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What If Everyone in the World Were Telepathic? International
students pondered this unimaginable situation and
came up with some interesting ideas. A Telepathic World Ana Regina Cohen from Brazil If everybody could read others' minds, how boring our lives would be! Maybe it would be a little bit dangerous if you couldn't control your thoughts. Well, if we needed to control our thoughts all the time, how stressful our day by day life would be!
Maybe people would prefer to stay at home and avoid meeting other people. Then there would be a great loneliness in the world. Maybe people could practice thinking only good things about everyone to feel more comfortable about getting out, but can you lie to yourself? We would not be able to trust ourselves anymore, so would not be ourselves anymore. We would be other people. Well, to wonder about things is a great skill of all human beings. Without our imagination, we would be nothing, only water and bones. That's a terrible situation to think about.
A Strange Skill Bulent Bakyraktar from Turkey If everyone could read the minds of other people, life would be hard, bad, and terrible for people. Imagine! If one person could read the other people's minds, he or she would understand everything about their lives. He or she would see all the bad ideas in their brains, and then he or she would try to escape from all people because the world wouldn't be a place where he or she could live as a happy man or woman. I know that sometimes people can understand some people's minds without speech, touch, or any signs. I think that this situation is the result of sociological relationships, and also it depends on people's experiences in life. In the last few years, some psychologists have studied a branch called body language. In my opinion, telepathy is a skill that depends on life, education, and a person's relationship with the environment and other people.
The World is not Prepared for It Pablo R. Orejuela from Colombia For me, telepathy is something that the world is not prepared for. The world is very hypocritical, so every one would live alone with no friends. There would be total chaos for the world, millions of wars--civil wars, world wars, ... The only solution for this would be to stop being hypocritical and to start talking with the heart, having pure thoughts. I think that the body would have some radical changes, for example, the ears and the mouth would no longer be useful, so we'd one day have no ears and a smaller capability of eating. Also, the vocal cords would disappear.
A New Genetically-Determined Skill Abdulaziz Al-Zaid from Saudi Arabia What would happen if everyone had the ability to read others' ideas? I think the whole behavior of human beings would change. First of all, we would never dare to cheat or lie to each other, and telling the truth would become genetically-controlled. so, it would be all right to say the truth even if it harmed someone or was impolite. Also, the person who was told the truth would not be angry because it would be something common to hear the truth. Actually, everything in life would be changed. We would have a life based on this ability to read others' minds. I think we would have an unusual world.
A Complex World Keiko Kamata from Japan If human beings were telepathic, the world would be complex. I wouldn't want to always know what was on other people's minds. I'd be exhausted to think about other person's thoughts. Actually, I don't want to have this talent. If human beings could read every person's mind, they'd develop some skills. For example, if I wanted to talk with one person and not another, I'd open my mind to that person and not to the other. We'd have to develop this skill to talk only with specific persons. We'd also have to develop the skill not to open our minds to other people. I wouldn't want my own thinking to be known by other people. I would want to save and keep my privacy. So, I'd develop the skill to close my mind to other people. On the other hand, human beings would gradually lose the talent to speak with their mouths. As we wouldn't use the mouth, the mouth would become smaller and smaller. We might lose the mouth except that we would have to use the mouth to eat, so we'd never lose our mouths. I don't want to have telepathy, but if people all over the world were telepathic, we wouldn't bother to study other languages.
Short Term and Long-Term Effects Ickchan Lee from Korea Short-Term:
Long-Term:
Agusto Siches from Venezuela If everybody could read others' minds, many things would change. In the first stage, everybody would fight because of the discovery of the most hidden thoughts. It would be chaotic. After a certain time, this situation could evolve in two possible ways:
Silence on Earth Mariya Levina from Uzbekistan If everybody were telepathic, there would be silence on the Earth. Everybody would think only about good things. There would be no quarrels and no wars, but in this case there would be no surprises. Students in the schools would know what the teacher was thinking about during the exam and nobody would fail the test. A boss would know if his workers didn't like him and maybe he would try to change his behavior. An old lady in the street would know if a guy who came towards her wanted to take away her money and she could call the police in advance. Everybody would speak only truth!
A World with Two Languages Toshiki Yamada from Japan If everybody were telepathic, we would have two different languages. One would be for speaking, and the other one would be for the mind. As a result of this, nobody would want others to know what they were thinking. Besides, nobody would want to know what others were thinking. If they knew others' thoughts, it would cause a lot of fighting. Furthermore, some would go out of society because they would be afraid of being telepathic. I don't think there would be many advantages to people becoming telepathic. If everybody had another language for their mind, they could avoid any disadvantages, so I think there would be no changes in our world.
It Wouldn't Be a Good World Sirma from Turkey If we were all telepathic, it would be very bad for all people. I think life would be very insipid. There would be no surprise and no esteem. Sometimes there is something in our minds and although we think it, we would never want to say it to the others or it doesn't show our real feelings. In that case, if we were all telepathic, others would learn all the things which were good and bad, and there would be no relationship. I think people always wonder about the others' feelings, but they never venture to learn all the reality about the other people. If we understood everything, we would learn something which we never wanted to learn or hear, and we would never get relaxed. We would never get a good night's sleep. Maybe there would be some little good things, but I don't think that it would be a good world.
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