Recently I have had a year of experiences where I've come to believe that there are many people with this ability. it's hard to document it to a point of scientific validity but hang with me here ...\n\nOn a random night, a friend and I decided to grab a deck of cards from this tea shop and place cards face down. A trial was done to see if he could find the ace, then another, and another... each time 6 - 20 cards were placed face down and he was able to guess the correct one. Writing it off to coincidence and luck, we decided to take it further.\n\nI took 13 cards (ace to king) ... all spades, shuffled them randomly and presented them to him one by one face down... in each of the times, he took a good minute before telling me what he thought the card was. And at the end of the test, he was correct in all of his guesses. (He had originally mistaken one card for a 6, but when he was asked to guess the real 6 on the table facedown from him, he realized his mistake without being prompted.)
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I don't think the tests that have been done proved anything more than luck. There's no solid proof that any of that exists as far as I know. \n\nMaybe your friend should subject himself to tests?
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tarot cards have been around for a long time but their history is quite cloudy from what i can gather. i think there was some fear of persecution at some point in the history so they were disguised as playing cards. the pentacles became diamonds, cups: hearts, wands: clubs, swords: spades (pretty sure about this). \n\ntarot cards work through symbolism. if u can understand how all life is interconnected then u can see how the tarot works (sorry, i'm not very good at describing in words things that i understand with my soul). some people say that u have to be psychic to use the tarot but either that's not true or everyone is psychic to some degree.\n\ni've been using tarot cards for a few years now, on and off, but i don't use it for divining the future coz i don't see the point of that. rather, i use it to ask for advice and it's never steered me wrong. also, i don't use the tarot a lot anymore since i like figuring things out for myself as much as possible.\n\nsome people say u have to be given a tarot deck but i don't believe that. i bought my deck coz i liked the pictures and i bought a separate book that focused on advice readings and together they work good enough for me. also, i have all my cards up the right way while some people shuffle them so that some cards are upside down. \n\nas u can see, i'm not an advanced tarot user but i don't think u need to be to benefit from the tarot.
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This is known as the Monty Hall problem.\n\nIn September 1990, Marilyn vos Savant, puzzle columnist for the U.S. magazine Parade, was sent a probability teaser by a reader. \n\nIts publication in her "Ask Marilyn" column together with her solution has produced much debate amongst mathematicians and laymen alike ever since. \n\nApart from its challenge to common intuition, one reason it has attracted so much interest is that Ms von Savant is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest recorded score in an IQ test (228) and so proving her wrong would have a certain satisfaction to it.\n\nTo date, Ms vos Savant has received over 10,000 letters on the puzzle, mostly disagreeable, and articles are still being written claiming new insights that show where Ms vos Savant got it wrong.\n\nMonty Hall was a game show host. There was a luxury car  behind one of 3 doors. The other two doors had goats behind them. Contestants on the show were asked by Monty to choose a door. \n\nHe then opened one of the other doors to reveal a goat and said you could stick with your original choice or switch to the other remaining dooir, if you wanted to. \n\nThat is where this puzzle comes from. The advice is correct. Switching increases the odds from 1/3 rd to 2/3 rds of getting the car. Surprising as that seems. \n\nThink of it this way. Whichever door you choose initially, your chance of success was 1/3 rd. \n\nThen the number of doors is reduced to two. So the chance that the other remaining door is the right one must be 2/3 rds. Because it cannot be the door that has been revealed to have a goat behind it. \n\nWhen you were choosing between three doors, the chance that it was behind one or other of the two doors you didn't choose was 2/3 rds. And it still is, except there is now only one such door left, it having been demonstrated that the other not-chosen door concealed a goat.\n\nIntuition suggests that once one door is eliminated, the chances are 1/2 for each of the two remaining doors, but intuition can be wrong. You can see why the Monty Hall problem generated such controversy, can't you? It has been puzzling and infuriating people for over 15 years now. This one will run and run.
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I agree with mainwoolly (and not for the first time); I suspect that nonsensical beliefs of all kinds actually have a real-world, real-time effect, on the human mind if nothing else.\n\nWe all know people who never make a decision without first performing a tarot card reading, or faithfully check their horoscopes every day, or whatever.  They simply do not hear you when you point out that it's a pile, no, a truckload, nay, a Matterhorn of horse-hockey.  These same people retain enough sense to enable them to pass their drivers' license tests; to get and hold jobs; to raise children who stay out of prison (the majority of them, at any rate).  \n\nAnd they never notice the contradiction, they never notice that their own brains are divided against them.  It's like walking around with a big ole ugly-a$$ nine-hundred-pound gorilla perched on your shoulder.  I've never studied psychology so I can't understand how or why this works for anyone; but apparently it does.\n\nHow much might more have been accomplished already if so many of us weren't permitting ourselves to be held back in this way?  It doesn't bear thinking about, really.
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Some people say this... Everything that will ever happen has already happened. Also, there is only ONE in all there is... It looks like we are different physical beings, but at a different level, we are all one. Since we are all one and everything that will ever happen has already happened, you have the ability to access any information in what our mind considers the past or future and this information can be from what we consider "anyone" and at "anytime". Some people can naturally do this, some people "work" at developing this "skill". If one has deja vu, it can be you "remembering" something that has happened "already" in the past or future. The same can hold true with remembering past lives. These past lives you seem to be remembering is just the accessing of information of a "different person" in possibly a "different time". You can also seem to "travel" in this time or to a different time with these abilities... All of this can sometimes be considered the abilities of psychics. If this happens a lot to you, I personally "think" that's awesome. I'd suggest taking note of when these things happen. Some people say the more you focus your attention on these things the more they will develop.\n\nHey, here's something else I just noticed... Both you and I are members on here since July 7, 2006, ha!! Coincidence? Syncronicity? I don't know, but that's interesting...
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Looking at past events, it is easy to chalk up coincedences as fate.  But looking forward, nothing is written.  You get to decide your fate.\n\nLove,\nme
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Dear Jassa b,\n            What do you think? Does all these stupidities work? Abstain from such handiwork. These are Satan's handiwork. There was a research done in America. There was a Professor who taught a class of 100 students. After a week, the Professor said, I have got to know the nature and past of every student. I will write it on papers and give the students. After it, the students will open it simultaneously and tell whether it is true or not. The Professor wrote the nature and past of every student and distributed them among the students. When the students opened them, more than 90 % students said that the Professor was 100 % correct and the remaining 8 or 9 % said that the Professor was 90% correct. After that, the Professor told that he wrote the same thing for every student. You know there are certain things which are for sure, which anyone can say. Like, I say that in the next 6 months, you will hear a good news. Even if 100 bad things have happened, at least one good thing will happen. Its just a guess.\n\nSo ....  Abstain from palmistry.
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We know that's true, mathematically.  Check into the newest physics research.  Amazing stuff, really, but be careful of some of the new age nonsense about science (not a comment on new age, more about attempts to use half-understood science to back up there own ideas, which is foolish for anyone).  I've experienced that for a fact, though this isn't proof of anything to you, nor do I expect it to be.  Remember, we aren't that far from infants, to whom everything is a dim reflection of reality, and slowly learn to distinguish differences between one thing and another.\nExperiments with kittens show that when raised in boxes with only horizontal lines, let out when older, they cannot see table and chair legs and run into them repeatedly. When raised in boxes with only vertical lines, they cannot or will not jump onto chair seats or tables.  Neither group outgrows it if kept in the box for too much of their childhood.\n\nWhat have we missed?  What stimuli have we denied to ourselves and our children such that as adults, even if it is right in front of us, we cannot see it?  I live everyday seeing the world differently because of my experiences as a child and it gives me such an advantage dealing with people.  I'm not "better", just aware of things most people don't yet notice.  And trying to tell them only makes them look at me funny, so I simply use the knowledge, and everyone benefits without understanding why.\n\nI wish I could just show you.  Until then, I'm raising my daughter to see things clearly, to understand herself and seek the truth above all things, to love unconditionally and to choose happiness rather than search for it.\n\nThen again, maybe half of it is regaining your innocence... .  Maybe I'll see you one day.  I'll miss you until then.
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I know exactly what your saying! A person in my immediate family does this constantly, and it gets to the point where you don't know what to believe and what not to. And in my experience, if they are habitual/pathological liars, calling them on it has little effect. Sometimes I wonder about the things they lie about ( in particular a card game that never occurred). If I were you, I would reevaluate my friendship/relationship with that person and consider if it's worth the time and effort...Hope it works out for you ..
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This is a test to see how many people can figure out what I am saying. A lot of people are really hung up on proper spelling. But the human mind can figure it out, as in the example I'm giving you now. \nIt is said that, as long as you have the first and last letter in the proper place that your mind will be able to figure it out.\nWhat do you think??
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Can someone explain to me the satisfaction gained in "proving" what is known to be untrue and can only be "proved" by disguising the deception involved. Is it the appeal of "Magic" conjuring tricks? \n\nDividing by zero is simply a sleight of hand which any half-educated person knows is not a legitimate move you can make. So all such "proofs" are at pains to disguise that is what they are doing. And once spotted, are revealed to be a hollow sham.\n\nTHIS DOESN'T SEEM A USEFUL WAY FOR ANYONE TO SPEND THEIR TIME, TO ME!
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It's doing my head in.  Do these people not understand that it's random?  How can you have tactics?  Just pick a number and get on with it for ****'s sake.  \n\nI blame Noel and his "cosmic ordering" or whatever it's called.  \n\nWe can all write numbers on our hands in biro Noel - doesn't make you any more or less likely to win something.
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i'm not christian i'm pagan. i don't call it sixth sense though. ever since i was little i would have dreams that would come true all the time. that diminished somewhat as i grew older but i still get them occasionally. i can also tell when people are behind me and if i stood on a street with my back to every one i can tell how many people are behind me. i can also read playing cards, although i've never been able to read tarot. and i can tell what's going on with people, like if some one is far away i can think of them and know how they are doing. that's really helpful right now cuz my friend is in iraq.
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I think most people realize that a person's skill at a computer game has little, if any correlation to their skill at the real thing.  There is absolutely no accounting for the unique quirks that each player brings to the game.  If anyone actually claims that they are good at pool and by "pool" they mean, "Yahoo Pool", I think everyone could probably reach a similar conclusion about that statement.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.
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I watched a special on big lottery winners recently, and YES you can win too much money.. I think it depends on a personality type, but when you start putting solid gold statues by your pool?  Seems a bit over the top!
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Dont we all... thats why so many people buy lotto tickets. \nWork hard and keep wishing is all I can tell you. If there is a secret to success I havn't found it yet.
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well, maybe. are you superstitious?  are you easily frightened by your own imagination?    easily influenced by suggestion?  do you have a weak mind?\n\nif so ... stick to Parcheesi or Trivial Pursuits.