Is this REALLY proof that man can see into the future?

The Daily Mail ^ | 4th May 2007

[Drango]

I predict I’ll be post #17

[Drango]

post 22

[sionnsar]

The plane landed in Denver without me....

Thereby missing the airport by many miles. *\;-)

[CyberAnt]

John 16:13. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

According to this statement by Jesus, the Holy Spirit is able to show us “things to come”. Every Christian can tap into that if they so choose.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it?

No.

[lostlakehiker]

It’s really proof that some people can make up experimental results.

[Aria]

So, what did you think would happen that you ended up avoiding?

In my case a person died, just as I had seen. Since I had totally forgotten about the dream in the intervening 3 weeks I had no chance to warn him, and even if I did speak Italian (he didn’t speak English) he probably wouldn’t have listened. There was another part that came true as well.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I have a feeling that people will avoid you this afternoon.

[taxcontrol]

Thought exercise

Assume that someone does have some limited ability to see the future. Also assume that somehow the scientific community could “prove” that such ability is possible.

Now, physics question.
How would information travel back through time?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

“’gut feelings’ and instinct” exist because the human mind has powers far beyond
those of which we are aware. They are not supernatural powers. They can not see into the future.
They use information of which we may not be aware, and exist to aid in the survival of the individual.

To settle the question for now and always, “seeing into the future” is a set of words that corresponds to no reality. It’s impossible. Experiments can not prove the impossible.

There is something called causality. One action causes another. The cause precedes the effect.
This is a principle that is self-evident. It needs no proof.
Because of this principle, “seeing into the future” and “going into the future” are impossible.

[Repeal The 17th]

I am exactly right on the same thoughts as you on this.
One can actually “predict” the future based on their knowledge and experience
of knowing what “happens” to “A” when you tinker with “B”.
Do weather forcasters “predict the future”?

[ryan71]

“...Professor Bierman, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam.”

Put down the bong and slowly back away, Professor.

[ExpatCanuck]

I’ve had mornings that I’ve woken up and thought ‘I need to be extra careful today on the drive in to work’, or felt a shudder as a car drove by and I thought ‘That guy is going to have an accident or cause one’. I’ve had many instances where have been at a stop light and a gut instinct says ‘wait an extra second or two before moving on your green light’ and sure enough some bozo flies through his newly red light exactly when I would have been there. I don’t attribute it to anything supernatural because I believe there is a scientific explanation for everything (one of God’s gifts to us is the ability to eventually solve his mysteries scientifically, I believe). It does make one wonder about the nature of time and whether or not some of us are more finely attuned to it than others.

[Wuli]

Whether or not your “been” was intentional or a typo - I busted my gut laughing over it. Thanks.

[ExpatCanuck]

Nevertheless, something unpleasant may have awaited you in Denver. Trust your instincts.

[Repeal The 17th]

How’d you do that?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

And there's Global Consciousness Project's network of 37 random event generators (REG) devices called "eggs" placed around the world.

"We do not know how the correlations that arise between electronic random event generators and human concerns come to be, and yet, the results of our analyses over the past three years repeatedly indicate such correlations."

For example those REG devices went a little nuts just prior to the time of the 9/11/01 hijackings and continued their significant departure from expectation for a few days afterward. Why? "There is no obvious answer."

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html

Maybe some people are "egg"heads?

[ExpatCanuck]

I believe some of us may possess a highly refined sense of logic, much of which operates subconsciously, and my be able to draw conclusions based on extended projections of cause and effect.

I agree with you that this has an awful lot to do with it.

[Aria]

Actually, that is what I wondered for quite a while after my event. How could I see something that hadn’t happened yet? I think this is a question for modern Einstein.

[Joe 6-pack]

I further think that we all, to one degree or another gather information subconsciously which our minds process and incorporate into our thought process even though we're not cognizant of it...we get the conclusion without recognizing the process by which we arrived at it so it seems 'paranormal,' or at the least, uncanny.

Having said that, I do generally subscribe to a 'multiverse' view of reality, and do reckon that there are occasional folds and wrinkles in time-space, whic may account for some claims, but I think for the most part, we're aware of far more than we give ourselves credit for.