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Where has Randi's testies gone?

A_Gene_Young

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An Open Letter to James Randi:

Mr. Randi,

I once accused you of being an humanitarian. It seems I am a liar. I based my judgement of you on your word, yet it seems you equivocated.

Have mercy upon me, mighty wizard. Don't make me a liar.

Now you expect someone with a super natural ability to detail their ability to an academic. Forgive me sir, yet I have yet to meet the soul I trust. I'm like the proverbial butt ass naked one with a lantern wandering about in search of an honest soul.

If you can't adjust your rules for everyone, then at least grandfather me; permit me to take you at your former word. I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
 
A_Gene_Young said:
An Open Letter to James Randi:

Mr. Randi,

I once accused you of being an humanitarian. It seems I am a liar. I based my judgement of you on your word, yet it seems you equivocated.

Have mercy upon me, mighty wizard. Don't make me a liar.

Now you expect someone with a super natural ability to detail their ability to an academic. Forgive me sir, yet I have yet to meet the soul I trust. I'm like the proverbial butt ass naked one with a lantern wandering about in search of an honest soul.

If you can't adjust your rules for everyone, then at least grandfather me; permit me to take you at your former word. I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
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What?
Also detonate? WTF?
 
A_Gene_Young said:
An Open Letter to James Randi:

Mr. Randi,

I once accused you of being an humanitarian. It seems I am a liar. I based my judgement of you on your word, yet it seems you equivocated.

Have mercy upon me, mighty wizard. Don't make me a liar.

Now you expect someone with a super natural ability to detail their ability to an academic. Forgive me sir, yet I have yet to meet the soul I trust. I'm like the proverbial butt ass naked one with a lantern wandering about in search of an honest soul.
If you can't adjust your rules for everyone, then at least grandfather me; permit me to take you at your former word. I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
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Absinthe. Definitely absinthe.
 
A_Gene_Young said:
An Open Letter to James Randi:

Mr. Randi,

I once accused you of being an humanitarian. It seems I am a liar. I based my judgement of you on your word, yet it seems you equivocated.

Have mercy upon me, mighty wizard. Don't make me a liar.

Now you expect someone with a super natural ability to detail their ability to an academic. Forgive me sir, yet I have yet to meet the soul I trust. I'm like the proverbial butt ass naked one with a lantern wandering about in search of an honest soul.

If you can't adjust your rules for everyone, then at least grandfather me; permit me to take you at your former word. I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
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I take it that you'd like to do the Million Dollar Challenge?
 
If you can prove a paranormal ability or phenomenon, you should have no problem getting media attention.

Why don't you tell us what you're on about? My psychic abilities predict you will not be able to clearly express a claim without a ton of prying, let alone work out a protocol for rigorous testing.
 
I'm sure Randi's amazing +/- 90 year old "testies" are fine. The reason for requesting a media presence is to allow the challenge to target the big fish who swindle the masses. There is little use in testing every deluded wacko with a silly claim.
 
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Wolrab said:
I'm not too sure I want to know where Randi's testes have been.
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No, he said testies. Must be something else. I guess you think he must be talking bollocks.
 
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A_Gene_Young said:
I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
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I can think of a number of times when this forum was under the custody of the Amazing one when the Forum detonated. Or at least the creaking old hardware that it was hosted on fried. I can't think of any of those occasions garnering the slighted bit of media attention.

But hey sure, if Randi won't cede to you demands don't try to win any of the numerous other paranormal challenges instead threaten an entity he used to be associated with and didn't like very much.

However I warn you. If anything does happen to this forum I'll sneeze at your mother in law!
 
I think some other people might want to get themselves up to date with the current status of the JREF too.

To wit, the Challenge is no longer accepting applications directly from individuals who believe that they have a paranormal power. It will still be offered to particular people, but the years of receiving poorly-defined and vague claims combined with demands to be tested are over.

However, as Ocelot points out, there are still plenty of other challenges about that people can go for.
 
The OP seems to be a follow-up to this post in another thread from over 5 1/2 years ago:

A_Gene_Young said:
There was a day when Randi was a betting man. He would walk around with a check in his pocket prepared to challenge anyone who claimed the supernatural existed.

What has changed? Has he lost his conviction? Is Randi born again? Just what in the hell is going on here?

Inquiring minds want to know. Don't take a fence, you thief. Put that damn fence back! It isn't yours.




Gene
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I guess he needed some time to think things over.

Actually, I'm pretty sure I've seen posts by this person elsewhere on the internet where he was using a slightly different nick, so I think I know what it's about. ...but I might spoil all the fun if I tell you before he does.

ETA: Google related search for A_Gene_Young: gene simmons tongue
 
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AIUI the original purpose of the MDC was to call out the likes of Sylvia Browne and Uri Gellar - the fact that they wouldn't touch it with a bargepole made its point. The only people who did apply were the ignorant and the deluded, and getting a coherent claim and test protocol out of them was always a lot of work. Plus if both were eventually forthcoming the end result was inevitably that ignorant and/or deluded person being publicly humiliated, which was always uncomfortable to watch. Hence the academic reference/press references requirements behind added. Now it's winning one of the smaller prizes that's required, which is an even better way of weeding out the ignorant and deluded.
 
A_Gene_Young said:
An Open Letter to James Randi:

Mr. Randi,

I once accused you of being an humanitarian. It seems I am a liar. I based my judgement of you on your word, yet it seems you equivocated.

Have mercy upon me, mighty wizard. Don't make me a liar.

Now you expect someone with a super natural ability to detail their ability to an academic. Forgive me sir, yet I have yet to meet the soul I trust. I'm like the proverbial butt ass naked one with a lantern wandering about in search of an honest soul.

If you can't adjust your rules for everyone, then at least grandfather me; permit me to take you at your former word. I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
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Sorry, Gene but you are too late.

I already won the JREF Prize Money and I currently live in large house where I sleep on a giant bed of money with several beautiful women.

By the way, I do not have any supernatural powers, but since James Randi is such a great humanitarian, he awarded me the money after I explained to him that I was too poor to afford to buy a candy bar for my Christmas dinner.
 
Shepherd said:
Actually, I'm pretty sure I've seen posts by this person elsewhere on the internet where he was using a slightly different nick, so I think I know what it's about. ...but I might spoil all the fun if I tell you before he does.
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I wish you'd spoil it. I can't get my google-fu to the right level. Yoda is disappoint.
 
Donn said:
I wish you'd spoil it. I can't get my google-fu to the right level. Yoda is disappoint.
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In that he has apparently posted elsewhere using the same name as here, I guess it would be okay to go ahead and say. So, if it actually is the same A. Gene Young, then he posts on "free energy" and "overunity(.com)" sites, and I believe his concentration is perpetual motion machines of the overbalanced wheel variety.

I have to admit I have a fascination with such stuff myself, though I don't have any extraordinary claims to make. ...yet... ...lol

Having an engineering degree, I've actually tried to school a few people on their basic physics in one of the forums - and so they don't all necessarily like me. ...but with that said, I do have some perhaps potentially radical ideas of my own that I've kept to myself that I have not yet fully tested. Again, though, no major claims.
 
A_Gene_Young said:
An Open Letter to James Randi:

Mr. Randi,

I once accused you of being an humanitarian. It seems I am a liar. I based my judgement of you on your word, yet it seems you equivocated.

Have mercy upon me, mighty wizard. Don't make me a liar.

Now you expect someone with a super natural ability to detail their ability to an academic. Forgive me sir, yet I have yet to meet the soul I trust. I'm like the proverbial butt ass naked one with a lantern wandering about in search of an honest soul.

If you can't adjust your rules for everyone, then at least grandfather me; permit me to take you at your former word. I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
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I assume this is concerning the million dollar challenge. What special ability do you have to offer Mr. Randi? I'm curious.
 
I'm pretty sure it's just a drive-by brain fart. 24 posts in five years? I thought I was lazy.
 
Donn said:
I'm pretty sure it's just a drive-by brain fart. 24 posts in five years? I thought I was lazy.
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Some posters are moving away from reality at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
 
I somehow feel a hippy moment coming on:

Where has Randi's testies gone?
Long time passing.
Where has Randi's testies gone?
Long time ago.
Where has Randi's testies gone?
Gone to flowers every one!
Oh when will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn???
 
fuelair said:
I somehow feel a hippy moment coming on:

Where has Randi's testies gone?
Long time passing.
Where has Randi's testies gone?
Long time ago.
Where has Randi's testies gone?
Gone to flowers every one!
Oh when will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn???
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To the tune of.......?
 
A_Gene_Young said:
An Open Letter to James Randi:

Mr. Randi,

I once accused you of being an humanitarian. It seems I am a liar. I based my judgement of you on your word, yet it seems you equivocated.

Have mercy upon me, mighty wizard. Don't make me a liar.

Now you expect someone with a super natural ability to detail their ability to an academic. Forgive me sir, yet I have yet to meet the soul I trust. I'm like the proverbial butt ass naked one with a lantern wandering about in search of an honest soul.

If you can't adjust your rules for everyone, then at least grandfather me; permit me to take you at your former word. I'll give you all the media attention you need. I'll detonate this forum.

Sincerely

A. Gene Young
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I doubt Randi reads the forum, I don't think he ever did even when it was part of the JREF.

But addressing your complaint, it has a logical flaw. The MDC asks a person to demonstrate their claimed ability. It does not ask that any 'secrets' be revealed or detailed. Of course if a trick in lieu of any real skill is involved, then the MDC has not been met.
 
I always find it interesting when someone complains about the limitations imposed on the offer to give them $1 million dollars if they only demonstrate scientifically something that they claim to be able to do. I've seen complaints about the statistics required, the request for the claimant to pay their own expenses, and even the requirement for the claimant to propose an clear test of a specific ability.

James Randi has been through a great deal physically and emotionally these past years. He is older (as are many of us) and he has retired. Frankly I don't warm to people who make specific demands of him by implying that they have a "right" to apply for the money, wonder why things aren't exactly the same as 4 decades ago, or seek to insult him to encourage him to alter certain of the rules of the challenge. I don't see how anyone has an inherent right for a chance at $1 million dollars in privately held money- after all these years of claimants failing, I believe that the foundation (and whatever influence Randi still has) should be able to create any rules they wish. If you don't like the game don't play.
 
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fuelair said:
Where have all the flowers gone........?
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Unfortunately, I thought of that too when I first read the title of the thread, and it's unfortunate because that tune has been stuck in my head ever since but with the lyrics cycling between "Randi's testies (sic)" and "all the flowers."

I'm also struggling with whether I should be mentally singing the wrong verb tense in respect of the OP's artistic license or what sounds more familiar and correct to me.

Of course, though, maybe the OP was correct in his verb tense and simply made a typo with the singular "testis"?
 
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"Testies" is a pun. Because the MDC is a "test", the OP is using a diminutive form a la "boots" vs "booties". Of course, the correlation with testicles is the point of the pun, suggesting that Randi lacks the balls to do the testies.
 
...and now you've succeeded in adding additional verses to the song playing in my head. ...lol
 
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