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Women and Astrology, psychics etc.

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  • #32
    kikilarue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 571 ✭✭✭kikilarue2


    I love science and all that it has given the world, but I'm also aware of its limits, and one of them is the brain.

    If you've got an infection or a virus or a heart problem or a liver problem, there's a good chance a doctor can treat it.

    If you've got a problem with your brain - dementia, schizophrenia, mental health problems, brain damage etc. there's damn all they can do in most cases. Our understanding of how the brain works is quite limited compared to what we know about the body.

    And in the same way that our understanding of problems with the brain is limited, so too is our understanding of people whose brains appear to have extraordinary abilities.


  • #33
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    You have to be psychic to know. ;)

    To know what? What you're rambling on about?


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    And in the same way that our understanding of problems with the brain is limited, so too is our understanding of people whose brains appear to have extraordinary abilities.

    Are you implying that psychics are legitimate?


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    To know what? What you're rambling on about?

    Think someone is mixing up psycho rather than psychic.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Are you implying that psychics are legitimate?

    Yes. Yes, she is Bertie.


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  • #37
    kikilarue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 571 ✭✭✭kikilarue2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Are you implying that psychics are legitimate?

    Would you not just read the whole thread before asking questions that are already answered?

    Earlier in the thread I said that while I believe the vast majority of people who claim to be psychic are not, but that there are a handful who appear to have some kind of gift that cannot currently be understood at a scientific level.


  • #38
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Autecher wrote: »
    there are some people out there who operate on a higher plane than others.
    Well, there are definitely some people out there who seem to operate on a lower plane than others, so I guess that's true...


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    some kind of gift that cannot currently be understood at a scientific level.

    Surely you can expand. What do you mean by psychic?


  • #40
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    Would you not just read the whole thread before asking questions that are already answered?

    Earlier in the thread I said that while I believe the vast majority of people who claim to be psychic are not, but that there are a handful who appear to have some kind of gift that cannot currently be understood at a scientific level.

    Like who?


  • #41
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Like who?

    Winona Ryder.


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  • #42
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Women tend to be more religious as well don't they? Maybe it's the need to believe that things will be okay, that there is some higher power looking out for us all. Maybe they are just idiots.
    its something to do with coping with the loss of multiple children through infant mortality and their husbands and sons through war for most of human history.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    Would you not just read the whole thread before asking questions that are already answered?

    Earlier in the thread I said that while I believe the vast majority of people who claim to be psychic are not, but that there are a handful who appear to have some kind of gift that cannot currently be understood at a scientific level.

    You're not in a position to second guess my activities. Geddit?

    Furthermore, I'm somewhat sceptical of your angle...trying to disguise a faux medium as "something that cannot be understood".

    I wiped the crystal ball, now it is transparent.


  • #44
    Sardonicat
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Winona Ryder.

    No. Those clothes got in her bag as a result of kleptomania. That wasn't ESP


  • #45
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    To know what? What you're rambling on about?
    Stop being so serious.:rolleyes:


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah, I’m bored with the ‘some kind of gift’ psychic believer. Back to the OP… I think a modern poet summed it up quite eloquently when he extolled, 'bítches be cray cray'.


  • #47
    kikilarue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 571 ✭✭✭kikilarue2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    You're not in a position to second guess my activities. Geddit?

    Yes I am :) I can, and I did. What ya gonna do about it?
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Furthermore, I'm somewhat sceptical of your angle...trying to disguise a faux medium as "something that cannot be understood".

    I wiped the crystal ball, now it is transparent.

    What angle? I'm not trying to sell you something. I'm just having a discussion on a discussion board (shock horror).


  • #48
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    No. Those clothes got in her bag as a result of kleptomania. That wasn't ESP
    Wow you have a bee in your bonnet about this.


  • #49
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    'bítches be cray cray'.


    Bastards be virgins.

    Why is it the smartest men do the stupidest things?

    If your hoe believes in psychics you do too !


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    Yes I am :) I can, and I did. What ya gonna do about it?



    What angle? I'm not trying to sell you something. I'm just having a discussion on a discussion board (shock horror).

    Right. So you know exactly what other threads I've been reading in the meantime. That's a concrete no.

    You're just having an innocent chat about discredited nonsense. Pull the other one, I wasn't born yesterday.


  • #51
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    I love science and all that it has given the world, but I'm also aware of its limits, and one of them is the brain.

    If you've got an infection or a virus or a heart problem or a liver problem, there's a good chance a doctor can treat it.

    If you've got a problem with your brain - dementia, schizophrenia, mental health problems, brain damage etc. there's damn all they can do in most cases. Our understanding of how the brain works is quite limited compared to what we know about the body.

    And in the same way that our understanding of problems with the brain is limited, so too is our understanding of people whose brains appear to have extraordinary abilities.

    The issue with psychics isn't that science can't explain how they do what they do, it's that they can't actually do what they claim to be able to do when subjected to the rigors of a controlled experiment.


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  • #52
    kikilarue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 571 ✭✭✭kikilarue2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Right. So you know exactly what other threads I've been reading in the meantime. That's a concrete no.

    You're just having an innocent chat about discredited nonsense. Pull the other one, I wasn't born yesterday.

    You seem really angry that a stranger on the internet has a different opinion than you about a topic that doesn't really effect either one of us.

    You should have a think about that.


  • #53
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    People have the freedom to believe what they like without harassment.


  • #54
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Men may be just as superstitious, they just don't advertise the fact like women do.


  • #55
    Hobosan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Hobosan


    "Why is my life so miserable while everyone else is so prosperous?

    Well it can't be anything to do with my worth... I guess they are using 'future knowing' schemes to get ahead. Yes, that's more plausible.

    I better avail of such schemes to get ahead."


    - At this point, depending on your circumstances you either visit a psychic, or else you set up an insider trading scam.


  • #56
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Surely I wasn’t the only one to predict Berties_Horse entering this thread and being very sour? Maybe there is something to this being able to predict the future......


  • #57
    kikilarue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 571 ✭✭✭kikilarue2


    phutyle wrote: »
    The issue with psychics isn't that science can't explain how they do what they do, it's that they can't actually do what they claim to be able to do when subjected to the rigors of a controlled experiment.

    Thank you for making a valid counterpoint to mine in a civil way. It's cool that people can do that on the internet.

    I accept your point, and like I said, I believe the majority of people who claim to be psychic are frauds. And when you put a million dollars up, you're going to attract a fair share of fraudsters.

    I'm not even saying there definitely are psychics out there, more that it's possible that there are.


  • #58
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,215 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Men may be just as superstitious, they just don't advertise the fact like women do.
    In my experience that is very true. I think its cultural.


  • #59
    anacc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭anacc


    Autecher wrote: »
    To be fair Kiki has not said that, she has said she believes there are some people out there who operate on a higher plane than others.

    Like the SR-71?


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Bastards be virgins.


    Sadly, many a new wife found out that's not true.

    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

    Why is it the smartest men do the stupidest things?

    That's about as erudite as 'Why men great 'til they gotta be great?'


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  • #61
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Bastards be virgins.

    Why is it the smartest men do the stupidest things?

    If your hoe believes in psychics you do too !
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