Would you date a telepath?

My mind’s not a very pleasant place. I don’t think any sane telepath would want to date me.

Obviously, a telepath would be able to do/say the right thing to prove it to you because you’d think of it as soon as she suggested she could do it. She’d probably have to do/say something different to prove it to me.

No, I’d constantly be worried that something she wouldn’t approve of would pop into my mind, suddenly, without warning.

Pick a number between 1 and 8,000,000,000.

The movie “What Women Want” was about this very thing. A very good movie, even though it did have Mel Gibson as the leading man. Funny as all get out.

Yes if she was a nice, understanding person. I’ve got some issues and if she understands them and is ok with them that would be great.

Yes I understand there are still questions about how you would know if they are a telepath or not, and yes there are the doubters still.
The best example of a point with my no gone husband, and he wont testify against me so the doubters still have a foot hold, would be the afternoon that he was outside working on putting my new solar powered clothes dryer together, I was inside and working on a different project, cleaning the shower, without a word from outside, I go to the tool box and get the hammer and take it outside, he was sitting and looking at the pile of aluminum not moving, thinking, but when I gave him the hammer you would have thought he had been slapped in the face, yelled at me to go back to whatever it was that I was doind and he would get his own tools, took the hammer, and put the thing together, he would never admit that his thought were heard by me because that would be to admit that telepathy existed, and he knew it did not.
The thing about using this gift is there are a lot of people thinking, think all the radios on at the same time, sometimes you don’t know where the noise is coming from, this is way happily married people seem to understand without speach. The other thing is you never hack someones mind, it’s not polite to hack a computer, or a mind. So were everyone sends when thinking, the act of reading them is not correct to do without permission. And as there are more and other times these things happen, I will not bore this board with them, I know and have taught another to do the same thing.
Don’t be afraid of new ideas, there is a book that talks of those who have ears to hear and eyes to see, and turning your back on listeing is not a condemnation. Just know that is why meditation is important, to clear your mind of the noise of the world.

No, and I don’t want him/her to try and prove it. In the first place, I would assume they were simply fucking crazy. And in the second place, I’m not mentally prepared (not now, maybe not ever) to completely re-evaluate the heretofore impossible.

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Under a strict reading of the hypo, I’d have to say no, and here’s why: The person revealed this AFTER we started dating. I don’t date people unless I’ve known them and trusted them for a very long time as friends. I would be very displeased that this person waited until after a relationship was established to admit this ability, especially since mind control is part of it.

I’d have to leave, at the very least simply to attempt to prove that I actually could, and that they wouldn’t/couldn’t stop me (shades of Dollhouse here). Perhaps after a period of time, the relationship could rebuild, but it would be a long hard road for them to regain my trust, and might easily be impossible.

Now, if I had known they were telepathic/psychic/mind controlling as friends **before **we dated? Maybe - could be interesting. As much as I don’t trust the seething masses of humanity, I do tend to trust my friends (I know, stupid) so it might actually work.

Would I date a telepath? Hell, I married one. I tell ya, I don’t get away with nuthin’!

But would you want your SO to know how distracted you are when they’re telling you about that imPOSSible co-worker of theirs, or all the snarky responses you think of when they’re telling you about Mommy’s latest (imagined) medical conundrum.

Compared to other people’s private thoughts, I’m pretty sure she would find my mind refreshingly pure… even if I don’t give a shit about the things she talks about or tells me sometimes. :wink:

I suspect age might have something to do with this. You get to a certain age, and recognize that, for all the times you’ve nodded and said ‘Uh-huh’ while your SO is talking about something you’re not interested in, they likely do the same for you.
So it’s a little less worry-worthy that someone might realize you’re not that interesting; we all get to that point eventually :slight_smile:

Scott Summers deserves whatever he gets.