What is it with True Believers and the need to answer every diversion.
Flaccon, if you respond to every comment, you'll be spinning your and our wheels for a month. At this point, you have an offer from two members, an offer which you've apparently accepted, to meet with you and take a look/listen at the phenomena that you feel is going to change the world.
Could we just stay on the topic of what it is you want to show them and have them listen to. What and how they will be able to do in relation to the evidence and your equipment, etc....
For instance, It's very easy to say you have convincing evidence and play back a convincing recording, but if you then say, "Oh, but you can't look under the laptop, the spirits wouldn't like that", we're going to have some skeptics who have a problem with that condition. And I'm sure you can see why.
So could we delineate exactly what sort of test or investigation you guys are going to do and maybe get some input from the more experienced members here, who've been involved in some of these pre-challenge protocols? Maybe someone PM Remie?
Are you agreed that there will be no coterie of believers/supporters and just the two or three of you?
Etc...
Bump.
Flaccon, so if you're now backing away from the ability to provide the name (or setting new conditions on it), why not address the above? Keep a focus on an immediately achievable result.
What, in as detailed terms as you can provide, are you going to show our amateur sleuth(s)?
What number of particpants? At one point you mentioned having a whole tribe of believers, skeptics, neutrals. We think this does not work. We have no reason to distrust you, nor to distrust our own members, but "provability" sinks to the bottom with more people because there is too great a possibility of collusion and an equal possibility of one person being swayed by a strong "jury of one" type of personality.
What will the investigators be allowed to examine?
What, specifically, is the "artwork" you speak of and can this be examined at the time of your meeting? I've seen impossible-to-duplicate artwork. "Guernica" springs to mind. You can copy every line of it, but you can't duplicate Picasso's feelings and emotions because there was only one Pablo Picasso. But you seem to be saying that "mere humans" could not, technically, reproduce the works in question. (I know of one person, the editor of Squid Fishing Monthly, who is in this thread and would likely be interested in seeing such creations.)
These are just my thoughts. I'm sure you can fine-tune them with some input, but it would be handy to avoid diversions of "Oh, yeah! Well, what's my favorite colour, then?" and concentrate on setting up a bit of structure to the coming meeting.
AND to actually agree to a date/time.
