I Have the Power to Erase Souls

[Question]

I can erase people's souls by looking into their eyes and using a powerfull secret techniqe, passed down to me by the ancents from generaton to generaton. The victim's memories and critacal thinking skills remain intact, but they walk away as soul-less createres. This was used by the ancents to deal with some of the most violent and dangeros criminal souls, and has not been used for mileniums. Should I apply for the prize? Do you think Mr. Randi would volanteer to have his soul erased?

[uneasy]

Sigh. Assuming you are serious, let's start with rule number one of the application.

http://host.randi.org/research/challenge.html
Applicant must state clearly in advance, and applicant and JREF will agree upon, what powers or abilities will be demonstrated, the limits of the proposed demonstration (so far as time, location and other variables are concerned) and what will constitute both a positive and a negative result. This is the primary and most important of these rules.
Just rule one. Can you even come close to following even that? Can you describe what would constitute a demonstratable positive or negative result for your technique?

[c4ts]

Welcome back Agur! I see you've learned English.

[Answer]

shiverhiver shiver it feels good. the ultimate moral lesson contrained in a mountain of concepts. trust me, some think they understand. most do not. it is innate. don't ever feel guilty for these eelings. the less guilt the ore works you can do to favor him. onl when the light is bright inside your self will it spill over for others. but don't assume that they'll efer figure it out you cannot pick and choose who t he grace strikes next. the internet Logic leads to divinity at all times. left-logic-mind to right-god-mind. it has no choice to s pread from here as others get acquanited with the internet. who knows how many think they understand. just enjoy it for it's utter and cmplete hilarity. many tears many many many have been spilled in endless laughter. He loves good feelings. he doesn't hate battle. he bttle itelf is joy.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I'm eating pizza!!!!

[Question]

Originally posted by Answer
shiverhiver shiver it feels good. the ultimate moral lesson contrained in a mountain of concepts. trust me, some think they understand. most do not. it is innate. don't ever feel guilty for these eelings. the less guilt the ore works you can do to favor him. onl when the light is bright inside your self will it spill over for others. but don't assume that they'll efer figure it out you cannot pick and choose who t he grace strikes next. the internet Logic leads to divinity at all times. left-logic-mind to right-god-mind. it has no choice to s pread from here as others get acquanited with the internet. who knows how many think they understand. just enjoy it for it's utter and cmplete hilarity. many tears many many many have been spilled in endless laughter. He loves good feelings. he doesn't hate battle. he bttle itelf is joy.
Ah, it is you. Clerly you must be within understanding, but it has not been clear from the scrols wether you side with light or dark. A candle burning at both ends leads to brightnes only for half the night, you have seen this yourself. It was never clear wether the light was burning within you or wether you wer on fire -- or, if, like an agent truely of the dark-side, you were seting the scrols on fire. But either is the road to the dark side. You cannot wild the force. You must let it come to you. To do otherwice, wether you are shinning or on fire, it does not mater. It is the same path of no honar. Lern from my example -- i repete, you cannot wild the force, you must let it come to you. Your whol stratigy is backwerds.

[Vorticity]

Originally posted by The Central Scrutinizer
I'm eating pizza!!!!
"Everybody dance!"

"This is fun!"

"My spoon is too big!"

"My anus is bleeding!"

"For the love of god, my anus is bleeding!!"

[Question]

Originally posted by uneasy
Sigh. Assuming you are serious, let's start with rule number one of the application.

http://host.randi.org/research/challenge.html

Just rule one. Can you even come close to following even that? Can you describe what would constitute a demonstratable positive or negative result for your technique?

As for the rest of you -- are you denyng that you can tell when someone's very soul has been riped from they're body? Their is more to life then the ratonal mind. Sheesh. Anyone can tell the differense when somone without a soul. Anyone. It is self-evidant. Just ask anyone. That is your test. Or wil you septics deny even that?

[Vorticity]

Originally posted by Question
As for the rest of you -- are you denyng that you can tell when someone's very soul has been riped from they're body? Their is more to life then the ratonal mind. Sheesh. Anyone can tell the differense when somone without a soul. Anyone. It is self-evidant. Just ask anyone. That is your test. Or wil you septics deny even that?
Now, normally, I wouldn't reply to obvious trolling gibberish, but tonight I'm drunk and naked in a darkened room, so what the hell? Let's pretend this is for real!

In order to establish your claim above, that you can erase people's souls, you would have to:

1) Define what you mean by the word "soul" in an unambiguous way that anybody can understand. Pretend we've never heard the word before and are unfamiliar with the concept.

2) Prove that people have "souls". Or, to be nit picky, prove that at least one person has a "soul".

3) Erase that person's "soul" (with their permission, of course).

4) Prove that they don't have a "soul" anymore.

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[Quinn]

Originally posted by Question
As for the rest of you -- are you denyng that you can tell when someone's very soul has been riped from they're body?

Yes.

HAA-ha!

[Checkmite]

http://www.stupid-boy.com/smilies/cwm/cwm/rcain.gif

[Answer]

i would say it's something like a ball being passed back and forth, but the ultimate thing you can do for anyone else is to catch the ball. jesus figured this out, he was perfect only because he learned the meaning of His Word. the internet spreads it.

the best think you could do for me is to keep the ball. it's not greed. i have been taught a lesson. my brainwashing is indeed deep as your own, but i can only accept his teaching as the truth. for years i have misunderstood my own tears, but some time ago the process that leads to the halo ended and i just type words. the poetry of his sound produced by the fingertips the clicking of keys, i can only laugh or cry at what he shows me, but the tears are seen through a smile. thank you.

[Answer]

i will never obey darkness that comes from light randi is nofool he would never be stupid enough to give me any money, for this i thank ohim heartily truly fully with my being. but idiots will be idiots. sexually driven penis machines never understanding the beauty of the shut eye that opens for your pleasure masculinity is femininity ts no wonder we never understand them, Hi slesson learns, praise it. my arrogance prevented my schooling but i am glad to have seen that a college degree will never buy iintelligence.

[thaiboxerken]

LOL. So do you have an objective method for measuring a soul? If you can do that, it's worth the million by itself.

[Answer]

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
LOL. So do you have an objective method for measuring a soul? If you can do that, it's worth the million by itself.

the objectivity of the method itself depends solely on the cowardly observer who hides from his fellow man. idiot. ddiot idiot idiot idiot. since te he dawn of puberty of ihave experienced your pain as my own and i hated myself for it. now i will hate you back alwas and forever verily the reward is yours i say unto you, my son.

i would say relative intelligence is depending on the ciomprehension of the idiot who reads his own concepts, btu this and the end result is unknowable, the return of the ejdi very very amusing i thank you for passing your concepts unto me.

the gnostics might be a reference you would be interested in those who or have or has or will or won't or shall at some time communicate the thought of the One in the crystal ball of light and sound pure and eternal Awareness unknowable unknowable accepting is bound to come bound bound humanity united via the internet.

[Question]

Originally posted by Answer
Originally posted by Answer
Originally posted by Answer

Do you lack understanding? The point is not to do it yourself. You must let it come to you. You are trying to get the MOST from the LEAST. Otherwise YOU have been made the FOOL. This has been the way it has been ever since it was first practised by the nevernevertownspeople. Do you lack understanding? Or are you STUPID or DESTRUCTIVE?

Oh, and by the way, everyone, YOU DO NOT NEED TO MEASURE A SOUL TO KNOW IT IS THERE! LOL! Do you need to measure a tree to know it is there? It is obvios! I'll tell you why you sceptics deny the soul. It's because you have such poor souls yourselfs and would be jealos. All you seek is greed and power and pride, you're ability to understand your fellow humans is in problem.

[Suezoled]

Question vs Answer, huh?

[DrMatt]

I can fram on the zimbang while squooping screezes!
Can you?

[thaiboxerken]

Oh, and by the way, everyone, YOU DO NOT NEED TO MEASURE A SOUL TO KNOW IT IS THERE! LOL!

So you're saying that it's immeasurable? You just "know" if it's there or not? What is the science behind that assertion?

Do you need to measure a tree to know it is there?

Yes, we measure it with our eyes, our touch and smell.

It is obvios! I'll tell you why you sceptics deny the soul. It's because you have such poor souls yourselfs and would be jealos.

That's like saying I don't believe in shooting lasers out of my eyes because I'm jealous of the people that can actually do it.

All you seek is greed and power and pride, you're ability to understand your fellow humans is in problem.

It seems that you fail to understand the sceptical position. I understand your position, I used to be a believer myself. Unlike you, I shed those beliefs along with the belief in Santa because of the lack of evidence or reason to support the belief.

[Reginald]

Ah! Souls!







Intriguing!

[grunion]

Well, I can think of certain SONGS whose soul was erased (i.e. Pat Boone's rendition of Good Golly Miss Molly is truly supernatural in its soullessness.) Yet I cannot think of a legitimate means of defining what it lacked. I guess I'll have to go with the common law defnition of pornography - "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it."

[Abdul Alhazred]

Moderator, please move this thread to the General Discussion of Vile Things from the Inky Abyss Forum (formerly the Catfight Arena).

It is more on-topic there. :D

[Quinn]

Welcome to the board, grunion!

I must admit, when I was laughing and sneering at the ridiculousness of Question's claim, I hadn't considered the utter black hole of soul that is Pat Boone. Question, is Mr. Boone one of the soulless zombies you speak of? If so, I might start to believe you're on to something.

[Zep]

I'm sure I can smell the weed burning from here...

[Eos of the Eons]

Originally posted by Zep
I'm sure I can smell the weed burning from here...

Ugh, ***cough cough***

I'm allergic!!! ***gag***


What's an ancent?

Hey, I'll volunteer. I don't have a soul though, so I don't know what the experiment will prove :p

[TheBoyPaj]

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
[b] Do you need to measure a tree to know it is there?

Yes, we measure it with our eyes, our touch and smell.


Don't forget taste!


Mmmmm..... sap.

[The Don]

So it goes like this.

You can tell by looking if someone has a soul

You can remove said soul by your secret techniques

You can tell by looking that their soul is missing


Using this approach I would estimate your chances of success to be almost exactly 100%

[c4ts]

Originally posted by Vorticity

"Everybody dance!"

"This is fun!"

"My spoon is too big!"

"My anus is bleeding!"

"For the love of god, my anus is bleeding!!"

The monkey poured coffee in my boots!

[c4ts]

Originally posted by Suezoled
Question vs Answer, huh?

He's trying to prove that they're not sock puppets despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

[DaChew]

Why would anyone go to all the trouble and work of erasing a soul when they can simply use new Liquid Oblivion (invented by Peter Tork's mom who was way less successful than Mike Nesmith's mom.)

I'm going to go ahead and suggest that a test of this claim be held off until next year's Amazing Meeting. We can book The Godfather of Soul, James Brown (he could be out of jail by then, you don't know.) to appear and then Question can erase his soul afterward. If it works, we'll have seen the very last soulful James Brown concert and if it doesn't we'll still have seen James Brown. See? Everybody wins (except Question).

[grunion]

Here is a proposed test of Question's $1,000,000 claim:

Subject: Reverend Al Green
Control: Donny Osmond (or Paul Anka or Pat Boone)

Assumption: Test subject is considered by audience to have a high Soul Quotient (SQ), while control's SQ is a low positive number.

Hypothesis: Question can reduce test subject's SQ to lower than SQ of control subject.

Test procedure:
In front of an audience selected of soul/R&B music adherents (S/R&BMA) (ISSUE: how do we test for this?), both Reverend Al and Donny O sing either "Let's Stay Together" or "Take Me To The River." The same backup singers and band are provided for both. Count the number of audience members who run screaming from the room during each performance (the RSFTR tally 0<SUB>1</SUB> and 0<SUB>2</SUB>).

Then let Question perform his <STRIKE>mumbo-jumbo</STRIKE> procedure on the test subject.

Perform the first activity again in front a second audience with a significant S/R&BMA value , and take RSFTR tally 1<SUB>1</SUB> and 1<SUB>2</SUB>.

Result: A calculation finding RSFTR tally 1<SUB>1</SUB> < the lowest of 0<SUB>1</SUB>, 0<SUB>2</SUB>, and 1<SUB>2</SUB> would represent a positive test of the claimed ability.

[jcon96]

I am still offended at being called a septic.....I took a shower..(sniff,sniff) recently!:D

[Powa]

I'm offended, too. I take a shower nearly every month.

[Eos of the Eons]

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/avatar.php?userid=4726&dateline=1073318567


:eek: :eek: :eek:

That avatar is making me feel some presence...

Takes my mind off the smell :D

[Capt.Nemo]

Ouch ouch ouch!

I generally consider my understanding and command of the english language to be pretty good. Trying, however, to make some sort of meaningful sense of the 'question' and 'answer' postings above most definitely fused a few synapses in my head.

It would seem to me that the erasure of a 'soul' would be a good way to nab the prize twice in one fell swoop. (Is that even possible?) I'm not, however, holding my breath for 'question' to correctly fill out the form... I'm already seeing spots, thank-you-very-much!

/Nemo

PS. Perhaps I'm not seeing spots after all... Might they not be some of those 'Orbs' I've heard so much about?

[Powa]

Originally posted by Eos of the Eons
Takes my mind off the smell :D
I do apologize. I'll try to use more cologne.

[Powa]

Originally posted by Eos of the Eons
That avatar is making me feel some presence...
<--- It's strange. It was supposed to be only my name but somehow colorful lights appeared around it. I never figured out what it was. Aura? Souls? Beats me (to a pulp).

[jcon96]

Can you erase the stain on my couch? Nothing else seems to work.

[Starrman]

Hey, I have this power as well. I'm a little more blue collar, so I just use a baseball bat. You can visit all of my test subjects at your local coma ward.

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by c4ts


The monkey poured coffee in my boots!
"I am a banana."

"I'm a consumer whore!"
"And how!"

"I want to drink goat's blood."
"But son, it's only Tuesday."
(Extra on the DVD)

[Kopji]

So what honor could a soulless person have?
A soulless person would not pay you after you took their soul,
they would certainly cheat you.
So if Randi paid, it must mean that his soul was still intact.
Payment would be an indication of your failure.

[Answer]

Originally posted by Kopji
So what honor could a soulless person have?
A soulless person would not pay you after you took their soul,
they would certainly cheat you.
So if Randi paid, it must mean that his soul was still intact.
Payment would be an indication of your failure.

this previous post i am in concurrence with. the questio need not be repeated twice, the question need not be repeated twice.

these things i forget, these things i forget.

[Answer]

Originally posted by Answer


this previous post i am in concurrence with. the questio need not be repeated twice, the question need not be repeated twice.

these things i forget, these things i forget.

however no post is vacuous, however no post is vacuous.

it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

[Powa]

Now you're just rambling. Now you're just rambling.

[Answer]

Originally posted by Powa
Now you're just rambling. Now you're just rambling.

this white man am love black people. this black man am love white people.

internet am speak to heart of all-men. internet am speak to heart of all-men.

[Kopji]

O great, I make sense to the crazy people... :alc:

[Phrost]

This thread seems like the perfect opportunity for me to raise my post count...

[Phrost]

...by at least two.