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Post by willowsummers on Dec 28, 2009 15:45:31 GMT -5
I was just wondering how people on here felt about telepathy. Do you think it's true? Do you feel like you've experienced it?
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Dec 28, 2009 16:08:23 GMT -5
Have you met Emmie and wenxina? It's like they have one mind.  In all seriousness, a lot of this tele-x stuff - ESP, telekinesis, stuff like that - may turn out to be possible as we learn more about the human brain. But right now - eh. I'm skeptical. |
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Post by CourtneyDax on Dec 28, 2009 17:25:55 GMT -5
My personal opinion is that we as a planet are woefully ignorant of the capacity and capabilities of the human brain and that I believe that some of the abilities that people claim to have are semi-genuine. Anything is possible I suppose...
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Post by wenxina on Dec 28, 2009 17:41:38 GMT -5
Have you met Emmie and wenxina? It's like they have one mind. Tis true... But hush... less some MIBs come grab us in the dead of the night to conduct experiments on our hivemind.  |
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Dec 28, 2009 17:43:27 GMT -5
Have you met Emmie and wenxina? It's like they have one mind. Tis true... But hush... less some MIBs come grab us in the dead of the night to conduct experiments on our hivemind. MIB is real?!  Jump thread, jump thread! Everybody jump thread they're coming for us! |
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Post by willowsummers on Dec 28, 2009 21:23:03 GMT -5
Derail........ I don't know, I think its an interesting area of belief. If there was a way to bring out this ability then I'd line up. But a lot of things that seem to happen, could fall into the category of consequence. Well everyone says the whole coincidence thing and sometimes that is a very reasonable solution that I go with. But at other times, I feel like it is harder to believe all that would have had to happen to make that coincidence than it is to believe in telepathy. |
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Post by wenxina on Dec 28, 2009 21:38:06 GMT -5
Point of clarification. Do you mean "consequence" or "coincidence"?
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Post by willowsummers on Dec 28, 2009 21:45:00 GMT -5
lol I didn't even pick up on that. It is coincidence.
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Post by wenxina on Dec 28, 2009 21:56:54 GMT -5
Cool, thanks. I was a tad confused. As for my belief in telepathy... not so much. I believe that if you know a person well enough, there are moments when you think of the same thing at the same time, given a particular context. This falls into the "coincidence" category, I guess.
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Post by willowsummers on Dec 28, 2009 22:02:39 GMT -5
I feel like I have experienced telepathy and I spend most of my life acting on the assumption that it is really happening. I am interested in hearing other people express their opinions or experiences, if they have any, because I think it needs to be discussed openly. As Hellbound Hyperion said, so much of the human brain is unknown. Perhaps we could explain it away and it's not true, or perhaps we just don't understand our minds well enough to explain how it DOES work. I honestly don't know the answer, but so many people are prejudiced to the idea. I have had dreams that seemed to tell me things in other peoples' lives that I shouldn't know. I've had dreams that were almost exactly mirroring something else I knew was going through at that same time and so have other members of my family. My mother and I will ask questions in our own minds and the other will speak out with the answer. We've also sat in opposite rooms and drawn without telling the other what we were going to draw and we drew scarily similar things though they may or may not have been the same object. It happens so much we often don't even comment on it anymore, and like I said, I sometimes can rule it out as a coincidence and other times I find that harder to believe than telepathy. ETAWell I sure shut everyone up with that one. Nobody even wants to argue the point?  |
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Post by Just Willow on Jan 1, 2010 1:41:48 GMT -5
hhmmm.....i don't believe it. I believe that people can be told about others by God, but i don't believe that people can share these things themselves.
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Post by Talkie Toaster on Jan 1, 2010 2:03:35 GMT -5
hhmmm.....i don't believe it. I believe that people can be told about others by God, but i don't believe that people can share these things themselves. but that there is just another belief, see i for one don't believe in any god but i do believe in the supernatural (from experience) and i have experienced telepathy |
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Post by wenxina on Jan 1, 2010 13:34:20 GMT -5
Well I sure shut everyone up with that one. Nobody even wants to argue the point? I don't feel inclined to debate a personal belief with you. I believe that you believe in it, but I don't think that you've addressed my previous comment about how much of it can probably be attributed to coincidence, especially if it's someone that you know exceedingly well. Dreams are another thing entirely, but the subconscious is wacky... things that are usually suppressed may come to the surface. That itself is not telepathy, but quite simply the way dreams work. |
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Post by Just Willow on Jan 1, 2010 15:43:43 GMT -5
hhmmm.....i don't believe it. I believe that people can be told about others by God, but i don't believe that people can share these things themselves. but that there is just another belief, see i for one don't believe in any god but i do believe in the supernatural (from experience) and i have experienced telepathy ah, well, i respect your opinion and beliefs, even if i don't agree wit them |
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Post by willowsummers on Jan 1, 2010 16:52:39 GMT -5
Thank you everyone for your responses. There were so many while I was at work that I'm going to address them all here... hhmmm.....i don't believe it. I believe that people can be told about others by God, but i don't believe that people can share these things themselves. We may be talking about the same thing. I don't totally know what I've experienced, nor can I claim to really explain it. I just know how it feels and what makes sense. How would this "being told about other by God" thing work? but that there is just another belief, see i for one don't believe in any god but i do believe in the supernatural (from experience) and i have experienced telepathy What exactly have you experienced? Willowsummers, have you or your mum tried it with people you don't know at all or as well? There have been other examples involving my mother and my father, several of her sisters, my father and a friend of his... We also did an experiment, I described it above, where we were trying to draw at the same time. She drew something that looked like a plate, I drew several things on my paper that looked like eggs and she talked to her boyfriend just afterward because he called her, and he had been cooking eggs and bacon at the same time we were drawing. It sounds made up, but it's not. We got the idea from a book called Mental Radio. I don't feel inclined to debate a personal belief with you. I believe that you believe in it, but I don't think that you've addressed my previous comment about how much of it can probably be attributed to coincidence, especially if it's someone that you know exceedingly well. Dreams are another thing entirely, but the subconscious is wacky... things that are usually suppressed may come to the surface. That itself is not telepathy, but quite simply the way dreams work. I don't know how to address the coincidence thing, except to say that sometimes I think that is all it is. Sometimes it makes sense, oh we could have been thinking that at the same time, or we're so much alike. Sometimes we can dredge things up in our subconscious. But other times it is too weird to think it is a coincidence. Sometimes that is harder to make seem rational than to think that telepathy is really happening. |
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Post by Just Willow on Jan 1, 2010 17:32:10 GMT -5
hhmmm.....i don't believe it. I believe that people can be told about others by God, but i don't believe that people can share these things themselves. We may be talking about the same thing. I don't totally know what I've experienced, nor can I claim to really explain it. I just know how it feels and what makes sense. How would this "being told about other by God" thing work? how would it work? uhh...well, for example: I have a friend who was sick of awful things happening to all her other friends, so she prayed ot God that everything bad that would happen to them would happen to her instead. So that happened. And she always knew who these things were originally supposed to happen to, but they happened to her, as per her request. For example, she was kidnapped once, and would have been raped and killed, except she was saved, but if that had happened to the person it was supposed to, they would not have been saved, because her rescuer was someone she knew. |
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Post by Talkie Toaster on Jan 1, 2010 22:21:13 GMT -5
but that there is just another belief, see i for one don't believe in any god but i do believe in the supernatural (from experience) and i have experienced telepathy ah, well, i respect your opinion and beliefs, even if i don't agree wit them And i yours, and that is just another thing i love about these forums ;D What exactly have you experienced? well, one was just having the sudden urge to visit a friend i didn't know why but i could somehow feel that he was in trouble, and when i got to his place i found him collapsed on the kitchen floor, if i hadn't have gotten there who knows what would have happened. |
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Post by willowsummers on Jan 1, 2010 23:26:55 GMT -5
well, one was just having the sudden urge to visit a friend i didn't know why but i could somehow feel that he was in trouble, and when i got to his place i found him collapsed on the kitchen floor, if i hadn't have gotten there who knows what would have happened. I have heard of that kind of stuff happening, but I don't know what that is. I don't know if it's telepathy, or some other kind of perception we're not suppose to have. |
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Post by lucifurl on Jan 3, 2010 6:07:57 GMT -5
I don't think you can underestimate the human brain, I for one think that as a species we were given two paths, the logical scientific way and the spiritual way. As a whole I think we veered towards the logical path but I do think that certain people are more open to the spiritual side and although I have never experienced any kind of telepathy myself I am inclined to believe that it does exist. It may not be "supernatural" though, just a higher function of the brain.
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Post by willowsummers on Jan 4, 2010 15:47:53 GMT -5
I don't think you can underestimate the human brain. I totally agree. I think the whole thing, we don't know enough about our brains to fully explain how it works or what it is capable of. Telepathy and other similar abilities may not be possible but until we can truthfully explain it away, it should be open for exploration and debate. |
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