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morelight, I admire your skepticism. You’re open minded, and that’s great. My mantra that I repeat is “a belief untested is not worth having”. I personally feel that it’s better to check out all possibilities before putting your eggs in one basket.

One thing to consider about using hidden earphones and transmitters is that they are easily…[Read more]

I think you’ve hit on something very important: Your sample is way too small. Also, I encourage you to get to a live seminar as soon as possible, before making any judgements about John’s abilities whatsoever. You need to eliminate the possiblity of “creative editing” and you need to eliminate any distrust of TV production. You won’t have those…[Read more]

I’ve had some very nice emails with Hal, and he’s very been very kind and understanding about why I run the board the way I do. He missed the part in the guidelines about copying posts elsewhere.

I’ve invited him back, if he’s open to it. I look forward to some interesting discussion with him.

From our guidelines:

II. NO COPYING: All graphics and text on this site are the property of their respective authors and creators, and may not be reproduced elsewhere without the express permission of the owners.

Everyone who gains access to this privately owned group, must click “I agree” to the list of guidelines, including the…[Read more]

Really VT? Wow…bummer…history repeats itself. Such a shame.

And I was trying to be open minded after hearing his association with Randi, and that he was a member of the JREF board.

I’m sorely disappointed.

This thread is closed, because I won’t submit to becoming fodder for discussion and negativity at JREF.

Peace to you bidlack, in all…[Read more]

Thanks for joining us – we always welcome polite respectful discussion.

Your questions are deep, and I can’t see how they might be answered in such a limited forum, but I know that we can try and work from there. I only speak for myself when I post.

In order to believe in what John does, you have to believe in the world of spirit, and a higher…[Read more]

Thank you VT, I enjoyed the visual – it really does help my brain. Well needed *hats off* :)

Very well said, and I agree 100%

The burdon of proof is indeed upon us. When we provide our own evidence, in our opinion, it’s equates to proof. Often, cynics and some skeptics don’t come up with the same result, after considering what we provide as “proof”. It’s the cynics who will phrase it as “they have no proof” when the simple truth is,…[Read more]

Right…and that’s why I suggested this:

this review of the interview, in terms of journalistic integrity.

Which shows that you are correct in your assumptions about editing.

Ok, I guess I’ve had enough fun at EvovleNow’s expense, and we can close this chapter of another crackpot’s attempt to release a little stress on us :)

Thanks for letting me vent, everyone :)

Here’s what disturbed me the most about that board: They did a poll on “Forbidden subjects” and 23 out of 318 (7.23% ) voted to “Discuss/Advocate Child Pornography”. No age verification needed for the board, beyond clicking that you’re either younger or older than 13. To each his own I suppose, they accuse me of hating free speech, but I say keep…[Read more]

You know what’s even funnier? The post at JREF where EvolveNow tells them what they did here, and my “response”, and even one of the JREF’ers say “that was stupid.”

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?&threadid=3659

Too freakin’ funny! Dang near fell outta my non-ergonomic chair from laughin’ so hard. :laff:

The red part of the post is the orignal post from “EvolveNow” (Evolve FROM what, I wonder?) and the rest is my own “embellishemnt” of what I perceived to be as Paul Harvey would say “the REST of the story. :devil:

I’m sorry (yet not! LOL) you had to see that. I usually take the high road too, and just delete this kind of fluff (pocket lint?) but this time I wanted to shine a light on this kind of thing.

I’m always happy when some cynic takes the time to post this nonsense. It means we kept him off the streets for that time….

I know this is already long, but check this out too:

A related movement in the philosophy of science has its roots in feminism. Feminist scientists such as Bleier (¡984), Harding (¡986, ¡987) and Keller (¡983) see modern science as an uncompromising expression of androcentric or “masculine” values. For example, scientists are essentially in pur…[Read more]