The reason psychics couldn't predict 911.?!

The reason psychics couldn't predict 911.?

many people question psychics after that . im no special person or anything but i think that knowing it or not knowing it, it happened.. and some things are inevidable. fate.
what do you think?

Well, if you believe in psychic abilities, like many people do, then one of the first premises you have to accept is that precognition (the ability to see the future) is just one subset of a great many different psychic abilities. The second premise to accept is that psychic abilities are another form of sensory input; indeed, a common term for them is the "sixth sense."

Once you accept that, it's not hard to understand the rest. Our senses, all of them, are easily fooled. We often see familiar faces in a stranger's profile, because our vision fills in what we expect to see; we hear a conversation in a completely different manner than the speaker intended. Why should psychic senses be any different? From a certain point of view, psychic senses should actually be easier to fool than normal senses, since they're so poorly understood, even by the people that possess them.

It's like being blind your whole life, then gaining sight and trying to explain the things you see to other blind people. You yourself may not understand what it is you're seeing, and if you've gotten used to this "new sense" working a certain way, you may not even understand that you're seeing anything at all. As a personal example, a tornado struck my home as a child. I was outside as it approached, and though I saw it clearly, I didn't understand what I was looking at; it was too big for me to comprehend, and no one had ever told me what a tornado was. An even like the September 11th bombings would have to be like that: huge, unimaginably huge, and thus nearly incomprehensible.

Of course, if one doesn't believe in psychic abilities, then no amount of anecdotal proof will change that, and answers like the previous one will seem like excuses instead of reasons. After all, there are an awful lot of fakes out there.