This was a very interesting article indeed, and it made me think of how I handle these same situations. I must admit that I am guilty of being much more outspoken in my feelings toward someone flaunting their "salvation" through Jesus than I may be to (for example) a co-worker from some distant country who has a statue of a 12-armed Baba Rum Rasin on his or her desk. The idea of adopting a "Isn't that interesting?" attitude is a much better approach overall.
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In-your-face religion
by SlayerLayer ina fews days ago, i met this elderly jewish man, with such a personaltity.
he said that he was 8 years old when he was in the concentration camp.
his stories amazed me.. anyway, as it turns out, he is now an atheist.
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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Ralph,
What I still do not understand is HOW the viewer is told what the target is in these tests. In your example with the target being a Church, did someone have to tell the viewer to "go" to a particular location, such as the intersection of two roads, and report what they saw there? For example, let us suppose that there was a clearly defined target here in my city that I wanted you to view remotely. Wouldn't I or someone else need to tell you at least where it was so that you could know where to look?
I do have to take issue with your description of the cow as being an "analytical overlay" when the goal was viewing a church. To me, such a thing would seem indistinguishable from be an incorrect guess. If someone tosses out a number of ideas and concepts, letting only those which match count as "hits" while dismissing the misses is not going to give a very valid result in any test.
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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I have a couple of questions for those who beleive in this ability.
First, just what is it that you claim to be able to do? From what I am reading, there does not seem to be a lot of agreement on what the bottom line will be here. I had always thought that the idea behind remote viewing was just that - to see something that someone could see if they were in a remote position. Now, if that worked, it would be of great value. A government could, for example, have their representative "look" to see if another force had missiles or troops stationed at location X and so on. Or, to look into a enemy staff meeting to see who was there, or what was on the charts they were holding up. That would be a concrete benefit, if it worked.
I would further assume that anyone doing this would have to specifically know where they should be "looking." If they looked in the wrong place, the information would be of little value.
But the descriptions here don't seem to follow this idea. The viewers have not required that the thing to be "viewed" must be at a specific location, which seems to go against the whole idea of remote viewing (at least how I understood it). It also makes it difficult for both sides to agree upon a target. Could a proponent please tell me exactly what it is that they feel this ability allows them to do, and perhaps give a detailed example?
My second question is this. If you are a person who believes that you have this ability (and I am sure that these folks SINCERELY believe that they do), would you ever agree to a test for which an unsecussful outcome would move you to admit that you do not have this ability after all? Obviously, there is no way to prove that an unsucessful test was not just a fluke, or that the powers were somehow compromised temporarally, but could you ever see yourself saying "I guess I can't do that after all" if the results were negative?
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Irate email
by D wiltshire inbelow is a email i received today.
the person doen't know me except from i think randy watter web site where i post my appeal letter to the body of elders on which i left my email address.
i never told her i wasn't df but she gets facts confussed alot.. anyway i sent the post on barbra anderson from our site to her you might find it interesting so i'm posting it below.. .
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Tina,
It is this one: http://www.freeminds.org/stories/lucky.htm
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Irate email
by D wiltshire inbelow is a email i received today.
the person doen't know me except from i think randy watter web site where i post my appeal letter to the body of elders on which i left my email address.
i never told her i wasn't df but she gets facts confussed alot.. anyway i sent the post on barbra anderson from our site to her you might find it interesting so i'm posting it below.. .
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I have a story on Randy's website which results in my receiving about 2-3 emails a month from people who have read it. About 90% are positive, but the other 10% are like this gem (reproduced exactly as received):
in other words,you dont appreciate discipline fromGOd or
anyone.brainwashed? nah,your mind is filthy with what you want to think instead of truth. witnesses do not believe in the termination of anyone whos not one.however they always without fail believe God who says at john4:24 its a necessty to worship with truth. truths aren't all over the map. read psalm 37:29 and ezekial 18:4. there are many many more but those are just a coupla scriptures witnesses uphold even while everyone else ignores them.as im sure you know but seem to have forgotten . its not hidden from anyone! would you rather have your life i yur hands,an imperfect creation or in Jehovah's, a perfect creator's? your mind is part of your life and im sorry you failed to appreciate discerning use of it.bye. response welcome -
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by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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An actual deposit of money in that amount now covers Randi’s funds. Up until two years ago, the $1,000,000 prize was backed by promissory notes of $1,000 or more from individuals who were willing to put their money where Randi’s mouth was. I was one of those supporters for several years, and had $2,000 pledged to the challenge. Each year I had to send in a new, dated agreement The largest single supporter was Penn Gillette (of Penn and Teller) who put up $90,000.
Yes, it is true that Randi (and Houdini) are not scientists. They are slight-of-hand artists who have made their living fooling people on stage. They know what to look for when it comes to trickery – be it intentional or honest-hearted belief on the part of someone that really thinks they have a special power. But never once did either of them claim that their powers came from “beyond.”
Uri Geller will bend a key; Randi will bend a key. Geller claims his bending is done by psychic means. Randi admits that he tricked you and deceived the eye. He also says that if Geller is doing it with supernatural power, he is doing it the hard way.
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risk taking
by joelbear inwell, i'm getting closer and closer to turning my life upside down and breaking away from my 43 years of conservative living.
any risk experiences out there?.
the risk i want to take is leaving banking, living a much more bohemiam life, maybe work as a waiter or bartender or something, go to school, travel, work on my furniture art, write, read, live.. aaaack.
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ChuckD
I don't know about the drag queen idea. Do you have any idea how expensive size 18 tiaras are these days?
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Aliens having some fun??
by Okidok inthis formation appeared as usually suddenly last sunday at wherwell,hampshire.
this can not be called crop circle.
lots of spots are making a pattern of a face.. this image maker is clever whoever it is.. .
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Okidok,
I will tell you that your English is far better than my Norwegian. I was proud of myself for just being able to write a note to the hotel maid in Hammar once telling her not to leave the window open in my room!
However, on the crop circle business let me ask you this; why is it that when there is not a clear reason behind something, people often look to the LEAST likely cause? For example, if my trash cans were tipped over and pawed-through one morning, I could well assume that racoons or some stray dogs did it. I could also think that bears did it. That would be much less likely - but still possible. I could also believe that it was the work of unicorns or elves. Few would give this idea a second thought. The point is, there are likely causes and unlikelky causes, and they can be listed in decreasing liklyhood.
So why is it that something as unliklely as "aliens" is even brought up as a possibility when discussing crop circles? Even the idea of a team of trained monkeys flying stealth helicopters would be MORE likely. After all, there are monkeys (we have all seen them at the zoo), they can be trained to do simple things, so why couln't they learn to make crop circles and fly helicopters? Unlikely? You bet. MORE likely than aliens? Yes.
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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ChuckD
We don't have endless memories - we forget things all the time. Ask anyone to name of all their elementary school teachers, for example. They were there in a classroom with this person for months and months, wouldn't this be something that people would remember if they could? We may remember little significant snippets of our life along the way, but for the most part memories are being lost all the time by us all. I just wish I could pick and choose which ones I wanted to keep, and which I wanted lost forever, with the brain space reclaimed.
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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Hold on - I can't let this one slip past. People use ALL of their brain. The old saying about people using only 2% or 10% or some other small percentage of the brain is not true - it is just one of those things that has been said so many times by so many people that it is taken as fact. Almost everyone believes this, but there is nothing factual to back it up.
More detail: http://www.snopes2.com/spoons/fracture/10percnt.htm