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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:30:09 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, don@partsnow.com, perhaps@yes.no, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal)
Message-ID:  <199711120230.TAA01073@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <19971112030023.06691@bitbox.follo.net>
References:  <3468FAD1.49A8@PartsNow.com> <199711120153.SAA20048@usr04.primenet.com> <19971112030023.06691@bitbox.follo.net>

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[ Prayer experiment ]

> > How can you seperate the telepathy theory from the God theory with this
> > set up?
> > 
> > The researchers should have lied about the names, or given only number,
> > and/or not stated the symptom(s).
> 
> This one is GOOD.  I'd have liked them to pray by number, with the
> number referencing a random list mapping to names stored in a computer
> somewhere, and with about half as many numbers as there were people.
> 
> God is allseeing, rigth?  Then the complex mapping should be
> inconsequential.

Except to the people who are praying.  They don't have the need to feel
'proven', they were merely going along with someone's idea of a test,
based on their faith that the experiment would be successful.

People are not lab rats, and have minds and feelings.



Nate



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