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chuck, 2017-08-18, 08:17 PM

Can we trim it back so only that last quote is included with no nesting?


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Stupid Chicken


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Lucid dream experiences


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Brian, 2017-08-18, 12:34 PM

I am interested in hearing about dreams people have had where they knew they were dreaming and were able to control the dream to some degree.

[color=#141414][size=small]I have had a number of dreams where for a brief second I knew I was dreaming but I dri

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Synchronicities


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Brian, 2017-08-18, 12:30 PM

I started a thread on Skeptiko about synchronicities and it proved quite popular so I thought I would start it again here.  This was my opening thread:

[color=#141414][size=small]I wanted to start a personal synchronicities thread because I have just been

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A spooky poke in the arm


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Brian, 2017-08-18, 12:24 PM

I copied this over from Skeptiko.  It happened many years ago when I lived in England.

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It was 1998 and I had separated from my first wife and moved into a bedsit. The house was quite old and there were three other people living there. I lived downstairs next

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sense of vision


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jkmac, 2017-08-18, 10:18 AM

In the 1981 Peter Ramster documentary located in this subsection, a female subject was regressed back to a previous life in Germany. There are lots of evidential pieces to the story, but the one I wanted to focus on here has to do with whether she needs to use her glasses to see.

As background- m

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Mass Hysteria


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Jim_Smith, 2017-08-17, 10:18 PM

Mass hysteria is sometimes used by skeptics to explain belief in paranormal phenomenon. Here is an article that discusses the phenomenon. (The article uses an example from the current political situation in the US. I hope people don't think I am trying to sneak in a political discussion ... I have t

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Trees with “Crown Shyness” Mysteriously Avoid Touching Each Other


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Sci, 2017-08-17, 09:23 PM

Trees with “Crown Shyness” Mysteriously Avoid Touching Each Other

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[color=#000000][size=medium][font="Fakt, AvenirNext-Medium,"][font="Tiempos, Georgia, serif"]If you look up to

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The Challenges of a Heterdox Real


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Sci, 2017-08-17, 07:27 PM

Just something I've been pondering...how do we deal with intermittently replicable phenomenon & how do we know when we are being deceived by forces capable of manipulating reality?

Something Gordon White said (quoted?) stuck with me - [size=small][i]"Maybe the

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Strange glitch


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Chris, 2017-08-17, 04:56 PM

I just tried to post on the interview thread. Instead of the post appearing I was taken back to the first page of the thread. I tried again but was told I'd already posted it. I posted a slightly different version, and then the original appeared together with the second version. I deleted the second

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