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 falcon
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 Re: Aspects of Synchronicity enabled Telepathy Might be Testable  [Re: Icelander]
#16288932 - 05/26/12 07:58 PM (11 months, 22 days ago) |
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 zannennagara
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Re: Aspects of Synchronicity enabled Telepathy Might be Testable [Re: redgreenvines]
#16293619 - 05/28/12 04:15 AM (11 months, 21 days ago) |
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It may taste a tad tardy for me to contribute at this stage, but for whatever reason I felt like doing it anyway.
Pivoting around the word "telepathy" here and elsewhere are the notions of something-weird-I-have-experienced and magical-all-powerful-scientific-ability: the spinning-speaking continues but the spokes never meet.
There are obviously these strange anecdotes people are having, bizarre coincidences which are peculiar and refreshing and as such deserving of theoretical exploration and explanation. Science as an explanatory tool is not in the business of deciding what is meaningless, but people in the field clearly give less attention to things which they do not care to deal with.
I don't think anyone here has related a story about imagining randomness at will and having someone else echo it - the anecdotes largely seem qualified by things which are obviously common to both participants in the experience - and I'm not sure people here are suggesting that such a capability exists. The genesis post is rather conservatively and inquisitively proposing ways of obtaining insight into this peculiar phenomenon that does not simply (and unscientifically, because uninquisitively) reduce weirdness to "coincidence" as catchall for something not worth our time. "Telepathy" is the signifier for this weird phenomenon that reminds us of its mysteriousness and encourages us to think some more about it, not inflate it into a straw doll that enables some instant godpower.
One rather logical and esteemed speculator on this topic was Poe, who wrote a short story about a Detective Dupin, a story I remember citing in a post years ago because this kind of thing comes up often. Old C. Auguste appears to read minds, an amazing power in the eye of his companion, but he is able to ratiocinate how exactly he can follow a train of thought by picking up on environmental cues and remembering recent discussions.
It is by really looking into telepathy, perhaps, not as the mystical fantasy but as the interesting case, that we may actually cultivate our powers of perception beyond the level at which they typically operate and heighten our interactions and awareness.
Does anyone really care if someone can guess a particular mystery number I'm thinking of, anyway? The military/state, I suppose, could have an interest in such direct and arbitrary monitoring, which would generate a lot of funding and scientist interest, but as something which could generate greater empathy and understanding with the perhaps "lower-key" connections we already share, we might have to do a bit more independent experimenting.
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redgreenvines
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Re: Aspects of Synchronicity enabled Telepathy Might be Testable [Re: zannennagara]
#16293982 - 05/28/12 08:22 AM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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glad you brought the topic back home
good points
thanks
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johnm214
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Re: Aspects of Synchronicity enabled Telepathy Might be Testable [Re: redgreenvines]
#16299450 - 05/29/12 05:49 AM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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redgreenvines said:
glad you brought the topic back home
good points
thanks
What was the topic again? Its self evident that communication is testable, as is telepathic communication, as is 'synchronictic telepathic communication" and so forth.
It is simply that many people seem to have no idea how science works and thus will doubt these self-evident propositions. This belief in some negative fact, that your pet belief is untestable, has justified all manner of silliness from intercesory prayer to ESP nonsense, to all the rest of mystery forum topics.
It is commonly stated by the religious, for example, that they don't have "scientific reasons" to believe in their obviously testable doctrine, but that they somehow have other reasons- which never materialize. Watch any discussion about the reality of theology and you get people retreating to this last and most feeble redoubts: it can't be proved wrong or correct therefore its a reasonable belief. How silly.
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redgreenvines
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Re: Aspects of Synchronicity enabled Telepathy Might be Testable [Re: johnm214]
#16299482 - 05/29/12 06:23 AM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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I know
many of my topics become threads of people struggling against religious retards until they get all over themselves - get over their endless struggles against each other and realize that what I am talking about has nothing to do with that epic revolution.
mostly
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pachoo
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Re: Aspects of Synchronicity enabled Telepathy Might be Testable [Re: soldatheero]
#16299512 - 05/29/12 06:44 AM (11 months, 19 days ago) |
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soldatheero said:
I had a very similar experience about a week ago. I was having a few beers with my step brother and we were listening to some music. I was listening to KMFDM and the song was ending so I was gettin the next song lined up in youtube.
that's weird. a week ago i was thinking about KMFDM, although i didn't even listen to a song that day.
anywho, i can't believe i just read this entire thread. mostly.
it could have been a tad interesting experiment. heck, i have some time. i'll watch a movie with someone and see what coincidences arise.
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Edited by pachoo (05/29/12 07:12 AM)
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FishOilTheKid
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Re: Aspects of Synchronicity enabled Telepathy Might be Testable [Re: questioneverything]
#16310202 - 05/31/12 08:26 AM (11 months, 17 days ago) |
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I have. It coincides nicely with my own entity contact possession experience.
Like someone in Hollywood or where ever is writing this shit as it actually happens.
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