Quote Originally Posted by darth stoner
It is offtopic, and it isn't true.

I am open minded towards psychic stuff and you already know I don't believe in any god.


(note: I didn't say I *believe* in psychic abilities, only that I am open minded towards it)

Let me elaborate:

With trillions of synapses (more than the number of stars in the universe, it is said) and billions of neurons in our brains, I find it acceptable to say that there could be so much things we don't know about it yet.

I also have the dreams about the future, but for me they always seem to happen about 7 years later. I have no theory or explanation for it, as far as I know they could even be false memories, dreams I thought I had, but didn't, and when the event arrives, I think I dreamed about it years ago, when in fact I might have not.

Coelho mentioned being right a lot about the amount of emails he gets before opening them. I have something similar, but again there's a rational explanation. If you ask me the time during the day, I can usually get it right to 1-5 minutes, even if I didn't look at the clock for 4 hours, and I answer without thinking about it. There is no need to resort to the psychic to justify that either, I could just have a particularly accurate internal clock and a brain that likes to keep track of time internally.

I read an article some time ago that talked about these gut feelings when we're in an alley and decide to make a left turn instead of a right turn because we "know" there's something wrong (like a bunch of thugs) in the right. The explanation was that the subcounscious is always working and when it notices something unusual like a sound we didn't perceive counsciously etc, the gut feeling ("I just know I have to") is produced.

If psychic phenomena is real or not today nobody can be sure, but in the other hand, the brain is something really powerful, and our evolution isn't finished.
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