Daylight savings, Devils Chair, and The Professor's MDC

[Biscuit]

In order to not derail a MDC thread or incur the wrath of the moderators I wanted to pose a few questions which seem just silly to me but I would love some honest responses from believers and non believers alike.

In regards to The Professor's (TP) MDC challenge thread
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=121157

It appears that TP is going to use the Devils Chair in Florida in order to proof the existence of paranormal entities, quite possibly even the devil himself. Regardless of how TP intends to prove this or the protocols of the test, this particular woo, the devils chair, raises some strange questions.

Read here http://www.weirdus.com/stories/FL01.asp

So at midnight on October 31st every year the Devil spends a few minutes to come and sit in this chair. Do spirits and ghosts actually know or care what time it is? If the devil had an appearance in California prior to daylight savings did this cause a scheduling conflict? It is also a good thing that we keep track of leap years for the devil as well.

There just seems to be so much wrong at just a cursory glance with this woo.

Also we can use this thread to ask TP question, if he is willing to respond, and not derail the MDC thread.

[JoeTheJuggler]

I suppose the Devil is a fan of Gregory the Great, the pope who devised our current calendar system.

Oddly enough, there are plenty of believers who would buy the proposition that the Devil is a loyal Catholic!

[Jimbo07]

So at midnight on October 31st every year the Devil spends a few minutes to come and sit in this chair. Do spirits and ghosts actually know or care what time it is? If the devil had an appearance in California prior to daylight savings did this cause a scheduling conflict? It is also a good thing that we keep track of leap years for the devil as well.



It is fair to ask for evidence of God's existence, but arguments like this seem silly...

For example...

The devil maintains a command centre in Hell, with 24-hour clocks divided by time zone. The devil has mindbogglingly massive, multiply redundant databases which maintain to-the-hundredth of second date counts, by Gregorian and Julian calendars and separate UNIX time. Moreover, heaven and hell operate by their own rules of time and allow the devil to appear seemingly concurrently in different geographic (and if necessary, planetary) locations. Due to relativistic effects, there can be no agreement on concurrence between observers! :D

The different levels of hell are alternately exo- and endo- thermic, and the gradients power the command center's HUPS (Hellishly-Uninterruptible Power Supplies). In order to avoid a total entropic collapse (and Hell freezing over), a cabal of minor demons are exploiting the recovery of kinetic energy of souls falling from heaven's gates to hell, what with energy efficiency being all the rage these days!

[Biscuit]

In order to avoid a total entropic collapse (and Hell freezing over), a cabal of minor demons are exploiting the recovery of kinetic energy of souls falling from heaven's gates to hell, what with energy efficiency being all the rage these days!

Even hell is going green! This has Pickens' finger prints all over it!

Going back to the lack of topic at hand. The how would you go about proving that the Devil was holding you down?

[Jimbo07]

Going back to the lack of topic at hand. The how would you go about proving that the Devil was holding you down?

Provide Evidence?

:D

[Azrael 5]

I posted somewhere-maybe in MDC thread-a link that shows the town contaning the devil's chair is not even considered haunted or a "portal".A local is quoted as saying that tourists created the myth and there is no connection with spiritualism in Cassadaga.
Anyways I hope Samurai has better luck than these
http://www.ghostpros.com/urbanlegends.html :D

[Drudgewire]

Read here http://www.weirdus.com/stories/FL01.asp

One rumor says that if you place an unopened can of beer on the Devil's Chair before midnight, by the next morning the devil will have drank it and left the beverage's container behind as proof.


Let's be honest, it would be far more supernatural if you left a full beer out in the open anywhere in central Florida and it hadn't been touched the next morning. :p

[Biscuit]

I would love to see an MDC where we place open beer cans in a graveyard and film them all night.

Just imagine the creatures it would bring out.

http://uprightalice.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/hillbillies.jpg

[Hokulele]

I would love to see an MDC where we place open beer cans in a graveyard and film them all night.


I protest! I would much rather have people leaving full cans of beer in my fridge.

OK, so it may not be such a great test for the paranormal, but why waste beer?

[Jimbo07]

I protest! I would much rather have people leaving full cans of beer in my fridge.

OK, so it may not be such a great test for the paranormal, but why waste beer?

Honest *hic* wuz the devul. *hic* I dint consu... comsune... conmu... c... drink all that beer...

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Even hell is going green! This has Pickens' finger prints all over it!

Going back to the lack of topic at hand. The how would you go about proving that the Devil was holding you down?

Because you did not float off into the sky? Obvious, I would have thought. ;)