of inbuilt sense that's forewarns us when something bads about to happen to us , and maybe its something we've lost as we've evolved.
It's something that can't be proved a bit like religion , you can't prove that god exsists yet billions believe he does !
Surely if at one time we had this power.evolution would bring out the ability,not fade it away.
The evidence of no god is pretty conclusive to me.some people may take more convincing.
Psychic abilty is 100% testable
Peoples stories about how they thought something is goin to happen is not proof.
I've thought I saw someone I know then walked around the corner and they were there,not the person I thought I saw.that is nothing amazing,its just probable that it will happen.
Its all going down the road of mind reading,palm reading,astrology.its all just a bit of fun.nothing more than that.
Headline you don't see everyweek
Pyscic wins the lottery.
There's a good reason why "
Pychic ability is only testable in the ways that science happens to accept that its testable and this has its limitations.
Nobody who really has this ability gives a monkeys about money or anything else materialistic. Its not asceticism: This shallow materialistic stuff (in there eyes) just ceases to be important.
Evolution, if you mean the cutting edge of a western society, is actually degrading the ability not increasing it. Its quite difficult to find any nature spirits in a semi-disposable Swedish furniture store for example. In fact the only vibe in there seems to be: "My soul feels so bad: let me buy something to make myself feel better". But this is only my opinion of course.
African bushmen on the plains are way superior to using all their senses and their instincts/6th sense than we are in a western society. They have to be: they are "on the menu".. LOL.
Finally; don't assume that the cops and the intelligence agencies don't use psychics just because they deny it.
Remote Viewing got particularly "exiting" during the cold war and several psychics on both sides were assassinated for being rather "too good" at it. |
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"How many times has she said to someone put your belt on and nothing happened?
People never remember those.
Like I said pyschic ability is easily testable,no one has ever shown to be physic.
Hey me I'm just glad I got my daughter back ok.
If people could see the future they'd all be multi-millionaires .......I think were talking about some kind of inbuilt sense that's forewarns us when something bads about to happen to us , and maybe its something we've lost as we've evolved.
It's something that can't be proved a bit like religion , you can't prove that god exsists yet billions believe he does !
Surely if at one time we had this power.evolution would bring out the ability,not fade it away.
The evidence of no god is pretty conclusive to me.some people may take more convincing.
Psychic abilty is 100% testable
Peoples stories about how they thought something is goin to happen is not proof.
I've thought I saw someone I know then walked around the corner and they were there,not the person I thought I saw.that is nothing amazing,its just probable that it will happen.
Its all going down the road of mind reading,palm reading,astrology.its all just a bit of fun.nothing more than that.
Headline you don't see everyweek
Pyscic wins the lottery.
There's a good reason why
Pychic ability is only testable in the ways that science happens to accept that its testable and this has its limitations.
Nobody who really has this ability gives a monkeys about money or anything else materialistic. Its not asceticism: This shallow materialistic stuff (in there eyes) just ceases to be important.
Evolution, if you mean the cutting edge of a western society, is actually degrading the ability not increasing it. Its quite difficult to find any nature spirits in a semi-disposable Swedish furniture store for example. In fact the only vibe in there seems to be: "My soul feels so bad: let me buy something to make myself feel better". But this is only my opinion of course.
African bushmen on the plains are way superior to using all their senses and their instincts/6th sense than we are in a western society. They have to be: they are "on the menu".. LOL.
Finally; don't assume that the cops and the intelligence agencies don't use psychics just because they deny it.
Remote Viewing got particularly "exiting" during the cold war and several psychics on both sides were assassinated for being rather "too good" at it."
"Nobody who really has this ability gives a monkeys about money or anything else materialistic." - Thats a hell of a convenience. It is akin to people telling you that just because god does not manifest himself in the physical world , he does not exist. It's a fudge. Bending the rules to suit your argument. |
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This post above reveals a lot about your values and they are very common _iews so its worth analyzing them further:
You find it impossible to believe that anybody with these personal powers could not be rich, could not be famous and that's because conditioning by society has made you think that these factors are actually power.
My _iew is that this is complete nonsense. Pardon me for proudly lifting a finger to the whole of the asylum here yet again.... LOL
Please remember that mother nature cares not one jot about money or fame. For example; any idiot can become a father (providing they are fertile). There is no limiting pay grade, selection inter_iews or license required.
These are the forces of nature we are dealing with here and with these abilities come trials that examine the very fabric of your soul. Only those with true compassion can withstand this. The rest fall by the wayside.
This is the self protecting mechanism. Your ego is destroyed by the process and all the selfishness that goes with it. |
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"This post above reveals a lot about your values and they are very common _iews so its worth analyzing them further:
You find it impossible to believe that anybody with these personal powers could not be rich, could not be famous and that's because conditioning by society has made you think that these factors are actually power.
My _iew is that this is complete nonsense. Pardon me for proudly lifting a finger to the whole of the asylum here yet again.... LOL
Please remember that mother nature cares not one jot about money or fame. For example; any idiot can become a father (providing they are fertile). There is no limiting pay grade, selection inter_iews or license required.
These are the forces of nature we are dealing with here and with these abilities come trials that examine the very fabric of your soul. Only those with true compassion can withstand this. The rest fall by the wayside.
This is the self protecting mechanism. Your ego is destroyed by the process and all the selfishness that goes with it."
This implicitly assumes we have a soul. Yet another unproven belief. You've still yet to state something that is proven. |
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"This post above reveals a lot about your values and they are very common _iews so its worth analyzing them further:
You find it impossible to believe that anybody with these personal powers could not be rich, could not be famous and that's because conditioning by society has made you think that these factors are actually power.
My _iew is that this is complete nonsense. Pardon me for proudly lifting a finger to the whole of the asylum here yet again.... LOL
Please remember that mother nature cares not one jot about money or fame. For example; any idiot can become a father (providing they are fertile). There is no limiting pay grade, selection inter_iews or license required.
These are the forces of nature we are dealing with here and with these abilities come trials that examine the very fabric of your soul. Only those with true compassion can withstand this. The rest fall by the wayside.
This is the self protecting mechanism. Your ego is destroyed by the process and all the selfishness that goes with it.
This implicitly assumes we have a soul. Yet another unproven belief. You've still yet to state something that is proven."
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. At least we can celebrate our differences... |
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"Sacrifice your belief on the altar of evidence. "
Funnily enough I have had to do that a heck of a lot. And when you have the balls to really do it then it is quite a mentally disturbing process the first few times.
Our minds have such strong delusions. Even what you see with your eyes is strictly by definition a lie. The image projected on the optic nerve at the back of you eye is upside down and backwards. Your brain has to correct it to produce what you "see" and does it instantaneously without any awareness if this deception our part.
If you can't trust what you see with your eyes to be without considerable alteration then what can you trust as evidence anyway?
No wonder the Buddhists say that everything is illusion.....
Which has more illusion? The belief or the evidence? And which set of beliefs is the evidence based upon anyway? |
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"Which has more illusion? The belief or the evidence? And which set of beliefs is the evidence based upon anyway?"
That is a circular argument. I refer the speaker to the answer I gave before, referencing Bertrands Teapot. |
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""Which has more illusion? The belief or the evidence? And which set of beliefs is the evidence based upon anyway?"
That is a circular argument. I refer the speaker to the answer I gave before, referencing Bertrands Teapot."
Bertrand Russell criticized all dogmas and religious beliefs as nonsense. I'm sorry but I didn't think I had posted barely a single piece of religious dogma. I have talked about things I have experienced and I dislike all dogma.
What Authority does Russell have and why should we believe him? Well: his student Wittgenstein destroyed Russell's theories and life's work as nonsense in a few short years. Russell took the bottle shortly afterwards...
Wittgenstein did a hell of a lot of meditation (as it happens) and saw right through Mr Russell's flawed arguments. Wittgenstein arranged logic in perfect circular arguments to create a philosophy that encompassed all others and has not been surpassed to this day. Perhaps you should be studying a klein bottle and not a tea pot?
You are entitled to your opinion of course but even if we go down your route then we find there is better around and your arguments are quite out of date.
This will be my last post unless somebody comes back with a new direction on this as we are almost chatting with each other which is against the rules. |
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As an exercise in logic, why should I believe in something that cannot be proved? I know that 2+2+4 because it can be proven. I know mankind is descended from apes, because there is proof. I know that a medium or psychic is a charlatan because ANYONE can do it. Fools get suckered in because they want to believe and they ignore ALL the evidence and concentrate on pieces that prove what they want to be true. |
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"As an exercise in logic, why should I believe in something that cannot be proved? I know that 2+2+4 because it can be proven. I know mankind is descended from apes, because there is proof. I know that a medium or psychic is a charlatan because ANYONE can do it. Fools get suckered in because they want to believe and they ignore ALL the evidence and concentrate on pieces that prove what they want to be true."
I work in a high tech design office. We have lots of people who are mathematical geniuses. They apply logic and reasoning ruthlessly as you are advocating. The trouble is that a fair proportion of them (bless 'em) cannot "tie their own shoe laces" in many other respects. Emotional intelligence is seriously absent.
Logic and reason isn't the pinnacle of human thought: Its barely at base camp level and regardless of how we wish to label it I would say that humans are much more than this. |
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It is innate in man to search for patterns in our environment. We see things because we WISH to see them. We ignore what does not fit with what we want and believe to be true. Empiricism will out! |
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"It is innate in man to search for patterns in our environment. We see things because we WISH to see them. We ignore what does not fit with what we want and believe to be true. Empiricism will out!"
Ok so you have worn out Russell, logic and now you are invoking empiricism. Sounds a bit desperate to me
Good luck anyhow. |
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Why talk to a brick wall? Perhaps, after a very long time, the vibrations from the soundwaves from your voice, will erode and crumble the wall....but until then, save your voice. Let nature do the job for you. |
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"Why talk to a brick wall? Perhaps, after a very long time, the vibrations from the soundwaves from your voice, will erode and crumble the wall....but until then, save your voice. Let nature do the job for you. "
Well apparently, the brick wall might be listening. There is no PROOF or EVIDENCE to suggest so, but who needs proof when anything is possible? |
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"Why talk to a brick wall? Perhaps, after a very long time, the vibrations from the soundwaves from your voice, will erode and crumble the wall....but until then, save your voice. Let nature do the job for you. "
That's ok. I like a bit of gentle philosophical sparing occasionally and certain life experiences plus a hand full of Zen training have made me quite comfortable with speaking to brick walls. |
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There are actually a lot more than 6 senses... Steven Fry on QI explains in this 2 minute clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUn7zy8Ya20
For those who don't want to watch this clip (explains within the first 30 seconds)... Balance, thirst, and hunger were given as solid examples of senses.
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"Why talk to a brick wall? Perhaps, after a very long time, the vibrations from the soundwaves from your voice, will erode and crumble the wall....but until then, save your voice. Let nature do the job for you.
Well apparently, the brick wall might be listening. There is no PROOF or EVIDENCE to suggest so, but who needs proof when anything is possible?"
Oh: the brick wall is certainly listening all right. That's why I have kept going. |
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"Why talk to a brick wall? Perhaps, after a very long time, the vibrations from the soundwaves from your voice, will erode and crumble the wall....but until then, save your voice. Let nature do the job for you.
Well apparently, the brick wall might be listening. There is no PROOF or EVIDENCE to suggest so, but who needs proof when anything is possible?
Oh: the brick wall is certainly listening all right. That's why I have kept going."
I wasn't alluding to you. I meant real brick walls. That is, if you accept that anything is real. |
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