47,8% believe in 'psychic' (Norway)
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People love to believe in magic. Science, as wonderful as it is (and I'm an engineer, so I think science is pretty baller also), is utterly ruining fantasy for us. Not so long ago, people believed in all kinds of wondrous and fantastical things. Now? Now, we're cynical and jaded. All the magic is gone. Now, anything wonderful and cool about the universe has been boiled down to math, and it's math that not many people understand, so now the Really Amazing bits of life are sequestered away for the most nerdy and dedicated. The average person has a dry, magic-less existence. It's really kind of sad. No wonder adults look stuffy and boring.
So people look for ways to believe it wherever they can. Wouldn't it be neat if there *were* psychic people?
So people look for ways to believe it wherever they can. Wouldn't it be neat if there *were* psychic people?
To help your faith in humanity (and your country) be aware that "studies" published in newspapers (and not citing another source) are almost always based on questionnaires answered by their own readers, and can have been answered by as few as a hundred people.Playful Pony said:
There is an inherent bias towards whatever view readers of that newspaper are likely to hold (e.g. is it a newspaper commonly read by the more educated or the less educated?), and an additional bias on what sort of people are likely to bother responding to the questionnaire. In general, people are more likely to bother to respond if they know they are giving a "less orthodox" view. They have more of an incentive to have their voice heard than someone who assumes their view is the norm.
And to answer your question: no, I don't believe in the supernatural.
Depends what psychic stuff we're talking about.
Do I believe those people who do easy mind games to lure the lesser minded's wallets? Hell no.
However, I believe I have a small psychic power in that I will occasionally get a premonition dream. I'll have a dream that's just every day life and occasionally that event will actually happen a few days/weeks/months down the road. I've been keeping a dream journal and it seems that I have one dream every month or two that has eventually come true. Unfortunately, I'm not winning any lotteries or bets with this because they're usually pretty mundane things like card games, conversations, small events, etc.
And now I look bat-shit crazy lol.
Do I believe those people who do easy mind games to lure the lesser minded's wallets? Hell no.
However, I believe I have a small psychic power in that I will occasionally get a premonition dream. I'll have a dream that's just every day life and occasionally that event will actually happen a few days/weeks/months down the road. I've been keeping a dream journal and it seems that I have one dream every month or two that has eventually come true. Unfortunately, I'm not winning any lotteries or bets with this because they're usually pretty mundane things like card games, conversations, small events, etc.
And now I look bat-shit crazy lol.
No, I don't believe in that stuff, and I find it annoying when smart people get wrapped up in that B.S.
"Look man, I wouldn't usually believe in ghosts, but the lights flickered on and off with no one there man! You can't explain that!"
"Look man, I wouldn't usually believe in ghosts, but the lights flickered on and off with no one there man! You can't explain that!"
That Wikipedia page does not seem like very good quality (it's orphaned - for one thing - which means editors will only come across it if they directly search for him). By the edit page, there's been a bit of fighting back and forth over it.dyre said:
I might do a bit of editing to try to improve it, but it's probably a lost cause.
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?!Syzygy23 said:
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.Thyunda said:
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.
Owen Robertson said:
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.