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Alfred Kennedy - Lotto winner?

TheBoyPaj

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Apologies if this has been mentioned but:

It is my intention to demonstrate within the guidelines of your competent statistician the power to access the future through hypnosis. A positive or negative result will be easily determined within the next week by use of public broadcasting. For examples; lottery numbers, earthquakes, storms and possibly unforeseen disasters.

If he can predict lottery numbers, what is he doing applying for the challenge?

I predict that, when his clarification comes through, he will water down this claim to one or two numbers in the day's selection.
 
my ability to communicate through time is done by myself through self hypnosis and will require a person to person conversation. I am unable to type in a state of hypnosis. In the application, JREF states that it will not provide transportation to verify claims. This implies that preliminary tests are capable of being conducted person to person.

Why is this guy so keen to meet the JREF staff? So he needs to dictate his visions to someone while in his hypnotic state? Does he have no friends?
 
But he must have had some way of recording himself during his hypnotic state or else how would he know he could make "... a word for word prediction of television news casts predicted word for word along with a time prediction down to the minute of broadcast..."?

Seems strange that he can’t use whatever technique he’d used in the past, then transcribe that and pop it in an email to KRAMER/Randi.

This has to be one of the simplest preliminary tests to organise e.g.

“Send us an email with 6 lottery numbers the day before the draw, if you match all six you’ve passed the preliminary test.”

Or am I misunderstanding something about his claim?
 
I am hereby offering the IXP $1 Million Challenge for anyone who can predict the winning numbers (all of them) for a Massachusets lottery Mega Millions drawing at least 1 day before the drawing. To cover the costs of administering this challenge, there is an application fee of $2 cash, which must accompany the application and the winning numbers. Applicants must state that IXP is free to use the provided numbers in any way he sees fit, and will make no claim on any profit made by IXP by such use.

IXP
 
So Alfred Kennedy comes through these news broadcasts via hypnosis, right? How exactly can demonstrate his power? He either remembers it after the hypnosis, writes it down during the hypnosis, or vocalizes it during the hypnosis.

If he remembers it, he can transcribe it into e-mail after hypnosis. Same if he writes it down during. If he vocalizes it during, he can start up a tape recorder before entering a hypnotic state and send in the tape or transcribe it afterwards.

Or, he can get a friend to tape it for him.

In any case, there's no need for a JREF representative to be there for the hypnotic session.
 
IXP said:
I am hereby offering the IXP $1 Million Challenge for anyone who can predict the winning numbers (all of them) for a Massachusets lottery Mega Millions drawing at least 1 day before the drawing. To cover the costs of administering this challenge, there is an application fee of $2 cash, which must accompany the application and the winning numbers. Applicants must state that IXP is free to use the provided numbers in any way he sees fit, and will make no claim on any profit made by IXP by such use.

IXP

The numbers are: 2-23-31-36-43

The date: Sometime after March 6, 2005 - It is not clear which day.

After it happens - I'll send you the $2.
 
I have applied by signing your application form where indicated before a notatry public, and clearly stated my ability I am now waiting for my test proceedures to be agreed upon.

1. I have clearly stated in advance what powers and abilities that will be demonstrated and what would constiute a positive or negative result.

Watch the magic numbers!

5. My ability can only be performed at the preliminary test where before an appointed representative. Neither distance, time, or location is limitation for myself as I am presently in the area. Your application indirectly applies in section 5. that a member of the JREF staff can attend.

Why can they only be tested at the preliminary test?

Your previous e-mail, dated February 10, 2005, states, "You have not answered my questions. Please read the Challenge rules once again if you do not understand what is required order." If you review the Challenge application, perhaps you can tell me where I have breached the agreement. Personaly I believe that to be impossible.

The quote he makes of KRAMER makes no reference to a breach in protocol. He seems to not realize that the procedure itself is part of the argreement, meaning (because theres no protocol) that there is no argreement yet, if I'm not mistaken

If the questions that I have not answered were "A- What Date?, What news station, what time will it air live?, and the daily lotto numbers." then it is entirely apparent that it was not myself that breached the agreement.

WTF?

Nowhere in the application does it state that such a request would be made before the preliminary test as you have requested.

Oh! I get the above statment now! He says KRAMER broke the "agreement" by asking when a predicted event will occur!

I am under the assumption that James Randi is aware that in paranormal and Psycic abilities there is what is called in Calculus a nonremovable limit on the chart of the equation at the point of conformation.

...My brain hurts.

This is also demonstrated in Physics in the double slit experiment where a light wave constantly travels through both slits symotaneously until sensors are placed to determine which slit the photon passed through, then the photon is forced to penetrate eather one hole or the other and strikes the film this time not as a wave but as a dot on one side or the other due to the change in conformation proceedures and awareness of the scientist.

....as a dot? And I've never heard of the "Awarness of the scientist" coming into play in the double slit test.

Hisenburgh's uncertainty principle is another example, as is Schroodinger's cat.

Of wave particle duality? Of Calculus?

Personaly I have overridden this limit utilising the separate levels of conceousness exposed by hypnosis.

Limit?

There would be no need for these and other elaborate explanations if the rules laid out by JREF himself were not breeched.

......himself....yes.....

These and many more reasons are why I cannot answer the questions you have asked through a computer keyboard. I ask you to proceed as your employer insists.

So, in conclusion, Calculus, wave particle duality, and a half dead cat are the reasons he can't say when it's going to happen (through a computer keyboard?)

EDIT: Less stupid making am.

EDIT2: I so totally forgot an "o" in computer.
 
My head hurts too :(

Nowhere in the application does it state that such a request would be made before the preliminary test as you have requested.
Yeah, I think he's trying to pull a fast one here

Perhaps he's trying to play a time-spread lottery game on the challenge (ie. Have a shot at 6 numbers and if those numbers ever come in he can harrass JREF)

At the end of the day, by dragging the date out he increases his chances of winning. Depending on the time range, the chances can still be quite slim. The question is whether a time range he's willing to agree to will constitute sufficient evidence of his ability (an infinite AND indefinite range won't cut it obviously)

Just my take on it
 

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