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Thread: Materialist philosopher admits that there are no rational reason to be a materialist
Post: Materialist philosopher admits that there are no r...
| Here is an paper I found by a materialist philosopher that admits that there are no rational reason to be a materialist.
https://www.newdualism.org/papers/W.Lycan/Du.htm (https://www.newdualism.org...
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Thread: Making a copy of the old Skeptiko forums available online
Post: Making a copy of the old Skeptiko forums available...
| I visited the Skeptiko forum and realised that Alex has deleted one of the subforums, "Consciousness and Science", either by accident or by purpose. I used to lurk on Skeptiko until Psiencequest start...
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Thread: Why has no one won any of the other non-Randi prizes?
Post: RE: Why has no one won any of the other non-Randi ...
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-10-10, 01:43 PM)
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Beyond that, I dislike this either-or idea of winning a cash prize according to particular judges. If Bigelow were to do a prize I'd expect to be able...
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Thread: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Dollar Challenge?
Post: RE: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Doll...
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-09-28, 09:27 PM)
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Randi and other pseudoskeptics are religious fanatics who don't want people to believe in the paranormal. [I don't think this by necessity means they ...
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Thread: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Dollar Challenge?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-09-25, 02:49 AM)
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Just look at history - some of the most supposedly ardent believers of a faith are the most zealous about persecuting heretics.
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I don't think thi...
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Thread: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Dollar Challenge?
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RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-09-26, 02:31 AM)
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With respect to Lulova, there is good evidence for "eyeless sight" from a few paradigms, such as the following: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/...
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Thread: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Dollar Challenge?
Post: RE: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Doll...
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-09-18, 02:34 AM)
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Having read Prescott's take-down of the Randi $1M challenge (https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-james-randi-crosses-over?pid=38483#pid38483) I don...
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Thread: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Dollar Challenge?
Post: Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Dollar C...
| Why did no one ever win the Randi Million Dollar Challenge? I have read several critical articles and blog posts about the challenge, and the psi-encyclopedia article about it, but I have not found an...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
| One thing that I have been thinking about is whether there could have been any possibility that the Copenhagen fire case could be a fraud created after the news about the fire came to Iceland with the...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
| I can understand why many people would think that a medium that once cheats is always a cheater, but consider this: If the investigator has not done everything necessary to make commiting fraud an imp...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-08-26, 05:16 AM)
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Most researchers of mediumship regard the "spirit controls" not as spirits at all but expressions of the medium's unconscious mind. This is because almost n...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-08-24, 03:52 AM)
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There is one very interesting fact I only just now appreciate the significance of. Kvaran in 1910 and possibly Nielsson in 1922 stated that Jensen manufactu...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-08-24, 03:52 AM)
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Something that undermines the cryptomnesia possibility is that Indridi didn't know Danish other than being able to speak a few words. Since he was in Icelan...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-08-24, 03:09 AM)
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Thanks for figuring that out. The original Marcus translation seemed to make sense because one of Jensen's sisters had the name Julie, so the idea that one ...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-08-24, 02:41 AM)
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Something no one has mentioned yet but that creates a gigantic problem for the idea that Indridi proponents were helping him commit fraud is the fact that o...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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RViewer88 Wrote: (2023-08-24, 02:41 AM)
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Something no one has mentioned yet but that creates a gigantic problem for the idea that Indridi proponents were helping him commit fraud is the fact that o...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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MarcusF Wrote: (2023-08-23, 06:46 AM)
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Regarding the street where Jensen lived, I think that during his lifetime he changed his place of living in the city five or six times (can't remember correct...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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MarcusF Wrote: (2023-08-22, 06:24 AM)
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Some of his contemporaries said that Indridi was a skilful imitator and ventriloquist.
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The independent investigator Hannesson was aware of the possibility ...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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MarcusF Wrote: (2023-08-22, 06:24 AM)
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Also, a few notes about Einar Kvaran. In 1924. he was promoting a fraudulent medium Einer Nielsen from Denmark:
“In 1922 in Christiania, Oslo, Nielsen was...
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Thread: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
Post: RE: Indridi Indridason's contact with Emil Jensen
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MarcusF Wrote: (2023-08-22, 06:24 AM)
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These historical facts explain possible motives for promoting Indrid’s “miracles”. People controlling the circle around the medium had a political agenda – in...
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