Board Thread:Off Topic Discussion/@comment-26447309-20150614024115/@comment-24276288-20150615153746

they stop believing in it

we probably agree that normal peoples doesnt believe in psi and that is a completely acceptable and skeptical reaction

so how do these normal skeptic peoples enter in the psi comunity?

there are three comon scenarios:

1- the person in question got convinced psi is real through some of the common law of attraction/quantum physics scams/hoaxes that we find on the internet

2- the person in question is not a skeptic she is likely ignorant to the the laws of physics and believed in magic even before she started practicing psi

3- the person is a skeptic she does understand enough about the laws of physics and knows why psi is unlikely to exist but she had a experience that says otherwise (this is me)

if these people do watch things like telekinesis videos on youtube often they will probably face skeptics that will explain in a detailed manner wihtout the mallest gap for doubt that what they believe is wrong and back it up with evidence

an exemple of this kind of situation would be when soemone who believes in auras meets a skeptic and the skeptic explain how the human eyes works and why we know for sure that what she is seeing is just the result of straining your eyes

after enough of these events the case 1 might start believing psi snt real and quit it while the case two might stop believing in science or start believing in another dimension to makes sense out of these hoaxes/scams

both of cases have become now lost to psi the first one because he is not going to believe in it and therefore he isnt going to try it and will probably deny any indication of psi

the second one because he can no longer distinguish his dreams from reality and will probably believe in any sort of gibrish wich will prevent him from getting any knowledge

since the third case will not find anyone disposed to talk about psi in a reasonable and scientific manner he will probably not have any reason to actually go online

and this is why most psychic comunities collapse over time