by Kalendaine » November 9th, 2006, 6:54 am
The problem with the 'mental' things like telepathy, clairvoyance, psychometry, precognition, out-of-body/astral travel, etc is that all of them are a subjective experience. In an objective world, everyone dismisses them simply because EVERYONE can't do it already. For instance, everyone 'knows' what the sun looks like, and even if they didn't, someone else can point up and say, "hey, thats the sun."
How can you do that with telepathy? How, if you say, "I can read people's minds," can you prove it? To a skeptic, they will find any and all excuses possible to prove you can't do what you said you can, simply because they don't want to believe it themselves. Instead of trying it out, they will simply retort that it isn't possible and can never be.
I, personally, think that skeptics such as these are afraid: afraid of what it would mean if it was true, afraid of feeling inferior since they aren't able to, or afraid of the invasion of privacy that they percieve will happen (I mean, seriously, would you want your innermost thoughts open like a book to whatever psychic walks by?) I challenge any skeptic that reads this to ACTUALLY TRY IT OUT. Don't sit there and gripe, or make excuses, or attack those who claim they can do this or that; try it out and keep an open mind while doing so. If it doesn't work for you after several months, if you don't even get a whisper, fine, but don't attack those for whom it actually worked.
So they have a talent that you don't. Perhaps they're better at something than you. Doesn't everybody have something they could say the same about?