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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Comment about Uri Geller [Long and flame content]
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 19:30:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 19:30:16 1985
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Summary: 

In article <454@oakhill.UUCP> davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) writes:
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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.
>
>BTW, in the instance I mentioned the feeling that I was looking at a dead
>person was so strong I had to throw the magazine away.  I have never had
>such a feeling before, it was as though I was looking at a rotting corpse.
>
	But this is still a *single* incident, in order to be valid as
evidence something must occur repeatedly. This does *not* necessarily
assume voluntary control. Try the following experiment: every time you
get a strong feeling about something, write it down(including date,
and *exactly* what feeling you had), then check again a week later to
see if it turned out as expected. Mark each success and failure. After
about a year see what the ratio of successes to failures is. A ratio
of about 0.5 would likely be significant, tho it would be good to peruse
journal to check for patterns in the results before making any final
conclusion..
>
>I find it funny that some people feel so threatened about the possibility
>of ESP-like stuff going on in the universe.  Disturbs their world model I
>guess.
>
	I am not threatened by it, in fact I would like telepathy to
be real, it could solve so many communication problems, but the
evidence just is not there. I would also like to see a mechanism
proposed for these things that does not violate matter/energy
conservation.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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