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Article #5461Re: SIMPLE MINDREADING TEST
From: dev.null
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:13
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:13
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:33:57 +1000, "|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote: >"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 False 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 > (I'm a Stargate SG-1 fan)
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