# Hastur, what do you have against James Randi? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2001, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402 "2001-04-26T14:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Fletch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/121 "2001-04-28T23:43:47Z")
\*\* [/QUOTE] No, they just don’t like my answers. \*\* [/QUOTE] What answers? ---
**Author:** ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/122 "2001-04-29T00:22:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by berdollos \* > > \*\*can duplicate a “psychic” event doesn’t disprove that it occurred. > > > > There is a fundamental logical flaw in Randi’s disproofs. > > > > All he is proving is that the phenomenon observed could have been produced by trickery. > > > > This is true of most scientific data. The results COULD HAVE been faked. \*\* > > Randi does not prove that the effect in question does not exist. He merely provides and alternative, rational explanation as to why it _seems_ like the effect in question exists. > > Haj \*\* I agree with Haj, who agress with me. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/123 "2001-04-29T00:31:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Oy vey. Why don’t you get a life, Spoofe. Your vendetta is as tired as your website. Again, more demonstrations of his utmost of maturity. He can’t fight my points with arguments (come on, shithead, try it), so he has to resort to petty insults. I wonder when he’s going to say “Your mama”. Are your beliefs so fragile that you lose your temper at the slightest provocation, Hastur? As for my “vendetta”… we fight Ignorance here. You, sir, are Ignorance Incarnate. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/124 "2001-04-29T01:30:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Oy vey. Why don’t you get a life, Spoofe. Your vendetta is as tired as your website. > > Again, more demonstrations of his utmost of maturity. He can’t fight my points with arguments (come on, shithead, try it), so he has to resort to petty insults. I wonder when he’s going to say “Your mama”. > > Are your beliefs so fragile that you lose your temper at the slightest provocation, Hastur? > > As for my “vendetta”… we fight Ignorance here. You, sir, are Ignorance Incarnate. \*\* Actually, your role model, Techchick went to “your mama” very fast. You are a boor, Spoofe. Go back to your classes and get an education, you need it. BTB, you claiming I make petty insults is like Nixon claiming others played dirty tricks. You are SUCH a hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/125 "2001-04-29T02:24:01Z")
Why do you keep coming back to this thread **Hastur**? To defend your honor? You are not doing a very good job. Let’s try to do something new and interesting. I’ll asking a question, and you answer it! Here goes! Why should _I_ (or anybody else for that matter) prove _your_ beliefs to myself? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/126 "2001-04-29T02:53:11Z")
And, Hastur, I note that you have yet to address the questions asked of you. Are you a liar? Yes. Are you full of shit? Yes. Would you know spirituality if it raped you up the ass? No. > [@](#): > > you claiming I make petty insults is like Nixon claiming others played dirty tricks. You are SUCH a hypocrite. Mm-hmm… You DO know the difference between using “harsh language” whilst making an argument, and using “harsh language” whilst making NO argument, right? And you DO know that personal insults are a banable offense on these boards, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/127 "2001-04-29T02:56:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\*And, Hastur, I note that you have yet to address the questions asked of you. > > Are you a liar? Yes. Are you full of shit? Yes. Would you know spirituality if it raped you up the ass? No. > > > [@](#): > > > > you claiming I make petty insults is like Nixon claiming others played dirty tricks. You are SUCH a hypocrite. > > Mm-hmm… You DO know the difference between using “harsh language” whilst making an argument, and using “harsh language” whilst making NO argument, right? > > And you DO know that personal insults are a banable offense on these boards, right? \*\* Then you have just as much to worry about as I do. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/128 "2001-04-29T03:01:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > \*\*Why do you keep coming back to this thread **Hastur**? To defend your honor? You are not doing a very good job. > \*\* Because I was cajoled back into the thread. I don’t think most of you are doing a good job either. The arrogance of slurring someone and then being critical of them when they return with equal and opposite force? I am astounded by the immense double standard. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/129 "2001-04-29T03:04:29Z")
> [@](#): > > No, they just don’t like my answers. Hastur, you still haven’t answered the basic question at the start of the OP. I don’t know how you have managed to convince yourself that you have. Please complete this sentence: James Randi is spiritually dead because . . . A corrolary to that question can be answered with the following sentence: I don’t have to respond to quotes by James Randi because . . . That is all this thread is about. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/130 "2001-04-29T03:18:28Z")
I told myself to stay out of this but: > [@](#): > > I don’t think most of you are doing a good job either. The arrogance of slurring someone and then being critical of them when they return with equal and opposite force? I am astounded by the immense double standard. Are you serious? I am sitting hear eating a burrito, and can’t keep it down over that remark! Whaaaaaaaahahaha! To he who slurs, deal with exactly what you push on others and then some…can’t take? Don’t dole it out. Sorry, I hadda do this, it was too easy…to point out the strange irony in that quote. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/131 "2001-04-29T04:44:32Z")
:rolleyes: Great. The peanut gallery has spoken. Have fun in the thread, kids. Where she is I am not. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/132 "2001-04-29T04:50:17Z")
Oh, good. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/133 "2001-04-29T05:02:30Z")
Hey, Tech’ems, can I marry you? That way, I wouldn’t have to deal with the fatherjohn-level stupidity that Hastur is remarkably in possession of. Hastur, you might as well get used to this… in six months, you haven’t learned a single, goddamned thing. Grow up, you dickhead… I may be younger than most on this board, but you have the mental maturity of a six year old. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/134 "2001-04-29T06:21:31Z")
Has Hastur left forever yet _again_? My nickle says he’ll be back within 48 hours. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/135 "2001-04-29T06:31:06Z")
I’ll see your nickle and raise you a nickle that he’ll be back in 36 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/136 "2001-04-29T07:19:06Z")
I’ll add $100 to the pot to use as payment to techchick to post everywhere he goes. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/137 "2001-04-29T07:38:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Has Hastur left forever yet again? One can only hope. If he can’t stick up for his dementia-oriented tomfoolery, at least he can make himself scarce. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/138 "2001-04-29T07:51:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manservant Hecubus \* > \*\*I’ll add $100 to the pot to use as payment to techchick to post everywhere he goes. > \*\* Evil! Evil! Evil! Evil! ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/139 "2001-04-29T10:11:07Z")
Perhaps Hastur can perform some “magick” on the SDMB server. Never mind, the bullshit might load too quick, and he would become a Randi convert. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402/140 "2001-04-29T14:09:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manda JO \* > \*\* > Please complete this sentence: > > James Randi is spiritually dead because . . . > > A corrolary to that question can be answered with the following sentence: > > I don’t have to respond to quotes by James Randi because . . . > \*\* And one more: What the hell does “spiritually dead” mean, anyway? Are you saying “He’s got no soul. He’s literally an undead creature from beyond the grave…like a zombie? He hisses at sunlight and a cross will make him shrivel up and turn to dust”? Are you saying “He’s got no soul. He can’t sing the blues”?Are you saying “He’s not as sensitive and delicate as me”? Are you saying “He can’t appreciate art, and rainbows and butterflies?” Please complete the following sentence: By “spiritually dead” I mean that Randi… Fenris [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hastur-what-do-you-have-against-james-randi/63402.md?page=8)