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LuckyAlbatross -> RE: Are you Psychic and how does this affect your relationships? (9/7/2007 12:37:49 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord
What if the world is just as we observe it? Would this be so horrible for these physics, religious, or otherwise delussional to confront?
Personally the world as we observe it so far seems to agree that there's a lot going on that we have no clue about- where it came from, why it even exists at all. Once you get down to the really teeny tiny bits, all those great "laws" tend to become really fuzzy.
I'm perfectly fine with someone not believing there is anymore than what we observe and that somehow what we choose to measure with instruments we choose to make to measure certain specific things tells us all that there is. Personally I tend to find that arrogant and ignorant in its own way as well.
Would we tell a piano player he shouldn't feel special or take some measure of self identity from his abilities and expressions of self? Why is it that because these abilities are not always physical in expression or as on demand that we criticize the notion of them having any value at all?
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It's so hard, LA, to watch people embrace such insanity just to be able to feel good about themselves.
What about people who embrace the insanity because to do otherwise would be to completely ignore and deny things that occur to them every day? Trust me, at age 8 I had no idea that I shouldn't be able to predict the weather completely accurately months in advance or when my teachers would be sick out of school- but I learned real quick to shut up about it because it made me even more "weird" and people thought I was trying to sound cool. Personally I call them my nearly useless talents #89 and 56.
At age 8 I had no idea that kissing girls was bad for a girl to do- but I learned very quickly to NOT do that or be open about it. And to this day people still say that I'm just a bisexual because I just want to be "more special."
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, but why should I detract from their happiness if they're content like this and beyond making contributions at this point anyhow?
If someone really is making it up to feel more special, then I don't think what you are doing is a problem.
And for people like me, you not believing in it or calling it insanity doesn't mean anything anyway so it doesn't matter.
But I appreciate the fact that you actually care about hurting anothers feelings or state of being and how your actions will affect them.
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They're happy believing it so.. perhaps reason just doesn't have a place here?
Forgive the leaks. Time for class.
Logic tends to be useless whenever it really matters :)
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