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Re: SIMPLE MINDREADING TEST

#5461
From: dev.null
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.
>
>
>
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>>> 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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