Do psychic powers like telekinesis or other powers like mind reading accually exist ?
My side of the argument is simple
Yes i belive there is more to what we can see with our eyes. My mum went to a psychic in Tahiland and he told her he future. My mum says and i quote "Everything he has said has been 100 % correct". The psychic told my mum that her first child would be a boy and his name would start with the letter R. My uncle was in hospital at the time and the psychic said "Greg will be fine" (Greg being my uncle)
now you cant say that theres no such thing
It's called cold reading -->
http://www.skeptics....es/coldread.htmFirstly, there is a 50/50 chance that your first child will be a boy. That's not a hard one to get right. And keep in mind this psychic just wanted their money, and it wouldn't be of much concern to them if the tourist ended up having a girl. It was a perfectly safe guess to make at the moment due to both the fact it couldn't be verified until the subject was long gone, and the chances of it being true were pretty good.
As far as the name of her first child starting with an R... Once again, that is not a prediction. It is up to the mother what her child's name will start with, and once the psychic told her, well, if she really wants to believe in psychic powers than a name that begins with R will be chosen.
If I tell you that your childs first name will start with a P, you will either give them a name that starts with a P because you want to believe I am psychic, or you will definitely not give them a name that starts with a P because you don't want to believe I'm psychic. This is more a subtle form of mind control as opposed to psychic powers
As far as Greg being fine... I'd have to more know the circumstances of how it was said and what your mother told him beforehand to be able to talk about that one.
But the first two are easy
Yeah I believe they exist, my mom has 'em and so do I
From time to time I'll make a prediction and it will come true
I've also done a couple magic spells that came to pass
I shit you not my friends:)
You see, the thing is, you only notice your successes. One time, I was watching baseball, and I said "The next guy is going to hit a grand slam." The bases were loaded. He hits a grand slam. This was a guy that didn't hit home runs much. Was it cool? Hell yeah. Am I psychic? No.
Because what you don't think about, is all the times you have made guesses, predictions, or had intuitions, where you were
wrong. If you are psychic you should be right oh, at least 65% of the time, all the time. But being right once in every thousand times or even few hundred times hardly qualifies as abnormal.
There are a limited number of possibilites in situations, and the chances of you guessing correctly are not as bad as you may think they are. In a room of 30 people, chances areabout 90+% that at least 2 of the people in the room will have the same birthday. I can't explain how that's true, but if you'd like you can look it up, it is. Learned it in my stats class. Anyway, It goes to show that despite the fact it may
seem like the chances of you guessing something are insurmountable, that there are actually only a limited number of possibilites and there will no doubt be many times your guesses
are correct.
How many times have you thought "I'm going to do well on this!" then done badly? Or vice versa? How many times have you thought one thing was going to happen, and another happened? I'd wager quite a few. But the only times you actually remember are the times you are right. Everyone is right sometimes
To be a psychic you need to be right almost all the time.
Edited by BrknPhoenix, 08 March 2006 - 05:11 AM.