A lot of what?
But will she turn up?
For the money?If no, then why are you taking the test at all?
She has already made clear what her explanation for failure will be (here and here). She will conclude that the mysterious powers with whom she is in contact have decided that the world is still not ready for the paranormal to be revealed.Connie, the question is still this: If you should fail the test are you prepared to at least consider that you might not have the powers you think you do?
You don't need to ascribe virtues such asGuts, personal integrity, willingness to demonstrate what she thinks she can do.
to CS. A delusion is all that it takes for her to go to TAM7.Courage.
Which also puts the superlatives into perspective:You don't need to ascribe virtues such asto CS. A delusion is all that it takes for her to go to TAM7.
I'll take sincere delusion over an attempt at fraud any day. It's useful to have people that genuinely believe in such things to be willing to test themselves. Useful for that person in the long run if they think about what happened, and certainly useful to those that may be on the fence to see actual evidence. I'm NOT going to bad mouth this person for trying.
Nobody's asking you to badmouth anybody. And CS is not one of those people who are "willing to test themselves". She goes to TAM7 with the delusion that she'll convince everybody that she has the powers (or spirit guides ... whatever) and thus is entitled to receive 1.000.000 $$.I'll take sincere delusion over an attempt at fraud any day. It's useful to have people that genuinely believe in such things to be willing to test themselves. Useful for that person in the long run if they think about what happened, and certainly useful to those that may be on the fence to see actual evidence. I'm NOT going to bad mouth this person for trying.
And technically - technically - she could succeed, right?
And if she does, we'll learn something very interesting.