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Remote Viewing
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Posted By:
Just a random guy
in in a hospital, out of a long coma
Apr 11, 2005
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I know that this is an old topic, but it is one that many people believed. I had never heard of it (I didn't hear about it from that movie or whatever, but it was mentioned briefly in a nonfiction book that I read) until a few months ago. Remote Viewing is a process that people would undertake to as the name suggests view something of their choice from long distances with the power of their mind. Apparently from what I heard, the military also had a group of remote viewers (btw, the book that i heard this from is Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers). I was wondering if any of you out there maybe did some research on this and could share what you found, or any stories of it working?
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Bonk
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 04:17 PM
This one is Wise by all means. Romanian girls are pretty HOT... |
Just a random guy
in in a hospital, out of a long coma
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 08:21 PM
Don't worry, Bonk, im pretty new here myself (about a week) and the people are nice  . The only exception is to the random unregistered people that come in here with arguements to topics trying to make points that don't make sense, and make themselves seem like idiots (Read the Prove the existence of god and win $1,000,000 topic). |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 08:40 PM
Dear Random Guy,
Just to catch you up... Bonk is Stephen who likes to refer to himself as "Sir Stephen" when actually it's closer to Silly Stephen. Either way, he's been around for quite some time and is just messing with people. You'll get quite a bit of that around here and mostly it's amusing, however, sometimes it can get annoying or out of control... so be warned.
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Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 08:53 PM
Note that "bonk" spelled backwards is "Knob", a more fitting psuedonym for Sir Stephen, in my view. Note that "Hairy Houdini" spelled backwards is "Bhodisatva", but you can call me Donny |
Katherine
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 09:08 PM
Oh my. All is not quiet on the western front...
I don't suppose there's any way we could all cool it and stop posting with sockpuppet accounts? No? Oh, well.
In response to the original post:
I would be perfectly willing to believe in remote viewing if someone could manifest it repeatedly under controlled conditions, but alas, it appears that no one can do this.
However, as we should all know from science class (in the Dark Ages! Yep, I'm old), it's pretty well impossible to prove a negative. It's quite conceivable that "psychic" phenomena are indeed real, but that they're nonreproducible anomalies that occur only rarely. In that case, it would be futile to try to conjure up "psychic powers" in controlled laboratory conditions, and even if they were real, there would be practically no way to prove that they exist.
Not saying that I necessarily believe these things are true, just that I think there MAY be phenomena which are quite real but are unable to be reproduced repeatedly under controlled conditions. |
Katherine
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 09:16 PM
Ahahaha. Now the Google ad says "Let our psychic readers help you find your soulmate."
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Alex
in San Diego
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 11:07 PM
Myst, how did you know exactly where I was? Amazing. |
Myst
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 11:46 PM
Yay, I'm psychic! |
Katherine
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 11:57 PM
A psychic reader, eh? Myst, darlin, is there any hope you could look deep into the mists of the future and find a soulmate for me?
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Myst
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 12:18 AM
Katherine, I can tell you that when you least expect it you shall meet a handsome stranger who will sweep you off your feet.  |
Raoul
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 12:38 AM
hmmm... I hear bells on the hills ringing... I've never heard them before... hmmm |
Katherine
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 12:39 AM
Why, thank you! Your consultation fee will be in the mail just as soon as the handsome stranger materializes.
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Katherine
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 12:44 AM
And why in the world are you singing, Raoul? Now you've got that song stuck in my head! "Then there was music/and wonderful roses, they tell me/and sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and dew!/There was love all around/but I never heard it singing/no, I never heard it at all/tilllllll there was youuuuuuuuuuu!"
Stupid songs. Gahhhhh! |
hcmomof4
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 01:37 AM
"The only exception is to the random unregistered people that come in here with arguements to topics trying to make points that don't make sense"
I must be the exception to the exception, cause I'm a random unregistered person, and I'm nice, and I don't make senseless arguments...
Ummmmmm...this was NOT an argument, by the way... |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 02:59 AM
Charybdis is correct. Many "experiments" conducted by people with a bias toward believing in the supernatural are done exactly the way he says. This ain't "science," folks, this is confirmation bias.
"Confirmation bias" refers to when a person includes the evidence that agrees with his preconceived notions and excludes that which doesn't.
Want more on this fascinating subject? Check out randi.org or skepdic.com. Reading really *is* FUN-damental! |
Charybdis
in Hell
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 09:42 AM
Katherine, I can tell you that when you least expect it you shall meet a handsome stranger who will sweep you off your feet. - Myst
You're really telling her that she's going to be hit by a car while walking down the sidewalk, aren't you.
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viewer
in South
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 | 01:41 AM
You are all missing the point because you DON'T know the real actual protocol of Remote Viewing. What was described is NOT what happens at all. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 | 03:14 AM
viewer said:
"You are all missing the point because you DON'T know the real actual protocol of Remote Viewing. What was described is NOT what happens at all."
Well, thanks for clearing that up for us, viewer. I understand MUCH better now. |
viewer
in South
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 | 03:30 AM
OK, so there's at least on eperson who's interested in the truth, and not label anything not understood as hoax. I was realising I might have come to the wrong place.
What's said in this thread is not only exaggerating, it's nonsense; that's not remote viewing at all! The protocol and structures are a lot more controlled than that.
You don't even know what the target is before and during the RVing.
"Try to picture where Alex is right now. Write down all the images and ideas that come to mind, no matter how vague. After you have about 30 different possible places we ask Alex where he is. Say he's in a Burger King. You search through your stack looking for anything even remotely related to food, driving (drive-thru), sitting, plastic, royalty, children, styrofoam, paper, trash, asphalt, walls, etc. If you got any of the above then you scored a "hit" and can claim that your psychic powers are real.
Oh, and you destroy all the "misses" because you don't want to confuse the issue with the facts.
It may seem like I'm exagerating here but really, I'm not. This is exactly how most pseudo-scientific "experiments" are carried out. And if you try to explain this then you're "missing the point" and an "unbeliever"." |
Rochelle
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 | 07:27 AM
Viewer--Perhaps if you would explain how remote viewing actually works, we would get the point. The purpose of this thread is to learn more about it. Since you appear to know something more than us, why don't you elaborate? I, for one, am curious. |
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