Is Prescience a Curse?
Druthulhu
03-01-2005, 02:16
My parents went west to Tucson a few months back. As I said goodbye to them I also said goodbye to Abby, their cat. I knew that I would never see her again, and just now my mom called and told me that she had died.
At first I felt like it was sort of an unhappy thing that I had had the burden of knowing for the past few months, but then I appreciated that I had had the chance to say goodbye to her, and not to presume that I might see her again.
Any thoughts or similar personal experiences to share?
Xariousland
03-01-2005, 02:41
I wouldn't exactly call it a curse. I have it happen to me all the time. Talking to my friends, and suddenly pause when I realize I've seen it all before. I remember dreaming something that happened last year when I was four.
To those who call it an illusion of the mind, poo on you. Prescience is awesome. Knowing without experiencing. I like the feeling.
Druthulhu
03-01-2005, 02:43
What about forseeing something bad and knowing you cannot change it?
Social Outcast-dom
03-01-2005, 02:44
Wjat about forseeing something bad and knowing you cannot change it?
Sure you can change it. Just get a pet butterfly.
Druthulhu
03-01-2005, 02:45
Sure you can change it. Just get a pet butterfly.
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(nice nick ... but shouldn't "dom" be CAPPED?)
If a sixth sense is a curse, then being one-eyed in the land of the blind is a curse as well.
Druthulhu
03-01-2005, 02:46
If a sixth sense is a curse, then being one-eyed in the land of the blind is a curse as well.
...probably is...
Vegas-Rex
03-01-2005, 02:53
Your prescience is just deja vu, and as a persistent sufferer of deja vu I can tell you that its hell. The reason you get depressing messages like "you'll die" or "I'm never going to finish this stupid essay" is because while you "remember" what is happening you don't "remember" what happens next. Thus you think nothing will happen and you get depressed and think failure is imminent. If you are able to ignore these feelings it might not be. I did finish the essay on time.
Druthulhu
03-01-2005, 02:57
Your prescience is just deja vu, and as a persistent sufferer of deja vu I can tell you that its hell. The reason you get depressing messages like "you'll die" or "I'm never going to finish this stupid essay" is because while you "remember" what is happening you don't "remember" what happens next. Thus you think nothing will happen and you get depressed and think failure is imminent. If you are able to ignore these feelings it might not be. I did finish the essay on time.
I know what deja vu is, and it is not what I'm talking about.
Willamena
03-01-2005, 04:41
I had an instance of prescience when I was young. I was at a playground with a group of other children, most I didn't know. We had gathered in a circle and suddenly I knew what one was going to say, and another and another, and I knew what I was to say next. I said it, not to buck the system. And then the moment was gone.
Greedy Pig
03-01-2005, 16:21
So your saying your can see the future?
Hey.. Sounds like a good business to me!
Druthulhu
04-01-2005, 02:10
So your saying your can see the future?
Hey.. Sounds like a good business to me!
If it were consistent and controllable maybe. I would've bought Microsoft when it first went public and sold short on Enronn. And I would've called Clinton and told him that Bin Ladin should be his #1 priority. C'est la vie.
Gnostikos
04-01-2005, 02:32
I know what deja vu is, and it is not what I'm talking about.
What you described fits déjà vu to a tee. I should know. Very different from prescience.
Druthulhu
04-01-2005, 02:42
What you described fits déjà vu to a tee. I should know. Very different from prescience.
No it does not. Deja vu is a feeling, while you are experiencing something, that you have experienced it before. This may be caused by a short-circuit in the synapses of short-term memory. What I described was a sense of knowing a future event several months in advance. How does that fit to a tee?
PIcaRDMPCia
04-01-2005, 02:49
My theory on it is that when we dream such things, we're receiving visions from an alternate universe where the events have already occurred.
Sometimes My dreams are weird like that. One day I had a dream a lady started yelling at me and my friends as we were walking home from school. The next day, in the same spot, at the same time, A man came and yelled at us for tresspassing, It was freaky.
My theory on it is that when we dream such things, we're receiving visions from an alternate universe where the events have already occurred.
Interesting.
If a sixth sense is a curse, then being one-eyed in the land of the blind is a curse as well.
h.g. wells wrote a story about that... well, the guy had two eyes...
Festivals
04-01-2005, 04:02
this is a whole lot of crap
Druthulhu
04-01-2005, 15:09
this is a whole lot of crap
Ignoramus.