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|-|ercules wrote:
> "Sylvia Else" <sylvia@not.here.invalid> wrote \...
>> On 29/09/2010 3:52 PM, DavidW wrote:
>>>
>>> How? Any random person coming across your site more than likely
>>> wants to have their mind read. Is that unreasonable? Are you saying
>>> that only mind-reading believers are welcome? Okay, let's say a
>>> genuine believer shows up. They still want to see you read their
>>> mind. What does "THEY SAY YOU MUST WANT TO *FIND OUT* THE ANSWER"
>>> have to do with mind-reading?
>>>
>>>> and there is no way
>>>> you have the aptitude to cooperate on a mind read.
>>>>
>>>> There is a balance between simplicity and practicality, if you
>>>> follow
>>>> the website instructions I should be able to determine your
>>>> question
>>>> by looking at the usually subjective answers I can channel.
>>>
>>> This is what I'm not getting. I have to be genuinely interested in
>>> an answer I don't already know, yet what you claim to be reading is
>>> the _question_ I'm asking, which obviously I do know. It's not
>>> making sense to me.
>>>
>>>> So far all your questions are intended to test the accuracy of the
>>>> answer, since skeptics cannot be persuaded this is not of genuine
>>>> interest to find out the answer I cannot help you any further.
>>>>
>>>> You can ask 1 question per day at www.MindReading.com if you want
>>>> to
>>>> test me out!
>>>
>>> After this exchange all day I still have no idea what service you
>>> are offering. Is it a mind-read or the answer to a question I'm
>>> genuinely interested in?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If you identify a question to which you want to know the answer, and
>> then shuffle it with two other questions that you also want to know
>> the answers to, then Herc claims to be able to tell you which was the
>> question you initially identified.

First, Sylvia's post is not on my newsreader, so I cannot reply to it directly,
but I thank her for clearing things up. I believe that Herc has used some sort
of supernatural power to block Sylvia's post from the server that I use. The
mistake he made, however, was posting a reply to it but not blocking it also.

> No, the other two can "sound like you are interested in them", they
> are dummy questions but you should TRY to make it difficult for me.
>
>
>
>>
>> He is not offering to answer the question, so you might wonder why it
>> matters whether you want to know the answer, but them's the rules,
>> apparently.
>
> How would you know?  There are further instructions as you require
> them on 3 pages of the website.

I see no other pages on the website.

>> However, if he gets the answer wrong, which seems likely 2 times out
>> of 3, he'll claim that some aspect of the questions, the way in
>> which you formulated them, or anything else that you cannot prove
>> one way or the other, caused his error, and that the result is
>> therefore null and void.
>
>
> I can screen questions.
>
>
>>
>> In short, in the unlikely case that Herc actually possessed the
>> power, and provided the questioners comply exactly with the largely
>> unstated requirements, it would be possible for Herc to prove that
>> he has the power. In the much more likely case that Herc has no
>> special power at all, he will regard the test as a waste of time,
>> something which at the end of all this, you're likely to agree with.
>>
>
> I've been asking for people to just test my claim for 9 years now!

Then make it possible to test them. Even a mindreading believer may not accept
your word that _you_ are a genuine mindreader and will want to test your claim
(i.e., this person could be a believer of the concept but a _sceptic_ of your
claim; why should anyone take your word for it?). Such a person is not
necessarily interested in the answer to any particular question, so are you
saying that he/she is unable to test your ability? Surely you can come up with
a method that enables your special power to be tested without this irrelevant
condition. What about asking the subject to think of a numbr from 1 to 10 and
clicking a checkbox when the number is decided upon and you post which number
it is? If you cannot do this then you are not much of a mindreader. If you
_can_ do this on multiple occasions, then anyone, even the most hardened
sceptic, would be convinced. I certainly would be.

If you want to be accepted as a mindreader then the obvious method is to make
it as _easy_ as possible to test your ability, and by sheer weight of correct
readings for many people you will quickly gain a reputation that will swamp the
occasional intransigent sceptic.

> If you're not interested then stop causing detriment to my chances
> with other people.
>
> If you stand between me and destiny you will suffer greatly.

I am wondering this: Why do you dismiss me a waste of your time, yet _invite_
on multiple occasions another sceptic (or so it seems), Sylvia, to test you,
offering different ways to do so, even after all the holes she has punched in
your previous efforts? (I assure you that I am not jealous of the attention,
merely curious.)