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3rd December 2016, 06:44 PM | #361 |
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That's not going to work. At some level, Michel H realises how his claims are utter bunk. He wont go anywhere near an actual test of his claims. He will jump through any number of hoops to avoid letting go of his odd belief. I suppose it's a form of security blanket.
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From what I can tell, he isn't doing these "tests" to actually demonstrate he has telepathy. He is doing them because he hopes that good results will quiet the disturbing voices in his head. I think he fears what the clear results of a quality test would mean.
I don't say this to make fun of him or his mental illness. While I admit his "logic" can really annoy me, I do feel bad for him and wish he would accept the help that professionals and loved ones have tried to give him. |
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A simple telepathy test: which number did I write?
I recently wrote and circled one of the ten numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 on my paper.
I ask you to write it here (if you think you might know it). Thank you for participating. Note: A SHA-512 hash of a complicated sentence containing the selected number is: D612368B32B23789D99BCEB8A25406415D423092779B7219FA 04B0B40BCF01A09A2CB38DF57C243F4DE009987A7FB73798ED 896AEA87CFBC75BF6DF2F0121F1F This hash was generated here: http://www.convertstring.com/Hash/SHA512. |
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Is there an echo in here?
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Edited because AdMan is right.
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It helps to read the whole quote rather than cherry pick. I am certain from reading Daylightstar's quote that he was being sarcastic. And so are you, Michel. You won't fool anyone here with your insistence that this quote was serious.
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You can read it, like any one else. He said that something I posted about my mother was "almost entirely untrue", and I find this aggressive. But this does not remove the fact that he said:
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No, he wasn't, but this does not remove the fact that he said:
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What deilorsux said (in French) was interesting too: https://qc.answers.yahoo.com/questio...2075757AAog8oU |
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Your post-hoc assignation of arbitrary weightings to ensure that results are biased to suit your preconceptions means that none of these 'experiments' help anyone, least of all you.
No, the fact that you're oblivious to sarcasm that is glaringly obvious to every other participant in this thread and has been repeatedly pointed out. Sorry, but NO ONE HERE HEARS YOUR THOUGHTS. Being blunt, sarcasm doesn't register with you and humouring you is unhelpful and does you no favours. Extending this farce is pointless and and not helping you. |
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I think that you should be a little more nuanced.
Your sentence: "If he was incorrect about your mother means he wasn't really hearing your thoughts." is grammatically incorrect, a more (grammatically) correct sentence would be: "If he was incorrect about your mother, this means he wasn't really hearing your thoughts." Does this means you are necessarily completely wrong about any subject you might talk about? No, I don't think so, it sounds too extreme. |
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Why do you refuse to perform the simple Greyhound test? Set out your exact reasoning.
Currently there is not an iota of evidence that anything, you claim happens, actually happens. In fact, you seem to be going out of your way to avoid any basic objective test, on purpose. |
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A statement like "Mr. X is telepathically broadcasting his thoughts to many human beings worldwide" does certainly have a very low a priori probability of being true, but there is (in my opinion) a lot of evidence which actually supports this statement ("X" being me), the statements by Daylightstar, "im" and deilorsux I have cited recently are examples of such evidence (there is more, however).
Regarding the lack of acceptance and recognition of this curious apparent phenomenon, I find it less surprising. It seems hard to accept to many people that I am "telepathic", while they are not. There may be some ego problems. It is curious that, when skeptics attack my work, they generally seem convinced that if "such a phenomenon were true", it would be easily accepted and recognized. But this shows a grave neglect of human psychology, in my opinion. |
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I think that your Greyhound test is very bad and unrealistic. Dogs generally don't obey me (particularly, to do things that annoy them, and could cause them trouble), they react, which is very different. The same thing is true for me when I answer to your posts: I react, but I don't obey.
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"Easy to verify with dogs"
Originally Posted by Michel H, two weeks ago
Originally Posted by Michel H, today
I suggest you stop posting until you can work out what you are actually claiming. |
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My claim is that I have a tendency to telepathically and involuntarily communicate my thoughts to other people and to animals. This phenomenon does not seem to be limited geographically (though I have no evidence for long-distance telepathy involving animals).
A five-year-old who can read would probably understand the meaning of the two quotes above. |
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Results of the test
Thank you for your attention.
The number I wrote was a "2". And the complicated sentence I used to generate the SHA-512 hash posted above was: The number is 2, two ... ç,xà!§é. No number was given in this test. However, P.J. Denyer posted (notice the the two words "and") Donn had posted: It seems to me (though others will perhaps dispute this) that an echo is somewhat related to number two because, when an echo takes place, you have the incident wave, and then the reflected wave. So, the correct number seems to have been suggested twice. Something similar happened on Yahoo Answers, for the same test (in French): https://fr.answers.yahoo.com/questio...6153219AAbdyoG . |
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Michel H, I can't hear your thoughts, but I'll lie about them if you want. Just give me the word.
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Ha ha.
See, I laughed twice! Ha. Ha. Ha. Haaa. Haaaaaa. Aaaaah! |
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Actually, I can read Michel's thoughts. He is thinking right at the moment about his next ISF test. And it will be just as silly as all his previous failures.
I can also predict the future. Michel will post another test about the same time as Groundhog Day. Norm |
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Oh, but look at this Michel. You made a small grammatical slip too. Does this indicate that your claims may also be discounted?
I put it to you that you seize upon such small things as spelling mistakes when you need a reason, however irrelevant or trivial, to overlook discomforting points that people make. I know that you are fully convinced that you broadcast your thoughts but I'm also sure that you are intelligent enough to recognise that there is no logical reasoning which has led you to this belief. Rather it became a belief first and foremost, for which you have since sought confirmation. |
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As P.J.Denyer already said, it's really not a good idea to express yourself in this form. Even if you think it obvious that you only mean that you think what Michel is thinking is easily predictable, he will quote you as if you meant this literally.
<edit to add> For the benefit of Michel, when P.J.Denyer said "Nice one", that was an example of sarcasm. |
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Yes, that's right, I should have written "Does this mean?" instead of "Does this means".
No, not necessarily, that's the point I was making when I was replying to jond. You seem to have curiously reversed my reasoning, with your patronizing tone. |
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To be perfectly honest, I don't give a damn any more. Michel will continue to think what he thinks and analyse any response in any way to support his belief.
I mean ANY response, as shown by his analysis of his latest "poll". For another example, your first sentence contained two words. Therefore he got to you and you heard the word "two" coming out of the ether. Hell, he even claimed I heard his thoughts at one point because I named a completely different country that contained the letters an. The best response is not to respond at all, and I stopped for a while, but many others did not, so who gives a ****, and if he does try to selectively quote me, as he has in the past, I will immediately follow with the full quote. Norm |
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