🚀 go-pugleaf

On Feb 28, 1:25 pm, vtcapo <vtc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2:40 pm, BruceS <bruce...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 27, 6:38 pm, vtcapo <vtc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Feb 27, 6:22 pm, Graham Cooper <grahamcoop...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Feb 27, 10:59 pm, vtcapo <vtc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > the whole thing up.
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> > > > > Take your pick.
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> > > > > RT
> > > > > PS If you could have read my mind you would have known that I still
> > > > > would like you to tell me what is coming up next for me. Just like the
> > > > > psychic did….
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> > > > There are a million stories no different to yours out there.
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> > > > I'm not interested in a discussing about trusting a strangers psychic
> > > > claims or not with a few usenet posts as evidence!
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> > > > *****MY TURN****
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> > > > I can only accurately read your mind if you follow the simple remote-
> > > > bibliomancy protocol.
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> > > > I can read about 10 words per day, whatever your were thinking at the
> > > > time when you post on usenet "READ MY MIND NOW"..
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> > > > If you want to NOT see a demonstration of mind reading, you're going
> > > > about it the right way.
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> > > > If you want to see real mindreading, I need a subject!  10 years of no
> > > > takers!
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> > > > Are you IN our OUT?
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> > > > Herc
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> > > Graham, you know why 10 years and no takers? Your,“reading my mind”,
> > > is a total waste of time. It certainly wasted 10 years of yours.  Look
> > > at what you said:
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> > No, vtcapo, you have it wrong.  There is no reason for Graham having
> > no takers, because he *has* in fact had "takers".  He just likes to
> > lie about it, despite the clear history, readily recovered from
> > Google.  He's come up with challenge after challenge, with various
> > (and often changing midstream) protocols.  Various people (I'm one of
> > them) have agreed to his terms and followed his protocols.  Usually,
> > his test shows him a complete failure, as with his claim to be able to
> > guess raven1's VIN and coming up with something like "v9".  In one
> > test with me, he did a good bit better than pure chance, but he didn't
> > want to go ahead with longer odds.  Graham likes to do tests where he
> > has a substantial chance of getting "hits" by chance alone.  Even
> > then, he's had a taker recently in A_B, but Graham chose to drop out
> > of that test because of something A_B said in an unrelated thread.
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> So Graham is a con.  Go figure? Tell me if I’ve made the correct
> adjustments to his number line analogy? The centerline being the
> truth…

I wouldn't say he's a con, just that he's extremely deluded, and has
some serious mental problems.  He seems to believe in his abilities a
very little bit, and defend that belief violently.  On the other hand,
he doesn't believe very much, or he'd be willing to do a test that
isn't all about slightly better than random results.  As for the
nature of his magic powers, that seems to change over time.  He also
has various and contradictory beliefs in his special nature---he's the
Son of God, Adam of the Bible, Hercules, Truman (from the movie),
etc.  Don't try to make sense out of it, as there really is none.
AIUI, he's been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, or something to
that effect.  He's done time for threatening to poison food---what
would constitute "terrorism" today.  He's obsessed with prize-based
contests to prove paranormal abilities, but refuses to follow their
rules, or even come up with anything that repeatably, rationally,
reliably shows any deviation from normal abilities and chance.  In
short, he would probably do much better if given the correct
medications.