Blackhawk

Because I don't think that consciousness (life, sentience, qualia) can emerge from dead matter. I don't believe in magic.

I'm not a materialist. But why do you expect me to blindly believe in something which I have seen absolutely zero evidence of?

Or: what evidence have you seen that magic powers exists?

That wasn't a answer. I take it as you don't have any evidence. I rest my case.

So what evidence do you have that magical powers exists?

It's not true that there's many credible people. The most credible ones are just fighter jet pilots: David Fravor and Alex Dietrich. It's possible that they are lying. And no there's not only two choices (manmade or not manmade). They could also be whatever else. Optical illusions, hallucinations, weather phenomena, etc. But this is off topic..

Unidentified Flying Objects, or more accurately UAP's, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, yes. That doesn't mean that they are aliens. It means that you don't know what they are. And there's also the possibility that they are lying about seeing anything at all.

I'm not buying that at all. That's just a convenient way to keep your wishful thinking belief alive. It's like when the alien believers say: "We don't see the best videos of aliens because the government keeps those amazing videos in a secret super vault somewhere." Or "We can't see the aliens because they have amazing invisibility technology". Etc. There's many convenient things you can believe in to keep the fantasy alive. And I'm not even mentioning the stuff which conspiracy theorists believe in.. And of course the same mechanism also works in beliefs about nonduality stuff etc.

That doesn't apply in this case. 1. There are millions of scientists who would love to find out that magical powers exists. 2. It would be so ridiclously easy to prove in a way which would be impossible to explain away as something ordinary. And how is that a relevant comment? What does that have to do with anything about this subject?

I did get a bit headache and nausea. But sometimes I can get such stuff anyway. But yeah it was probably the vaccine which caused the headache and nausea. So I probably got the real lovely vaccine injected inside me.

After my first dose of Pfizer/Biontech my arm was very sore. But after my second dose (got it yesterday) my arm isn't sore at all. Weird? I think it should have got sore again? Since the anti-vaxxers are everywhere.. There has been cases where the nurses have switched the vaccine to inoperative saline, and then injected the patients with saline instead of vaccine, against the patients knowledge. So that's a bit on my mind..

This thread is painful to read.. If you claim that you can magically move physical objects, then fucking show it. The end. Very simple.

I disagree.

Damn. That's a really accurate video of my life.

Allegedly a siddhi can for example be magically moving a physical object (not outside of human experience). So that would be childishly easy to prove in controlled experiments.

Yes and that's your problem.

As soon as I call it: "We are all victims" you guys suddenly disagree and go bananas.

I fucking love to get spied on. When they installed a security camera in the stairwell thing where I live it was one of the happiest moments of my life. And I couldn't care less even if some fat gay guy masturbates to footage of me taken by the camera. Some other (stupid) people would say: "No security (camera) please. Let the criminals go wild and get away with it. I want to get robbed and killed and the bad guys should get away with it. Because I want to keep my privacy."

If that's what's needed to catch the bad guys: yes absolutely, why not? I have nothing to hide. I welcome them to investigate my anus etc.

I will buy a fast luxury BMW. And of course that wont fix the problem.

I have accepted that I'm doomed to be a wage slave, which ruins my life. And there's no other job either which I would like. I see this work thing as a kind of voluntarily slavery. Or it's not really even voluntarily. It's slavery in disguise.

From my point of view it's funny that you obsess about 33, because I'm 32.

Yeah I kinda understood that. But maybe others didn't.

Now people will write in this thread and say "x thing happened to me at age 33". Well of course it did. Because there's many members in this forum. The possibility is high that several people say that something happened at age 33. And voilá suddenly the belief about age 33 is born. I could start a thread about any age and several people will say that something happened at that whatever age.

Please. Just because something happened to a few people when they were 33 doesn't mean that 33 is a magical age. You can find things happening to people at all ages.