Posted on 01/10/2006 2:01:51 AM PST by RWR8189
Jesus is God.
Father, Son, Holy Spirit ring a bell?
I don't mind infinity, as long as it slowly creeps up on me...
He cried, "My father, why hast thou foresaken me".
Morning KeyWest,
I believe the poster who said Uri Geller was for real, failed to see one telling episode of the Johnny Carson.
Johnny asked sir Uri to bend a spoon. Uri got all admanat and said right now! He would not perform his little trick.
A phony was exposed that night by Johnny, yet some still believe in that talisman with a trick spoon.
Uri is one of Michael "Pedo" Jackson's close friends so what could we expect as to real phenomenon.
If there were no God, I would not be here today. Ask any soldier who has fought and survived in combat whether their is a God or not.
I belong to a certain fraternal organization and the following are banned from ever joining,an (atheist)(madman)or a (fool. We do believe in God's existence,for we sure did not evolve from a tadpole.
You are 100% correct KW, and God has made many statements already.
So Mote It Be,
NSNR-THM
Unless I missed it, the article does not mention anytime the deviated from the expected and nothing happened.
But of course if you have the entire world to pull an event from, is there ever a time that "nothing happens"?
Every so often, my cable connection goes out. Normally it is very reliable, and if I was to plot it on a graph, it would be a straight line, but if I then at as a spike or a curve the times it goes out, would it mean anything?
If I were to then go looking for a major event anywhere in the world, and find something happened somewhere, would I be able to say, my cable service can predict the future?
I am not an expert, but I thought if you had a radom event of just two choices (heads or tails) over time the number of heads and the number of tails should equal. It does not mean they will always be equal at every snap shot of the count, but over time they will equal. The fact that heads comes up 100 times in a row is possible without any outside influence, and at some point in time 100 tails could also occur. Over time the two cancel each other out, and the number of heads that appear and the number of tails remain similar.
These people should go to Las Vegas and talk to people who really know about odds.
Yep, thought about that many times in my life. No matter what it is and how far away it might currently be, it used to be touching me so close that there was no distinguishing one thing from the other.
I'm with you there. If it fits my definition of a 'God' it can't be killed by a few Romans.
Good point. While the numbers generated are randomly distributed, the sequence in which they appear is fixed by the underlying algorithm. It would be significant if they reran the sequence in the absence of the original 'psychic influences' and it didn't repeat,though.
The trouble is that patterns don't depend on sequences.
"Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?" In short MASSIVE BS ALERT.
This does bring up all sorts of interesting questions.
Like suppose the machine could be refined to actually provide some sort of accurate prediction of a future event, maybe 10 minutes before it happens.
If that's sufficient warning to prevent the event, and actions were taken to do so, then the event would never occur. If the event doesn't occur, then how could the machine predict it?
I guess what would be most interesting is if the machine could be "tuned" to various possible future outcomes, perhaps some day being able to positively identify key events as turning points and positively predict the outcomes of various decisions (although observing history can already go a long way towards that, and most people don't even bother).
A more important question, I suppose, is that if this machine could predict the future, but for whatever reasons it was completely impossible to alter the outcome, would anyone really want to know the future then?
Jesus was not killed by a few Romans. He said I lay down my life and I take it up again. If His mission had not been to die no power on earth could have killed Him.
"If it is electronics it is not a Random Event Generator, it is a Pseudo Random Event Generator."
Well, yes and no. If it is a processor running an algorithm then you are correct that it is pseudo. But if it is an electronic device lokking at random processes like white electronic noise or perhaps radioactive decay then it could be truly randomized.
Now this part interests me in light of what you say.
Would your pseudo random event generators running in different parts of the world synchronize to produce “a sudden and massive shift in the number sequence as his machines around the world started reporting huge deviations from the norm.”
While all of the machines may run the same algorithm would they all deviate from randomness at the same time?
"He cried, "My father, why hast thou foresaken me".
Which fulfilled the prophesy of David in Psalms 22:1
It's not the deviations from a perfectly flat line that are unexpected; it's the apparent correlation of the drifts with significant world events. Post #45 raises an interesting question: does the black box produce "false positives", that is, does it show substantial deviations when no significant wold events occur? It might -- let's assume -- but then you'd have to look at whether the false positives and "hits" occurred in a random pattern, or whether the appeared to be a correlation between the "hits" and significant events that occurred, and those times when significant events of the same type occurred but yet were not predicted.
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