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Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART!

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On 15/02/2017 10:49 AM, benj wrote:
> On 2/13/2017 10:52 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 11/02/2017 9:22 AM, benj wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe you’ve heard of the Amazing Randi ESP prize offering a million
>>> dollars to anyone who proves ESP is real. But that prize is as bogus as
>>> an anonymous HVAC post. The Amazing Randi who put up the money is the
>>> one who gets to decide if you won!  (You didn’t!) Tee Hee!
>>
>> That untrue. The criteria for success were agreed in advance with the
>> person claiming to have psychic powers. Few people progressed beyond
>> that to actually making an attempt. None succeeded.
>>
>> Sylvia.
>>
> You are lying (or mistaken...probably the former) The Amazing Randi
> (just the perfect name for a scientist, don't you think) always retained
> final say over whether conditions were met. Those were the rules not the
> ones you just made up. The rules were carefully designed to only sound
> fair but not actually be fair...you know the way you Libs always try to
> do things.

Can you cite a single case where the agreed objectives were met, but 
Randi deemed them not to have been?

Sylvia.

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UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-10 17:22 -0500
  Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-10 17:25 -0500
    Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-02-10 19:09 -0800
      Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! Emmaline Coots <ealoa@loealoioa.los> - 2017-02-11 10:50 +0000
        Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-11 17:34 -0500
      Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-11 17:37 -0500
    Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-11 17:44 -0500
      Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-13 16:31 -0500
        Isn't this sad? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-13 16:42 -0500
          Re: Isn't this sad? "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-02-13 16:14 -0800
            Re: Isn't this sad? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-14 18:32 -0500
              Re: Isn't this sad? "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-02-14 20:10 -0800
  Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! alsor@interia.pl - 2017-02-11 11:28 -0800
    Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-11 18:08 -0500
      Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! alsor@interia.pl - 2017-02-11 18:04 -0800
  Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-14 14:52 +1100
    Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-14 18:49 -0500
      Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-15 12:06 +1100
        Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-02-14 20:43 -0500
          Re: UP TO $7,000,000 IF YOU ARE SMART! Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-15 13:09 +1100

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