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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

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  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

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  Village Idiot

  
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

  1. social
  2. current

  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

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  Village Idiot

  https://youtu.be/GJVTHIyyM2E
  
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

  1. social
  2. current

  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

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  Village Idiot

  Unsure,
  

  Packing peanuts moving do not conclusively prove it was the psychic using their breath. Packing peanuts are little bundles of static electricity.
  

  There was an even better expose of the same 'breather' that proved definitively that he was ricocheting air through his hands.There were two investigators who invited the psychic to participate in an experiment. There was also a hidden camera as well.

  The psychic did a one up on the phone directory thing and decided to his thing on a dollar bill that was standing on a pin below (Made it easy to twirl around). It was to be covered by a small upside down fishbowl on top of a table.

  They were really curious since that would have been an enormous feat but they still knew it had to be his breath. They were going to put directional microphones to pick up on the sound of any breathing. The psychic refused. So they went ahead and he did his hand thing and the bill twirled around inside the upside down fishbowl.

  After the investigators saw that they took him out of the room temporarily and then snuck in and turned the fishbowl around. They realized that small simple fishbowls like the one used would be uneven at the top. That would create a thin air gap on one side that in theory could allow some of the breath to come in. By switching to the side of the glass that had no air gap they would make it impossible for him to extend his hands sufficiently to deflect the air stream.

  The psychic came back into the room, began his performance, and failed. He said in exclamation that "there was something wrong". Upon saying that he kicked the table in anger. Case closed. Real Skeptics never give up.
  
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  Confused trying to understand JW GF or soon to be EX

  by James87 in

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  i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.

  i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.

  it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.

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  Village Idiot

  James87,

  Part of me feels like I have failed and a part of me feels relieved and lucky that I didn't marry her.
  

  Celebrate the second part.
  
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  Confused trying to understand JW GF or soon to be EX

  by James87 in

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  i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.

  i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.

  it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.

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  Village Idiot

  James87,
  

  She left before so odds are she can again.
  

  Why did she leave in the first place? It's usually for "fornication". Did she get disfellowshipped (excommunicated)? When that is the case they still remain believers but feel enormous guilt and long to get back into it. You should ask her why she wants to return after having been out for a while.
  
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  Memorial Bread-Break a piece off or eat whole?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

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  question for some of the old-timers in the congregation.

  did those who professed to be of the anointed and partook of the bread, did they break off a piece of the bread and then eat it; or did they take the whole piece and eat it?

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  Village Idiot

  TakeOffTheCrown, I'm curious to know why you're interested in this.
  
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  Memorial Bread-Break a piece off or eat whole?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

  1. watchtower
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  question for some of the old-timers in the congregation.

  did those who professed to be of the anointed and partook of the bread, did they break off a piece of the bread and then eat it; or did they take the whole piece and eat it?

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  Village Idiot

  Blondie,

  VI, I don't know about the congregations you attended, but the various ones I attended, the unleavened bread was like hard cracker and had to be broken to get a piece to eat.
  

  My apologies for the misunderstanding, I should have said crackers. I must have been thinking about the original Last Supper where it was referred to as bread.
  
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

  1. social
  2. current

  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

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  Village Idiot

  James Randi once exposed a "psychic" who was supposedly able to turn pages in an open phone directory simply by waving his hand over them. When Randi (In front of an audience) saw that he said that he didn't know exactly how he was doing it but the psychic must have been using his breath deflecting the air from his mouth to his hands. The air would then ricochet from his hands, who were close to the phone book, thus riffling the pages. Now mind you, this guy was not huffing and puffing - you could not see even his cheeks puffing up but Randi found out that he was an expert Kung Fu artist who had trained himself in breath control. He must have been spurting hard bursts of air without the appearance of it.

  What Randi did to expose the trick was to lay Styrofoam peanuts around the phone directory so that if it was his breath, instead of some mysterious psychic power, those Styrofoam peanuts would also move.

  The "psychic" was flustered, he did not even try to move those pages. He lamely said that the static electricity from the peanuts would interfere with the pages turning.

  I miss James Randi.
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  copying vhs videos to digital

  by dogon in

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  my wife's mother has alzheimers.

  she asked if i would convert her mothers vhs to digital.

  no problem.

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  Village Idiot

  Thanks, oppostate!
  
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  Memorial Bread-Break a piece off or eat whole?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  question for some of the old-timers in the congregation.

  did those who professed to be of the anointed and partook of the bread, did they break off a piece of the bread and then eat it; or did they take the whole piece and eat it?

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  Village Idiot

  Has anyone of you ever observe a governing body member partake of the emblems?
  

  That would have been a thrill.