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Re: Psychic showdown - challenge to Herc

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From: Peter Bowditch
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:58
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"|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>[GUESS THE QUESTION CLAIM 2]
>>>"|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote 
>>>> If you give me 3 options of what your question was then I can give a 
>>>> black box answer.  But you still have to tell me the page & line number
>>>> to read your question without you stating it.
>>>
>>>
>>>I mean, I can only give a black box answer to questions of the form:
>>>
>>>What was the question I just gave a page number and line number for out of:
>>>A/ Is Herc psychic?
>>>B/ Is Sylvia a morman?
>>>C/ Is Peter a poker player?
>>>?
>> 
>> So you can't give answers at all. Thanks for admitting that. Now we
>> can move on.
>
>
>Yes I do.  They are easily recognizable by a blind judge who knows the question.

I gave you six questions. I gave you eighteen answers in the form of
random quotes from people who knew the questions. I asked you to
provide your own answers (or even random quotes) to see if you could
outperform the replies from those people. You declined, therefore you
FAILED.

>
>If you can't organize a blind judge, then you have to ask certain kinds of question.

I know, I know - real questions where the answers can't be checked,
and you aren't going to give answers anyway, just random gibberish.

>
>It's like that TRUTH TELLER & LIAR problem.  In order to find out which door to
>go through the only way to get a reliable answer is to ask "If I asked your friend
>here which door was the correct door, what door would he tell me?".

I have two doors. Tell me what your answer to the question would be.

>
>Ask questions of the right form (Which Question Was I Thinking Of?)
>and I can tell you the answer, black box, objective.

OK, which question was I thinking of. (Hint - all of them.)

>
>__________________________________________________________
>
>[BLIND JUDGE PROTOCOL CLAIM 1]
>
>Only 1 of your 6 questions was of genuine interest.
>
>Me getting God to tell you the capital of Canada is not part of Paranormal Claim 1 or 2.
>
>Give me a real page number and line number if you want, but the answer will
>be ABOUT THE INVALIDITY OF THE QUESTION, not "Toronto".

I would hope that the answer wouldn't be "Toronto". That would just
show how feeble your god is.

>
>Herc
>
> 

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