PartSkeptic’s Thread for Predictions and Other Matters of Interest

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abaddon said:
In more general terms, I find it shocking how the "bleevers" take a certain glee in the death of thousands. It is about as low as any person could sink.
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You haven't changed, have you? Still making assumptions that are false in order to discrete and smear posters whose views you disagree with.:boggled:
 
PartSkeptic said:
If there is a God, what would he do to limit the population growth more quickly than current limiting factors but much more quickly?
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Smite almost everyone with thunderbolts? Another world-wide flood? Or just miraculously render 80% of people sterile, that would probably be the most merciful way to do it.

ETA: asteroid strike! Of course!

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You haven't changed, have you? Still making assumptions that are false in order to discrete and smear posters whose views you disagree with.:boggled:
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So if the death rate is much less than you're predicting you will be delighted, and will come back here and say how glad you are to have been proven wrong about how God talks to you etc? I look forward to it.
 
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Pixel42 said:
Smite almost everyone with thunderbolts? Another world-wide flood? Or just miraculously render 80% of people sterile, that would probably be the most merciful way to do it.

ETA: asteroid strike! Of course!


So if the death rate is much less than you're predicting you will be delighted, and will come back here and say how glad you are to have been proven wrong about how God talks to you etc? I look forward to it.
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I do not need ego boosts. Being right or wrong does not change who I am or affect my self-worth. If I am wrong, I am wrong - but there were reasons for me wrong. Same as when I am right.

You are right that 80% sterilization would be a miracle and hence proof of God which is not allowed. Asteroid and other disasters would not affect the social fabric in the required way. A pandemic is often seen as God's vengeance, and I wonder if it is not a punishment of sorts for arrogance and greed and straying. BTW - I took punishment as a natural normal growing up process as long as it was not abuse.

Last night wife asked me how bad it is going to get, and how much the world will change. I realized she never really believed me when I said it would be really bad and the world would change. She is regretting not taking my advice a year ago to sell her factory and take what she considered a low offer. I did not want to push her in case I was wrong in the timing. And I see from others I have chatted to that they do not think that God spoke to me and that I have made a valid prediction.

People have become complacent and used to the ability of man and science to solve all problems. When the die-off starts really biting, people will still think that the worst is over. How bad does it have to get before you and other people on this forum say "Gee. He may have been right."

You will know we are at the end of the disaster when people get much more spiritual and religious without being cultist or extreme. When people have a calm sense of acceptance of their place in the universe. Whe there rich elite are gone, and replaced with a kinder gentler leadership.
 
Mader Levap said:
Um, if someone gets their information straight from God, shouldn't they have 100% hit rate?
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I only get some information, and in a very indirect and weak manner. I cannot be sure. And some information is distorted by my own ego and personality. It is sometimes hard to tell the difference. There is enough to be able to act upon.
 
PartSkeptic said:
How bad does it have to get before you and other people on this forum say "Gee. He may have been right."
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The problem is that predicting a pandemic simply isn't that impressive, especially when the prediction doesn't include specific details like the date and nature of the pandemic. It was bound to happen eventually.

[To answer your earlier question of what I did to prepare for it, knowing that it was bound to happen eventually, the answer is nothing. I'm sitting here with a fully stocked larder and freezer, waiting it out, having had no difficulty buying everything I need. How did all the preparations you did make your situation now better than mine? The only thing I might have done in addition is move the quarter of my savings that are in the stock market into cash, which I seriously considered in February but eventually decided against. I knew the value would drop in the short term but it's money I'm unlikely to need for at least 10 years, and I'm gambling its value will recover by then to more than if I'd reinvested it at the currently very low interest rates].

Even if you turn out to be right about the eventual death toll of 40% of the population in the next five years (I'm quoting that from memory so correct me if I'm wrong), that would still only raise your overall hit rate from unimpressive to moderately impressive. It would take much more than that to convince me you're receiving information from God.
 
Cosmic Yak said:
Well, that's mighty convenient, isn't it? :rolleyes:
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Surely you have figured that "rule" out by now by yourself.

If you do not like it, you can complain to God, but I do not think he will make an allowance for you. Perhaps he would give you personal proof and then have you deal with the frustration of dealing with others who want better proof. But God is not petty and vengeful for no good reason.
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
Interesting, I've got a degree in genetics and all the problems you mentioned are also present in using UV radiation and/or radioactivity to alter cells, but those methods are functional and extremely tried and tested.
In fact I've used them routinely when I still worked in that field.
Yet here you claim that for microwaves this suddenly becomes an obstacle.

The real reason that it's an obstacle is of course that microwaves cannot alter cells except by cooking them if you truly overdo the energy you put in, but as others have pointed out, sunlight contains more energy than all 'electrosmog' combined.

As per usual with all pseudoscience, it's proponents refuse to look at the implications of their ideas and make up things when challenged.
If the idea would be right, going outside would be suicide, but then again, so would staying inside due to the radiowaves of the sun. And all those who worked on early radar would have been dead in seconds.

As for your other handwave, if your god cannot save this world by interacting with it due to 'rules', then clearly it's also not talking to you, as that would break the rules, and also not responsible for this particular virus, as that would also break the rules. You can't have it both ways.
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The "science" shows that ROS is generated by cell phone microwaves. ROS does the damage, even doing as much as 80% of the damage when ionizing radiation is involved. It is standard science and logic - but feel free to cherry pick your those papers and studies that suit your beliefs. You are appealing to authority when you cite your credentials, but even brilliant people can be blind to what they could not be bothered to see.

The rules are against scientific proof. He can talk to me (or you or others) and give us information which hint at his existence. A statistical study would show that the existence of God is probable since it is the only theory that explains a number of psychic events which are otherwise unexplainable.

The reason for God talking to me, not only about the die-off but about further information about how it all works, is so that humankind can learn and make further advances. Both science and religion have advanced by the discoveries of individuals which then stand the test of time and logic.
 
PartSkeptic said:
Surely you have figured that "rule" out by now by yourself.

If you do not like it, you can complain to God, but I do not think he will make an allowance for you. Perhaps he would give you personal proof and then have you deal with the frustration of dealing with others who want better proof. But God is not petty and vengeful for no good reason.
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Or we could dismiss what you're saying as nonsense, carry on living our lives on that assumption, and see what difference it makes in the long run.
 
Cosmic Yak said:
PartSkeptic, we're all in this together, and I sincerely wish you all the best, but you really should look at the overall implications of your posts.
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Now that is what God wants. :) That we are compassionate and that we all pull together.

I am not sure what you feel the implications are - so please spell it out for me. There are different ways of being smart and different criteria for being the fittest.

The smart ones will recognize the damage that electro-smog does, recognize that prayer works, reconize that my hypothesis is a good one. Street smarts often can be the best smarts.

Fittest means fit for purpose - and that to me means being spiritual and asking God humbly for help. Not genetically superior although that would help, and not able-bodied either for the same reasons.
 
Pixel42 said:
Or we could dismiss what you're saying as nonsense, carry on living our lives on that assumption, and see what difference it makes in the long run.
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My "long run" includes my soul in the after-life, and the many reincarnations. If you wish to limit yourself to the end of your physical life then you may be right. You may also be one of the souls selected for termination so that it truly is the end for you. Philosophically nothing matters if you choose to believe nothing matters.

Except you might do better to make a change and get some belief. You have free will and I do not believe in a deterministic universe. And the problem is that you cannot compare your choice of path with a different choice. Perhaps in hindsight you may have regrets if you live a long life.
 
PartSkeptic said:
My "long run" includes my soul in the after-life, and the many reincarnations. If you wish to limit yourself to the end of your physical life then you may be right. You may also be one of the souls selected for termination so that it truly is the end for you.
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I've just whiled away the last few minutes inventing the following scenario:

In the far distance future humanity's descendants have advanced to the point that they can retrieve minds from the distant past and create virtually immortal bodies for them. They can pick and choose the individuals they want to join them, and decide that the irrational - those who chose to remain wilfully ignorant - are so unlike them, and will have so much trouble adjusting to their world, that they are best not reincarnated. So anyone who chose to believe any kind of woo (and of course anyone who voted for Trump or Brexit) doesn't get an afterlife.

Hey, that was fun.

And of course I have just as much reason to believe my scenario as you do to believe yours, i.e. none whatever.
 
PartSkeptic said:
Redefinition of concepts can convince many a participant that they won the debate. I could be wrong. Time will tell.
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You need to look up the definition of "debate" because your claims without evidence are certainly not a debate. And yes you are wrong, your past posts clearly prove it. You changed your predictions at least 2 times. Here is a link where you vaguely "predicted" a pandemic for 2016 :rolleyes:

PartSkeptic said:
But a wrong choice could be fatal. ;)
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Please stop with this vague nonsense. Don't make others ask for clarification when you could have easily explained what you mean by this.
 
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PartSkeptic said:
I only get some information, and in a very indirect and weak manner. I cannot be sure. And some information is distorted by my own ego and personality. It is sometimes hard to tell the difference. There is enough to be able to act upon.
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I am afraid in these circumstances "I get information from God, but it is crap" is indistinguishable from "my mind makes it up". I hope you understand that majority of people will go with latter.
 
Mader Levap said:
Um, if someone gets their information straight from God, shouldn't they have 100% hit rate?
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That would depend on WHICH God it was wouldn't it? If it was Huēhuecoyōtl the information might not be reliable...
 
Pixel42 said:
I've just whiled away the last few minutes inventing the following scenario:

In the far distance future humanity's descendants have advanced to the point that they can retrieve minds from the distant past and create virtually immortal bodies for them. They can pick and choose the individuals they want to join them, and decide that the irrational - those who chose to remain wilfully ignorant - are so unlike them, and will have so much trouble adjusting to their world, that they are best not reincarnated. So anyone who chose to believe any kind of woo (and of course anyone who voted for Trump or Brexit) doesn't get an afterlife.

Hey, that was fun.

And of course I have just as much reason to believe my scenario as you do to believe yours, i.e. none whatever.
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I like it, shall we call it Pixelism? Or High Pixel?
 
PartSkeptic said:
If you do not like it, you can complain to God, but I do not think he will make an allowance for you. Perhaps he would give you personal proof and then have you deal with the frustration of dealing with others who want better proof.
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Why should I be frustrated with others who want better proof, if I needed better proof myself and so completely understand and sympathize with their position?
 
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