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bruuuno 11:34 Wed Jul 1
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Has anyone encounter someone with extra senses? I don't mean up on stage doing palm reading I mean people who genuinely seem to able to predict things etc.
I used to be cynical about things like that but I think there is a
Lot more to us than we know about
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stirlinghammer
11:38 Wed Jul 1
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I always knew allardyce would play boring football. Does that count?
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MrCrowmanSir
11:41 Wed Jul 1
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When my mum was young she went to see one of these with her friends. The clairvoyant told one of my mums friends that she wouldn't live to see her children grow up. Obviously this upset them all and they didn't believe it meant anything. But my mums friend died in her late 20's from illness after marrying and having children. Make of it what you will.
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Nurse Ratched
11:44 Wed Jul 1
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James Randi wants to give away a million dollars to somebody who can prove their 'powers' under lab conditions.
If you know anyone with 'genuine' (*sniggers*) powers, tell them they can fill their boots courtesy of Randi.
Having said that, he threw out this challenge in 1964. Nobody has managed to claim the money yet.
Can't imagine why. It's almost as if clairvoyance and psychic ability is a load of old bollocks, isn't it?
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bruuuno
11:48 Wed Jul 1
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I used to be a bit like that nurse but age has humbled me somewhat.
And my opinion of this sort of thing as that maybe its not always possible to explain or quantify
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bruuuno
11:50 Wed Jul 1
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For clarity I'm not talking about fortune tellers on chat shows I'm talking about normal people with an apparent sixth senth of some kind
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Nurse Ratched
11:50 Wed Jul 1
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Not possible to explain or quantify? Well that's double-handy.
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Takashi Miike
11:51 Wed Jul 1
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the one on phoenix nights is the best I've seen......
"I'm getting the word.............NONCE!"
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cholo
11:52 Wed Jul 1
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A psychic can't do anything any of us wouldn't be able to do with the knowledge of a few techniques and a bit, perhaps quite a bit of practice.
Factofuckingmundo.
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Takashi Miike
11:52 Wed Jul 1
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:.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWmdEqwgit4
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Fivetide
11:53 Wed Jul 1
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No, nobody has. Some vulnerable people sadly think they have. You can throw vicars, rabbi, priests, clerics and other pushers of superstition into the mix too.
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neilalex
11:53 Wed Jul 1
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It's easy to write these things off as mumbo jumbo, but who can tell? Over the years Mrs Neilalex has been able to forecast when I'll be unhappy and misfortune will befall me with an accuracy that would defy any notion of chance or coincidence. She just seems to know in advance.
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MrCrowmanSir
11:54 Wed Jul 1
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Maybe because MrsNeilALex is cause of said predicted unhappyness?
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bruuuno
11:55 Wed Jul 1
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So nurse do you think at this relatively early stage in science, particularly neuorscience, we know every last thing there is to know about the brain and how it works?
Ever read about animals that find their way hundreds of miles? Or when certain creatures travel to certain places thousands of miles away. We don't know how they do that, they don't just do
It by sight do they? If relatively primitive creatures can do that why can humans have some kind of extra senses also.
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neilalex
11:55 Wed Jul 1
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Not according to her Mr. Crowman so I think that can safely be ruled out.
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Fivetide
11:58 Wed Jul 1
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bruuuno 11:55 Wed Jul 1
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Blimey. Wouldn't know where to start! Maybe a library?
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MrCrowmanSir
11:59 Wed Jul 1
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Birds use the magnetic field to navigate.
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bruuuno
11:59 Wed Jul 1
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*hums x files theme tune*
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cholo
12:00 Thu Jul 2
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bruuuno
You have it the wrong way round, it's psychics that have to give evidence for their special abilities, but anyone's job to disprove it. As it happens, no psychic can so far, do anything that a "normal" person couldn't do without using what most people call tricks.
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cholo
12:00 Thu Jul 2
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Not anyone's*
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Nurse Ratched
12:03 Thu Jul 2
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We don't know everything about how the brain works, no.
But we know enough about how to conduct experiments to assess the claims of 'psychics' and spook-botherers.
Nobody has won Randi's million dollars. One trip to the lab and winning Randi's million dollars has to be less work than rocking up at village halls a few times a week and giving 'messages' to audience members from their dearly departed.
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