Psychic Feelings

[vernonk]

Do you believe that - maybe even have examples of - some people can somehow sense what you're thinking or feeling even if they're a long distance away and haven't seen in you in a long while?

[daffy654]

Not at all. There is no such thing as being psychic.

[murraymints]

I knew you would say that daffy !!! Lol

[DTCwordfan]

Your evidence/proof, daffy?

[doctordb]

DT, those calling themselves psychic are the ones who need to show evidence/proof.

[daffy654]

Where is your proof to the contrary DTC? I would have credited you with more sense.

[Cloverjo]

I don't think this is possible. Any examples are coincidences, or possibly owing to slight changes in memory or perception after the "event".
Unless, that is, there is a common reference point, like a news story that you know someone in particular would be feeling strongly about.

[jomifl]

DTC, the absence of proof is proof(enough) of absence, a bit like god being difficult to find.... even in a church.

[DTCwordfan]

Quite simple to answer that one, never mind the attempted derogatory remark, I'll ignore that....because we are not masters of all our science - yet.......look at the recent debate that Einstein's law of relativity may be challenged. Go back 200 to 300 years ago, folk couldn't explain electricity but knew about lightning, St Elmo's fire and static shocks but couldn't explain them.

Psychic powers - it's estimated we only know some 10 per cent of the brain's power - how do Dolphins (or even some birds communicate) - we can't explain. Psychic powers/feelings I accept - dressing them up as God I do not, just an explanation for the unknown.

[stokemaveric]

there is no such thing as being ''physic''...uri geller is a fake..doris stokes and sally morgan the people who claim to talk to the dead are known fakes..derren brown and dynamo are brilliant illusionists..physics do not exist..

[DTCwordfan]

I agree to the fakes; there are a lot of yet unexplainable phenomena in mother nature though, stoke - ones that you can't even put bets on.

[jim360]

Yeah, no-one is seriously challenging Einstein's Theory at the moment.

There's no reason to believe in psychic abilities as there has yet to be a single successful test under experimental conditions of Psychic abilities. Until such time it is rational to not believe in Psychic abilities and all idle "oh we don't know..." stuff misses something important: that as Science has progressed it has squeezed and squeezed almost to extinction any reason to believe in mystical powers. This trend is only going to continue -- the world is not that weird.

[stokemaveric]

lol i agree dtc..and there are things that will never be explained.stuff like this does interest me a lot but the fakes dont help matters..but there have been fakes and charletons around since adam and eve lol

[tamborine]

telepathy ? Happens often with me & siblings. Psychic ? My old man is around me and finds things I lose ;)

[jomifl]

DTC I think we know how dolphins and birds communicate and have done for some time. As for lightning, well lots of people had seen it, it had been recorded in various ways, (burnt trees, dead animals). When people interpret a slight functional abnormality of the brain as something paranormal then that is proof that the brain doesn't always function properly. QED.

[Prudie]

By psychic I didn't think you meant mediums, which most people scoff at but more a a thought transmission. I've lost count of the times I might be thinking of something totally random and then my OH starts a conversation about it or thinking of someone and 5 minutes later they call. That I have experienced (although it may easily be just coincidence).

[Canary42]

It would appear that there may well be some form of mental contact possible between animals/birds/fish - one only has to watch a large shoal of fish, or a large flock of starlings to wonder how they co-ordinate their movement without some form of mental traffic. If this is the case, then possibly a similar facility lies dormant (through non-use) in the human brain.

[seadogg]

Nah! dont believe that stuff- but why is it that my sis and I very often pick up the phone to ring each other at the same time (we dont have a schedule)???

[jim360]

That's beginning to be explained mathematically -- fish moving near to each other are responding to nearby movements so that no fish need be aware of any more than two or three nearby ones, and with this assumption an entire (computer-simulated) fish shoal behaves as a super-organism. No mental transmission needed.

[jomifl]

Canary, flocks of birds, shoals of fish? birds use visual cues, fish visual and pressure waves, nothing mysterious, all sorted.

[DTCwordfan]

only CERN, jim....they're only lightweight to Cambridge physicists?

True, jomifil, but I wouldn't rule out a lot on subliminal communication quite yet.

Look, the difference in thinking is that to me there may be yet science/laws/whatever, that we have no real grasp of yet. Yes, we are scratching at many areas and revealing things faster than we ever have done in history and that's brilliant.....one of the latest ones being the presence of earth-sized (slightly larger) planets that are H2O rich, water and ice......the presence of hydrocarbons likely to be there. We cannot afford to be blinkered to (genuine) science and paradigm shifts, however large or small, however basic or complex, or however fundamental in changing our thinking.

Blinkerism will kill us all.