47,8% believe in 'psychic' (Norway)

[Owen Robertson]

Statistical improbability you mean. There's either other life in the universe besides humanity or there isn't.

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Must... not... say it...

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BOTH ARE EQUALLY TERRIFYING ahhhhhhh damn it.

Ah, right you are. My mistake. I think exclusively human life is scarier than other threatening life. ALthough, if we don't destroy ourselves, we get to be Precursors... Let's make all of our fiction reality for another species!!! Who's with me in perhaps one million years?!

 

[Risingblade]

if science has taught us anything it's that our lives are completely pointless and we should all just die...oh well time to drown myself in technology.

I get sad when I hear stuff like that.

If science has taught us anything is that the fairy tales and dreams we make up to make ourselves feel better are indeed just fairy tales and dreams. Don't shoot the messenger, and all that. Especially if it's delivering the truth.

but the truth sucks

 

[Owen Robertson]

It's comparable to, say, the way a room feels if everybody in it is angry. You don't have to see any faces or hear any voices to know that at least somebody in there is pissed, because it just permeates the atmosphere. Maybe that's a result of pheromones and sweat and that's why you 'feel' it, but I'm just trying to simplify the sensation.

I would love to say I'm confident in my ability but I'm really not. I've tried to get help out of 'psychics' to see if there's a way I can make it more reliable but all I get is "I'm sending you positive energy" and I always reply "Well stop it's putting me off."

I like to think I have great communication skills, but I can't read people at all, until I think about the encounter after the fact. I can feel anger in a room, but I can't see it on someone's face who is hiding it. If you can, that's phenomenal, and you should be a lawyer or a judge.

Onto your abilities. Why have you tried to develop your abilities with other psychics? Shouldn't you try to develop them on non-psychics, so that you're doing all of the telepathic work? In theory it's like exercising a muscle, so "working it" would strengthen the ability. Just a thought.

 

[Thyunda]

It's comparable to, say, the way a room feels if everybody in it is angry. You don't have to see any faces or hear any voices to know that at least somebody in there is pissed, because it just permeates the atmosphere. Maybe that's a result of pheromones and sweat and that's why you 'feel' it, but I'm just trying to simplify the sensation.

I would love to say I'm confident in my ability but I'm really not. I've tried to get help out of 'psychics' to see if there's a way I can make it more reliable but all I get is "I'm sending you positive energy" and I always reply "Well stop it's putting me off."

I like to think I have great communication skills, but I can't read people at all, until I think about the encounter after the fact. I can feel anger in a room, but I can't see it on someone's face who is hiding it. If you can, that's phenomenal, and you should be a lawyer or a judge.

Onto your abilities. Why have you tried to develop your abilities with other psychics? Shouldn't you try to develop them on non-psychics, so that you're doing all of the telepathic work? In theory it's like exercising a muscle, so "working it" would strengthen the ability. Just a thought.

That...is actually a brilliant idea. I never thought of it like a muscle, I always thought of it like a machine that I didn't know how to use. But if my theory on its existence is correct, therefore I should have an innate knowledge of how to use it - like flexing my arm, I don't think about contracting and expanding muscles, I just...move my arm. Fortunately for me, my friends are full of theatrics and life-threatening situations, so I DO get the opportunity to practice it a lot.

As for reading people - I don't know if it's that. It's like...I see a situation, and then an answer forms in my head. At that moment, I could say "You're wrong, he's right." and I'd be correct. But I always fear that if I become confident and trust my ability, people will catch on, and deliberately do things to upset it. I...hide my hand until the very last moment.

And the law suggestion is one I've had a lot. I might well go for it.