tsherpet
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And of course Stevie Wonder "When you believe in things that you dont understand, Then you suffer, Superstition aint the way, no, no, no" "YOU may not understand psychic ability" Oh, I understand it very well. "I fully understand the basis of scientific thinking. It is MERELY this: all knowledge is based on observeable evidence. Evidence is counted if it is SIGNIFICANT ie statistically greater than that which can happen by chance." Kind of, there is more to it. Testing and replication of experiments and results is also an essential component. Also no psychic in the history of humanity has been able to perform better than chance in test conditions. No psychic has been able to outperform psychologists and conmen either. I'm not calling you a fake, I am merely pointing out the FACT that no psychic has ever been able to prove their powers with results. "Thereby stands a body of knowledge which skeptics confuse with reality." LOL, rubbish. The reality is the lack of evidence from those making the claims. A willing audience is the only essential ingredient for psychic abilities, as many psychologists and conmen have proven. Unlike psychics, the ones who understand what is happening have no problems proving their knowledge. "You have absolutely no reason to doubt my experiences of being psychic " Don't get so defensive. I was only pointing out a fact. You might be genuine, but if you are you haven't proven it. No one has. If anything I am commenting on your character for not enlightening humanity by proving these abilities exist. If you have them you are obliged to prove them to advance to combined knowledge of humanity. Anything less is selfish and shortsighted. "BUT given the choice? i would rather find God in a tortilla than not" You have the choice already. Grab any piece of food (or any object) and with some imagination you should be able to see any number of religious stories or characters. "I heard once that human beings only use about 10% of our brains" That is incorrect, though a common enough mistake. We use different parts of the brain for different things, and can have only 10% active at times. "who knows the possibilities... the problem I think comes partly from hearing often.. begining as children... you can't do that... that's not possible things of that negative nature" Not true. Performance is where the lack of belief comes from, nothing more, nothing less.
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