Powerball Tonite

[mayday]

What are the rules this time? When do I have to post the numbers...before or after? I'm going to do them all this time, I'm going to the store now to get one of those slips where you fill in the numbers, then I'm going to take it back later and have them run it through the machine and give me my number.

Can't wait.

[ReFLeX]

Posting the numbers after would prove... what?

[CFLarsen]

Before.

What good is a post hoc "prediction", you nincompoop?

[mayday]

Originally posted by CFLarsen
Before.

What good is a post hoc "prediction", you nincompoop?

Don't know, you dopey Dane...some of you skeptimaniacs have made more ridiculous requests than that...stopped asking for logic, just trying (in vain) to please them.

[Donks]

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[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by mayday
Don't know, you dopey Dane...some of you skeptimaniacs have made more ridiculous requests than that...stopped asking for logic, just trying (in vain) to please them.

Just post the numbers.

Stop parading, and post the numbers.

Put up or shut up.

[DangerousBeliefs]

Originally posted by mayday
Don't know, you dopey Dane...some of you skeptimaniacs have made more ridiculous requests than that...stopped asking for logic, just trying (in vain) to please them.

You mean like....




COME ON EVERYBODY SAY IT WITH ME!






Evidence?

[prewitt81]

Big Surprise. . .

[mayday]

I simply did not have the time to use my pendulum tonight, so I decided to go ahead and use my intuition, which is not claimed to be accurate when attempting to be used at will. Still, I thought I would give it a whirl.

Tonight's numbers are:

10 15 16 31 35 PB25

11 23 26 39 40 PB37

[DangerousBeliefs]

My psychic powers say its...

3-45-22-43-47
Powerball: 28

Edited to add a second set like our Mayfig...

18-29-53-5-28
Powerball: 3

[prewitt81]

So you can forsee powerball numbers, but when you posted earlier today you couldn't forsee that you would be too busy to back up your claim?

Can't wait.

I can't wait for the next big claim or lame excuse for not going through with it.

I simply did not have the time to use my pendulum tonight, so I decided to go ahead and use my intuition, which is not claimed to be accurate when attempting to be used at will. Still, I thought I would give it a whirl.

Always an out. Here are some of my predictions:

1) You will not pick the correct powerball numbers regardless of what methods you try.

2) You will always have some excuse as to why.

3) You will continue to believe in/make outrageous claims.

Let's see how my predictions hold up. So far I am batting 1.000.

[SpaceFluffer]

Why don't you use that pendulum of yours to find out how much longer you're going to keep making excuses? Although, my intuition is telling me the answer to that one already.

[coalesce]

By the way, for which lottery is this--in the US or abroad? And for which drawing? Tonight's? Next week's? Next month's?

Just curious.

Michael

[DangerousBeliefs]

Originally posted by mayday

Tonight's numbers are:

10 15 16 31 35 PB25

11 23 26 39 40 PB37

5 9 11 17 46 PB39

You got one Bigfig!

3-45-22-43-47
Powerball: 28

Edited to add a second set like our Mayfig...

18-29-53-5-28
Powerball: 3

And my psychic powers are as mighty as yours.... LOL

[CFLarsen]

mayday,

Do you admit that your psychic powers failed?

[T'ai Chi]

Originally posted by CFLarsen
Just post the numbers.

Stop parading, and post the numbers.

Put up or shut up.

Tell me, do you know of ANY thing claiming to be "educational" that is openly hostile?

[ilk]

Originally posted by jzs
Tell me, do you know of ANY thing claiming to be "educational" that is openly hostile?

Mayfig is a repeat annoyance. Ideally, JREF would win over people to critical thinking by being sweet as honey to everyone regardless of their aggression, intrasigence annoyance or ignorance. However, upbraiding JREF for getting crotchety at people whose only apparent purpose is to stir up trouble is cherry picking. I've seen excellent responses to people with paranormal claims presented in a non confrontational way.

[Chocolate Chip]

Could you perhaps follow through on at least one claim?

I'll take this from the top:

JREF Forums - Is Bigfoot considered Paranormal
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52280
Still have not built a bigfoot trap have you?

JREF Forums - I can tell a lot about a person by their palms, let me read yours.
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52918
Still have not successfully read a palm from any of the forum members, have you?

JREF Forums - Ghost Hunt Tonite!!! Be there or BeWare!
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53251
Still haven't gotten out to the cemetary with your camera yet, have you?

JREF Forums - Brain Waves...maybe some of you skeptics should try to catch one.
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54186
At the start of this thread, you could make the pendulum swing with brainwaves. Further on, you were going to give it a try? Have you kept trying? Has it happened yet?

JREF Forums - Communication with the Deceased is Possible
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52453&perpage=40&pagenumber=5
Have you recorded any EVP with your digital recorder yet?
I also post this thread just for the great line you came out with (and I quote):
"I am not one to easily cry out paranormal or the boogey man."

I have to admit though, for sheer entertainment value only, you can hold your own. I have to wonder if you are using the forum as some kind of setting for a sitcom script, or plot device for a movie comedy ?

[thaiboxerken]

Why play powerball, Mayday, why not just go take Randi's Million by demonstrating your superpowers?

[Throg]

Originally posted by ilk
Mayfig is a repeat annoyance. Ideally, JREF would win over people to critical thinking by being sweet as honey to everyone regardless of their aggression, intrasigence annoyance or ignorance. However, upbraiding JREF for getting crotchety at people whose only apparent purpose is to stir up trouble is cherry picking. I've seen excellent responses to people with paranormal claims presented in a non confrontational way.

Can you imagine how dull this site would be if everyone who participated was a perfectly rational sceptic? What would we have to argue about? People like Mayday aren't an annoyance, they're practically the raison d'etre of the site.

In the case of Mayday in particulary, I don't think it's justified to infer that her only apparent purpose is to stir up trouble. It seems to me that the most likely explanation for her posts is that she genuinely believes in the various paranormal phenomena she posts about. I fail to see the logical justification for her beliefs but neither can I see any logical justification for meeting her claims with agression. Just what do you suppose that is likely to achieve?

[mayday]

I didn't guarantee or purport to be able to determine what the powerball numbers would be.

It was just for fun.

It was all in fun. But I don't think some of you stiffs understand what that is (like that pompous, cynical, arrogant obnoxious Danish dork (Santa) Claus...he/it REALLY gives me the creeps!)

I really intended to use my magic pendulum to determine the PB nummbers, I just didn't get the chance. So I had to rely on quick thinking at the powerball station, shading in numbers at random.

Better luck next time.

[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by mayday
I didn't guarantee or purport to be able to determine what the powerball numbers would be.

Bull. This is what you said earlier:

Originally posted by mayday
I simply did not have the time to use my pendulum tonight, so I decided to go ahead and use my intuition, which is not claimed to be accurate when attempting to be used at will. Still, I thought I would give it a whirl.

If you didn't claim to be able to determine what the powerball numbers would be, what was the purpose of posting them?

[JPK]

Good morning mayday

Originally posted by mayday

Better luck next time.

If someone could actually predict the furture, what role does luck play?

JPK

[mayday]

Originally posted by mayday
I simply did not have the time to use my pendulum tonight, so I decided to go ahead and use my intuition, which is not claimed to be accurate when attempting to be used at will. Still, I thought I would give it a whirl.

Tonight's numbers are:

10 15 16 31 35 PB25

11 23 26 39 40 PB37


So, you see...I DID NOT purport to be able to predict the PB numbers. Some of you skeptimaniacs think you can pick and choose your evidence. Sorry, that's not the real world.

[JPK]

Good morning mayday

Originally posted by mayday
So, you see...I DID NOT purport to be able to predict the PB numbers. Some of you skeptimaniacs think you can pick and choose your evidence. Sorry, that's not the real world.
Would you be so kind as to clearly state what psi powers you have and what do they allow you to do that people without psi powers can't do?


JPK

[JPK]

Originally posted by mayday

I really intended to use my magic pendulum to determine the PB nummbers, I just didn't get the chance. So I had to rely on quick thinking at the powerball station, shading in numbers at random.

Better luck next time.

to what degree of accuracy do you feel you magic penulum can predict the future?

JPK

[thatguywhojuggles]

Originally posted by JPK
to what degree of accuracy do you feel you magic penulum can predict the future?

JPK


Originally posted by mayday (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54400&highlight=powerball)
This evening I wil consult my pendulum (which I have estimated to be about 90% accurate) to find out what the winning PowerBall number will be. Not the whole number, just the powerball number.

[JPK]

Good afternoon

Originally posted by thatguywhojuggles


Originally posted by mayday
This evening I wil consult my pendulum (which I have estimated to be about 90% accurate) to find out what the winning PowerBall number will be. Not the whole number, just the powerball number.

Thanks for that. I must have missed it. 90% is pretty good.
Mayday, what leads you to estimating a 90% accuracy for the magic pendulum?

JPK
edited to add
OK, that was from another thread. I thought I read this completly. I am not trying to pick on mayday at all. I am just tring to understand what mayday is saying.

[thatguywhojuggles]

Originally posted by JPK
Good afternoon



Originally posted by mayday
This evening I wil consult my pendulum (which I have estimated to be about 90% accurate) to find out what the winning PowerBall number will be. Not the whole number, just the powerball number.

Thanks for that. I must have missed it. 90% is pretty good.
Mayday, what leads you to estimating a 90% accuracy for the magic pendulum?

JPK
edited to add
OK, that was from another thread. I thought I read this completly. I am not trying to pick on mayday at all. I am just tring to understand what mayday is saying.

What I don't understand is why is it that someone with 90 percent accuracy at naming lottery numbers is working as a nurse?!

[DangerousBeliefs]

Originally posted by thatguywhojuggles
What I don't understand is why is it that someone with 90 percent accuracy at naming lottery numbers is working as a nurse?!

Logic is a tool of SATAN !

[Suezoled]

So, how long before she threatens to hurt someone at the next TAM?

[Vikram]

Originally posted by mayday
So, you see...I DID NOT purport to be able to predict the PB numbers. Some of you skeptimaniacs think you can pick and choose your evidence. Sorry, that's not the real world.
Oh... So you were trying to make a guess as to what the numbers would be without actually even CLAIMING to be accurate...

And in your opinion that warranted a new thread?

Are you going to start a new thread each time you feel like tossing out a completely inaccurate guess?

[Ipecac]

Yeah, if I had a 90% chance of predicting lottery numbers, I wouldn't make the time either. It's such a nuisance winning millions of dollars. One of these days though . . .

[Vikram]

Originally posted by Throg
I fail to see the logical justification for her beliefs but neither can I see any logical justification for meeting her claims with agression. Just what do you suppose that is likely to achieve?
I tried to be civil and patient with Mayday in the beginning. I tried to answer her ramblings in the most benign manner possible. But after having been labelled as a 'skeptimaniac' and having been told to get a brain because I don't believe in the ability of the mind to move a pendulum, I see every logical justification in meeting her claims with aggression.

[H3LL]

I'm curious as to how long it takes to use the "magic pendulum"?

Minutes, hours, days?

I guess if it takes 8 days to get it to work that would be the problem with the PB.

If it was important enough to post here, surely it was important enough to take the time to prevent the post looking ridiculous?

The usual excuses we hear of its 'not predictable', and 'you can't just switch it on and off' and 'I have no control' etc...etc. lead to only one conclusion.

Should such powers be real, and evidence plainly indicated that they are delusion, they are of such little use, reliability and practicality that real or not their existence is moot.

The comment about "Danish dork (Santa) Claus" lends little to any credibility and enhances the ridiculous nature of the post.

Mayday may have thought it witty but only got half way there. [Drum roll]...[High-hat]

[DangerousBeliefs]

Hello? people????

We're talking about bigfig here.

Logic?

Reason?

Hello?!?

Let me save you all some posting time.... answer all her posts with:

"Evidence?"

[Aussie Thinker]

Really guys,

Why do you keep feeding this lonely beachball shaped stalker.

This is not a "dating" club. She is happy that somebody out there even bothers to talk to her at all.

Obviously her own circle of friends and family (and I use the terms loosely) completely ignore her lunacy.

Imagine her surprise and excitement that a group of above average intelligent people (on this forum) treat her like she has an IQ of over 60.

Seriously folks... it is time to stop feeding the troll !

And from her own description of herself she is a troll in more ways than one !

[VeronicaX]

Hi, everyone,I'm new here. Not trying to be on anyone's side but the post:

Originally posted by thatguywhojuggles
What I don't understand is why is it that someone with 90 percent accuracy at naming lottery numbers is working as a nurse?!


misinterpreted mayday. Please refer to the quotes in the samepost:


Originally posted by JPK
Good afternoon


Originally posted by mayday
This evening I wil consult my pendulum (which I have estimated to be about 90% accurate) to find out what the winning PowerBall number will be. Not the whole number, just the powerball number.

Thanks for that. I must have missed it. 90% is pretty good.
Mayday, what leads you to estimating a 90% accuracy for the magic pendulum?

JPK
edited to add
OK, that was from another thread. I thought I read this completly. I am not trying to pick on mayday at all. I am just tring to understand what mayday is saying.


She did clearly say that she's 90% accurate using her pendulum on just the POWERBALL number. So only one number won't make her rich.

Thanks! I'm glad to be a member now! I was brought up in a Strict catholic coountry that believe in all things superstitious but then I came across this site. :)

[prewitt81]

Originally Posted by Mayday
What are the rules this time? When do I have to post the numbers...before or after? I'm going to do them all this time, I'm going to the store now to get one of those slips where you fill in the numbers, then I'm going to take it back later and have them run it through the machine and give me my number.
(emphasis mine)

Originally Posted by Mayday
I really intended to use my magic pendulum to determine the PB nummbers [sic], I just didn't get the chance.
(emphasis again mine)

The quote about only predicting the powerball number was made some 9 days prior on a different thread. This time she obviously said she was going to do all the numbers.

And a pendulum that only predicts the powerball??!? I'd be getting my money back!

Edited for clarity.

[VeronicaX]

And a pendulum that only predicts the powerball??!? I'd be getting my money back!

lol, maybe there are other six psyhics that can predict one number each to add to the powerball number, I just wish they'd post the numbers here though otherwise if I go to them they'd charge me too much.

or Maybe I can write them an IOU letter saying:

I owe you a MILLION DOLLARS if ALL the numbers you give me wins in the next powerball draw.

[ilk]

Originally posted by Throg
Can you imagine how dull this site would be if everyone who participated was a perfectly rational sceptic? What would we have to argue about? People like Mayday aren't an annoyance, they're practically the raison d'etre of the site.

In the case of Mayday in particulary, I don't think it's justified to infer that her only apparent purpose is to stir up trouble. It seems to me that the most likely explanation for her posts is that she genuinely believes in the various paranormal phenomena she posts about. I fail to see the logical justification for her beliefs but neither can I see any logical justification for meeting her claims with agression. Just what do you suppose that is likely to achieve?

In what sense was I advocating aggression towards people such as Mayday? I was merely stating that it is understandable when people get annoyed with those who repeatedly act in ways which are annoying and it is unreasonable to expect perfect tolerance all the time. I wouldn't say that asking for justification of a repeated assertion constitutes aggression.

Of course we need people with different (kooky, ignorant, silly and comedical :D ) points of view in order to make discussion interesting. However, even in my short time here, I've already approached boredom with the posts of (for example) Kumar and jzs and in a sense CFLarsen.

Not (especially in CFlarsen's case) because I don't agree with what they have to say, but because what they post is rarely a surprise. Kumar will dance around a line between 100% gibberish and almost coherent (sometimes interesting) arguments. jzs and CFlarsen will derail threads with their bickering etc.

I put it to you that people like Mayday can be annoyance depending on how bored you are of the way they interact with you and others.

I just realised where the whole aggression part of your post came from. jzs originally referred to CF's post as openly hostile and my response didn't address this clearly. I should have said that CF's post seemed to evidence impatience rather than open hostility and then gone on about why impatience is justified.

[Harlequin]

Originally posted by VeronicaX
Hi, everyone,I'm new here. Welcome to the forum, VeronicaX!

[VeronicaX]

Hi Harlequin

Thanks!!! :)

[JPK]

Good morning VeronicaX

Welcome to the JREF forum!!!

JPK

[Throg]

Originally posted by ilk
In what sense was I advocating aggression towards people such as Mayday?

I didn't mean to imply that you were. I was merely following up on your observation that some people became annoyed with Mayday. Acting in a manner consistent with being annoyed seems to me to imply aggression.

I put it to you that people like Mayday can be annoyance depending on how bored you are of the way they interact with you and others

No doubt.

I just realised where the whole aggression part of your post came from. jzs originally referred to CF's post as openly hostile and my response didn't address this clearly. I should have said that CF's post seemed to evidence impatience rather than open hostility and then gone on about why impatience is justified

No, I really was just following up on your own observation. No accusation was intended nor do I think one is actually present in my post.

[mayday]

Originally posted by H3LL


The comment about "Danish dork (Santa) Claus" lends little to any credibility and enhances the ridiculous nature of the post.

Mayday may have thought it witty but only got half way there. [Drum roll]...[High-hat]

I guess calling me a name first made no difference in the matter.

I may have only gotten half way there, but that is halfway farther than YOU made it.

[H3LL]

Originally posted by mayday
I guess calling me a name first made no difference in the matter.

I may have only gotten half way there, but that is halfway farther than YOU made it.

It's not his thread, it's yours.

So, how long does it take you to use your "magic pendulum"?

You seemed to miss the question last time, so I thought I would help by repeating it.

[arthwollipot]

Obviously to test the claim that the pendulum is 90% accurate, Mayday will have to make a minimum of 10 predictions, with 9 of them correct. I'd admit +/-1 to be acceptable. Is this Powerball thing a weekly draw? That's a minimum of 10 weeks. I'd prefer she make 100 predictions and is matched against the next 100 weeks, but you can't have everything.

If the Magic pendulum can maintain a 90% accuracy (+/- say 10%) over 100 draws, even for just the single ball, that would be a cool million in the bag.

[thaiboxerken]

To entertain the idea that Mayday has such superpowers is ridiculous, especially since she will NOT actually submit her powers to study or observation.

[VeronicaX]

hi JPK!

and everyone else here as well.