Meltus on Feb 9 2008, 06:07 PM, said:
it would be interesting to see just what his ability is and if it's not powerful enough to light up a lightbulb or something isn't it a completely pointless ability to have?
Well, yeah. I tend to think that about most of these so-called abilities... I mean, what's the use of psiballs? Why would I want to bend a spoon? Most people I meet, I wouldn't
want to be able to read their thoughts, however vaguely, randomly and unconvincingly the research describes these abilities as.
And moreover, if this ability is so minor, how would anybody know they've got it in the first place?
I do think it's important though to stick with the claims people make about their own abilities, and not make ones up for them. Maybe he does claim to be able to light a bulb by holding it - many have claimed this - but he hasn't said so yet. It's like if I said I can speak a foreign language, and someone says "okay then, what's 'antidisestablishmentarianism' in Swahili?". They didn't wait for me to say what language I speak,
and even if it was Swahili being able to speak the language wouldn't necessarily mean I can translate every obscure word. It's just best to evaluate what people
are claiming, to avoid accusations of being unfair.
I do think that however useless a psi ability might be, it'd probably the most interesting event of the century if one were proven true.
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except for giving people small electric shocks, which would be quite fun. but then again you can easily do that with static...
Yes, that would be fun
Edited by Nucular, 09 February 2008 - 06:20 PM.