In article <Xns9405CEAD1F33Bthathillbillyyahooco@
130.133.1.4>, posted 30 Sep 2003 03:24:09 GMT, John Griffin 
says...

:Kali <Kali@nope.not> wrote:
:
:> In article <hdsgnv00j47n0hv5mnvqbqauu361efr1cp@4ax.com>, 
:> posted 29 Sep 2003 18:04:10 GMT, House Widdershins says...
:> 
:>:X-No-Archive: Yes. 
:>:On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:18:30 -0400, Flagship1 of the
:>:Paranormal <paranormal@flagship1.com> wrote:
:>:
:>:>Re: Close Encounters of the Spiritual Kind.
:>:>
:>:>John Griffin wrote:
:>:>> 
:>:
:>:snip
:>: 
:>:>> Saying "I have mounds of evidence" doesn't actually
:>:>> qualify as documentation.
:>:>> 
:>:>> >However, there are
:>:>> > still many cases of spiritual encounters that go
:>:>> > under-reported or even completely unreported all
:>:>> > together. 
:>:>> 
:>:>> Ask yourself how you know about the unreported cases.
:>:>> 
:>:>> > The very nature of this fact alone brings people to
:>:>> > question the possibility that hauntings are much more
:>:>> > common than some may expect.
:>:>> 
:>:>> The fact that they don't hear about "hauntings" makes
:>:>> them think they must be real.  Hell, yes.  Why didn't
:>:>> someone think of that before now?!
:>:>> 
:>:snip
:>:>
:>:>> You said that 1 in 1000 of 1 in 10 "come forward with
:>:>> information." Now you're saying the whole 1000 do.  If
:>:>> the 1 in 10 and the 1 in 1000 wild guesses happened to
:>:>> be right, the number of crazies would be 28000.
:>:>
:>:>One common tactic of the troll is to take writings out of
:>:>context. I wrote that there is an estimated 1 in 10 people
:>:>of the total population that has witnessed a spiritual
:>:>encounter. I did not state that they come forward with
:>:>information. 
:>:
:>:One tactic of the FTB, is to take comments and spin them,
:>:by pretending not to understand the context in which the
:>:statements or questions were made.
:>:
:>:>
:>:>I did _not_ say "1 in 1000 *of* 1 in 10 come forward with
:>:>information. 
:>:>
:>:>Rather I said. In the United States paranormal encounters
:>:>are witnessed by 1 in 10 people, however, they do not come
:>:>forward. Whereas only 1 in 1000 people in the United
:>:>States do come forward with information related to the
:>:>paranormal. 
:>:
:>:So, the question remains: If one person out of one hundred
:>:sets of ten each reports such stuff, how could you
:>:logically posit the other ninety-nine?
:> 
:>  <cue Kuhn or Gibran quote>
:> 
:> Ed is a statistics expert, doncha know? At least I, for 
:> one, can tell that Ed finished 4th grade mathematics. 
:
:That's where Crazy Edmo learned about those "difficult 
:logarithums" and "pretty difficult correction math" in astrology 
:that he talks about.
:
:However, Flaggy, his protege who actually wrote the above 
:nonsense and is barely distinguishable from the old fraud, 
:couldn't possibly have finished 4th grade mathematics already.  
:He's only 24 years old.

Well, at least he's got a shot at growing out of it?  

<I have GOT to keep my k00ks straight>

Kali
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