Can you give any actual evidence that this is the case? Or are you just sliding back the normal claim to do an end run around the scientific explanation?
Sorry, Cervaise. Forgot you were half Yeti. 
You demand definitive, verifiable, repeatable proof as regards the spirit world. I think you are just too far advanced intellectually for me to oppose. You win whatever you think is OK with me.
Nicely worded!
Tell you what, lekatt. I’ll keep an open mind and say that spirits might possibly exist if you’ll keep an open mind and say that they might not.
Just finish reading the thread, and I just want to put in my 2 cents:
I don’t care either why you need to “pass” the “information” to us or your logic so far; I just want to note that this “story” does not fit the definition of “information”. It is at best hearsay or gossip, and at worse is spam or rubbish. All the spams I received in my mailbox have the same characteristics: Cannot be independently verified, contains no specific names, conflicting internal logic, “just pass it on” etc…
I thought you might like it.
I lost my wallet, had my running money for the month in it (gas, food at college, etc.). It’s prolly gone taking with it various IDs, including my social security card. I had a lot of trouble reporting it. It’s hard to call the cops this late. So I was super frustrated.
Yet this made me laugh hard enough to cheer me up. Thanks yo.
No, they haven’t.
Roberts was a scam artist. You’ve been fooled.
(hyperventilating) Oh God! Did you ever SEE her? She’d rise from her chair, assuming the stance of Yul Brynner in “The King and I”–y’know, feet apart, squatting somewhat, and with her hands on her hips, and she’d adopt a gruff voice while spouting platitudinous BS. It was HILARIOUS!
I did the board in late high school with some friends strictly on a whim one day. I was the one who suggested it and we started messing around and seemed to be getting answers like how old am I? etc. The board was nailing them. Then a friend of ours dropped in with his brand new girlfriend and she suggested we ask it her middle name. The planchette(sp) went without hesitation to S-U-E, which was her middle name. We were all astounded and one guy got the heebee jeebes and quit.
- I suggested it on a whim.
- No one got up to pee or leave the room
- our friend dropped by unexpectedly
- no one had met his girlfriend before that day.
I don’t know what or how this happened, but I know it wasn’t a rigged game.
Who was touching the planchette?
You mean easy questions you all knew the answers to? Some mystery.
Sue’s a common name. You got lucky.
Me and a buddy, not the friend with the girlfriend.
Once on IRC some dude, never talked talked to that dude before; it might have been a chick for all I know, was going on and on about this dude named “Chris” or or something. Everyone’s like who’s Chris? Joking I was like “his uncle”.
Turned out it was their uncle, and they thought I was a stalker. It was funny.
Your buddy was in on it.
Heh.
Seriously, jakesteele, “Sue?” If you’d guessed correctly that her name was Humperdinck or something, I can understand being spooked. But Sue? That’s got to be one of the five most common middle names for women, up there with Lynn (I know about five of those), Lee, Mary and Elizabeth.
Yeah, middle names were the only way we could distinguish some sets of sisters when I was a kid. Mary Sue, Mary Beth, and Mary Katherine were all different people.
OTOH, when my daughter was in (public) elementary school, she was the ONLY Mary out of hundreds of students. This lapse of what I considered normal, going to Catholic school in the 60s.
Could have happened that way, it is not outside the realm of possibility. I wish I had that kind of luck picking Lottery tickets.
Probability is weird like that. There’s so many weird unlikely things that chances are eventually some of them do happen because there’s just so many. I had no idea who Chris was, but I guessed correct.
Bob’s yer uncle
There was nothing to be in on. As I stated, I was the one who came up with the idea on a whim. It was something neither one of us had done since childhood. Neither one of us left the room. Our buddy came in unannounced shortly after we started.
The only way you could say anyone ‘was in on it’ is to say I’m lying about this event either by making it up or not letting you in on the punch line. One poster said it was because of luck. If it was luck, that means that it happened free of trickery, duplicity or deception.
So am I lying, was it luck or something else? Remember, Ocaam’s Razor is a double edged blade.