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Originally posted by Thundersmurf
Interesting thread,
I generally consider prayer to be useless as there is no evidence of it ever working. Same goes for the rice thing.
Were any of these experiments done in a controlled, fair experiment? It doesn't seem that way. Is there any hard evidence that praying at rice in a jar has any effect on it whatsoever?
I have researched this a little, although it was about 5 years ago. At that time there was no credible evidence and the effect couldn't be repeated under controlled conditions; has this changed?
Peace,
Smurf
Originally posted by arpgme
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Originally posted by Thundersmurf
Interesting thread,
I generally consider prayer to be useless as there is no evidence of it ever working. Same goes for the rice thing.
Were any of these experiments done in a controlled, fair experiment? It doesn't seem that way. Is there any hard evidence that praying at rice in a jar has any effect on it whatsoever?
I have researched this a little, although it was about 5 years ago. At that time there was no credible evidence and the effect couldn't be repeated under controlled conditions; has this changed?
Peace,
Smurf
If you consider prayer to be useless and do the experiment , then of course the effect will decrease since this experiment is based on consciousness. Then again, there was one person who didn't believe and it still had some effects (Link).
What is the evidence that it works? The many different people doing it on YouTube (some skeptic some not) and the physical evidence (the images) that we see here.
Of course, if you do not like this idea however you can find "evidence" to the contrary, but in my opinion believing is seeing and the images speaks for themselves.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
So.. are you saying that I 'lack' consiousness because I don't believe prayer works?
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
Regardless, prayer has no part in this discussion as nothing religious is happening.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
All I'm saying is that this has never been re-produced in a controlled environment yet everyone just believes it.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
Seems kind of counter-productive to the Deny Ignorance slogan of our beloved ATS.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
You talk about all this as if it's real science and not just wishy-thinking.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
Are there any insights in to the actual science that makes these differing results possible?
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
Have we discovered which part of, or how, the brain is able to transmit the signal in to the jar?
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
If I do the experiment multiple times with the same thoughts on each jar, will the results be the same each time?
Prayer doesn't have to be "religious"
1. a devout petition to God or an object of worship.
2. a spiritual communion with God or an object of worship, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession.
It depends on how you define "controlled". The study was done in a proper way to ensure no confusion (3 separate jars all cleaned out).
The evidence was shown. It can be accepted or denied.
evidence noun 1. that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.
In my opinion, actual science is knowledge, and knowledge comes from experience. The experience was seeing these formations of water crystals multiple times after the experiment was done. So, in my opinion evidence shows "actual" science.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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Yip, it's a religious thing.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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It doesn't matter if the jars are sterilized. Were all the grains of rice checked to ensure that they all contained the same level of contaminants and spores? If he is using rice from different layers of the pot, then the rice on top will have contact with airborne bacteria. This means that if you did the experiment twice using rice from the top of the pot (once for love, the second time for hate) then the results would be the same for each emotion you are 'transmitting' at it. Not a fair, controlled experiment.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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Nope, no evidence here.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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Evidence can't show science. That doesn't even make sense. If anything, the scientific method you follow produces evidence, which backs up your science.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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Oh look, and now he has lots of Hado Instructor Schools - whatever that may be - and look, it only costs $2400 dollars to go along for 4 days. What a bargain..
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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This is all absolute nonsense. Wishy-thinking at very best. There is no science here, just another snake-oil salesman making money off of gullible, naive people. I applaud your passion on the subject, but have to really criticize you quite heavily for just believing all of this without any evidence.
Deny Ignorance; don't embrace it. [ /quote]
Again, the evidence was ignored. Ignorance is not being embraced by me. I accept the evidence and change my world view according to it. Now, because the evidence is on the side of it's existence, to call it "absolute nonsense", "wishy-thinking" and "no science" would just be denial and belief.
It seems like you are repeating yourself and ignoring the explanation of the evidence presented here. It was already explained. If you repeat yourself again, I may consider ignoring you, no offense, because your responses were already replied to and there is no need for me to make multiple posts repeating myself on this one thread. So, unless you are saying something new or presenting new arguments for what you've already said rather than just repeating ("wishy-thinking", "no science", "no evidence") when it was already responded to, I may consider ignoring you.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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Hmm,
I'm done here. You won't listen to reason; it's a you vs the rest of the world thread.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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You don't seem to understand what the scientific method is. You claim that the evidence is now on the side of Masaru, despite there being innumerable instances of it not working or having completely different results each time.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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If this had even any iota of truth around it, then it would be bigger. Instead, professionals continually knock this down as the nonsense it is.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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Ignore me all you want (I know typing that made you feel better, and reading this is probably aggravating you). You ignored the salient points of my thread anyway, or twisted your answers to suit your own agenda.
Originally posted by Thundersmurf
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It is sad when naive people believe this kind of pseudo-science. It's even sadder when you can't realize how closed-minded you are being.