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Originally Posted by Zeraph
My problem with that last bit, about people not coming forward because society would be negative toward them, is silly IMO. With a few mechanical tricks look how many people believe in scientology, the stupidest sounding religion ever. A great number of people are willing to believe with some proof, and a great many people *already* believe with out any. I don't think if a person with a gift came forward they'd be in any kind of negative impact. Society would welcome them quite readily.
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Because we already do so well accepting and not hating or exploiting people we perceive as "different"?
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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)
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