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Nope. Sorry. Bible Code Effect. You are taking phrases out of context and looking for (unconvincing) new significance to place upon them. Take any volume of prose and a determination for there to be hidden meaning and you can manufacture ersatz significance for any number of phrases. For example, at the start of this thread a poster predicted that the shake up of MEPs in the recent European elections:

GregInAustin said:
Why not make this new post a Vote?

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And somebody else predicts that the Sharks would beat the Tigers with an impressive 7 points:
shemp said:
I am absolutely certain it is 7.
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And if misuse of drones, CCTV, or other freedom of information issues are in the headlines in the next seven days I know who to blame....
Agatha said:
That would set off my "hidden camera" alarms! ;)
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All I can say is that if someone sincerely believes that there really is a connection between his ruminations on this forum on the subject of Nazi persecutions of the Jews and a helicopter crashing into a pub in Scotland, or that his mention here of NATO's bombing of a TV station in Belgrade is somehow causally linked to Tony Scott's suicide, nothing anyone can say here is going to make any difference to him. And if he doesn't sincerely believe these things, he's just trolling- and nothing anyone can say here is going to make any difference to him. That's an Internet effect, I guess- a delusion is as good as a pointless joke.
 
From what I have read, things like schizophrenia are impossible to simply ignore, or educate away.

Aren't they like terrible pain, you can tell yourself that it's only nerves and signals, while the pain floods you anyway.

I think hearing voices must be terrifying. To further be incapable of resisting them, to be forced into believing them... I have no words.
 
Michel H said:
(I think) I do observe some correlation between some violent events sometimes reported in the news, and my own personal thoughts
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There is a constant succession of bad things reported in the news. Your thoughts are not the cause of any of them.

There has always been a constant succession of bad things happening all around the world. It's been going on since long before any of us were born and it will continue long after all of us have gone. None of those bad things is ever caused by somebody somewhere merely thinking about something upsetting.


That some of us can convince ourselves that there might be anything in it is just a function of the way our brains work. Sports people are notoriously superstitious for example, and many have careful routines to follow before an event as they've become convinced that if they do something as trivial as to put their socks on in the wrong order they will lose their game.

It's ridiculous, of course, but how could you convince them otherwise? And how may we convince you that an earthquake or a shipwreck could not possibly have anything to do with whatever it was that you were thinking about the day before?
 
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Michel,

From your perspective, do you think it is possible the voices you hear and the connections you make between your thoughts and external events, might be symptoms of a mental illness?
 
Jack by the hedge said:
... And how may we convince you that an earthquake or a shipwreck could not possibly have anything to do with whatever it was that you were thinking about the day before?
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I actually don't think myself that an earthquake could have anything to do with what I have been thinking the day before, because planet Earth is not a telepathic animal (with a brain) or a human being.

Apparently, a new (possible) "telepathic incident" has occurred. I wrote today, at 1:46 UTC:
Michel H said:
...NATO ... bombed Serbia's state television station in Belgrade on April 23, 1999. ...
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This occurred during the Kosovo war.

Now I have learnt that a loud explosion has been reported at a coal-fired power station outside Kosovo's capital Pristina. According to Tanjug, four people have died:
http://www.tanjug.rs/news/132452/gas-blast-in-thermal-power-plant-in-obilic-leaves-four-dead.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27734312
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/blast-rocks-kosovo-power-plant-causing-casualties/2014/06/06/8dbaf5d8-ed6b-11e3-8a8a-e17c08f80871_story.html

Condolences to the families of the victims.
 
Michel H said:
I actually don't think myself that an earthquake could have anything to do with what I have been thinking the day before, because planet Earth is not a telepathic animal (with a brain) or a human being.

Apparently, a new (possible) "telepathic incident" has occurred. I wrote today, at 1:46 UTC:

This occurred during the Kosovo war.

Now I have learnt that a loud explosion has been reported at a coal-fired power station outside Kosovo's capital Pristina. According to Tanjug, four people have died:
http://www.tanjug.rs/news/132452/gas-blast-in-thermal-power-plant-in-obilic-leaves-four-dead.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27734312
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/blast-rocks-kosovo-power-plant-causing-casualties/2014/06/06/8dbaf5d8-ed6b-11e3-8a8a-e17c08f80871_story.html

Condolences to the families of the victims.
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According to the news reports, the explosion was caused by faulty installation of hydrogen canisters. Don't you think this is more likely than time delayed random brain lasers, or however you think this works?
 
Michel H said:
I actually don't think myself that an earthquake could have anything to do with what I have been thinking the day before, because planet Earth is not a telepathic animal (with a brain) or a human being.

Apparently, a new (possible) "telepathic incident" has occurred. I wrote today, at 1:46 UTC:
Originally Posted by Michel H View Post
...NATO ... bombed Serbia's state television station in Belgrade on April 23, 1999. ...
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This occurred during the Kosovo war.

Now I have learnt that a loud explosion has been reported at a coal-fired power station outside Kosovo's capital Pristina. According to Tanjug, four people have died:
http://www.tanjug.rs/news/132452/gas-blast-in-thermal-power-plant-in-obilic-leaves-four-dead.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27734312
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/blast-rocks-kosovo-power-plant-causing-casualties/2014/06/06/8dbaf5d8-ed6b-11e3-8a8a-e17c08f80871_story.html

Condolences to the families of the victims.
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Well, let's see...almost two years ago, you posted about NATO bombing a Serbian TV station (13 years before your post), and Tony Scott jumped off a bridge; today you re-post about the NATO bombing, and a power plant blows up in Kosovo, killing four (so far as we know now). Michel, has it occurred to you that (assuming you really believe this), instead of empty condolences, it might be better if you just stop posting? (Might be better for you too)
 
TheSapient said:
According to the news reports, the explosion was caused by faulty installation of hydrogen canisters. Don't you think this is more likely than time delayed random brain lasers, or however you think this works?
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The Post said:
The official said authorities believe the blast at Kosovo A power plant was caused during a botched replacement of hydrogen canisters used for cooling generators.
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Michel H said:
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That's what I said.

So what is more likely.

a) A botched installation caused the problems you would expect from that botched installation.

or

b) Typing the word Kosovo suspends the laws of the universe and causes magic brain lasers to jump through time and space to cause an explosion.

Anyway, if you really believed that posting that phrase about Kosovo causes power plants to explode, why do you keep re-posting it?
 
Michel H said:
It would be nice if "successful" telepathy tests could stop these hostile voices (
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Yes. That would be nice.

Of course, while you are using this telepathy-test approach there is nothing preventing you from simultaneously using other methods as well. As others have suggested, the see-a-doctor method is worth considering.
 
Michel, why do your correlations always involve events in the news. Yesterday, my trash can blew over. That has not happened before. Did you cause this?
 
Ladewig said:
Yes. That would be nice.
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I'm puzzled as to why Michel thinks that a successful telepathy test would stop the voices. Surely it would vindicate them.

The negative results that he actually gets in his tests, however, show not only that his perception that others can hear his thoughts is mistaken but that the voices are not telling him the truth when they say his thoughts can affect others. This is evidence that both the perception and the voices are symptoms of his illness, and that both can potentially be eliminated with the right medication.
 
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