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- From: markk@lefty.West.Sun.COM (Mark Allen Kampe)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: The method of Science, the aim of Religion
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:08:35 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Musing on the perverseness of the (anthropromorphised) mechanisms of magick
- is making excuses for experiments that might fail before they are conducted.
- This is evidence of a non-open mind, and not the mind of a scientist (or any
- seeker of truth).
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- If someone claims a power, they should be able to demonstrate results that
- are statistically beyond the results that most people get. If they cannot
- demonstrate those results then their claim rings empty. This is simple
- skepticism.
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- The fact that some people make fantastic claims and are not able to carry
- them out before the Amazing Randy does not mean that their is no magick. It
- means that those individuals are making claims they cannot back up.
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- I don't know very many magickers who make such "flamboyant" claims. Most
- of them only claim to be able to invoke powers of revelation, guidance and
- influence - and they seem to deliver well on their claims.
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