Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27105432-20160401030551

If you told somebody a hundred years ago that we would land on the moon, and then go beyond, they would laugh in your face, and explain oh-so-sage-like that that was impossible. The stuff of dreams and fairytales. Now, we're preparing a group of people to colonize Mars. We not only did the impossible, we did it, and weren't satisfied. We had to go further.

Why isn't this so with psychic power? I've seen that a lot on this site. "This is impossible." "The only people who can do that are anime characters." and that's the end of the discussion. But isn't what we're doing already impossible? It's impossible to move things with your mind. It's impossible to seperate yourself from your body and see another place. It's impossible to read another's thoughts.

And yet, we do all this. There are success stories for every power. We are already doing the impossible... so why is that our limit? Why are we satisfied with making a spark of electricity between our hands after fifteen minutes of concentration? Why are we satisfied with cooling our drink with cryokinesis? Or moving glorified pinwheels with our minds?

We need to break past this "impossible" mentality. The Wright brother's first airplane flew for a whooping 12 seconds before crashing. What if they had been satisfied with such a minor achievment? What if they decided that was the limit, and threw in the towel? Well, the answer's pretty obvious. We wouldn't be where we are today.

Forget "impossible." it doesn't exist. It IS possible to fly, It IS possible to shoot lightning from your hands, it IS possible to move an object jedi-style. Push yourselves to your very limits, and then push past it. Make that spark in fourteen minutes. Or thirteen, or ten. Turn that spark into lightning, and use it to achieve the impossible.

And hey, if you figure out a practical, everyday use for lightning-hands, let me know. 