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20th January 2016, 03:53 AM | #1 |
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Million Dollar Challenge has been terminated.
So I read that the million Dollar challenge is terminated –is that true?
http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html |
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20th January 2016, 03:55 AM | #2 |
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Didn't we know this was coming?
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20th January 2016, 04:44 AM | #3 |
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20th January 2016, 05:01 AM | #4 |
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The Internet Wayback Machine records the "termination" announcement on the MDC page to have been made last September, same time as the last JREF status update that Brian-M quotes (http://web.randi.org/home/jref-status).
Previously, the MDC page held instructions and a link to the MDC application form. I think the "termination" refers specifically to the previous application process. JREF has been known to be somewhat cryptic/vague in its online statements. |
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20th January 2016, 05:01 AM | #5 |
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That is too bad. It's something I often point people who are so sure of supernatural nonsense.
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20th January 2016, 05:03 AM | #6 |
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Well to my understanding “terminate” means to stop, discontinue—put an end. bring to an end. "he was advised to terminate the contract" synonyms: bring to an end, end, bring to a close/conclusion, close, conclude, finish, stop, put an end to, put a stop to, wind up, discontinue, break off, cease, cut short, bring to an untimely end, abort; |
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20th January 2016, 05:08 AM | #7 |
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The application process has been terminated. If you want to quibble, contact the JREF. This board is no longer associated with them.
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20th January 2016, 05:12 AM | #8 |
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Either way, it's gone unclaimed long enough that it proved its point.
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20th January 2016, 05:13 AM | #9 |
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You think a psychic could prove they're the real deal by having applied BEFORE the end of the Challenge.
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20th January 2016, 05:24 AM | #10 |
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The problem was that, mostly, only the nutjobs applied, and frequently either refused or were mentally unable to distill their claims to a testable statement. JREF wasted a lot of time with these while the popular paranormal advocates that JREF would have preferred to test disparaged the challenge and stayed far away from it, like any fraud would.
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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20th January 2016, 06:35 AM | #17 |
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You have paranormal powers but can't find the link on the page you've been pointed at?
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20th January 2016, 07:10 AM | #19 |
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Guess that will free up your Thursdays, then.
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20th January 2016, 07:24 AM | #20 |
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I think it was necessary ... It seems the new application procedure will start AFTER the claimants have already convinced a TV News crew AND have affidavits to back your claims
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Proverbs 10 contains a number of good maxims and here are a few which I think are quite appropriate:
A wise son make a glad father, But a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. The wise of heart will receive commandments, But a babbling fool will come to ruin. On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found. But a a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense. The lips of the righteous feed many, But fools die for lack of sense. |
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