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Subject: Re: Comment about Uri Geller [Long and flame content]
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 14:03:38 EDT
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> This brings up another problem with the whole paranormal thing.  You are
> assuming that psychic power (or whatever is going on) is just turned on at
> will.  In my case, I just had the feeling that I could do it. Why?  I don't
> know.  Oddly enough, just two weeks ago was one of those rare times I had
> "the feeling" that I knew something paranormal.  I saw a picture in a magazine
> of someone and just "knew" that I was looking at a dead person.  Sure enough,
> I found out the next day they were in a hospital and had just died (the next
> day.) It is very difficult to put any statistical value on how significant
> an event such as this really is.
> 
> Dave Trissel   {seismo,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill

It's very easy to put a value on this event. ZERO.  I'll believe it when
you, or any other psychic, gets a feeling about the value of the stock
market next month and makes millions of dollars.  Or, a feeling who is going
to win the fifth race at Belmont.  The amount of self-delusion in your
posting is incredible.
					Bill Tanenbaum

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Bill Tanenbaum AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville Ill.