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OK but as a kid I would randomly think of some fucked up shit in class and think "what if someone's reading my mind" and then try to think of something else... therapy is going well btw
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I have quite a bit of circumstantial evidence, considering that people I know still talk to me. >

You are an experimental subject.
You don’t have any proof that when you speak subtitles appear below you in Finnish. >

I can confirm that we Finns can read anybody’s mind by reading the Finnish subtitles >

Onko se totta? >

Totisinta totta. >

Opin joka päivä jotain uutta!! >

When i was a kid, i would try to randomly yell in my own head to see if i surprised any mind-readers, and i never saw any signs of it >

Completely different.... But when I was younger in school, I'd fake yawn. I'd then look around and see if anyone else yawned in hopes to catch someone staring at me. >

That’s one of the greatest applications of people mimicking yawns I’ve ever heard of. >

I yawned just reading this >

Not the first time I’ve heard that about something I’ve written. >

They must be incredibly good at acting, I get surprised by my own thoughts and burst into laughter or wince depending on what it is, also nobody has booked me an appointment with a psychiatrist yet. >

Yeah I do this ...i think of things and burst out laughing..luckily now people think you're on your phone >

I do that. I place hilarious random thoughts on people's heads to watch then laugh out loud. >

If they can, they're hiding it really well. Because if I said what I'm thinking it would bother people. >

It’s fine. We’re used to you by now. Honestly your thoughts are just background noise to everyone at this point. We hear you thinking random chatter and we typically tune it out. 
I’ve heard it’s harder to tune out if someone is actually talking to you but clearly so far you haven’t noticed at all. >

You don't have any proof that there isn't a monster under your bed. >

What if I dont have a bed? Then where is the monster hiding? >

Behind you! >

Well as long as he stays there that's fine >

If you all didn’t react to what I’m always thinking then you’re sick. >

Considering I still have some friends (regardless of my level of intoxication), nobody has strongly suggested therapy, and I haven't been arrested, I'd say the odds are well in my favor that nobody is reading my thoughts. >

Generally speaking, you don't have proof of things that don't exist, it works the other way around. >

It's called a metaphysical statement. >

Could you please explain “metaphysical statement” if you have the time / energy? I googled the definition but I don’t think I understand. >

So there are a bunch of statements where it's easy to say what the things are that make the statement true or false- namely those based on the state of things in the actual world . If I say there is a table in front of me which has a wine glass in front of it, the thing that makes it true is the existence of the table and the wine glass.
So what makes statements true when you are talking about fictional things, or hypothetical situations?  How can a statement about something that doesn't actually exist be right or wrong?  Is it some facts in the actual world we live in, or is it the state of some hypothetical fictional world?  What would win in a fight, a unicorn or a dead horse? The unicorn doesn't exist, and a dead horse can't fight.
Welcome to philosophy. >

Bro, don't fucking do that to me. I was already worried about that. >

This is your sign. Welcome to the church of thursday. >

i havent got shot by a wall of rifles executing me yet so youre wrong >

I have my suspicions about what you think about but I am too afraid to ask >

Gee, DonkeyShitSlurper, I don't know if your suspicions on the original comment outweigh my suspicions on what you think about. >

Of all the things I don't have proof of, I consider mind-reading to be so close to impossible it's indistinguishable. >

Considering the fact that we are all one collective consciousness experiencing itself it's more than possible >

Sometimes when I am thinking of extremely embarrassing stuff I will think in my head “hey if anyone is reading my mind, I am sorry”. 😅 >

Yeah we know >

And we excuse you no worries >

I don't. >

You don’t have any proof that there are other people.
Be it a simulation filled with philosophical zombies or a Boltzmann Brain, the truth outside your own momentary self awareness is not provable. >

However if you define existence to include thoughts as things, then everything provably exists. (Just not in any meaningful way we can do anything with) >

I can't even read my fucking mind.
That's proof enough for me. >

The fact that I haven't been stabbed yet is proof enough for me. >

Yea i do. Cuz if anyone could read my mind, they would kill me first >

I feel like I have proof to the contrary, people seem to easily read my mind. Probably because every single thought shows on my face, I can’t help it. But it is annoying sometimes. >

You can never really prove a theory is true, only that it's false. You use the theory to create a prediction and test it; if the prediction is incorrect the theory is disproved. If the prediction is correct the theory has more weight to it but is still just a theory.
So, we can set up an experiment that disproves telepathy (and plenty of people have) but you can never actually prove it... >

Wrong. Nothing can be proven at all besides proving your own existence to yourself. Anything else could be anything. And any “proof” could be anything. Nothing can be proven, by definition. Besides your own existence. We can get awfully close, or perhaps it just seems that way, but no actual proof is possible of anything. Except your own existence. To yourself. You might be dreaming everything which would make everything false, except your own existence. You definitely exist, from your own perspective. Not from mine that’s for sure.
“I think therefore I am”. >

The number of people who respond in no way at all when I think that they are an insufferable asshole is a pretty sturdy body of evidence.  
The number of women who have not slapped my face half off is even more evidence of that. >

Yeah I do. There's zero chance people wouldn't make faces if they could. >

True. I myself have the ability to read minds. But up till now I've only been able to read mine. >

As a child i was sure that humans learn mindreading when they turn 18
I thought they try to hide it so i did some testing. The obvious tests didnt work. But the more subtle ones did work. Which proved that they hide their abilities >

I don't. But I also know you don't either. Insert favorite creepy music here >

Except it turns out that every single person besides yourself can read everyone elses mind, but its a kind of an agreed upom thing where u dont talk about mind read >

That's not really an "except"... that's just one possible explanation of how it could be. >

Idk... I thought about some pretty fucked up things in my time in public, and I've never once been called out for them. >

I have the opposite issue where I say the things I’m thinking even when I shouldn’t >

I worked at a pizza joint for 6 years and not one customer assaulted me for the things I was thinking. That's a pretty good indication that if it does exist, telepathy is exceedingly rare. >

I hate that we can't really know what we really think >

Perhaps but when you really think about it we don’t have proof that an infinite number of theories, concepts, and occurrence’s aren’t true. >

If women could read my mind they would never stop slapping me. >

Bro I went to therapy for this exact thought. Having Vietnam flashbacks now. >

I think they can't read my mind but I make them see what's going through inside. >

I'm not locked up in a mental asylum so I think that's a good start >

test it by imagining two nearby people having sex, see if anyone acts weirdly >

Caveat emptor
He who asserts must prove.
In this case the mindreading is an assertion.  Without proof it's bunkum.  My advice - start taking baths instead of showers >

Their facial expressions toward me are a clear indication that they cannot. >

As someone with extreme adhd and a tendency for abstract thought I know very well the face the people around me make when I accidentally cross the line and let one of the Many many thoughts I have fly... seeing as everyone around me isn't clutching there head and screaming I'm fairly sure I do know... >

Cording to the Renee to court, the only thing you do have proof of is that you yourself exist. Anything beyond that is conjecture >

*According to Rene Descartes >

Thanks for that, sometimes I use speech to text a little bit too liberally >

Well, I keep begging for help and no one comes.  I also test psychic  when I ride by their house and I never see the 🎈 red balloon I tell them to put out front of their business entrance.  if they can hear the dead I am seeing at their door begging to be heard then can hear the living too >

Proof? No. I just think if they could read my mind they’d probably act more scared. >

The lack of people calling the police is all the evidence I need. >

The onus for claims is on the claimant, not someone saying "Prove to me a negative" >

The burden of the proof resides in the person making the claim. >

I’ve had a lot of negative thoughts towards other people, so if they can read my mind they’re very good at acting >

Nobody I've met has randomly yelled "what the FUck??!" once, so I think that counts. >

On a related note, every time I see an especially ugly person, I think that it would be truly horrible to be really ugly and be able to read minds. Just people smiling in your face all day thinking, "Goddamn! That's an ugly motherfucker!". >

Actually I do have proof!!! No one ever walks up to me, facepalms, and immediately walks away muttering "This guy's a fkn idiot" >

The proof is that you can't read theirs. Considering that humans have the same general abilities (though maybe not at the same levels), if you can't read minds, they can't either. And I can already hear the arguments that go something like: I can't play guitar either, but other people can. Yes, you can play guitar - you can pick it up and make noise with it. You can't play it as well, but you're still able. The same baseline ability can't be said for reading minds. >

Yes I do have proof.   I still have friends, I still have a job, and I’m not in jail. >

Yeah I do. Im alive. If people could read my mind id be dead >

Im not worried. Other people should be worried about being able to read my mind. >

Well, either they can’t read my mind or they have very thick skin. >

Maybe not. But sometimes there's that one best friend you have. You know each other so well, you finish each other's sentences. >

I think this rather frequently so I chose the when I have a free moment to think I intentionally think the word "Thoughts" over and over and I hope if anyone can read my mind that I take up a portion of their day thinking I just went by some guy and he's just thinking the word Thoughts over and over again. >

This while post is just a decoy so that i think nobody can hear my thoughts >

Apologise to all the mind readers out there who had the misfortune to encounter me >

Wrong: Nobody has ever come up to me and said “What is wrong with you”. Middle school and earlier doesn’t count, I said and did everything I thought. >

What I like to do is scream really loud in my head suddenly to see if any people are listening in >

I feel like I would have been committed again if someone could read my mind. >

They haven't yelled "What the fuck?" to the random shot that floats in my head. >

Kinda do.  I would've been institutionalized ten times over already. >

I've always thought about his my whole life. I wonder who heard me... >

I haven't been charged yet. do you think? are they playing the long game? >

Losers in high stakes conflicts sometimes demonstrate an inability to read the mind of the opponent. >

I also don’t have proof of magical flying sentient sausages but common sense tells me they don’t exist…. >

Yes I do, every since I say that mel Gibson movie as a kid every single person I see I think the same thing- 
"If they only knew I wanted to give them my life's wealth, millions. Nah, I'm to shy."
Not one person has tried to take me up on the offer >

As a kid i had genuine anxiety and panic attacks over this, it scared me a lot to think people could hear my thoughts >

If they can tell what I am thinking about them, they are way too nice to me >

I was in an argument with my grandparents once, then I picked up my gf and we went to a psychic/rock shop. I was checking and and as I walked out the cashier told me to be more nice to my grandparents. First time ever in this shop. Skeptic. No bs. >

“Just because you’re paranoid… don’t mean they’re not after you…”
-Kurt >

Yeah I do. If anyone could read my mind I'd be dead or in jail cause no one would allow me to walk around thinking the things I think. >

Have a family member with schizophrenia who is convinced we can all hear his thoughts. He will randomly apologize for what he thought now and then. We tell him we can’t but he does believe it. >

maybe the power to do that is like the Enigma code, they don't want you to know that they have it, so they pretend they can't hear you lol (to answer those who wondered why they're not dead or arrested) >

I actually had a thought a couple weeks ago that I feel like maybe lives within the same ballpark as your shower thought. I realized that we, as humans, don't know for absolutely sure that the actual physical sensation that I have for any given thing (for instance, nausea) is the exact same sensation that you're having for whatever the label is for the same feeling. We've just more agreed on the general definition of these other words we made up. But on like a direct, neuron-level, and the CNS itself, that what we both feel is totally identical. >

You don't have any proof that this isn't all just in your mind. >

The fact that I haven’t been committed yet is all the proof that I need.  ;-) >

The fact that I'm not punched in the face multiple times a day is proof no one can read my mind. >

i do because i always test it and unless you're really good at keeping it a secret, i would've been onto you >

my proof is that i've thought some very obscene things while staring directly at the face of the subject and they didn't say a word >

This is assuming that everyone has a coherent internal dialog.  I imagine some people would sound like like a noisy cafeteria or something. >

Sure I do. They would be scared to death of me or so repulsed by me that they’d never talk to me again. >

I'm pretty sure "mind reading" would be a lot harder than movies and books make it sound. Good luck distinguishing a memory from a fantasy from a fear without the larger context of the rest of the mind. >

I probably would have been stabbed by now if some of the local eshays knew what I thought of them. >

No one looks at me super concerned and asks if they can help in anyway, so I'm pretty confident they can't read my mind. >

Nobody has made any indication that they know of the intrusive thoughts and there's a lot of them. >

There is a guy at MIT that thinks the government can extract data from your brain in the form of thoughts and images that can be viewed on a computer screen.  You can't prove that the government doesn't have a satellite used exclusively for mass extractions. >

Well everyone is not leaving to fornicate themselves all the time, so I believe they can’t read my thoughts. >

Facebook can read your mind with their eeg hat. Thought to text on a computer.   That's actually much scarier than people make it out to be when you think about it. >

Well what if I can read minds and have never read someone's mind reading mine? >

Hypothetically of course >

The fact that conversations continue in certain instances is proof enough for me >

I think I do. I mean, people still speak to me and associate with me. >

This reminds me of when I was a kid and thought that life as we know it was a massive charade to mettle our character (for lack of other more succinct words) for some utopian society I had to graduate into upon reaching adulthood. Alas, this has not happened yet, but who knows maybe it’s still just around the corner like my hogwarts admissions letter. >

Maybe people aren't reading your mind, bur your thoughts are so loud that people can hear them >

You don’t have proof of anything at all besides the fact that you exist. 
That is the greatest truth in all of philosophy. And also in fact, the only truth. I can’t prove you exist. But you can, and only to yourself. And vice versa. Anything else can be met with doubt. 
In other words, your post isn’t clever. It’s a watered down version of basic philosophy.
You don’t have proof you’ll die either. For all you know you’re an eternal being. You don’t even have proof you were ever born or had any beginning whatsoever. The only thing you can prove, and only to yourself, is that you exist.
You don’t even have proof that you have hands. You might be imagining them. Literally the only thing you have proof of is that you exist, whatever you are, because your existence is logically required for you to even be able to wonder whether or not you exist. You could just be a Bolzmann brain floating around in emptiness, hallucinating all of reality. Nobody knows. Nothing can be proven without doubt besides your own existence to yourself. >

Ikr? Sometimes I think I shouldn't think of something because someone might be listening to that >

No. I don’t have proof. But I can tell you, if anyone in my vicinity could read my mind, it would be made apparent. At the expense of/for the safety of all. >

If people could read my mind I'd be *dead*. Whats up here would prompt a whole lot of murder-impulses in a vast majority of the population of the US.