sleepy lioness:
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1188, thank you for your concern for my well-being, and I understand that the mere nature of the paranormal claim that is under investigation in my case is enough to raise concern. The upcoming study is fairly easy to set up and it will answer some of the questions regarding my experiences, and I am sure I will be able to take in the conclusions of the study, what ever it may reveal.
I suspect that some of the concerns expressed by Forum members arises from the fact that they can not take part in the past experiences I've had like I can, and some of the skeptics' concerns and conclusions are based on that lack, whereas I am in a position to base my thoughts on the experiences I've had, so we find ourselves in different positions in this claim. That is why I feel that the study is a necessary next step, because its experiences and results will be made equally available for both myself and others, by being verified by the attending skeptics. That will allow us all to be on the same page, for all of us to base our concerns and conclusions on the same material, and it is then I will be better able to take in concerns expressed by Forum members.
Professor Yaffle:
So, based on what you have said, when you came to America, I would have expected you to have a period where you noticed peanut oil in peoples bodies - with the perception jumping out at you with no effort. Which would lead most people to think to themselves "Ah, they must use peanut oil for cooking here much more than at home". Yet you only seem to have discovered that peanut oil is not unusual on tis very thread. Hence my confusion. Can you explain what I am missing?
What oil a person consumes is among the health information that I perceive from effort, and not on its own. So by walking among American people I have not been forming a new understanding of what oil consumption is typical here locally. My understanding of what oil consumption was typical back in Sweden was based on what I
knew people were eating, and again not based on perceiving this with the medical perceptions. I hope that answers the question, if not - ask again!
Belz:
No, that's not what I was talking about. Those are not double-blind, or even single-blind, tests. You cannot eliminate the possibility of bias, lie or delusion with those standards. That's why I asked how COULD you tell the difference. You can't because you consistently stick to standards that shelter your interpretation from reality.
Everyday experience, which is all that I have at this point, has not allowed for the perceptions to take place under proper test conditions. And that is why I look forward to the study (which will try out some test conditions but is not a test) and tests.
desertgal:
You are taking my comment out of context. YOU said that it was amusing to watch the rest of us annihilate each other. It's typical of psychic claimants to say, when their claims begin to fall apart, that it is the fault of us big bad skeptics. We are just out to "annihilate" claimants. That's not actually true, and it is typical troll speak. They don't want to let go of their delusions - much easier to blame the big bad skeptics. And we haven't been annihilating each other in this thread.
I was hoping that it would have been obvious that I was trying to be funny when I posted that. Of course you guys are not "annihilating" each other. That was just my fun way of saying that I am pleased you are all answering each others' questions and taking care of each other in my absence. My claim is not beginning to fall apart. And if my claim does fall apart later on it is no one's "fault" since it would only be able to fall apart if there is no paranormal ability, and if so then falling apart is the real objective of the investigation and I would appreaciate your help with acchieving that. And you're not bad skeptics, you're very good ones, you guys take everything I say and dissect it into little pieces, and we need those skills once we reach protocol formation and results.
Irregardless, that isn't the way SD works. The fact that you would turn my mental disorder around to use against me incorrectly says a great deal about you.
On the contrary I tried to make it clear that I am not offending a person based on what problems or issues they might have, hence I apologized for bringing up the point that I made. I was just saying that a person diagnosed with schizotypal disorder is not reliable to make an online diagnosis of another person to have various mental conditions. To use against you
incorrectly? So, you are entitled to diagnose other persons? And on the contrary, as soon as you have as much as suspected or falsely assumed that I would be suffering from a mental disorder you have done your best to use that "against me" and to throw it at me, and perhaps that says a great deal about you?
It wasn't easy, to begin with, to admit to a group of strangers that something "went broken" in my mind years ago, but I did it in the interest of helping you. Watching you use it against me again, as the source of "projections", isn't something I relish, so I think I'll skip that.
Although you are a tough skeptic, which often makes a good skeptic, I often feel that you approach things in a manner that is unnecessarily hostile and negative. I often feel that your comments and suggestions to me are formulated as insults rather than as constructive criticism. Other Forum members have presented their concerns regarding my mental health but done so in a polite and civilized manner and I have taken in their advice, I acknowledged their point of view and even thanked them for it. There are good ways of saying bad things.
Even though I feel that
the way in which you express most of your comments is often at times uncomfortable and that that takes away from the statements you want to come across I continue to listen to you very carefully. I have absolutely no disrespect against you and would never hold a personal issue against you. I value having you here on this thread and I know that you will be excellent in analyzing protocols and results and you'll probably be one of the best contributors, and I look forward to when I can actually present some material. You're all ready for it.
There's nothing "wrong" about being delusional
Of course not. I'm just considering that another possibility might be that I'd be cold reading. I objectively acknowledge the possibility that my perceptions could be delusions, yet I remain open to other possibilities. I don't think my perceptions are consistent with delusions, especially since they so far lead to accurate information. Unintentional cold reading perhaps?
Thank you for expressing concern about my well-being, and I'm glad you're still here because I need the toughest skeptics to look into protocol design and results later on. You guys are excellent, and at times difficult, but I'm still here.
Drs Res:
Taking this into consideration, do you get headaches and nausea when you have to use a forced effort to read a live person? You know, someone where nothing just pops out at you?
No I've never experienced any discomfort from making the effort to read live people. My main theory as to why, although I wasn't supposed to make theories here, is that human tissue is a more "comfortable" and more familiar material for perception to delve into, than for instance copper pennies or cereal.
Pup:
Coincidentally enough, that description would have been close enough for a casual "hit" for both me and my wife. She has an occasional pain or cramping sensation that's been diagnosed as a minor hernia, just below the sternum but slightly to one side. I have a mild ulcer which occasionally acts up by causing minor pain or cramping, also a bit below the sternum and to the right just under the bottom rib. Both, apparently, are fairly common.
And you are absolutely right. To claim a perception of discomfort or pain in a certain part of the body might not be a specific enough ailment in all cases to be useful in a test. Point remains that the person in this experience did not tell me I was wrong, so there was nothing to falsify the claim at that point and I've continued with the investigation toward a study that will be better able to establish actual accuracy.
calcium carbonate (an antacid)
phenylephrine hcl (a decongestant)
cetirizine hydrochloride (a 24 hour allergy medicine)
ibuprofen
aspirin
Oh Pup! Before you mail anything! Is it possible for you to include in the envelope one each uncrushed sample, without food coloring, so that I can attempt to "tune in" to the pure and unaltered specimen, to get the strongest possible perception of the pure and unaltered material for matching purposes? Please?
You've said that this is something you experience, so I'm curious to see it work.
Thank you. Let's find out.