What Paranormal Power Would You Choose?

[JoeTheJuggler]

You should all reconsider the power I mentioned earlier: to be able to bend spoons and keys with your mind, on occasion, when you're not too tired, and when not too many people are watching very closely.

Just think about it!

With an awesome power like that you could. . . .

well, you'd be able to. . . . .

that is, it'd be possible to. . . .

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Nope. You can design your own power, so it's going to be no work at all, just think and it's done. Ah, but that would make it work for some. Hard luck.

That's why I said "what if"--would you still want the power if it was work to use it?

When I was very young, I remember thinking that all these PSI powers could be real, but that it only makes sense that it'd require effort. I thought it'd be like learning how to flex a muscle that you didn't know you had before. I remember sitting on a chair trying to move an object across the room and trying to exert as much effort as it would take to move the object with my hand if I were standing next to the object.

I was like 10 years old though, but at least I understood that for an object to be moved, you'd have to do some work.

On a related note: where did the energy to do all the things Superman did come from? Surely lifting a car and flying with it is still a lot of work and would require a LOT of energy. Shouldn't he be eating hi-caloric foods virtually non stop?

Also, I always wondered why Superman had big bulging muscles. His super strength wasn't the result of going to the gym. Surely his weren't the biggest and bulgiest muscles either, so why didn't he just have an average build?

 

[fagin]

That's why I said "what if"--would you still want the power if it was work to use it?

When I was very young, I remember thinking that all these PSI powers could be real, but that it only makes sense that it'd require effort. I thought it'd be like learning how to flex a muscle that you didn't know you had before. I remember sitting on a chair trying to move an object across the room and trying to exert as much effort as it would take to move the object with my hand if I were standing next to the object.

I was like 10 years old though, but at least I understood that for an object to be moved, you'd have to do some work.

On a related note: where did the energy to do all the things Superman did come from? Surely lifting a car and flying with it is still a lot of work and would require a LOT of energy. Shouldn't he be eating hi-caloric foods virtually non stop?

Also, I always wondered why Superman had big bulging muscles. His super strength wasn't the result of going to the gym. Surely his weren't the biggest and bulgiest muscles either, so why didn't he just have an average build?

I seem to remember that originally Superman was just very strong. He used to 'leap tall buildings' but didn't fly. That came later.

 

[sinclairmcevoy]

Telekinesis. Know that guy who lets his dog poop on your lawn and leaves it there? Now he can take a souvenir home with him. Or, BACK FROM WHENCE YOU CAME FOUL TURD!
I think a "chocolate bar" in the pocket would be pretty funny though.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I seem to remember that originally Superman was just very strong. He used to 'leap tall buildings' but didn't fly. That came later.

But that strength wasn't because of large muscles. (If so, surely humans with much bigger muscles could do the same.)

Sorry folks, I keep getting this thread and the super-power thread confused because they touch on similar ideas.

 

[Hokulele]

I want a free-energy device. Just a small one would be fine.

 

[The Atheist]

Telekinesis. Know that guy who lets his dog poop on your lawn and leaves it there? Now he can take a souvenir home with him. Or, BACK FROM WHENCE YOU CAME FOUL TURD!
I think a "chocolate bar" in the pocket would be pretty funny though.

Great idea - that's one of my pet hates. More so when one of the kids steps in it.

But that strength wasn't because of large muscles. (If so, surely humans with much bigger muscles could do the same.)

Sorry folks, I keep getting this thread and the super-power thread confused because they touch on similar ideas.

No matter, a mod will come along and split all of the wrong posts off into a merged thread in social issues.

I want a free-energy device. Just a small one would be fine.

Done!

 

[petra10]

Definitley I would like to predict the future if only to win the lotto.Yes I would use my power for my own selfish reasons.

 

[The Atheist]

Definitley I would like to predict the future if only to win the lotto.Yes I would use my power for my own selfish reasons.

Well, that's the whole point!

I'm impressed that nobody's gone with invisibility and the Australian women's netball team yet.

 

[CLD]

Gosh, I'm shocked no one chose Paranormal Urination (the ability to cause others to void their bladders with the power of your mind).

 

[ThatSoundAgain]

Nah, CLD, just bring your theremin and hit the brown note.

 

[arthwollipot]

That's over-rated. That's how girls treated me all through high school.

That's how they still treat me...

I'm impressed that nobody's gone with invisibility and the Australian women's netball team yet.

Well, I went for invisibility. I didn't say what I'd be using it for...

 

[The Atheist]

Well, I went for invisibility. I didn't say what I'd be using it for...

I saw that, but I have a special interest in the Aussie netball girls, so PM me if it works out!

 

[Cuddles]

For all you who said telekinesis, what if using telekinesis required as much effort to do the same work as doing it through normal means would require?

Yes. Flying might still take effort, but without telekinesis I wouldn't be able to do it at all. Levitating somthing might be just as hard as holding it up, but without it I can only hold a couple of things at a time. And so on. Just because it takes a bit of effort doesn't mean you couldn't still manage some pretty cool stuff. Who needs invisibility when you can make people's underwear jump a foot to the left?

 

[Normal Dude]

Who needs invisibility when you can make people's underwear jump a foot to the left?

Sounds like you weren't invited to "those sort of parties."

 

[Hokulele]

Done!

Fine. I want a free-energy device that works.

 

[The Atheist]

Theirs does.

I saw it on a blog. Must be true.

 

[ksbluesfan]

I would want omnipotence. I would create a rock so heavy that I couldn't lift it. Then I'd lift it just to make you mad.

(Thanks Chuck Norris!)

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Yes. Flying might still take effort, but without telekinesis I wouldn't be able to do it at all. Levitating somthing might be just as hard as holding it up, but without it I can only hold a couple of things at a time. And so on. Just because it takes a bit of effort doesn't mean you couldn't still manage some pretty cool stuff. Who needs invisibility when you can make people's underwear jump a foot to the left?

Good point. Just requiring effort for TK doesn't make it a deal breaker.

I'm sure a lot of hand/arm amputees and people with spinal cord injuries wouldn't mind the ability to pick things up even if required as much work.

 

[Hokulele]

Theirs does.

I saw it on a blog. Must be true.

In that case, you buy one and have it shipped out to me. I will plug my computer into it and let you know how it all works out. US 110 please, none of that European wiring crap.