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Originally posted by nomnom
Easy answer. Smartphone. Another possibility is carrier waves acting as if a virtual repeater.
Originally posted by nomnom
No. Over 100 billion people have come and gone from this earth. At least a few are bound to have these experiences by chance.
Originally posted by nomnom
You realize that many of his "prophesies" didn't pan out, right?
Originally posted by ManInWonderland
According to my calculations, of 100 billion people, the probability that three or more people have synchronicities as unlikely as I have had is 8%. So I wouldn't say "a few" will have them. I'd say two might have them, but more likely only one would.
If I conceded your criticism regarding the ability of the subconscious to perceive and analyse a chunk of text in a micro second, and assumed quite liberally that that chunk of text would be two pages, i.e. what is in your field of vision when a book is open, then the estimated probability for my pseudo divination successes would be one in four hundred and fifty million. I'd still be much more likely to win the jackpot by playing only one line.
Originally posted by ManInWonderland
Originally posted by nomnom
You realize that many of his "prophesies" didn't pan out, right?
And that's relevant to what I've been writing, how exactly?
Originally posted by nomnom
You can't expect people to take you seriously after a statement like that. Are you aware of this? Did you choose not to bring this into your report? If so, please know you're being intellectually dishonest. You would have choose to shape the context to support your assertion that this guy was magic when really he had a lot of misses, and a few hits. He was simply intuitive, using inferences, and got lucky some times.
How can we even trust this guys word? He was a meth head that was nearing the end of his life. How can we trust that he had this experience at all? He was seeing evil gods in the clouds for weeks at a time years prior during a psychotic break. The guy was nuts. That's how it's relevant.edit on 22-2-2013 by nomnom because: (no reason given)
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Originally posted by Wertdagf
Sometimes its better to have someone to blame when reality takes a %&^* on you.
Its a hard thing to realize your mind is a machine and all of your emotions are just chemicals and electrical signals. Its even worse when that machine is malfunctioning and your on a roller coaster you cant controll.
I think that a majority of these delusions are protecting people from a reality they might not want to live in.
Originally posted by ManInWonderland
What are you even talking about? That guy DID NOT KNOW those people before he wrote about them. How on earth did he use "intuition" and "inference" to guess the age, lifestyle, and name of a person he had never met? Of course, this is the point where you say he hallucinated those friends of his. I guess his other friends hallucinated them too. Everybody who experiences unbelievable events and records them lives in a pocket universe of hallucinations with everybody he knows. I think that's the point you're trying to get across. Brilliant argument.
Originally posted by ManInWonderland
reply to post by nomnom
We seem to maybe be having a slight disagreement here and there. You're so polite and roundabout about it I can't say for sure, but I think you might mean that clairvoyance, synchronicities, precognitions, and such things might not necessarily be evidence of psychic powers or the supernatural. I'd have to read between the lines again, but that seems to be what you're subtly implying perhaps. Why don't you make your position known a bit more forcefully so I don't have to keep guessing?
Seriously though, why don't you respond to my questions about antennas and carrier waves? Seems to me like you're skipping anything that might give others the impression you're not such a brilliant and careful thinker as you advertise yourself as.
I'd rather this not have descended into ad hominem, but your "argumentation" pretty much boils down to "I'm awesome and you're ridiculously incompetent and also intellectually dishonest." That feeling might be somewhat mutual, in that you don't seem to be able to think about these things dispassionately and objectively, inasmuch as your ignorance and dismissiveness count as "thought".
How do I count the probabilities? There's a formula you use for calculating binomial probabilities when you know the probability of the successful outcome of a single attempt, the number of attempts, and the number of successes. You'd think a person would've familiarised himself with that sort of thing before pontificating on this issue.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
4. Overactive Imagination