[meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!

[Steve Dunklee]

Faith! The do all placebo. The sugar pill that cures disease. We all know placebo's work because the person believes them to work. Can dowsing or any of many other devices be any different? Cheers Steve dunklee

On Sun Oct 17th, 2010 11:37 PM EDT Darren Garrison wrote:

>Rich, you could really save yourself some typing time by just using this site:
>
>http://randomtextgenerator.com/
>
>(Unless--that is-- you already are.)
>
>On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:28:06 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Just as the active software on a laptop limits powerfully the possible 
>>offerings of the global Internet, strongly held personal beliefs and habits 
>>of conscious experience strongly limit the field of awareness and the range 
>>of acceptible experience.
>>
>>Thus, skeptics re the paranormal refrain from deliberate experiential 
>>personal exploration of traditions re expanded awareness and nonstandard 
>>belief and experience -- the only route to personal conviction in realms 
>>that are "hypernormal", ie radically not normal by mainstream scientific 
>>consensus.
>>
>>A Ouija board device will indeed function well in detecting explosives and 
>>terrorists, and therefore also at detecting, by nonresponse, situations 
>>involving skeptics who set up simulations in which weapons and explosives 
>>are not carried by committed  terrorists bent on impending suicide and 
>>murder.
>>
>>All Ouija board devices work according to the accepting faith and conviction 
>>of the user, for each person is in fact a unique individualized forever 
>>evolving expression of the totality of the single "hyperreality".
>>
>>
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