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PulsE
i was wondering why people of my same age wants to learn TK
i want to know your purpose
im not that interested in this TK thing but im curious about your objectives
Kartoffeln
QUOTE (PulsE @ Mar 8 2008, 10:21 AM) *
i was wondering why people of my same age wants to learn TK
i want to know your purpose

All right, but... what age ARE you? It would certainly make it easier to answer the question.
PulsE
ok am a teen
my exact age? nvm
bleedingelite
Why would ANYbody want to learn telekinesis? Simple: to pick up chicks! (Get it?)
Sporkling
No I don't get it.
Moro
QUOTE (bleedingelite @ Mar 8 2008, 12:43 PM) *
Why would ANYbody want to learn telekinesis? Simple: to pick up chicks! (Get it?)

Hahah, laugh.gif Actually that was pretty funny.
Eric Raven The Skeptic
QUOTE (bleedingelite @ Mar 8 2008, 11:43 AM) *
Why would ANYbody want to learn telekinesis? Simple: to pick up chicks! (Get it?)

LMAO. laugh.gif
Shadow Huntress
Hahaha to pick up chicks, I get it.

I think, with teens, is that going through puberty (always thought that was an odd word...) anyway, they (we) often get depressed easily and turn to something that sets them us apart from the others- and not many people step forward to the public and say they can make things fly around the room. (Don't quote me on that, it's a figure of speech, not meant to be taken 100% literally). And for me it's that I am amused easily and especially with PSI balls, become fascinated and it's the only thing that can hold my attention for over 5minutes.
X~X~FluffyLudoX~X~
With all the talk about it now I want to try it. Oooo maybe I could make my own power. I'll channel my chakra and form a a a a....disk that I can throw at people and it will shock them. Soooo coool. w00t.gif ph34r.gif w00t.gif ph34r.gif hehehee. It could keep going on put then Id just be spamming. w00t.gif<-----that was my last one i swear.
PulsE
if their purpose is just to become cool then in my opinion they just waste their energy
why move objects with mind if you can move it with your hands
much easier
anyway if there is a better purpose then i might understand them why they try those stuffs
Heartagram3200
I am learning it, just for the heck of learning it really...And ha, pick up chicks..funny...
somekindlunatic
I have three reasons.

First, I want to know that it is possible.
I already suspect this, but the best proof is personal experience.
Second, I can think of times that it would be useful on a physical level.
Building a house, or a bridge, or retrieving something from across the river etc..
Third, to be able to demonstrate this to someone else.
Again, the best proof is personal experience, and it would be a life-changing event for someone to witness it, hopefully this would inspire them to "get out of the box" and do something to further elevate humanity.
Cr33p
QUOTE (PulsE @ Mar 8 2008, 05:08 PM) *
ok am a teen
my exact age? nvm

I believe they're called hormones. When these are coursing through every inch of your body you feel weird.

You want to find out who you are (hence the willingness to pick weird and bizarre paths), like learning TK.

However life will soon grab you by the scruf and throw you about a little, just to let you know who's boss.

You will then hopefully realize (this is the becoming an adult part) even though you believe in something so hard, it doesn't make it real.

You'll realize you are no different from anyone else and that any skill you have can also be learned by others and vice versa. While simultaneously rooting out those that are phony (TK - Talking to the dead etc...) .

Hopefully - You'll see the world - Get a nice wife - Have wonderful children - Grow old - Die. Not necessarily in that order...But be sure to have a good one. I do!
somekindlunatic
...and don't forget the salt.
Heartagram3200
Whats the point of going through life so close mindly anyways? It makes life so boring, everyone believeing in the mainstream concept of what "reality" really is...
Moro
QUOTE (Heartagram3200 @ Mar 11 2008, 03:35 PM) *
Whats the point of going through life so close mindly anyways? It makes life so boring, everyone believeing in the mainstream concept of what "reality" really is...

I do have an open mnd! I do not mind playing around and goofing off with it either.
But, when you start acting as if all these claims are really true then thats a whole different thing all together.

There are limitations to what humans are capable of, (The limitations being magic, and altering stuff with mere thought.)
There has never been any credible evidence to suggest otherwise that humans can perform such feats.


Regards,
Tom
Heartagram3200
QUOTE (Moro Bumbleroot @ Mar 11 2008, 04:28 PM) *
I do have an open mnd! I do not mind playing around and goofing off with it either.
But, when you start acting as if all these claims are really true then thats a whole different thing all together.

There are limitations to what humans are capable of, (The limitations being magic, and altering stuff with mere thought.)
There has never been any credible evidence to suggest otherwise that humans can perform such feats.


Regards,
Tom




I do agree there are limitations, but we have not yet discovered those limitations...Science is in its beginning, we don't know even 10% of the stuff about this world, and this life...So those limitations, are only limited to what we can only now imagine...
Eric Raven The Skeptic
QUOTE (Heartagram3200 @ Mar 11 2008, 01:35 PM) *
Whats the point of going through life so close mindly anyways? It makes life so boring, everyone believeing in the mainstream concept of what "reality" really is...

We just like people that tell the truth. Not make up stories.
Moro
QUOTE (Heartagram3200 @ Mar 11 2008, 04:36 PM) *
I do agree there are limitations, but we have not yet discovered those limitations...Science is in its beginning, we don't know even 10% of the stuff about this world, and this life...So those limitations, are only limited to what we can only now imagine...

We may not understand how the mind works completely Heart! But, science has gained enough information about
the brain, as well as the body, to know what those limitations are. You just don't seem to want to get a grasp on that.

If any of these abilities were to actually become fact, it would be through technology advancements, not through some
mysterious abilities hidden or locked away in the mind or body.



Regards,
Tom
somekindlunatic
QUOTE (Moro Bumbleroot @ Mar 11 2008, 05:06 PM) *
But, science has gained enough information about the brain, as well as the body, to know what those limitations are.


This sounds like an assumption.
In fact, it sounds like the same thing I've been hearing for 20 years

Is it still true that we use only ten percent of our brains?

Moro
QUOTE (somekindlunatic @ Mar 11 2008, 06:00 PM) *
This sounds like an assumption.
In fact, it sounds like the same thing I've been hearing for 20 years

Is it still true that we use only ten percent of our brains?

No, that is nothing but a myth.

The 10% statement may have been started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or the
misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. It may have been
William James who wrote in 1908: "We are making use of only a small
part of our possible mental and physical resources" (from The Energies of
Men, p. 12). Perhaps it was the work of Karl Lashley in the 1920s and
1930s that started it.

Perhaps when people use the 10% brain statement, they mean that only one out of every ten nerve cells is
essential or used at any one time? How would such a measurement be made? Even if neurons are not
firing action potentials, they may still be receiving signals from other neurons.

Link- 10% Brain Myth
somekindlunatic
Whew, glad we got that cleared up.
Sorry to go off topic
Anyway
Yeah, the power of thought is pretty amazing from what I have seen, of course telekinesis is a super-intriguing idea to most who have experienced any sort of impossible mind trick

And perhaps levitation is not too far from telekinesis

And we all now how cool that would be
Moro
QUOTE (somekindlunatic @ Mar 11 2008, 05:24 PM) *
Whew, glad we got that cleared up.
Sorry to go off topic
Anyway
Yeah, the power of thought is pretty amazing from what I have seen, of course telekinesis is a super-intriguing idea to most who have experienced any sort of impossible mind trick

And perhaps levitation is not too far from telekinesis

And we all now how cool that would be

I suppose if a person can levitate objects with Tk! Then they should be able to levitate themselves as well.
Eric Raven The Skeptic
QUOTE (somekindlunatic @ Mar 11 2008, 04:24 PM) *
Whew, glad we got that cleared up.
Sorry to go off topic
Anyway
Yeah, the power of thought is pretty amazing from what I have seen, of course telekinesis is a super-intriguing idea to most who have experienced any sort of impossible mind trick

And perhaps levitation is not too far from telekinesis

And we all now how cool that would be

Yes. All of it would be very cool and skeptics would love to see it be real, but nothing to show of it but made up stories, tricks, and hoaxes.
Heartagram3200
QUOTE (Moro Bumbleroot @ Mar 11 2008, 04:06 PM) *
We may not understand how the mind works completely Heart! But, science has gained enough information about
the brain, as well as the body, to know what those limitations are. You just don't seem to want to get a grasp on that.

If any of these abilities were to actually become fact, it would be through technology advancements, not through some
mysterious abilities hidden or locked away in the mind or body.



Regards,
Tom



Alot about the brain huh? Then why is there still, a whole portion of the brain, they cant find out what its for....What we know now, will be dwarfed by future discoveries, that will change reality as we know it today...Like it or not...
Moro
QUOTE (Heartagram3200 @ Mar 11 2008, 06:39 PM) *
Alot about the brain huh? Then why is there still, a whole portion of the brain, they cant find out what its for....What we know now, will be dwarfed by future discoveries, that will change reality as we know it today...Like it or not...

I told you how it works Heart! You can believe what you want to believe. But, it doesn't make a difference.
As of now, we/humans cannot do anything like the claims you have presented. If a day comes when we can,
I will be glad to change my current view on these matters.
Eric Raven The Skeptic
QUOTE (Heartagram3200 @ Mar 11 2008, 05:39 PM) *
Alot about the brain huh? Then why is there still, a whole portion of the brain, they cant find out what its for....What we know now, will be dwarfed by future discoveries, that will change reality as we know it today...Like it or not...

Thats nothing more than your wishful thinking and opinion. You have no idea what will happen. Unless you are also claiming the ability to see the future.

I can see it as well. I see no video on Friday.
Heartagram3200
QUOTE (Moro Bumbleroot @ Mar 11 2008, 06:43 PM) *
I told you how it works Heart! You can believe what you want to believe. But, it doesn't make a difference.
As of now, we/humans cannot do anything like the claims you have presented. If a day comes when we can,
I will be glad to change my current view on these matters.



No, the normal person doesn't try to gain these abilities, thats why they dont have em
Moro
QUOTE (Heartagram3200 @ Mar 11 2008, 08:39 PM) *
No, the normal person doesn't try to gain these abilities, thats why they dont have em

If you say so! But, your thoughts alone are not very convincing, as well as the other 100 or so members
that have come through here with the same claims.
Sporkling
And your claims are not very convincing either.
Atheist God
QUOTE (Electrokinesis is me @ Mar 12 2008, 03:29 AM) *
And your claims are not very convincing either.


Just not to uneducated imbeciles, liars, and nut jobs. I can think of several members who belong in each category here some of whom have posted in this thread.
Sporkling
You are also not very convincing.
Atheist God
QUOTE (Electrokinesis is me @ Mar 12 2008, 04:02 AM) *
You are also not very convincing.


Like I said in my earlier post...

"Just not to uneducated imbeciles, liars, and nut jobs. I can think of several members who belong in each category here some of whom have posted in this thread."
Sporkling
i'm afraid you have no proof.
Saru
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