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Loss Leader said:
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Michel H said:
You cannot find or point out any sarcastic element in these exceptional posts
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I certainly can. Note my post:

Loss Leader said:
I am seeing a 4 very clearly. It's almost as though I had written it myself.
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I had just written the number 4. I typed it right ther between "a" and "very." When I said it was like I had written it myself, I meant to refer to the fact that I had just written it myself.

That's sarcasm. It was a joke based on the word "seeing." I did see a 4 in that I was staring at it on my computer screen. I did not see it in my mind and choose to type it. I typed it quite randomly and then joked about having typed it.
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Loss, I remain very skeptical about your latest explanation regarding your great post of August 2013. You are now saying:
"When I said it was like I had written it myself, I meant to refer to the fact that I had just written it myself."

However, you did not write: I am seeing a 4 very clearly. It's as though I had written it myself. , you wrote: I am seeing a 4 very clearly. It's almost as though I had written it myself. (bolding by me)
The word "almost" makes a big difference. It made your post entirely appropriate to describe a telepathic phenomenon, which, even if it is strong (and well tolerated), will generally not make an impression on the brain as vivid and strong as normal vision through the eyes.

Also, I find it fairly normal, and to-be-expected, that a Moderator on a forum of an Educational Foundation (remember, it was still the JREF forum then), want to tell the truth at least once. It seems also to be part of your personality to behave in a somewhat unexpected (or provocative?) way (?), with apparently a social sensitivity. The JREF was frequently struggling with psychics, or pseudo-psychics, and it may have seemed a smart move to demonstrate to all its open-mindedness.
 
Nonpareil said:
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Michel H suffers from schizophrenia. ... It isn't that he doesn't believe people are being sarcastic in supporting him; he literally cannot process that idea.
... He is a schizophrenic who needs medication ...
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Wikipedia has an interesting article about Denial in Psychoanalysis:
Denial, in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true.[1] The same word, and also abnegation (German: Verneinung), is used for a psychological defense mechanism postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.
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Wikipedia has also an article about "Defense mechanisms". I quote:
... The psychiatrist George Eman Vaillant introduced a four-level classification of defence mechanisms:
Level I - pathological defences (psychotic denial, delusional projection) ...
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Telepathy test: which number did I write?

Hi, I invite you to participate in a simple telepathy test.

At about 10:50 p.m. on this Thursday April 2 (Brussels, Belgium time), I wrote carefully one of the three numbers: "1", "2", "3" on my sheet of paper, and I surrounded it with a circle. Then, I wrote it again twice.

I shall repeat this number (which was obtained using a random number generator) from time to time during this test.

I ask you to write it here (if you think you know it, even with a doubt). You may also answer "I don't know".

So, your answer should be one of the three numbers: "1", "2", "3", or "I don't know".

I would also appreciate a little comment; you may say, for example, how confident you are in your answer.

Thank you for participating
 
1 number out of 3 ? 33% alone to get it by chance ? Maybe even more if you add some psychological bias (I know some number are favored by people not sure for 1,2,3 though).

Try a number between 1 and 100.000.

My answer : 42 naturally.
 
Aepervius said:
1 number out of 3 ? 33% alone to get it by chance ? Maybe even more if you add some psychological bias (I know some number are favored by people not sure for 1,2,3 though).

Try a number between 1 and 100.000.

My answer : 42 naturally.
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Aepervius, if many people answer 1 or 2 or 3, I think it's possible to achieve a pretty good "statistical strength".
 
If we do a bunch of little tests like this with small sample sizes where the results are physiologically skewed, there is a very high chance of having a result where more than 50% of respondents pick the right answer.

That being said, I'm compelled to pick 23.
 
  • I don't know.
  • I am completely confident about my answer.
Since I have not received any psychic communications from anybody, ever, there is no way for me to know, so I don't know.


PS As I mentioned in at least one of your previous threads on this subject, I am now thinking hard about my phone number and a code word. If anyone phones the number and says the code word I will still willingly give them £1,000.
 
I realize that people feel it might be amusing to respond, or might help Michel H to reach a logical and perhaps helpful conclusion about his telepathy powers. I can only urge posters to look at the history of Michel H's telepathy threads and to act appropriately. My own decision is that responding has not been helpful.
 
Giordano said:
I realize that people feel it might be amusing to respond, or might help Michel H to reach a logical and perhaps helpful conclusion about his telepathy powers. I can only urge posters to look at the history of Michel H's telepathy threads and to act appropriately. My own decision is that responding has not been helpful.
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But you are responding nevertheless...
 
Jack by the hedge said:
  • I don't know.
  • I am completely confident about my answer.
Since I have not received any psychic communications from anybody, ever, there is no way for me to know, so I don't know.


PS As I mentioned in at least one of your previous threads on this subject, I am now thinking hard about my phone number and a code word. If anyone phones the number and says the code word I will still willingly give them £1,000.
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So, it sounds like you are still open to a possibility of telepathy. But, of good telepathy only ;)
 
Michel H said:
So, it sounds like you are still open to a possibility of telepathy. But, of good telepathy only ;)
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Why "good" telepathy? I don't understand.

I'm open to evidence. Telepathy has a 100% record of failing to bring any. I don't for one moment think telepathy really exists, any more than the Loch Ness monster, but I invite you to present your evidence.
 
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