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Article #5460Re: SIMPLE MINDREADING TEST
From: |-|ercules
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:33
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:33
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"Mike Duffy" <respond@invalid.invalid> wrote... > "|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote in > news:8jbqcjFbh5U1@mid.individual.net: > >> dev.null offered to add the MD5 before testing began. > > It might make some people believe you. In any case, it would remove > something that they might use as a source of doubt. > > >> This is actually Bad, apt answers with the random options are what >> I am trying to avoid. > > !?!?!?!? > > I thought you were *trying* to provide us with one quote that is an > obvious match, and two that are not related to our secret question. > Exactly! The smoking verse was a MISS! It's aptness could have been a fluke, or it could be a secondary channel. IMO calling it a HIT! was a bit too strong of a channel! re: drug hit. >> The algorithm just looks up your quote from the Book #, Chapter # >> and Verse # you provide. You could flick to a random page of the >> bible if you prefer, as long as you tell me the question and >> answer afterwards. >> >> The other 2 options are randomly selected from the same Book. > > Herc, if I pick them *myself* and tell you what they are after, if > anyone is psychic, it is *me*.[1] I mean, I could use the Bible myself, > and write up a whole slew of questions and the quotations I picked for > them. No, 'everything' I observe is coordinated for me. > > Then I could either send them to you, or choose not to. Where do your > psychic abilities some into play? I suspect if you constantly withheld good channels from me they would tend to random. It's like going out of your way to disprove a prediction, it's phsically possible to do that but doesn't logically disprove that supernatural prediction is possible. > > [1] And as I pointed out in a previous post, perhaps it is simply > unconscious total recall on my part because at one point in my life I > thumbed through a copy of the same edition of the Bible. > > -- > http://pages.videotron.com/duffym/index.htm Essentially, God is putting the random numbers into your head, and letting you think you selected them with your own free will. Check out the world famous Picasso painting from earlier this year and the likeness to a frozen head of James Randi. Did Picasso have the psychic powers or me in describing the painting one week before the $100M sale? www.James-Randi.com Herc
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