The_Visionaire said:

Haha

Still banging down the walls and sprouting fireworks I see

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It seems to be what it is that I am good at doing.


Peace.

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If paranormal stuff is real, all someone has to do is go look up the Randi Ed. Foundation and set up an experiment with them to prove it under controlled conditions. Then there will be widespread scientific recognition of the phenomenon.

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What I am saying also accounts for why paranormal effects never happen in controlled environments conducted by sceptics, because this would then happen in an entirely different "belief-sphere". And the more subtle and elusive a phenomenon, the more prone to influence of belief it is.

Take for instance the neutrino. It is quite analogus to what is happening in psi-research.

The neutrino was not found at first, it was postulated by Pauli in the 30's based on calculations conserving energy, momentum and spin. Massive efforts were taken to prove the existence of the neutrino, but by the middle of the 20th century there was no clear experimental evidence acceptable by the scientific community at large confirming this notion beyond doubt, apart from some experimental claims in 1959 that are known today to be basically flawed on varios grounds.

During the 80's, after Gran Sasso lab in Italy had stood for 5 year not detecting a single neutrino. But after billions of dollars and the efforts of hundreds of experimentalist, some claims of detection was finally made.

Also in Russia evidence of neutrinos were eventually found, but the Russians found neutrinos with mass while the Americans found massless neutrinos!

You can count on your hand the number of neutrino hits discovered each year, not even close to be considered as final evidence in any way.

Not only this, the standard model predicts 6 different neutrinos in order to have the calculations fit, and also further elaboration upon these, involving oscillating neutrinos that goes from one type to another to explain inconsistencies. This is just laughable!

They may continue to build on this tower for some time, but such massive constructs tend to crumble under their own weight. Nature prefers easy solutions.

I'd be fun to let Randi loose at those neutrino physicists

I wont deny that I would like to see paranormal effects manifest, and the standard model of physics being crushed. Thats part of my belief system, and I see in this a desire to "unbalance the equation", as the Oracle in Matrix says.
But thats how the Tao currently manifests in me. Limitations are for weasels

By the way; Good post Bobby