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Re: My Psychic Challenge To Sylvia Else

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From: DavidW
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:06
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|-|ercules wrote:
> "DavidW" <no@email.provided> wrote
>>> -|ercules wrote:
>>> "DavidW" <no@email.provided> wrote ...
>>>>> -|ercules wrote:
>>>>> "DavidW" <no@email.provided> wrote
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> It's a yes / no question, I look at the bible quote which will be
>>> God telling me something about your question or an answer.
>>
>> You haven't cleared up the apparent restrictions with the question.
>> Above you imply that it can't be one with a "set" answer, which
>> appears to rule out any question I know the answer to.
>>
>>> I work backwards to tell you exactly what your question was because
>>> skeptics are too docile to score a subjective 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Your stats escape me.
>>
>> If all you are doing is giving me the answer (Your site says "Before
>> I attempt to answer your question I must read your mind what it
>> is!"), then you have a 1/2 chance of getting it right (Heads for
>> Yes/Tails for No). There's nothing there about determining the
>> question also. Is that a service commitment or just a bonus ?
>>
>>> I can do it more than once BTW.
>>>
>>> Have you seen the new www.MINDREADING.com site?
>>
>> Yes, that's where your link takes me. Isn't that what we've been
>> discussing? P.S. My Usenet server limits cross-posting to three other groups.
>> That's why I'm deleting some of the groups you've added.
>
>
> 1/ read the terms check box

I have read the terms and I agree with them.

> 2/ Guessing from 3 options is 3:1

Assuming that you are identifying the question. The site only claims to give the 
correct answer, which is a 1/2 chance.

> Please think carefully before bombarding me with objections to a
> trivial website form.

These are not objections. I am trying to thoroughly understand what you are 
claiming to be able to do and what restrictions on my questions exist (if any).

How about I just give you my questions.

At afternoon tea time, do I usually drink a cup of:
1. Coffee?
2. Hot chocolate?
3. Tea?

One of those is the question I would like the answer to.

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