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Re: My Psychic Challenge To Sylvia Else

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From: DavidW
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:24
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|-|ercules wrote:
> "DavidW" <no@email.provided> wrote
>>> -|ercules wrote:
>>> "DavidW" <no@email.provided> wrote...
>>>>> -|ercules wrote:
>>>>> As Sylvia is the only person to come up with genuine questions
>>>>> to test my psychic dominance, I offer her this challenge.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shuffle your original 6 cosmology questions and post the MD5
>>>>> of the file with a private keyword appended so I can't decrypt it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Read out the first question while filling out the first page at
>>>>> www.HercsHome.com/AskPsychic.html
>>>>
>>>> What are the page and line number entries about?
>>>
>>>
>>> So I can lookup the answer using bibliomancy, without knowing the
>>> question.
>>
>> But if the subject being mind-read enters those, doesn't that imply
>> that the page and line no. must match the answer, in which case the
>> subject has pretty remarkable powers as well? What if my answer is
>> no but I give a page and line no. for yes?
>
>
> No, it's exactly the same a a tarot reader giving you the deck to
> shuffle and the tarot reader interprets the deck.
>
> Although the answer is determined in my case.
>
> If you look up the page number yourself it won't work, only through
> me.

Is there anything for me to "look up"? You are asking for page and line nos., 
but you don't say in what, or provide a link to anything, so all one can do is 
dream up some numbers and plug them in.

> If you TELL ME what quote you looked up, that will work too.

Quote in what?

> If your answer is a set NO and you ask me for an answer then you
> broke the TOS.

Okay, let me get this right:
I think of a question, which must be one of the three questions I offer, and you 
will answer that question by somehow using the page and line nos. I enter. Are 
you saying that I am barred from asking a question that has only one possible 
answer, or a question to which I know the answer?

In any case, you have a 1/2 chance of getting the right answer, which is not 
unlikely enough to attribute a correct answer to mind reading.
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