> On 11 Aug, 12:41, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:40:20 -0700, Shrikeback wrote:

>>> "We discovered that the work of the psychics was not just ludicrous and
>>> laughable. it was sinister and evil....

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>> It's hard to understand what is and is not really going on here.

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>> On the one hand this stuff is so obviously easy to dismiss. Then on the
>> other...
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>> Abstract - In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release,
>> documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford
>> Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena
>> as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence
>> collection" [1]. Thus began disclosure to the public of a two-decade-plus
>> involvement of the intelligence community in the investigation of so-
>> called parapsychological or psi phenomena. Presented here by the
>> program's Founder and first Director (1972 - 1985) is the early history
>> of the program, including discussion of some of the first, now
>> declassified, results that drove early interest.http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html
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>> Which brings up an uncomfortable point if one where to actually think
>> about it but since few do....

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>> The point is any advances in this type of uhh thing would be snatched up
>> and spun, one way or another, by the military or some extension of the
>> military/CIA-ish.

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>> On Sept 10, 2001 the US Defense Sec. announced that the US military could
>> not account for 2.3 trillion dollars in expenditures.

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>> 2.3 trillion dollars.... let's let this sink in for a while... moving on..

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>> I am not saying that they plowed all or part of this money into some
>> psychic program but they certainly could have and no one would be any the
>> wiser. If this seems silly, absurd or, my favorite, 'unthinkable', see:
>> $2,000,000,000,000.00. How 'thinkable' it that!?

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> I think of statistics,
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> little pieces of information can somehow go to make up a big picture,
> beyond the data that is freely available and sourced from day to day
> observations from many different places, using human or mechanical
> drifts, and decisions made from collations and collusions by the
> monitoring group, can frequently be misused or misapplied, outdated.
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> I think that if we had skyhigh data banks and every piece of
> information
> fed thru an artificial intelligence aid...ie mechanical device...what
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> we be able to estimate probabibility for?
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> Remote viewing etc may be the human result in natural biological
> statistical anaysis form?, or accidental, coincidental, occassions
> of freewill. Personally, I think that out of the billions of people
> all over
> the world, at least one of them gets a guess correct each time a
> question is asked?, or a significant dream correct now!
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> If a psychic healer spreading rumours about subjects that they knew
> nothing about or had nothing at all to do with, it wouldnt take long
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> someone checked up on that! after all thats how some people make
> for an easy living,  if however someone else had suggested I have been
> involved in a subject or occupation I had no dealings for/with,
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> it would just HAVE to remain rumours! the difference being
> coincidental
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