On Aug 11, 7:53Â am, "bigflet...@
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>> On Aug 11, 12:05Â am, "bigflet...@
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>>> The final episode of the search for Australias best psychic had a very
>>> interesting finale.
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>>> The final task was for the remaining three was to find the body of a
>>> murder victim, Peter Falcone. A very well publisised crime under the
>>> lable of the "backpackers murder".
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>>> They each had hundreds of km2 to look at, and each took a helicopter
>>> ride, and each homed in to an area of a few km2. The police decided
>>> not to follow up , thank heavens.
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>>> Being such a high profile case, imagine what would have happened if
>>> the body had been found on national tv?The disruption would have been
>>> enormous.
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>>> What is interesting though,is the number of US police departments who
>>> are willing to acknowledge the validity of the help of some pychics
>>> have produced, on documentaries such as 'psychic detectives', and the
>>> fact the individual officers are willing to be identified on camera.
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>>> BOfL
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>> "We discovered that the work of the psychics was not just
>> ludicrous and laughable. it was sinister and evil....None of it
>> ever led anywhere except to despair and disappointment,
>> misery and confusion." --John Tate, father of Genette Tate
>> who disappeared in 1978 (quoted in Investigating the
>> Unexplained, p. 42)
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> And not long befor that, anyone foolish enough to demonstrate such
> capabilities were burned at the stake.
The issue is that nobody _has_ demonstrated such
"capabilities". The people who burned at the stake
were suffering from the same delusion as those who
turn to psychics: i.e. that they are anything but con
artists.
> The US is heavily influenced by
> the church, and even some jesuits I have known (one spends much time
> in the Vatican), dont deny, but actually refer to such behaviour as
> being in league with the devil.
Of course. Supersition is superstition. The issue is,
we can test such alleged capabilities scientifically.
The great magician Randi (who had wide experience
creating illusions of magic himself, though without the
fraudulent claim that they were real) has offered a
cash award to anyone who can demonstrate psychic
abilities in a controlled setting. The result? Nobody
has ever claimed that award.
> I remember a couple of decades ago , talking to a friend about the
> exciting discoveries I had made looking up Pythagorean mysticism. He
> was also interested, until we met once again, when he informed me he
> was warned off by the priest for similar reasons.
Sinister and evil are the words I would apply to priests
of any religion. I would never trust my kid alone with
one.
> Sinister and evil would be reminiscent of such descriptions.
I will point out that the quote I pasted above is referring
to the evil and sinister nature of defrauding the gullible
and desperate who want to know where their children
have gone.
> Nat Goe channel shows a number of such programmes and as I said, there
> are quite a few police who acknowledge such help, and are happy to
> identify themselves. Based on your view, they should be fired.
You believe everything you see on TV?
Anyway, my view is that cops are not usually
hired or fired based on rationality or intelligence.
Cops who are too gullible to the guiles of "psychics,"
however, are a special breed of the incompetent.
