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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Dennis44 is Back Hello
Hi All,
I have returned from my move. I have also changed ISP's my e-mail is now ishman22044@earthlink.net I am still interested in the million dollar challenge, however, i sense that it is all the money JR has. So i am not going to continue with it. I want to thank you for your consideration and patience. I really am a psychic that can prove it. I am also open for any questions you have. All of you seem to have an oppinion based on belief not evidence. Any evidence would most likely be rejected, it seems hopeless to try at all. So it seems that the skeptics have won the battle. I have a life to live. |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
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The million dollars is sitting in a trust fund - James Randi isn't really using it anyway. Go ahead with your claim.
I would love to see evidence of psychic abilities, I really would. It would to me be more exciting than the Apollo missions to the Moon. |
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sydney
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Dennis, that would be pretty much owned if you submit yourself to such a lousy and lame conclusion like that. Yes...it's much easier to run away from a fight... :O
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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The money isn't JR's. He has his own money. The way I understand it, only the first $10,000 is his own money (which he has spent over 40 years trying to give for proof of the paranormal), and the rest is held in trust for the foundation. Sign up and take the JREF's money. You wouldn't hurt JR's personal accounts any more than he has agreed to take on for two generations. |
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I wonder if anyone has ever tried to dowse with a Ouija board planchette? |
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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\/\/ALTER Juggler-Artist-Atheist My Portfolio/Resumé "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." -- Seneca the Younger (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.) "A lie goes half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get his pants on." - Winston Churchill. |
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"`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'" |
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Denmark
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Dennis44,
Since you are worried about the financial situation of JREF, and you obviously would not like to ruin the good work that JREF does with the challenge, you might consider winning the challenge and then donate the million dollars back to JREF so that the challenge can continue. The JREF would gain immensely by your winning the challenge, because the challenge would have been instrumental in proving that your psychic powers exist, and the world would be a more interesting place to live in. And lots of scientists would now have to figure out how to rewrite the laws of nature to accomodate the new knowledge. Just do it! |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The '80s
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Your attempt to get out of applying is not original or convincing and fools no-one here. Plus you're basically saying you like the JREF, but you are only not applying to help MR Randi (ah bless) and then you claim that we would not believe evidence if we were presented with it? You mean like someone winning the million dollars? Which you won't do? I don't think the psychic community is likely to look to you as a future leader. |
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With extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat. - Jeffrey Burton Russell No one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate - Ivars Peterson |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Join Date: May 2002
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You have the opportunity to change the world and perform a benevolent act in the process. I can't imagine why you would pass up this opportunity. edited to add: I see this is exactly what steenkh suggests above. Apologies for not reading carefully. |
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Former challenge facilitator
Join Date: Apr 2004
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A potential applicant who refuses to apply because it might "hurt James Randi?"
I gotta admit...this one I have never heard before. I must add it to my list. That's nice. It was getting pretty stagnant. p.s. WHAT "evidence"? |
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Pith Artist
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Dennis44 is back.
He's not going to do the challenge. And I'm supposed to care about any of this because... ? Do a lot of potential claimants (ie. those who CLAIM that they are going to claim, then don't) just need a bit of attention? Want to feel special for a moment? Starting a thread about how you have this ability but (for usual and boring reasons) are not going to prove it actually strikes me as a little bit sad - like the office joker always making himself look foolish just so everyone will be looking at him for a moment (Colin Hunt anyone?). Do it or don't do it - spare us the rationalisations please. |
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With extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat. - Jeffrey Burton Russell No one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate - Ivars Peterson |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Waiting Long Enough By The River
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If someone offered me $1,000,000 to demonstrate, for half an hour, a power which I did in fact possess (e.g. reasoning, laughing at idiots, falling off a log) I'd take the money. If I felt sorry for the loon who offered me the money, I might give SOME of it back. Or I might wonder if HE would put it to the best possible use. There are a lot of hungry people out there...
NOW SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE! PLEASE SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE! PLEASE! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!! |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Thanks For Your Replys.
I will think about just showing up sometime, after the hurricanes destroy florida. Maybe all of the paperwork can and the testing can be done down in florida. I cannot get any interest from anyone up here. Until i decide to head for florida i am not even going to persue an interest in the JREF million. I am just too busy. I am so new to the Psychic Realm i am only likely to cause trouble. Society scares me right now. So for the time being i am out. What ever this psychic power is, one thing is for sure, even to me it is a disturbence. Its even a bit scary. I have more thinking to do about it. ishman22044@earthlink.net |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
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Any Pennsylvania JREFers who could visit Dennis, to see what his talent is, and suggest ways of testing it, and maybe help with some paperwork? If you were in Dallas, I'd do it.
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Pith Artist
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The '80s
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Well what happened to the discussion with Eric from PhACT?
Do you remember a previous poster's suggestion for you Dennis: Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking (PhACT) PhACT have stated that they will pay for an applicant to travel to Florida for JREF testing. All you have to do first is successfully demonstrate your powers to them. Kill two birds with one stone by arranging for the PhACT test to be the JREF preliminary also. Good luck. Contact them or don't. We are not interested in claims that you have no interest in testing. Especially as many people here believe you to be a troll. A scroll through your posting history is very indicative of that. |
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With extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat. - Jeffrey Burton Russell No one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate - Ivars Peterson |
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Former challenge facilitator
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Florida
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Come on down, Dennis. The next hurricane is due at iour doorstep Sunday morning.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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I wish you all the best of luck with the hurricane. I have a bad feeling about this one. The others i did not have this feeling.
Its about the same level as the feeling i got with wtc. Its so bad that i cringe inside. wtc 3,000 dead or so. I hope i am wrong. I am going to go and pray for you all. Phract, Eric, he never gave me what i needed, i even asked when and where and he never comitted himself to an appointment. So his performance i give him a 2.0. I am real, I am not a troll, I don't even know what a troll is. I mean really. You have this idea that i really believe in you and JREF. In some cases i think i really must be mad...I don't believe in you, not really. Maybe your not phony, but sheesh, you seem to have too much fun destroying anyone that commits a horrible act of mentalism skism. Even a sane man would turn down such a scathing...Please. I am just a forum member and i very happy with that. ishman22044@earthlink.net |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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If you don't have more than a "bad feeling" about the hurricane then join the club. |
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"`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'" |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I am still interested in the million dollar challenge, however, i sense that it is all the money JR has.
You do realize that winning the prize simply entitles you to take the money, however, whether you accept the money or not is voluntary, right? |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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For Florida i would suggest only travel roads that have traffic comming your way, travel during the day, do exactly what you are told by the police/authority. do not disobey traffic signs including warning signs of falling rocks slipery roads, etc...These things magnify in a storm.
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"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier... A belief's a dangerous thing. People die for it. People kill for it." Rufus, the 13th apostle, Dogma "You can't prove air." Sylvia Browne www.StopSylvia.com John Kardel |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Maybe Dennis has Florida confused with Colorado.
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power & profit - Thomas Paine |
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Perhaps you could zero in on something really specific. I don't know, maybe you can detect a psychic message about a very particular building that will collapse. We can then alert the authorities to make sure everyone is out of it (er, out of the building, I mean). |
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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My psychic powers tell me next Tuesday will be a really bad day for sticking your fingers in a power socket.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Actually, i see that florida did well with the hurricane. I am relieved. Dark prophets tend to enforce thier visions i usually pray them away.
I appologize for my harsh focused view of JREF. Critical Thinking i am sure only seems -evil-? My brother who i believe is satanic, he has developed the same ability as i have. I actually think that maybe my brothers activities have something to do with my sound generation ability, i think it is a carrior wave. Maybe if my suspicians are right, my ability may be associated with a radio implant. Possibly from naval service. That is one thing that should be checked out. I think that if i tell him about you, that he will appear and start some harrassment rote... For some reason the satanic does not even have the capacity to tell the truth about anything. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. ~Julius Caesar Well anyway thanks for all of your replies. |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Is Dennis a fraternity geek at one of those small Pennsylvania colleges with too much time on his hands? I can just imagine he and his buddies sittin' around, swillin' the juice, and having a big ol' laugh at us. Ya think?
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I know most of you view the spirit as something that cannot be proved. I believe that the spirit has been proved already. Most of our world is developed around the power of god already. That kinda means that JR is one of gods more powerful representives already. Magicains tend to be very powerful, if a bit cranky.
The star house of the magician is called harlquin. Lord harlquin is known to me. |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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I am retired Navy.
I do not attend college. I have plenty of time on my hands. Your feeble skills are no match for the powers of the darkside. ~the emperor star wars. You don't know the power of the darkside. ~darth vader star wars. Your lack of faith disturbs me. ~darth vader star wars. icq: 167317257 ishman22044@earthlink.net also, us.undernet random server. I'm on irc, u are welcome join us. Dennis44 mirc chat client at www.mirc.com www.ufon.org #Ufo is the channel |
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