"Inspiration from the ghost thread, Do you believe in psychics?"
I believe a very small percentage of them believe they are psychic (because they dont understand coincidence), the rest are con artists, nothing more nothing less. |
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There's not good research evidence for psychic abilities but I'm open to the possibilities, once there is some.
As with ghosts - it seems most likely that when we die, we are completely gone, without any leftover personality that persists.
We would like our lost and missed loved ones to still exist but it's not likely.
Otherwise our brains are incredible organs. Everything that we sense is the product of our brain - it's taken all the incoming bits of information coming in, forming it into a perception of that reality. That perception is biased end not real and allows or makes us have unrealistic perceived experiences that are wide of the mark. We can believe things have happened when they have not. Likewise there are probably some people who think they are truly psychic when they have no abilities. There are also frauds who con others.
If we get some good evidence, it will also open up our accepted understanding of the world in highly significant ways. The world would have to be understood in very different ways, including energy and potentially time. |
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A man once offered a million dollors to anyone who could prove their abilities
Nobody ever claimed the prize. Many of the so called physics wouldn't even take part.
It was cringe watching the ones who tried to fool people.
The same man who offered the million dollors prize also changed the props on a TV show that Uri Geller was on and he was also proven a fraud. |
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I can't decide. I think those on TV or a celebrity in some other way off of it are fake and 99% of people are fake, it makes me cringe watching them. But what about the 1%? I also don't particularly believe psychics can talk to dead people, although I don't completely discount the possibility either. Unless it happened to me and was given very, very specific information they couldn't possibly know. But of course "it doesn't work like that" apparently.
However, a so-called psychic ability to read someone's mind? Or some other real like tangible thing? I don't know, there is a lot about the human brain that science does not understand. Most who play on it use wishy-washy generic crap and once you get a large crowd it's easy to pretend any vague comment applies to at least one of them.
However, I do get "feelings" about things sometimes. To give an example, I was talking with my FB and I did say I don't particularly believe in psychics but can know things I can't explain.
Naturally this went back and forth and every single thing I said was correct. Is your favorite colour red? Yes. Is Indian your favourite food? Yes. I feel that you like a bit of spice but not really spicy, hmmm is a lamb rogan Josh your favorite curry? Yes. Do you love the starters that come with popadoms but won't have them when out only when eating your partner? Yes, only with my partner also with my family. You like where you work and like the idea of your job, but you don't actually like doing your job? Yes (I have cut out some specific information about that person here). There were a bunch of personal sexual questions I got right that I will leave out. Also she was pregnant but I didn't feel she was going to have the baby, obviously I didn't tell her that. The following week she had a miscarriage.
There is no possible way I could know these things and why I can't discount the idea people can be psychic. |
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"A man once offered a million dollors to anyone who could prove their abilities
Nobody ever claimed the prize. Many of the so called physics wouldn't even take part.
It was cringe watching the ones who tried to fool people.
The same man who offered the million dollors prize also changed the props on a TV show that Uri Geller was on and he was also proven a fraud. "
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James Randi. I think the million is still on offer. Not one psychic saw the death of Diana.. or the 911 tragedy. Surely if we were contacted from Beyond the Grave they would say watch out for North Korean nuclear bombs not I'm looking for a somebody beginning with a p or could be a t.  |
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