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Perhaps I should have been more specific: spoonbenders are a crock. Generally speaking, the people who claim they have mastered the power to bend spoons, and go about demonstrating it to large paying crowds are tricksters. They have mastered a stage magic trick, and are getting rich off of the people who come to see them. Think about it, they can bend silverware, and that's it? If a person was genuinely telekinetic, they ought to be able, in theory, to affect just about anything. And these people can only affect silverware or silverware-like objects, and only by warping them and not moving them? It makes no sense.


LOL! Fortunately, I am not the type to take offense, or to care what others think, but I might suggest that this approach will not often be successful! "I don't mean to offend you, but you're full of crap" is pretty much not going to work.

I seem "unimpressed" because I have believed for a long time that there are phenomena in the world that scientific institutions are disinclined to deal with, because it would be troublesome and chaotic, and that governments are generally well-inclined to assist in the covering up of such phenomena, as doing so aids in their quest to harness and control such things. Finding proof in my personal experience that these things are true is not shocking to me.

I am not suggesting that "magic" is real, but rather that there are certain forms of biologically generated energy that either are not measurable by the current technologies, or are not accurately described by the current theories. I am suggesting that all people probably have some innate ability to channel those energies, but that this ability is especially pronounced in some people more than others. These people can instinctively or consciously focus that energy using their brains in order to achieve certain effects, which differ according to how the ability is pronounced in that person-- probably as a result of differences in brain structure. I think all of this is, in theory, perfectly explainable by scientific means.

And I admit, if I had such abilities, I would absolutely keep them secret, especially from governments and scientists. If governments got word about such people-- as I am sure that some have done-- I am certain those individuals would never be heard from again. Off to some secret project at best, I assume, or heinous vivisection facility at worst. Even if it was a respectable scientific institution that found out, such a person's life would be gone forever. They would never have peace again, while scientists fought over the reproducibility of their abilities, and leaked all their private information to the press....

Quite.

I didn't say all twins have powers. Or even that a majority of twins do. Only that, as far as I understand the literature of parapsychology, telepathy and functional empathy is found with more frequency amongst twins than amongst non-twins.


As I mentioned, I don't believe there is any magic involved. And I personally believe that, first of all, it is a person's own choice what they do or do not wish known about themselves, their gifts, or their biology; and second of all, a person's right to live a peaceful, private life is more important than fighting an uphill battle against a society and a scientific institution that are both invested in there being no paranormal phenomena, in order to achieve nebulous goals of attaining scientific knowledge, which, for all we know, could just as easily be discovered some other way.

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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.

(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)