On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:06:42AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> A possible experimental protocol which suggests itself, then: after > an occasion when I think I have received such knowledge again, I'll > e-mail you and then you'll fly out here and follow me around until it > either happens or doesn't happen. Or do you have another suggestion?
Yes. The first part sounds fine (or you could post your prediction to the list instead of emailing me privately). After you email the prediction, we can decide how to check the prediction. It will likely not involve me coming there unless and until you describe something that I cannot explain. In other words, I want more convincing that there is something to be studied here before going further with this than email.
Well, the reason I said you'd have to follow me around to witness whether or not it happened is because I don't know of any other way that you would be able to check for sure. It's not like I'm running a psychic hotline where I am claiming to be able to predict that the President will be assassinated or to tell you that you will meet a tall, dark stranger.� I learned about the terrorist attacks on 11 Sep 2001 and the _Columbia_ breaking up the same way everyone else did: I turned on the TV and saw that regular programming had been interrupted for continuous coverage of the breaking news story. It's not my place to receive revelation for anyone but me, or perhaps on occasion concerning a member of my family or someone otherwise close to me. So what I'm asking is what evidence would you find adequate that what I "knew" was going to happen indeed did happen as I "knew" it would, other than having some disinterested party observe me 24/7 until it did (and observe discretely enough so his or her presence did not interfere with events)?
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�Though I suppose I could always introduce you to one (or more) of the people I do know who are tall, dark, and strange . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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