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Might make it expand enough that you can change it....
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lymond Wrote:
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> try getting a small drill bit, smaller than the shaft of the screw. Drill the screw out and try to collapse it
but which bit (sorry) is the "power of the mind" ?
He never said to use a drill. Just to use a drill bit.
That bit can still be done mentally.
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
But using the mind to get a drill bit was not what BA wanted to do! If that was all he wanted to do we could have given him an answer earlier. Everyone can do that, can't they?
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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing
I posed this question to a couple of people in my class. Just for kicks, as you do.
One person suggested, in all seriousness, to light some white candles, stare at a crystal and visualise the screw disintergrating, while chanting at it.
She also added that it might help to have a whalesong cd on while you are doing it.
Skid: but it merely an extension of your mind. The bit is but the focus of your effort.
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
In defense of myself it was never really specified what "the power of my mind" actually involves.
Also to all those who suggested some way of disintergrating the screw using the power of the mind you also got the wrong answer or answered the wrong question however you choose to look at it or think about it.
"Anyone know where I can learn to disintegrate screws using the power of my mind?"
the correct answer is thus: (and must, according to Leslie Phillips, be a bachelor)
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland