Note: see all previous posts for examples. No, we are not taking him seriously - he is either lying or deluded and we really do not worry about which.
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Note: see all previous posts for examples. No, we are not taking him seriously - he is either lying or deluded and we really do not worry about which.
Ron Swanson
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Im sure this is a troll based on the other forums they posted.
BUT if it's not .. they would just say none of these kinds of tests will work as the "power" is UNCONTROLLABLE ... it won't work if you test it
ALSO: I miss the Million Dollar Challenge posts!
Gilbert Syndrome
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Maybe it was all of the replies telling him to seek help that made me assume everyone took him seriously. Some may call me an optimist, one man even referred to me as "Optimist Prime," because I'm so optimistic, but I tend to think he's having a bit of a Giraffe and seeing how many people respond.
Delvo
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Posting just once everywhere doesn't mean that was the plan all along. It could be that this person reads the responses for a while at first, sees that (s)he is not believed, and decides not to bother continuing to interact with people who don't believe him/her, then moves on to another place to keep trying to find someone who does. If (s)he finds a forum where people do believe it, then (s)he might stay and interact there.
In this case, it could also mean the conversations are continuing in the telepathic realm instead of getting posted. You occasionally see it mentioned. A member will write something like, "I'll PM (Private-Mental) you."
Scorpion
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I am diagnosed a paranoid Schizophrenic, and I have had a lot of experience of the condition called broadcasting. There are questions to ask you. '
How do you know people can receive your thoughts?
Have they told you?
Do you just hear them talking about what you are thinking without them confirming it to you?
The obvious thing to do is ask people if they can hear your thoughts.
They will almost certainly say no. You could find someone sympathetic to your case and experiment to see if they can receive your thoughts or not.
I went through my entire paranoid episode and tried to apply logic to the experiences I had, trying to decide if I was hallucinating or not.
To this day I still think some people could hear my thoughts, but they were told not to tell me anything by a psychologist who was trying to break me down. My mind did not break but I could get no evidence of my belief from anyone so I had to let go of it.
Scorpion
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I see someone said corta is a hit and run poster who does not follow up his claims. I find that slightly annoying as I was hoping for some interesting dialogue with a genuine believer in telepathy. I said I applied logic to my own experiences and the conclusion I came to was. 96% of the time there was no logical way to know if I was hallucinating or not, but 2% of the time there was enough evidence to realize I did hallucinate. The other 2% of logical deduction told me that some people could read my thoughts.
In particular a girl in the office where I worked seemed to be a telepathic medium.
On three separate occasions she seemed to be talking about the work I was doing, and she told me facts about the equipment I was working on and I found out the voice was right each time. On one occasion she said "he thinks he can fix that machine easily but he can't because the inlet pipe is broken and we are out of stock" I tipped the machine up to look at the back and sure enough the inlet pipe was broken. I realized she had told me a fact I did not know and not only that she told me the part was out of stock, so I went to the stores and found out the part was out of stock.
That is two facts I was told about that I did not know and I concluded therefore that it was genuine telepathy. There were two other occasions where she also told me facts I did not know about the equipment I was working on.
The end of the story is I walked out of the job after 18 months and went sick because I was nervously exhausted by the process. I subsequently wrote letters to the managing director demanding evidence that I had been psychologically abused. But naturally they would not answer me. I continued until they complained to the police that I was making nuisance calls and then I had to give up because I could have got six months in jail.
So the end of the story is that I have no evidence except my own logic and there is nothing more I can do.
In particular a girl in the office where I worked seemed to be a telepathic medium.
On three separate occasions she seemed to be talking about the work I was doing, and she told me facts about the equipment I was working on and I found out the voice was right each time. On one occasion she said "he thinks he can fix that machine easily but he can't because the inlet pipe is broken and we are out of stock" I tipped the machine up to look at the back and sure enough the inlet pipe was broken. I realized she had told me a fact I did not know and not only that she told me the part was out of stock, so I went to the stores and found out the part was out of stock.
That is two facts I was told about that I did not know and I concluded therefore that it was genuine telepathy. There were two other occasions where she also told me facts I did not know about the equipment I was working on.
The end of the story is I walked out of the job after 18 months and went sick because I was nervously exhausted by the process. I subsequently wrote letters to the managing director demanding evidence that I had been psychologically abused. But naturally they would not answer me. I continued until they complained to the police that I was making nuisance calls and then I had to give up because I could have got six months in jail.
So the end of the story is that I have no evidence except my own logic and there is nothing more I can do.
P.J. Denyer
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When someone implies they have a serious mental health issue I think it's better not to assume they are trolling. As per the Michel H tests anything that can be twisted (however far beyond any sensible interpretation) to support the delusion will be.
MinnesotaBrant
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What makes you think you are broadcasting your thoughts? I think the fantastic beasts movie might be a good one for you to watch. Its about magic and telepathy, as well as being a fine movie. Might be a start. I have some advice for you. Try to watch some more positive programming. There is a reason its called programming that has nothing to do with the schedule. PM me if interested
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fagin
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Hit and run post and hasn't been back for a week.
I doubt he's going be that interested.
I doubt he's going be that interested.
TofuFighter
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Honestly I am surprised there hasn't been a deluge of response to you already from other members. I can only guess this must have already happened elsewhere on the forum. I was a bit confused by some parts of your story.
- Your first post was about broadcasting thoughts, also mentioned in the second, but the second post was primarily about receiving someone else's broadcasts. Do you believe that you both send and receive thoughts?
- The girl in your office mentioned specifics about the equipment you were using. You concluded it was a telepathic transmission, which means, I assume, that you eliminated the possibility that she had said it out loud, either to you, herself, or someone else, which is the most obviously plausible explanation.
- You wrote letters to your employers requesting evidence that you'd been psychologically abused. I'm not sure what to make of this at all. Perhaps you could explain this a bit more clearly. (or direct me to a thread where this has already been covered)
Unfortunately it does not look like corta will be back.
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Thanks for the interest, I have never talked about my experience of telepathy elsewhere, but I have spoken of psychic experiences.
My experience of telepathy is complicated and there is a lot I have not said, but generally I experienced an apparently psychic girl working in the office talking to other people about what I was thinking. I do not seem to receive telepathy myself, I only seem to broadcast my thoughts.
The reason I think it was genuine telepathy and not just delusions and hallucinations was that the girl told me facts I did not know about several pieces of equipment I was working on. I gave one example and here are a couple more.
I was working on a gas analyzer and it had what I assumed was a pressure switch. I blew down a plastic tube attempting to operate the switch but it did not work. So I replaced the micro switch and blew again and it still did not work. At that point the girl in the office said the following.
"He thinks that's a pressure switch but its not, its a vacuum switch"
On hearing that I sucked on the tube instead of blowing and the switch worked. At that time I had not encountered a vacuum switch as all the previous analyzers I had worked on were pressure switches. So that's another fact I did not know that I was told by the girl in the office.
On another occasion I was working on a circuit board and I had only just begun to look at it when the girls voice from the office said. "It must be the regulator." I looked for a regulator and found one, so I replaced it but it sill did not work. At that point the girls voice said "then it must be the other regulator"
I looked at the board again and found there was a second regulator on the board. I replaced that and the board worked. It was unusual for there to be two regulators on the same board and until the girls voice told me there was one I did not even know there were any regulators on the board. So again I was told facts I did not know.
The background to all this is that I am sure I was investigated by the police and labeled a psychopath. This was months before I even got the job I am talking about. They called in a psychologist who set about trying to give me a breakdown. I assume this because nobody has ever spoken to me about it, and I have only my own reasoning and deduction to make a judgement
The psychologist told people to talk about me deliberately in order to try and give me a breakdown so I would get hospital treatment.
But the dumb bastard reckoned without my lifetime of practical occult experience. I did not break down I just fought everyone in a psychological war.
That was fine until I got my last job where things took a turn for the worse as there seemed to be a psychic girl working against me. I still do not know how or why she did that , and I never spoke to her. But it made things utterly impossible for me and in the end I was forced to go sick.
I wrote and telephoned my ex employers about all this years after I had left, and tried to get people to tell me the truth, but no one ever has. There is a lot more to this story but I maintain that reason and logic dictate I was persecuted by a psychic girl or how could her voice have told me all those facts about the equipment.
Thermal
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Scorpion, the story as you tell it actually sounds like the girl (I assume you mean woman) was more familiar with the equipment than you give her credit for. For instance, she may have seen/heard you blowing on the switch and knew it was a vacuum switch and made her comment. How do you eliminate this simpler explanation?
Scorpion
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I call her a girl but she was probably in her twenties. I quoted her as saying "he thinks that's a pressure switch" The operative words being "he thinks" She seemed to know what I was thinking, and talked about my thoughts. As I have said these incidents were only about 2% of my experiences, and most of it was without factual details so I could not claim it was not a hallucination. This all happened over twenty years ago and I cannot remember all he other times I heard her talking about me because they were not evidential.
The office was some feet away from my workbench and I heard her voice coming through the open door. She could not see me and I could not see into the office.
An incident I do recall was that once I walked to the office door to listen more closely to what they were saying and I stood outside the office out of sight of anyone inside it. The girl calmly walked up and shut the door in my face.
I seemed to hear another girls say to her, "if you do that he will know"
Thermal
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Ok, this was decades ago? Memories do become stylized and inaccurate over time, it is the nature of how memories are stored and recalled. But that aside, saying 'he thinks (whatever)' is a common way of commenting on what a third party is doing. Anecdotally, I am primarily a building contractor, and I can sometimes tell by the sound what workers are doing on other entire floors of a jobsite. Also, by saying 'if you do that he will know', it sounds to a reader more like one woman saying that they were aware you were closing in on them and it made them uncomfortable, and closing the door would call attention to that. Just suggesting other interpretations of the behavior that are not psychic-reliant.
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If the young lady was an office equipment expert, why was she not working repairing office equipment? If it's simply something she didn't want to do, why would she know this information and yet keep it from you? Did she know she was telling you via thought? Based on the sentence construct, it would appear she knew the problem and had every intention of keeping the solution from you.
Or maybe you just think in the second person and came up with some ideas to check, then attributed the thoughts to the person who happened to be closest to where you were working.
*He thinks thinking in the second person could become very confusing.* - to self
Or maybe you just think in the second person and came up with some ideas to check, then attributed the thoughts to the person who happened to be closest to where you were working.
*He thinks thinking in the second person could become very confusing.* - to self
Gilbert Syndrome
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True, but you'd be surprised how many people do similar things online for attention. I'm not saying that this is what's happening here, but I'm always going into this type of thread with a pinch of salt in my hand.
UFOs, telepathy, communication with the dead, chakras is there nothing you haven't experienced? With all that going on I would have thought that you'd at least have one piece of evidence for the magic you believe you experience?
That's unfortunately a very simple question to answer and the answer is usually the same no matter the person making the claims of magic and that is if there is a mundane answer the person making the magical claims wouldn't be special