When you made a paranormal claim, they really didn’t care about the explanation for your paranormal ability, like where you got it, what mystical entities bestowed them to you or what what lost scientific principle you paranormal power is based on. All they wanted was for you to show evidence of your paranormal ability. Some applications were rejected because the claimants wanted to expound on the origins of their abilities instead of just putting forth what their paranormal ability was and how they intended to test it.
Was that remark addressed to me?
Look here, newbie, you have only 31 posts to your name. Most people have been here much longer than you, and know exactly what I’m talking about.
The matter has been discussed at great length several times, and the cites have been given at length over and over. It’s too much to repeat it for the latecomers.
Actually, Randi has always said that it doesn’t even have to be paranormal. If he doesn’t believe your claim and challenges you, you only need to prove that your claim is true. You don’t need to prove it paranormal.
Yes, newbie, defer to the wisdom of your elders. Peter, for example, has nearly 4,000 posts to his name (and with each one grows even wiser and more powerful!)
Most of them are are a variation on the same anal-retentive diatribe against Randi, which should simplify your search considerably.
For those who don’t know Peter did in fact submit an app to JREF. His claim was determined to be one of a deranged individual and dismissed. He whines about it here frequently.
cite?
Can you prove your allegation that MOST of my posts are a diatribe against Randi:
Almost 4,000 posts, and MOST of them are about Randi?
MOST of them? really?
I put it to you that only a tiny percentage of my posts are about Randi, whereas the likes of Askeptic are far more obsessed with him. However, my posts are far more memorable, though vastly fewer in number.
Is that not true?
Either withdraw your comments, or prove them.
Yes, that a direct personal insult, which is a violation of the rules. I’d report you to the mods, but sadly the mod is Czarcasm, who always ignores such violations when it’s Randi fans doing it.
Heres a challenge for you Peter, find a single thread where I have mentioned Randi that you were not involved in.
Hey I did not say anything about you I just reported what JREF said. Don’t want to link to another MB but folks can certainly look over there to verify or not.
You’re really on a roll here. Why don’t you look at the bottom of the Great Debates page and check out the moderators in charge of this forum.
Yes, easily there is, if fact such courses are being taught outside of college all the time.
As for the benefits, they will learn how to live a peaceful, fulfilling life.
Well, you were fawning over Randi for a dozen pages in this thread before I came in.
And there was a thread not too long ago where you tried to change the subject to Randi and I ignored you. You got a warning from a mod on that occasion, remember.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9215617&postcount=102
Obviously, you have been brooding about this for years, you really hate me for it, and it obsesses you totally.
But for me, it’s a minor point.
No, you invent things to suit your agenda.
The JREF refused to answer my application.
They were not able to find ONE SINGLE THING wrong with it, other than the fact that I would win. You know this, but you willfully make untrue statements.
Go ahead, prove the claim you made. Put up or shut up.
I know for a fact that you can’t do so, because you are knowingly making a false claim.
I notice, Mister Moderator that you have failed to address the point. I say that this guy has both flamed me, and acted like a jerk, which violate the board rules. What are you going to do about it, Mister Moderator?
I think, Mister Moderator, that if he had acted this way in any orther thread you would be issuing him with a warning. But, Mister Moderator, you have a personal agenda, and will ignore it.
Peter Morris, if your only claim that Randi fudges or avoids tests is your particularly odd claim based on a rather distorted view of statements Randi has made in public outside the context of the MDC, then referring to the fact that you have posted odd defenses of your actions multiple times does not count as demonstrating multiple instances in which Randi has fudged, modified, or avoided the actual challenge. If you were so sure that you were going to win, (by engaging in word play that had nothing to do with the paranormal), then you really should have taken the time to submit a lawsuit on the matter.
OK. Having read over the latter half of this trainwreck, I am disinclined to methodically go through and hand out demerits to everyone who let their passions run away with them.
On the other hand, I am tired of wading through the hostility and the thread’s topic was abandoned long ago, so this thread is closed.
Open a new one in the Pit if you feel it necessary.
(Or, someone may open a new one in GD if they think they can construct an OP that will encourage discussion rather than fisticuffs.)
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