Recent content by Illusion

Guess I have to live with my poor logic then and die unenlightened...:)

To simple sum up my position: I do not believe that TK exists, because I have not seen anyone on this planet using it. Yes, I know there is research going on, e.g. from Dean Radin. And I endorse that as I think it is important to challenge the (scientific) mainstream regarding certain positions...

At the moment I doubt that telekinesis can be harnessed. If it really can, as you say yourself, you have to put a lot of energy into the training. I do not have that time. So I am just hoping to see someone use it one day, that would suffice.

But I give it a low prior probability because of my experience regarding this topic and related ones and because of what I personally know about life, so to speak. As I said I would never rule it out by a 100%, but as of now I deem it very unlikely to exist beyond a minor scale. Maybe investing...

I remember, when I was a young kid, I visited a lesson of "silver mind control". Maybe some of you know that. It was quite popular in the 80s. The teacher I had, talked a lot about telekinesis and said that she also taught her children and gave some examples (like influencing those wheel sets...

If Telekinesis was learnable, there would be millions and millions of people practicing it by now and it already would have been accepted as fact long ago. Parents would have taught their children which would have passed down the knowledge to their children and so forth. I know quite a hand...

Maybe you then can give me an example for the notion of an independent (free) will? As hard as I try to find one, I am not able to, honestly.

Yes, we might rise above our conditioning and gene-setup, but this does not mean that our choices are free. There will always be factors that tilt it into one or the other direction. It therefore will never be completely free. If it is determined since the beginning of time, I have no clue, but...

Well, to be honest, when I first thought about those things, I really was in kinda a depressed state afterwards. But that is gone. So the chin is in a neutral position now. Thanks anyways ;) As an individual you certainly have a choice, though it will never be independent. There will always be...

How can I, as a layman, understand these topics, when even scientists who do this for a living have vastly different opinions? I only can acknowledge that maybe certain natural laws/processes/events, which seem contrary to our senses and logic, might be true. Still, for me free will is, as in...

But what do you mean by free? Free because you are the one who makes the decision and not someone else? I can agree to that. But if you mean free as in independent from all influences, I cannot. Because if you eat the chocolate bar or not is not a "free" decision. It depends on a myriad of...

There is of course the scientific side. While the current mainstream is (still) leaning towards materialism, there are also scientists like Radin or Stephenson (I think), whose research follow more unorthodox ideas. Personally I am always happy to read about stuff that seems to be against the...

First of all, with experiences I mean everything I have come across in my life up until now. Events, stories from other people, books, discussions etc. So there is not this one experience that has made me believe there is no free will. Just to clarify. Regarding my other metaphysical believes...

But does discussion really bring us anywhere close to truth? I have been a reader of this and other forums for years. While there are very interesting discussions and topics on a intelctually high level, it just brought me to the conclusion that we just do not know and might never know. I will...

Absolutely.