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• Open Question: Where have all the prophets gone?

  Christians...do you ever find it a bit "convenient" that all of the "water into wine" type miracles happened before the advent of photography and other modern methods of putting them to the test? And why was "Bible time" positively lousy with prophets, while these days there is nary a prophet to be found...and if one were to come forward, he'd sooner be thrown into asylum before he was revered for his clairvoyance and insight. Why do you think miracles and prophets are things we only hear about, and never experience? Does this idea ever make you skeptical about whether or not miracles and prophets were ever real in the first place?

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• Open Question: Common Question, with a twist-Prt 2?

  No offense to all those who answered this question before, but basically I wasn't impressed with such simple power like telepathy, clairvoyance and the greedy guy who wanted every super power (boring). I want you to make up your own power something interesting like being able to turn your body temperature so low everything around you freezes, summoning a double bass and being able to control people via the music or a kiss which can copy every memory and skill from the person being kissed. Use your imagination to the full extent. Use anime as inspiration or combine two or more power to give you an idea. When I read your answers I want to go "That's sounds really interesting. My example is on the first question i did for an example.

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• Resolved Question: Do you believe in clairvoyance?

  I went to a clairvoyant a few weeks ago. Some of it was freakily true, she picked up the spirit of an uncle i did not even know existed until after the reading. But some of it I wasnt sure about. I went because I was curious about if its real or not and left feeling just as skeptical as when I went in. do you believe in clairvoyance? have you ever gone to a clairvoyant? feel free to share your stories and opinions Roger- she said my great grandmother was there and said her son Bill was with her. At the time I thought that was crap because I had never heard of a great uncle Bill. But later I asked my mother and it turned out my great grandmother did have a son named Bill who had past away.

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• Voting Question: i know this might sound a bit crazy, but im searching for a Medium teacher?

  i have just recently realized that ive been oppressing a few mystical things about myself, and they are coming out full speed... im looking for a teacher. clairvoyance, hearing ghosts and feeling emotions around... i will know if you are real because ill know. if you can help me, please let me know. im not so sure how to get better because things are getting a bit out of hands. thank you. thank you Mary, i will look into the info you gave me :) as for the other answer, i am not curious about the occult. it just happens that very unexplainable things are happening to and around me, and i just want to control it, im not trying to do any sort of magic or spells. just cultivate the gifts i was born with. whatever you are born with is a gift from God. im not playing with fire, but thank you for your warning.

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• Open Question: Realistically, what kind of psychological issues might this character have?

  Well, I'm writing for this character who I realize has some autistic traits, though I don't know if all of this can be attributed to a rough patch in her childhood (considering that autism is always determined by genetics/prenatal development. Allow me to give her a bit of a past (censoring certain details because I don't want plot ideas for this project stolen): (You may feel free to give me constructive criticisms and suggestions, as long as they aren't demeaning, flaming, or all around offensive and talking about how much this idea or I myself 'suck'.) First of all, this character (let's call her Jess) isn't human; she's a mammalian race that ages a bit more quickly than humans would. Also, Jess can be visibly identified as a...let's call her a "Diviner" for now, because of the color of her her fur (yes, fur. Like I said, not human). Diviners have the capability of developing strong precognition and clairvoyance if trained. The setting is a place that has limited technology, Steampunk/Dieselpunk, no cell phones or computers or means of communication besides letters, maybe morse-code type stuff and REALLY primitive radios at most. Jess had a relatively normal childhood (though her parents may have been overprotective of her, because Diviners are generally feared and she might've been harmed if they didn't watch her carefully). Though one night, when she was 3 or 4 years old (about 9-10 in physical development), she was kidnapped by this bad guy, Nekry, for a breeding project. For 6 to 7 years, Jess lived in a barred prison cell, her only means of contact being talking with other Diviners that she could both see and hear around her. She had very limited facial contact (only from cells directly across from hers) and also virtually no physical contact either due to each Diviner being in a single cell. At around age 10 (12-13 in physical development), there was a jailbreak and she was sprung loose with a few other Diviners. During the jailbreak, though, everyone got seperated, though Jess managed to stick with an old Diviner woman. They stuck together for under a year, until the old woman died of hypothermia one night in the desert. Then Jess vowed to avenge her kind, taking on a mask and a vigilante persona. She has her own sense of justice, and steals from from government waste or supplies to get by. Likewise, she distances herself from everyone and has trouble relating to others. She is generally very 'flat', and her expression of emotion is acted out more through her voice and her actions than her facial expressions, though they may show slightly through her eyes. She doesn't enjoy physical contact, and might either shrug you off or act out aggressively if anyone touches her. She is not aware that there is this 'game' that people play (called 'socialization') to extract information from eachother. For example, say she needs to know where the train station is. Most people would do this: Person: *pleasant smile or pleading expression as she approaches stranger* "Excuse me, sir, can you please tell me where the train station is?" My character would do this: Character: *grabs stranger by shirt or tail and turns him around to face her, staring at him emotionlessly* "Where is the train station?" Now that you know a little bit about this character, I must ask...is this a realistic manifestation of how a person my emerge psychologically after an experience such as hers? Would it be any different if she was already born with autistic traits (VERY mild, more like Aspergers)? Yes, she does have emotions. But they're just expressed differently.

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