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Re: JAMES RANDI'S ONLY MAGIC TRICK

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From: DanielSan
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:39
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On 8/21/2010 7:36 AM, raven1 wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:44:35 +1000, "|-|ercules"
> <radgray123@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> "BDK"<TopShill@sanity.com>  wrote ...
>>> In article<8d6afhFrh0U1@mid.individual.net>, radgray123@yahoo.com
>>> says...
>>>> "BDK"<TopShill@sanity.com>  wrote
>>>>> In article<8d67tcFfr4U1@mid.individual.net>, radgray123@yahoo.com
>>>>> says...
>>>>>> "BDK"<TopShill@sanity.com>  wrote
>>>>>>> In article<8d63boFqilU1@mid.individual.net>, radgray123@yahoo.com
>>>>>>> says...
>>>>>>>> "george"<gblack@hnpl.net>  wrote
>>>>>>>>> Is there no beginning to your abilities ?..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Haven't we been through this...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes there is a beginning,
>>>>>>>> No there is no beginning,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> WTF difference does that make?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Herc
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Only an insane person would ask that question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> oh please elaborate professor pinkenbrain?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Herc
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL, what is a "Pinkerbrain"?
>>>>>
>>>>> You've shown no ability to do anything more than mumble incoherently and
>>>>> flip through books, pointing at stuff that has no connection with your
>>>>> question, and then insisting it does.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FFS you moron.  WHICH answer has NO connection?
>>>>
>>>> www.PopeToYou.com
>>>>
>>>> All the answers are written in text under the videos,
>>>>
>>>> Herc
>>>>
>>>
>>> Um, pretty much all of them!
>>
>> ADAM ASKS GOD
>> Are Genesis Adam and Eve alive today
>>
>> FINDS THE NEXT RANDOM QUOTE
>> After creating both of those
>>
>>
>> You must be thick.
>
> You must be insane if you think that answers the question one way or
> another.

He's attempting (and failing at) bibliomancy, a pseudoscience with no 
evidence to back it up whatsoever.

I can take any book, any sentence or phrase, and make it appear to 
answer any question ever.  That doesn't mean I'm an astute bibliomancer. 
  It means that Herc's version of bibliomancy is idiotic and has no 
value at all.

It's the human condition that finds patterns where there are none...such 
as seeing the bunny in the clouds or the Virgin Mary in a rust stain.

But I guess Herc believes in those, too.

-- 
DanielSan -- alt.atheism #2226
------------------------------
"The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, 
disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has 
emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor 
bicycle and golf course." -- a.a. milne
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