Posts by skeptic2

i have, as well as with emails and especially text messages.. do you think there's any chance this could be real-that there is a valid, unspoken connection between people who reach out to each other?

It happened to me! I picked up the phone to call my grandma and there she was! The phone had not even rung! What makes it strange is that we never called each other! Sounds terrible, but we saw them almost every weekend!

That's not at all strange. It might be strange if it happened to you every day, or every week even - assuming average rates of receiving phone calls, diversity of callers etc.

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Telephone Telapathy

by lonelysheep in

jw
friends

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060905/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_telepathy

has anyone ever experienced this?

i have, as well as with emails and especially text messages.. do you think there's any chance this could be real-that there is a valid, unspoken connection between people who reach out to each other?

skeptic2

Personally, I think the "scientist" was just trying to get noticed.

Show me one experiment by Robert Sheldrake with notable results, and I'll show you the flaws in how the experiment was constructed. He fails to prove one thing (telephone/email telepathy) and then he's moving onto something else (mobile phone text message telepathy). Why not do more conclusive research on the original findings - reason being (IMO) that more conclusive research would destroy the results.

Its possible that there are many mysteries that we dont fully understand about our exhistence.

That's true. But mysteries are by definition mysterious because we don't understand them, and you can't make conclusions (e.g. telepathy) from a position of not understanding.

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Telephone Telapathy

by lonelysheep in

jw
friends

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060905/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_telepathy

has anyone ever experienced this?

i have, as well as with emails and especially text messages.. do you think there's any chance this could be real-that there is a valid, unspoken connection between people who reach out to each other?

skeptic2

Probability pretty much guarantees that everyone will have experienced this effect (except those with either no phones, no friends, or both).

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Telephone Telapathy

by lonelysheep in

jw
friends

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060905/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_telepathy

has anyone ever experienced this?

i have, as well as with emails and especially text messages.. do you think there's any chance this could be real-that there is a valid, unspoken connection between people who reach out to each other?

skeptic2

I've heard its because you only remember the times where you had been thinking of someone who had then got in touch, but you don't remember all the times you had thought of someone who doesn't get in touch. Moomin

That's called counting the hits and forgetting the misses.

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Telephone Telapathy

by lonelysheep in

jw
friends

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060905/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_telepathy

has anyone ever experienced this?

i have, as well as with emails and especially text messages.. do you think there's any chance this could be real-that there is a valid, unspoken connection between people who reach out to each other?

skeptic2

This isn't news, it's just fluff.

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Great news. The WTS did not commit spiritual prostitution with UN.

by thirdwitness in

http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/

skeptic2

Apologies for not reading all 18 pages... but can someone clarify my simple understanding:

Watchtower says UN = beast

Watchtower associates with beast to borrow a library book

Is that right?

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Human skeletons found in Flores dated back 18,000 years!

by badboy in

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they have found `fossils' of a new human species in liang ???

cave.. only1.5 metres in height, this is of the most exciting disveries to came from east asia.. i wonder what jws will make of this one?

skeptic2

Microcephaly/microencephaly (both spellings are valid) is the condition of having a small skull and underdeveloped brain.
This argument was used by some with Homo Floresiensis, the implication being that the skeleton is not an adult, but a small child with microencephaly which therefore looks roughly proportional to an adult. With a good enough skeleton, microencephaly can be discounted, because it can be determined that the skeleton is of an adult.