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- From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
- Subject: re: psychics and other related phenomena
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.174144.4737@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:41:44 GMT
- References: <ballard.45@adlibv.adelphi.edu>
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- In article <ballard.45@adlibv.adelphi.edu>, ballard@adlibv.adelphi.edu (Terry Ballard) writes in part:
- |> As a research-oriented person, I have to believe my senses
- |> and trust my ability to interpret reality.
- Apparently you are a psychological research-oriented person, or you wouldn't
- have such a sanguine opinion of human perception.
-
- |> My observation is that when somebody advertises himself as a psychic and
- |> charges us a quarter to see his act, it is certainly just that. The real
- |> psychic things that I have seen were not controlled by anybody - they just
- |> happen. Does this mean that they are not worth knowing about? Of course
- |> not.
- The 'act' is just as real as the ones that you consider 'real'. Does
- that make either 'not worth knowing about'? No. Does that make either
- 'psychic'? Hardly.
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- Robert E. McGrath
- Urbana Illinois
- mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
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