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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Since I'm known to be a thread-hijacker, and it's my thread, I don't mind extended discussion of interesting topics tangentially related. (George told me telepathically that he doesn't mind the heart of the issue, but he gets bored when the discussion gets too academic...) What about the issue of "psychics" employed by police departments to help solve criminal cases? |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Police use polygraph tests as well, and they aren't fullproof. Psychics seem to get credit everytime something turns up after a prediction, but there have been several cases where they've been brought in and haven't succeeded. No studies to back it up though, just from what I've heard on the news and from a few other sources. Always a last resort, so that should tell us something about their reliability.
http://www.parascope.com/en/articles/psychicSleuths.htm
Joe Nickell is an expert in these kinds of investigations. Looking for a Miracle is a fantastic book. This is what he has to say about police psychics. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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Here's a quote from Uri Geller (who seems like a trickster...) relating to George:
When you have everything in the world materially, you start to seek for something else. As a matter of fact, George Harrison, just before he died, said something very interesting. I went over to his house (I live about ten minutes away) to bend a spoon for his son's birthday and he said to me: "When are you going to stop all this bloody spoon-bending rubbish? I didn't stay singing 'yeah, yeah, yeah...' with the Beatles forever." - And I was kind of annoyed because I had gone over to entertain his son, you know, to do him a favour, but when I left I realised that he was right...
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/pgeller.htm |
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Merlyn
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When a Pokemon character called Ungeller ?which wielded bent spoons ?was launched in Japan, an unamused Geller slapped Nintendo with a ?0 million lawsuit, for instance.
Geller, naturally, says that it뭩 not about the money ?it뭩 the principle of the thing. 밒 will not let anyone say lies about me. It is for my children, for my reputation and my livelihood.
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That's kind of funny. He was upset that they used a character that resembled his talents in a cartoon, but had no trouble when they paid him money to appear in Marvel comic books in a special issue with Daredevil. "Daredevil" #133 |
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Rteacher
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Rteacher
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Rteacher
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Rteacher
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Rteacher
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Rteacher
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: |
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Looney.
Banging his head repeatedly on the seat of american airlines.
victim of the 60's |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Didn't Harrison do a lot of drugs and own a lot of materialistic things? |
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Rteacher
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What's looney? Admittedly, there was a lot of craziness during that period because of the bad (Viet Nam) war and (bad) drugs, but it undeniably gave rise to a lot of great music, musicians and rock poets (like Dylan...) The Beatles were certainly in the forefront of progressive music, and their creative influence extended globally.
After experimenting and becoming disenchanted with one bogus "Maharishi...Yogi", George Harrison, the most spiritually-oriented member of the group, accepted Krishna Consciousness as presented by Bhaktivedanta Swami to be the most effective means of reviving one's natural love of God (lying dormant in the hearts of all living beings...)
Not finding the answers he was seeking to deep philosophical questions in contemperary Christian dogma, George nonetheless kept his faith in Jesus as the perfect Son of God, but he progressively realized that God the Father is the unlimitedly opulent, all-attractive, and eternally youthful original person, Krishna, who plays on his flute.and tends the cows in the supreme abode, Goloka, Vrindavana...
One of the main points of "My Sweet Lord" is that there is no essential difference between Christ and Krishna - or any bona fide name for the Supreme Lord, who is the source of all personal qualities and endless love. By hearing and chanting transcendental names of God, one's consciousness can become cleansed of material contaminations accumulated over many lifetimes ... Hallelujah!
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa120501a.htm
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa120501b.htm
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa122200a.htm
And the obligatory Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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It seems very clear to me that the brain is totally connected to consciousness. |
Hmm, I don't know how many times I have to make this simple distinction between a correlation and a cause. Don't know how to make it any plainer than the analogy I used in the previous post. Nobody can deny the close links of mind and brain. The issue is whether consciousness is cased by the brain. That is where there is a an absence of evidence. |
If the brain doesn't cause it, what does? There is an absence of evidence because it's an extremely complex enquiry. We do not understand many things - like how the universe's increasingly-rapid expansion is reconcilable with our theory of the Big Bang and gravitation, but that's no reason to overthrow the Big Bang theory, since it remains clear that everything was closer together at some point and presumably at the same place more or less.
It's only a matter of time before science successfully reduces all conscious phenomena to biochemical phenomena, just as it will better understand the universe. Yes, that's a bold prediction, but it was only 1894 when people openly mocked the idea of flying machines. 60 years later, we have the Boeing 747 and the Concorde. Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner, didn't believe that trains could contribute much to speedy transport, believing passengers would die of suffocation. Today, trains reach speeds of 500 km/h. Bold predictions about science are quite justified.....religious bunk is always, well, just bunk, and contributes nothing to the serious study of reality. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Didn't the Beatles' flirtation with transcendental meditation abruptly come to an end when the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi made a pass at Mia Farrow? |
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