Re: The whole Paranormal Claim idea is flawed

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From: Peter Bowditch
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:10

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"|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Peter Bowditch" <myfirstname@ratbags.com> wrote ...
>> george <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>On Sep 14, 12:44 am, Peter Bowditch <myfirstn...@ratbags.com> wrote:
>>>> "|-|ercules" <radgray...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> >You invited me to be tested.
>>>>
>>>> No, I did not.
>>>>
>>> give it up mate.
>>>You are dealing with a retard and no matter what sense you make it
>>>won't get through..
>>>Good try though
>> 
>> I know that, but he is blaming me specifically for his failure to even
>> start to meet the conditions for the Australian Skeptics challenge.
>> Life was much simpler when he was still under the court order to stay
>> away from me.
>> 
>> I usually ignore him but he has been putting my name in spam to LEOs.
>
>Has it ever occurred to you that you've single handedly held up the world's
>religion for ten years Peter?

Wow! How powerful is that?

>
>Why do you insist Barry was being cooperative about mutually setting up a test?

Because that's the rules of the challenge.

>
>He gave me the 10 mammals test instead.

Which should have been a doddle for God.

>
>Barry is an atheist, he refused to test whether I was Genesis Adam.  THAT'S IT!

What test was proposed that would prove that you were someone who died
several millennia ago (if he ever lived at all)? What test protocol
was agreed?

You went straight from "This vague thing is something I do" to "Give
me the money or I will poison food".

>
>And it's not a "sure sign" I'm mad, if you offer to test paranormal claims you
>can't use Occam's razor on them.

Of course we can.

>
>Herc

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