You seem to be completely ruling out the paranormal, psychic ability, ESP essentially.
Yeah no fucking shit. I'm an adult. Of course I disregard childish nonsense. I'm also ruling out vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies, any character from Marvel or DC comics, or any work of fiction for that matter, because it's just that: fiction. ESP if fucking fiction, and you are retarded if you're an adult and you believe in ESP. You mentioned something about your "mum" making edibles, so I figure there's a fairly good chance you're still a child, which would explain the idiotic clinging to a belief in the paranormal. But see, to the rest of us, this is just silly and infantile.
I was so high in that moment, I did suffer some assault on my brain from the MDMA in the August heatwave,
Yeah I was already questioning the credibility of your story; this really makes it look shaky now. So we're all supposed to trust the memory of someone admitting to thinking they suffered brain damage on the same day?
Talk like Yoda you do.
I’m down now from my acid. LSD doesn’t lead to being illogical and deluded, per se.
I was just trying to let you off the hook for saying something so devoid of logic and reason.
I’m astonished that you so outright dismiss the phenomena of ESP.
I'm astonished you believe in it and aren't embarrassed to say so publicly.
I wouldn’t even debate such a thing with any ESP atheist.
You're just making up random bullshit as you go now.
The mind and imagination is a very powerful tool.
Yours would have to be to believe the nonsense you believe.
Yeah sorry man I got embroiled in trivial philosophy.
There's no trivial philosophy going on here, bro. You're trying to defend your adamant belief in the paranormal like a Luddite fool.
I’ve a good skill subjectively rating drug quality and experience, especially the magic of ecstasy which I know so so well, never lost, and if missing would only be the drug itself.
Wow this is an ignorant statement, 100% opinion presented as fact, an opinion of high self-regard coupled with a lack of humility, lack of scientific knowledge, lack of self awareness, ignorance to your own cognitive biases or even why a cognitive bias is a bad thing for a researcher to have.
Are you aware of
The Dunning–Kruger effect? See also:
Cargo Cult Science,
Not Even Wrong,
Wronger Than Wrong, and the
Overconfidence Effect
But you're goddamn right I do not believe in fake, monkey garbage like ESP, alchemy, phrenology, healing snake oils, and other cons that only the naive, gullible, and stupid think are real. It's FUCKING PSEUDOSCIENCE. I'm not the only person who thinks this, just apparently the only person who's cared enough to point out to you that believing in ESP is laughably, childishly dumb. For example, this is from
Popular Psychology: an encyclopedia by Luis A. Cordón 2005), page 182 (
ISBN 978-0-313-32457-4):
"The essential problem is that a large portion of the scientific community, including most research psychologists, regards parapsychology as a pseudoscience, due largely to its failure to move beyond null results in the way science usually does. Ordinarily, when experimental evidence fails repeatedly to support a hypothesis, that hypothesis is abandoned. Within parapsychology, however, more than a century of experimentation has failed even to conclusively demonstrate the mere existence of paranormal phenomenon, yet parapsychologists continue to pursue that elusive goal."
Here are some more reading recommendations until you come to grips with the fact that you basically believe the X-Men are real and that some humans can control goats with their minds alone just by staring at them.
- Statistical Problems in ESP Research by Persi Diaconis, 1978. Science New Series, Vol. 201, No. 4351. pp. 131–136.
- Why Parapsychology Cannot Become a Science by Mario Bunge, 1987. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10: 576–577.
- Pseudoscience and the Paranormal by Terence Hines, 2003 (ISBN 1-57392-979-4)
- “ESP (extrasensory perception)”. Skeptic's Dictionary! by Robert Todd Carroll
Here's copy pasta from Wikipedia you should read and reflect on for a while:
“
Parapsychology is the study of paranormal psychic phenomena, including ESP. Parapsychology has been criticised for continuing investigation
despite being unable to provide convincing evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.[20] The scientific community rejects ESP due to the absence of an evidence base, the lack of a theory which would explain ESP and the lack of positive experimental results; it considers ESP to be pseudoscience.[21][22][23][24][25]
The scientific consensus does not view extrasensory perception as a scientific phenomenon.[26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Skeptics have pointed out that there is no viable theory to explain the mechanism behind ESP, and that there are historical cases in which flaws have been discovered in the experimental design of parapsychological studies.
[33]
There are many criticisms pertaining to experiments involving extrasensory perception, particularly surrounding methodological flaws. These flaws are not unique to a single experimental design, and are effective in discrediting much of the positive research surrounding ESP. Many of the flaws seen in the
Zener cards experiment are present in the Ganzfeld experiment as well. First is the stacking effect, an error that occurs in ESP research. Trial-by-trial feedback given in studies using a ‘closed’ ESP target sequence (e.g., a deck of cards) violates the condition of independence used for most standard statistical tests. Multiple responses for a single target cannot be evaluated using statistical tests that assume independence of responses. This increases likelihood of card counting and in turn, increases the chances for the subject to guess correctly without using ESP. Another methodological flaw involves cues through sensory leakage. For example, when the subject receives a visual cue. This could be the reflection of a Zener card in the holder's glasses. In this case, the subject is able to guess the card correctly because they can see it in the reflection, not because of ESP. Finally, poor randomization of target stimuli could be happening. Poor shuffling methods can make the orders of the cards easier to predict, or the cards could’ve been marked and manipulated, again, making it easier to predict which cards come next.
[34] The results of a meta-analysis found that when these errors were corrected and accounted for, there was still no significant effect of ESP. Many of the studies only appeared to have significant occurrence of ESP, when in fact, this result was due to the many methodological errors in the research.”
The takeaway is: ESP is not real, and arguing that it is will not induce others to respect your opinions. Do yourself a favor and rethink this belief.