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RE: Redefining the Human Potential
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The human species is full of anomalies compared to the mainstream scientific understanding of what humans are and what humans can do. There are humans who are doing things that should not even be possible -according to science
Can someone offer a few examples of those.... " unexplained anomalies"?
What are those "exceptional things" that some humans can do contrary to what sience believes?
I believe that I totally wasted my time reading this..... "article"
please convince me that this is not the case.
Did you check any of the links of section 2 - "Questions"?
Is ...eating a plane normal? Drilling your head and be ok, normal? Burning and getting cremated, yet your heart remaining intact normal?
Most of those stories are total nonsense, I will only comment on only two of them.
The guy that "ate" one airplane... With his meal he was also swallowing ( NOT eating) 1kg of metal with some other "stuff" to help him swallow and minimize "side effects". But I can't verify if he actually "ate" that much as he claims, can you or anyone else verify this beyond any doubt?
But I'm sure that he swallowed a considerable amount of metal because...
Human body can endure a lot of punishment, but in order to die at the age of 57 "due to natural causes"... you need to try REALLY hard to acomplish this "achivement"! (swallowing metal helps!)
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The first guy that claimed that lived without eating or drinking.... LOL
The "scientists" (LOL) that examined him for a few days, allowed him to gargle with water, to bath-sunbathe and to move out of the view of the cameras! they also denied access to other Scientists that asked to be present, give me a break!
The bare minimum imo would be a two months examination in a "big brother" live facility with tons of real scientists from word wide reputable institutions watching and monitoring him, after the 2 months examination period, a 100m sprint race followed by a 5000m run and lets see how this smartass "supehuman" being would perform.
Someone that needs 25% or 50% less food or water to survive, yes maybe there is a slim chancein this, I would believe that if it was backed by REAL scientists and not crooks.
Afaik evolution happens in small steps, humans can't grow feathers and start flying the next morning.
Keep in mind, he ate the plane back in 1978-1980... so he died a LOT later. Also a lot of the materials were poisonous. So... if biology has a theory ("eating poisonous materials will get you killed") and this doesn't work, well... something is broken in the theory-explanation-prediction chain.
But the thing is, this stuff is being replicated even on "normal" people with hypnotic suggestions ...like the Derren Brown case where he made the other guy eat the light bulb glass. Eating glass is supposed to destroy your internals. If it's "ok" to do it, then let's ask a scientist to perform it without killing himself or acquiring major damage to his body.
Speaking of 5000m run, there are guys that are doing the seemingly impossible with running.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros : Kouros says that his secret is that "when other people get tired, they stop. I don't. I take over my body with my mind. I tell it that it's not tired and it listens."
His ultramarathon performances are extraordinary (the body is not supposed to run the distances that he is doing - but he is doing them nonetheless).
Same for a guy featured on "Superhuman" - episode s01-e03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee%27s_Superhumans
(the list is full of extraordinary people - and they do test them)
You can find lists of people doing the extraordinary all over the Internet:
http://www.sapienplus.com/real-life-superhumans/
Note those cases where it says "Learned" - these are the most interesting in terms of human potential, because it's not "isolated incidents" due to genetic anomalies or something.
Now, regarding the man who didn't eat/drink, why would you need 2 months? If you ask google how long you can survive without water, you get 3 days. Some other sources say 3-5 and "some have known to live for a week".
So if you have a theory ("humans live for up to a week max without water") that is able to explain and predict the behavior of the human body, then following this theory he should be expected to die within days.
What we know of evolution does not explain how people learn to violate what we consider our limitations. A more plausible explanation is in order: The limits that we think that are "real", aren't. Otherwise NOBODY would be able to do anything that violates these limits without some freak genetic anomaly. Biology should work the same for everyone. Same for physics (eg. body cremation not working).
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