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Know that old story coming as far back as to Assyrian times? There a very poor person goes to a witch to ask her how he can get rich. She hears him out, plays with her cards for a bit, thinks a little, then says, "There will be a horse race tomorrow. Bet everything you have on the small black horse, and you will be rich."
Next day, he comes back to her and says, "You lied! I lost everything. The small black horse didn't win the race."
The witch, without blinking an eye, says, "Yet you are richer now. You did not have anything yesterday, because you did not value what you had and were willing to risk it all on advice from an old woman. And now you, at least, have some knowledge. Use that knowledge well, and you won't be poor again."
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Almost any famous individual you read about actually is much simpler in real life, than his/her glorified historical version. And especially when it comes to people with allegedly unique abilities, it almost always turns out that nothing unique was actually taken place, and it is all just one urban legend that has been perpetuated by people for a very long time.
I would like to see some evidence of those alleged outstanding mental powers before I seriously consider their existence. Can any of those oracles allegedly predicting wars from decades ahead answer a simple question, such as "What is in my right pocket?" or "What time is it with a 5 minute precision", without using any external devices and hints? I am yet to meet one that does, and all alleged oracles, witches, etc. I have met always start changing the subject, when it comes to concrete, immediately verifiable things.
It is much easier to claim unusual powers when all you do is make vague predictions that "Something terrible will happen some time soon, and many people will suffer", than when you do something that can be immediately experimentally verified. Okay, this witch can tell me the day I die, but can she tell me what color my panties are without looking? I did not think so.
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Remember that you're the one with this hypothesis. So the burden of data/evidence is on you to provide what you hypothesize. I do need any help to look for evidence of beliefs that I am already without.
And yes, there are many fakes. But there are also people that believe what there doing or saying is true and so in that respect, they are not a fraud. In order to lie one has to know the truth. Preaching and producing nonsense requires no such conviction.
As for your last bit, I could just as easily ask you the same question. With that being said, I don't just rely on what I am told; I don't believe in everything I hear or read, especially wild claims such as psychic healing can heal the sick which by way has no basis in medicine.
Also, the appeal to ignorance doesn't really make for a good argument.
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. you do that to religious people on here and yet you do the same. do you go out and make experiments on how old the world really is? no you simply rely on what you were taught as you grew up. where is your evidence that the world Is billions of years old old aside from what others say? believing what we are taught without our own checks which I doubt you do, is dogmatic and shows a closed mind as well as stagnation. let me see your experiments that prove that something that you were taught is correct @ZeusAres42
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If not, then I think we're done here.
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****first I never blindly claimed he was real; my post was on thoughts on how he did what was reported; and yes I could provide testimonials on the people back them as well as the science journals he was listed in but I am not paying money just so you can say so what.
James Randi, who is convinced that Cayce was a fraud, writes:
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****first I never blindly claimed he was real; my post was on thoughts on how he did what was reported; and yes I could provide testimonials on the people back them as well as the science journals he was listed in but I am not paying money just so you can say so what.
James Randi, who is convinced that Cayce was a fraud, writes:
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The Bottom Line
Except in the extremely rare case in which a psychic was actually involved in the crime or had apparently received secret information (as from a tip), psychics rarely lead police to concealed bodies or unknown assailants. Of course they may use their own logical skills, or they may benefit from luck or perseverance, but there is no credible scientific evidence that psychic power ever solved a crime. Instead, crimes are invariably solved by police who search crime scenes, interview witnesses, and perform all of the myriad tasks necessary to locate a missing person or to convict a criminal.
Common sense suggests that if psychics really had the powers they claim then they would long ago have identified the “Unabomber” or have discovered the remains of missing Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. If they cannot accomplish such missions individually, how much more telling is their collective inability to do so.
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You assume that those who disagree with you never check anything and just blindly believe what the society tells them, yet do not think the same about yourself. That is a dangerous line of thinking, my friend, making it very likely that someone will eventually exploit it. There is no easier way to be tricked than to believe that you are the only one out there who cannot be tricked. People with the highest degree of arrogance tend to be the ones that fall down the heaviest.
I was born in Soviet Union. The society in which I grew up taught its people very strange values. People were supposed to be cogs in the machine, serving the community like ants. It was wrong to be smarter than others, richer than others, happier than others, more outspoken than others, different from others in almost any regard. You stood out in any way - you became a target of peer pressure, authority abuse and constant shaming from common folks.
Believe me when I say that I know first-hand just how deep societal conditioning can go.
But to assume that absolutely everyone who disagrees with you does so solely because of that conditioning - is a fallacy. You assume, for example, that I only think that the world is billions years old because others told me so. But what do you really know about my background? What if I tell you that I have taken multiple graduate-level courses on the subject and read a couple of sophisticated books?
And even had I not - what makes you think that there is absolutely no rationale in my position, other than "others told me so"?
Never assume anything about others until you have actually learned something about them. People will surprise you in many different ways if you think you can know them after a few minutes of talking to them, and more often than not those surprises will not play out in your favor.
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You really should watch this clip:
It relates perfectly to what you are talking about when you write that people simply rely on other peoples evidence and accept it...
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It is okay to ask questions and see where they lead. But if you ask questions and, no matter what answers you get, you still keep asking the same questions over and over again - then what is the point of those questions in the first place? You do not arrive anywhere from asking a question, if you are not interested in the answer.
You do not have to accept any theories. But if you are interested in a certain aspect of how the world works, you will have to do some learning and fact-checking. And if no fact-checking ever resolves anything for you, then you will never learn anything about the world.
Lastly, with regards to the "manufactured evidence" - you can manufacture some pieces of evidence, but you cannot manufacture the structure of reality producing that evidence. People who believe that Earth is 6,000 years old say that all the dinosaur fossils were made up by scientists. That would imply that scientists planted countless fossils all around the Earth, sometimes in very hard to reach places, and have been doing it for a very long time - and somehow not a single whistleblower ever pointed it out. Do you find it likely? I do not.
"Evidence can be manufactured" is not a valid excuse to dismiss all evidence which is inconvenient to your world view. If this piece of evidence is manufactured, then you can find another one that is not. And if every single piece of evidence that contradicts your world view has to be claimed to be manufactured in order for your world view to survive, then your world view does not deserve to survive.
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Indeed , which leaves me wondering what don’t we understand? What is an example of something “supernatural” that baffles science? I keep asking but you cannot answer why’s that?
You don’t “question everything “ you dismiss what’s uncomfortable as in you cannot explain why no one has ever demonstrated a psychic ability and you totally ignore evidence Cayce was a fraud, your mind is totally closed and will remain so as you take pride in your gullibility
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