Posted on 02/20/2008 12:12:21 PM PST by BGHater
If this machine were hooked to a printer could a group of monkeys duplicate the works of Shakespeare?
James Randi has a million bucks for them if they can prove it.
Let’s see if I understand. If there is a spike in their data, they can then search the world and see if anything has happened to explain it. If nothing happens of any significance, they can wait as long as they want and the further away the spike is from the event in time, the more powerful a predicter it is. It doesn’t yet “predict” what will happen or when it will happen or where it will happen, but it is spookily accurate.
Hold me, I’m scared!
Some questions. When they brought people in and found they could influence the machines, could they just concentrate on one machine or would they affect any nearby machines? What is the range? Could I influence a machine on the other side of the world? If so, is there a time delay or can I affect the machine before I try to? Could I be shown a rapidly changing series of pictures that would affect the machine rapidly? Could rapidly changing patterns be used to send info across the world without use of radios?
Sounds like Dust...
Maybe they ought to check the random number generators themselves relative to energy spikes rather than the associated events the article says they predicted.
People predict the future all the time. Most of the time correctly.
Approaching a traffic light, for instance.
Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Sometimes there may indeed be something behind such “paranormal” phenomena. But that doesn’t mean it’s something we should trust.
Never draw to an inside straight.
I’d like to see the graphs.
See #30.
Ah, at the very end we see it. This charlatan is motivated by a desire to validate compulsory collectivism. It is exactly like global climate change - a useful fiction to cement the notion that we are all "interdependent" and "connected", and that the concept of the individual needs to be supplanted by the notion of the collective. Global fascism/communism come hither - we bring "scientific" justification. Us 'individualistic monsters' are relics of an unenlightened age.
Eliminate the borders, celebrate multiculturalism, free everything for everyone forever, everyone is the same thus equal (except where we are unique and different, making everyone special!), and let direct democracy decide everything (except for the things which certain elites deem too important for the peons to decide).
Scratch an idiot and you will find a leftist. $10 says many of those involved are Greens. And I didn't tap into any 'global consciousness' to come up with that. Buy ammo.
hehehehe
There’s a difference in this “machine” and a computer random number generator :)
Not so farcical as it sounds. At the quantuum mechanics level, time really does not behave “normally” (as we see it in the macro world). Hawkins among others has posited that the mind is based on QM effects — basically a macro effect of a bunch of QM events. The idea that some of the distemporal aspects of QM “come along for the ride” really isn’t that farcical. Maybe the idea is not true or correct, but just possibly maybe it is.
Our, we are all ‘compelled’ or seek God. That is a collective thought, one would think.
Group prayer and individual prayer has a power to do great things. Perhaps we are seeing measurable data that corresponds to the those actions.
Yep, even if there is a legitimate phenomenon it’s so diffuse and generalized it’s useless.
Did you just go back in time with a paradox correcting time travel equation, or am I reading too much into that string?
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