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Re: FOX: Epic Christian Revival

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From: Graham Cooper
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:59
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On Mar 10, 7:48 am, BruceS <bruce...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 01:33 PM, Graham Cooper wrote:
>
>
> > On Mar 9, 12:32 pm, BruceS <bruce...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 03/08/2013 05:52 PM, Graham Cooper wrote:
>
> >>>>> and has been GOING ON THESE PERPETUAL D.O.S. TANGENTS TOPICS
>
> >>>>> for 3 years EVER SINCE HE WAS THE FIRST SKEPTIC TO EVER LOSE TO A
> >>>>> MINDREADER!!
>
> >>>>> BOO YEH!
>
> >>>> And yet, I *have* put my money where my mouth is, several times, and you
> >>>> keep refusing even though there's no risk to you.  I keep giving you the
> >>>> opportunity to prove your abilities, and you (knowing as well as we do
>
> >>> Yes yes Brucey Boy!
>
> >>> I call this a DENIAL OF SERVICE  argument.
>
> >>> You keep bombarding me with 50 Trillion To 1 blind tests for a tasty
> >>> $5 morsel!
>
> >> Actually, it's a $1,024 "morsel"---more than the amount you owe Brad.
> >> All with no financial risk to you.
>
> >>> -----------------------
>
> >>> SAME DOS diversion tactics by ALL people who then use it against me.
>
> >>> Skeptics are particular prone to use this tactic, keep asking a never
> >>> ending string of Questions, there is no reasonable test, and no prize
> >>> money ever to be offered!
>
> >> I just described and offered a very reasonable test.  I'd state it
> >> again, but anyone who cares can simply look upthread for it.
>
> >>> Same with the Ray White receptionist, keeps asking and asking for more
> >>> pay slips and proof of income then has me arrested when I mention I
> >>> work with CAMGIRLS.com
>
> >> No, that wasn't about you "working" with camgirls (who have nothing to
> >> do with you and probably never will), but rather with her assessment
> >> that you have no income.
>
> >>> Same with CHANNEL 9 LAWYER when I tried to sue for defamation.  Keeps
> >>> asking me again and again and again for CAUSE OF ACTION, never
> >>> responds to a single word I say, just blind DOS tactics until they
> >>> take you court.
>
> >> Now you're just babbling.
>
> >>> Same with CSICOP, asks me for more and more and  more and more details
> >>> on the DEMO until they ditch you.
>
> >> I don't even know what you're babbling about now.
>
> >>> STANDARD TACTICS BRUCES - KEEP ON AND KEEP ON ASKING ME THIS AND
> >>> OFFERING THAT
>
> >>> ALL THE TIME - 3 YEARS NOW YOU'VE DISTRACTED AND DETERRED A 2nd
> >>> MINDREADING TEST.
>
> >> I'm *offering* another test, just as I've done many times before.
>
> >>> One has to wonder why you've taken it upon yourself to go to these
> >>> extremes (OVER 3 YEARS) to never let me mindread another person??
>
> >> You didn't even *try* to come up with an excuse this time!  OK, let's
> >> sweeten the pot a little.  Instead of the $1024 prize for getting 20 of
> >> 20 right, I'll drop the odds a bit.  Instead of 20 questions, we'll just
> >> have 10.  Get just *half* of them right (that's 5 for
> >> arithmetically-challenged folks), and I'll pay you $1.  Then I'll
> >> *quadruple* it for every extra one you get right.  That's right, get 6
> >> right, and you get $4, 7 right gets you $16, 8 right gets you $64, 9
> >> right gets you $256, and getting all 10 right gets you $1024!  Are you
> >> really going to snub your nose at the chance to both prove your
> >> abilities *and* to make a little better than a grand?  How long does it
> >> take for you to make that much money on your public assistance?  And no
> >> risk!
>
> >> Oh, and of course, I have not done anything to prevent anyone else from
> >> participating in your tests.  That's just your paranoia speaking.  Even
> >> though I have seven times as much magic power as you have, it isn't
> >> enough to force other people to avoid you.  That's all down to you.
>
> >> I guess it's fair enough to wonder why I do this.  On the one hand, I
> >> know that you'll never agree to a reasonable test.  Even if you did
> >> (which would amaze everyone *far* more than your cloud pics do), you'd
> >> fail that test.  On the other hand, I retain enough open-mindedness to
> >> be willing to be convinced, even after you've shown yourself a deluded
> >> loon so many times in the past.
>
> > I have a Test.
>
> > a VERY SIMPLE TEST
>
> > It proves Paranormal reasonably quickly though it takes a while to get
> > rolling.
>
> > You Think Of A Word
> > You Tell me a random Page Number
> > I Describe Your Word using Bibliomancy   (TELEPATHY)
> > After 3 goes - I guess all 3 words   (OBJECTIVE)
>
> And if my word is "toboggan", but you come up with "sushi", you claim
> that's close enough, because sushi has a connection to tofu, which
> starts with the same two letters.  No, I don't think so.  Of course, we
> also know you'll change the rules, so it will be something like the one
> where you guess the *order* of the words, and not the words themselves.
>   That way, you have as much chance of getting it right by random chance
> as if you were guessing a roll of a single six-sided die.
>
> On the very off chance that you're serious, and believe you can actually
> guess what the three words are (not just the order), then say what the
> supposed "bet" is.  What happens if you don't exactly match any of the
> three, what if you get one, what if you get two, and what if you get all
> three?  And is this another where you have to have a day between each
> post, and where you throw a tantrum if anyone on Usenet posts anything
> else while it's going on?
>
> > There is a Small Wager because working out 1,000,000:1 contracts has
> > stalled any observations for 10 years now!
>
> You haven't even said what the "small wager" is on this latest test.  It
> doesn't really matter, since we all know you'd back out of it anyway, if
> anyone took you up on it.  Just like you backed out of paying Brad the
> $1000 you promised.
>
> > NO TAKERS!    FINE!   YOU CAN ALL GO TO HELL!
>
> > I MAKE EDEN ANYWAY!   I USE ALL GODS POWER ALL ON MY OWN FAMILY.   YOU
> > ALL LIVE LIKE MONKEYS FOR LIFE.
>
> Your idea of Eden is living all by yourself, in squalor, with the
> constant threat of police action against you?  OK, if that's what you
> want, I guess you can keep it.
>
> > OWNER OF THE $100 MILLION WEBSITE WWW.CAMGIRLS.COM
>
> No, you aren't.  I don't know why you persist in this patently false
> claim.  Why don't you claim to be the sole owner of Microsoft instead?
> As long as you're going to lie, lie big!
>
> So it all comes down to your refusing to take a test that has a real
> chance of demonstrating your claimed powers, at no risk to you and with
> a substantial money prize.  That's just what I predicted would happen.
> I'll even change the above test from being questions to being words.
> I'll come up with 10 words instead of 10 questions, and leave the rest
> of the test as is.  You just have to guess what the order of the ten
> words is, and if you're right, you make over a thousand dollars---a
> princely sum to an impoverished ward of the state such as yourself.
>


YOU'VE DESIGNED 20 TESTS BRUCE

AND THEY ARE ALL SHIT!

LISTEN!  ITS THIS EASY!

PARABET 1.0

YOU THINK OF A WORD
I DESCRIBE IT
REPEAT 3 TIMES

SHUFFLE 3 WORDS

I PUT THEM IN ORDER


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HOW THE FUCK SOMEONE COULD BE SO STUPID

TO CALL THAT SUBJECTIVE

AND THEN MAKE HIS OWN TESTS

IS BEYOND STUPIDITY!


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FUCK OFF BRUCE

YOU'RE THE BIGGEST STUPID IDIOT I'VE EVER FUCKING MET




Herc
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Subject: Re: FOX: Epic Christian Revival
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