CCD

What is chi? It's either matter, a physical material like gas or plasma, or it's a form of energy/work. If it's the former, you could separate it from the body just like you could blood or lymph. If it's the latter, the big question is what is it doing or what can it be used to do?

Basically everything that I've said about "qi powers" applies just as well to gods & spirits. If they actually existed in any way, they'd be testable somehow. Even if we were talking about some weak god that's part of a large pantheon of gods, should at least be as powerful as an average human. Even if that god could only exist in one place at one time, it should still be just as capable of proving they exist. If an all-powerful god wanted people to worship him, it shouldn't be easy for the god to prove its existence, but none ever do. Most theists say that their god doesn't want you to believe because of proof, but you should have faith just because. That "just because" is usually either a vague threat or promise of some kind, with no proof to back it up.

That just seems like a very long-winded way of saying "you mad."

I'm talking about ordinary people who've admitted that they have tried simple things like moving things with their mind, or reading someone else's mind. Most people have at least tried things like that a few times in their life. Fewer people have pursued it with enough dedication to see results. More just stick to focusing on "spiritual development", so they can feel that they're better than other people without actually having to prove anything.

My understanding is that people who pursue these things do so for egotistical reasons rather than aversion to them, since test subjects in experiments usually remain unnamed. Having supernatural abilities makes someone feel unique or special compared to those who don't, which is why so many seem to promote their own anecdotal evidence or beliefs as facts pertaining to the supernatural. Both disproving & proving it would be a major blow to the ego, so it's easier to avoid doing so entirely. Failure to preform would be a simple, obvious blow to the ego, but proving it would have a longer-term impact. If rigorous scientific testing could prove the existence of the supernatural, it'd be explained & then simply become natural. More would learn it, excel at it, explain & understand it better than you ever could, so it would become logical, ordinary & mundane. The easiest way to feel like an expert at something is to be the only who does it.

I was just asking, no need to get so butthurt over it.

Know anybody near North East Colorado, or near El Paso Texas? Even if I could afford to fly half way around the world just to meet random strangers & ask them questions about the supernatural and get answers in a language I don't understand, I'd prefer to not subject myself to the sunk-cost fallacy that would go along with it.

Yes. I've spent longer than that working towards other things. I have no interest in being trained by someone who's not willing to prove that they even have the skill they'd be willing to teach me in the first place. I wouldn't even want to learn how to juggle from someone who can't even do it themselves.

It'd be better for you than just blindly believing just for the sake of it.

If something exists, it has an effect on something else. If something has an effect on something else, that effect can be observed. If something can be observed, it can be studied. If something can be studied, it can be understood. If something can be understood, it can be manipulated. Air, heat, magnetism, electricity, each are invisible on their own, but we've been able to observe, study & manipulate each of them with tools. The more we know about something, the better we can control it. Imagine there is a force completely unknown to modern science that we'll call PSI that allows people to move things with their mind Psycho-Kinetically. If there are people who can perform PK, that doesn't make it supernatural, simply because we don't understand it. If one person can do it reliably enough to conduct tests, then with enough tests it could be figured out & would likely be the case if it could be used to teach other people PK or otherwise deduce who could do it or who couldn't. The biggest problem I see with anything pertaining to spiritual / super-natural things (including, but not limited to PK) are people who blindly accept "facts" with nothing supporting them. These "facts" either being something they've just heard from somewhere else & regurgitate without questioning, probably from a source that doesn't have actual experience with the subject but created the illusion of being an expert, or from bits of anecdotal evidence or personal beliefs mascaraing as facts. (The latter of which is usually accompanied by a lot of secrecy & resistance to investigation that could contradict it. Frequently straying off-topic to preach is usually a giveaway.)

The asteroid is going to miss us by a long shot & I've never even seen a news article saying otherwise. I think it's really pitiful that so many people want it to hit the Earth.

Why are you so hung up on my choice of words? I got the refund. I almost never use PayPal, so I wasn't entirely sure if I got it or if it was processing.

I've been thinking that I had kidney problems more than anything, but TCM is so vague & broad with its causes & treatments that it's borderline useless, like astrology, or a placebo.

I don't drink at all, so I assume my liver's fine, but I don't really know for sure. In the Alchemy of Rainbow Heart music he claimed he could tell a Native American guy was angry because he had liver problems from drinking a lot, and cured it just by meditating near him. Like how he assumes the Native American guy has a drinking problem, he's assuming I have a liver problem. But I'm not even mad, at least not since I got my refund.