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The Truth about James Randi

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tayla

My dog's name is Tayla
George-ananda said:
blind faith are reliable sources of truth
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Yes, I found her view of blind faith to be odd. Seems there should at least be some sort of reasonable philosophical justification for what we believe. Even those accepting a revealed religion or revealed spiritual path should base it on something.

But I guess in the end it's true for everyone. Whatever we believe is based on our assumptions and sensibilities. Even atheists assume materialism because somehow it just seems right to them.
 
Valjean

Valjean

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Premium Member
The lady considers Randi a psychic serving the dark side. Why? How did she conclude this?

God told her -- She claims to speak or communicate with Him on a regular basis.

Randi does psychic and magical things. Most magicians do, are they all psychics. Her inability to figure out the trick isn't evidence of demonic communication or ESP.

Her "gut" tells her. Ie: She feels he's evil.
She condemns reason and evidence. She condemns empiricism, so these assessment paths aren't open to her. She insists gut feelings are the most reliable indicators of truth.

And some posters here seem to find these arguments reasonable and convincing. :rolleyes:
 
A Vestigial Mote

A Vestigial Mote

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prophetofjustice said:
THE TRUTH ABOUT JAMES RANDI:
She’s more right than she knows…
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Now please tell me... why would a man who supposedly knows that people can accomplish supernatural feats of psychic ability (because he can supposedly accomplish such feats HIMSELF) offer $1,000,000 of his own money to anyone who can prove they can perform such feats? What the hell sense does that make? It would be like me discovering I am double-jointed and then, figuring that no one else was double-jointed, even though I have no idea really, I put $1,000,000 on the line because I'm "pretty sure" no one can do what I can do.

I can just hear you muttering now "that's just what he wants you to think." (does that make me psychic?!) Problem being... how does he profit by hiding his own psychic abilities while offering $1,000,000 to anyone else who can display them? By performing magic tricks that people who believe in psychic phenomena don't want to take the effort to figure out?

Since we're apparently all about baseless conjecture in this thread - this woman admitted herself that several people promoted James Randi's challenge to her, and she thought about doing it - however I'm pretty sure it was ultimately her own fear of embarrassment and the knowledge that she would be outed as a fraud that kept her from actually participating... and not "the angelic realm" or whatever the hell she called it. Her video would have been funny... if it had been intended that way.
 
Jumi

Jumi

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A Vestigial Mote said:
Now please tell me... why would a man who supposedly knows that people can accomplish supernatural feats of psychic ability (because he can supposedly accomplish such feats HIMSELF) offer $1,000,000 of his own money to anyone who can prove they can perform such feats? What the hell sense does that make?
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It all makes sense if we assume some offworldly conspiracy that goes against all sense and proof. :oops:
 
Sha'irullah

Sha'irullah

رسول الآلهة
I am ashamed of sharing the same ozone layer with certain people. This lady I would not even share the same carbon dioxide.
 
A Vestigial Mote

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
prophetofjustice said:
Do the research first then come back and talk. It is all here for the most part:
https://nostradamusart.wordpress.com
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Research? What on Earth are you talking about? On the page you linked, I see an incomprehensible stream of:

  • quotes from famous or historically respected individuals
  • embedded YouTube videos to music by Depeche Mode
  • short quips about Nostradamus possessing "great paranormal powers"
  • mention of eclipses having some greater meaning, with the link supposedly tying it all together being a random internet debate
    • the debate has only 2 actual rounds
    • the first post of the third round is just as incomprehensible and brain-vomitous as your linked site
    • were YOU (@prophetofjustice) "pro" in this "debate"? Something tells me you were.
    • the debate has 16 total comments, all from a very few individuals
    • the debater on the "con" side has a kitten as his avatar
    • you say that the "con" side "[had] been converted", because of his comment on the debate that he was ill-prepared but from what I see in the actual debate posts his statements are along the lines of:
      • "I'm extremely confused about how any of that ties into the topic."
      • "I didn't see any argument that talked about the scientific proof that I came here for (see title of this debate)."
      • "I'd like for pro to have some type of organizational structure in his debate posts."
    • I am with him on all three of the above statements.
  • Then back to your original site, there are more consecutive YouTube videos with no explanations as to why they are linked
  • More quotes from random famous/respected people
  • A 1980's Speak and Spell commercial embedded from YouTube
  • ...
I could go on, obviously... but just when does the "research" start?

Seriously - why the hell does the information you present have to be so convoluted and stream-of-consciousness? Why do you NEVER fully explain, or succinctly draw out one "point" before moving on to the next?

I can tell you why I think this is the style of the information presented. It's because it is all just smoke and mirrors. None of it really has any meaning at all, and you just threw as much as you could at people to try and confuse them into submission. It's a mess, and not worth anyone's time reading through. It is NOT COHERENT in the slightest. It seems like it is written for consumption by 7-8 year olds with severe attention-deficit disorders.
 
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exchemist

exchemist

Veteran Member
A Vestigial Mote said:
Research? What on Earth are you talking about? On the page you linked, I see an incomprehensible stream of:

  • quotes from famous or historically respected individuals
  • embedded you-tube videos to music by Depeche Mode
  • short quips about Nostradamus possessing "great paranormal powers"
  • mention of eclipses having some greater meaning, with the link supposedly tying it all together being a random internet debate
    • the debate has only 2 actual rounds
    • the first post of the third round is just as incomprehensible and brain-vomitous as your linked site
    • were YOU (@prophetofjustice) "pro" in this "debate"? Something tells me you were.
    • the debate has 16 total comments, all from a very few individuals
    • the debater on the "con" side has a kitten as his avatar
    • you say that the "con" side "[had] been converted", because of his comment on the debate that he was ill-prepared but from what I see in the actual debate posts his statements are along the lines of:
      • "I'm extremely confused about how any of that ties into the topic."
      • "I didn't see any argument that talked about the scientific proof that I came here for (see title of this debate)."
      • "I'd like for pro to have some type of organizational structure in his debate posts."
    • I am with him on all three of the above statements.
  • Then back to your original site, there are more consecutive you-tube videos with no explanations as to why they are linked
  • More quotes from random famous/respected people
  • A 1980's Speak and Spell commercial embedded from YouTube
  • ...
I could go on, obviously... but just when does the "research" start?

Seriously - why the hell does the information you present have to be so convoluted and stream-of-consciousness? Why do you NEVER fully explain, or succinctly draw out one "point" before moving onto the next?

I can tell you why I think this is the style of the information presented. It's because it is all just smoke and mirrors. None of it really has any meaning at all, and you just threw as much as you could at people to try and confuse them into submission. It's a mess, and not worth anyone's time reading through. it is NOT COHERENT in the slightest. It seems like it is written for consumption by 7-8 year olds with severe attention-deficit disorders.
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yup, barking, in my view. Hence the teapot remark.
 
prophetofjustice

prophetofjustice

Member
The research begin here:

But maybe this is too much for your complicated brain:

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The ****HOUSE of NOSTRADAMUS**** in SALON, FRANCE.

Notice the WTC and the MUSICIANS in the BACKGROUND PAINTING !!!!


The word TRAGEDY literally means “GOAT SONG” – TRAGIC OIDE: “goat
song”; perhaps the derivation of the word “tragedy” (were goats
awarded as prizes? does this refer to the ritualistic slaughter of
the sacrificial animal? the scream that the goat makes when slaughtered?)

http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3604

Now what does the WORD “TRAGEDY” mean? “GOAT SONG”? STRANGE…
 
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