On 5/26/2019 9:28 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 05:36:39PM -0700, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
wrote:
On 5/25/2019 8:12 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
researchers should train their methodolody on something that should be
much easier, like, say, proving existence of romantic love? In a lab,
with cameras etc. And, of course, give a prize to those who can
successfully demonstrate it on themselves.
Since each claimant to the prize got to specify themselves what
would demonstrate their supernatural ability, people claiming to
love one another would simply say having passionate sex would prove
it and then proceed to demonstrate it.
Really. I was thinking about something less violent and more along the
lines of Baucis and Philemon.
If you are 18+ I would recommend that you watch even one adult
movie, for educational purposes.
But, if you are serious, how are the claimant(s) going to prove the
passionate-ness of his/her/their (we should not prejudice against
onanists) act? By counting shoutings per minute? broken bones?
You're missing the point. Randi asked claimants what they could do. So
if they said they could demonstrate the existence of passionate love by
having passionate sex, the Randi would say Ok show me. But when he did
that for supernatural claims the claimants consistently failed to do the
thing they said they could. Whether it would prove the existence of the
supernatural was moot, because they didn't do it.
Brent
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