Derren Brown explains to Dawkins why psychic readers are fake (part 5 of 6)

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   Denchanter357 February 13, 2012 at 10:54 am #

   @a1024s interstellar travel capable cultures would likely have more access to that info than we would in africa however. the internet alone has nearly granted us the capability to find the answer through means they could deem as witchcraft and answer them in seconds.

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   Denchanter357 February 13, 2012 at 11:47 am #

   @IHABC8 nobody else had time to feed he that info either? in any way? was she checked for an earpiece? did she have access to information on the way? did the show give her the information for ratings? how can you be certain?

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   Denchanter357 February 13, 2012 at 12:10 pm #

   @Sozlled actually scientifically replicatable. it may be a combo of paralysis and lucid dreaming.

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   SpencerBenedict2nd February 13, 2012 at 12:50 pm #

   Dead-to-the-spirit deluded “God Delusion” author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another “leader” given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations

   Jesuitical; pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating

   The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system 2 suit their Evo-Hoax Agenda to discredit the Bible

   Papal Rome cant have their Counter Reformation 2nd Dark Age DESPOTISM until Bible is destroyed

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   Sozlled February 13, 2012 at 1:04 pm #

   @a1024s Most (if not all) of the people who claim to have been abducted by aliens say they were paralysed. Well personally i think that is nothing more than sleep paralysis. I get sleep paralysis quite a lot and i have been convinced that someone was holding me down, i have thought people were in the room and i have always thought i could see, which is definitely one of the weirdest things.

   Anyway, some of these people say they have had alien babies and get abducted regularly to play with them.

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   a1024s February 13, 2012 at 1:48 pm #

   @Sozlled I suppose I would ask them various fun technical questions, yes.  There is however the question of how much I would understand. It’s weird people don’t try though.
   Also, I don’t think when aliens impregnate you with their half-alien hybrids (or probe you), they give you much of a choice…

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   Sozlled February 13, 2012 at 2:14 pm #

   @a1024s Yea, i suppose that’s true. But to the same degree i know how an engine works on a very basic level, i am sure if you were abducted by aliens, real aliens from another part of the galaxy, i am sure they would know how they travelled so far.

   Surely you agree with what Carol Sagan would have asked? Surely you would be asking where they came from (extra dimensional, intergalactic, whatever) not get probed or have babies and then get abducted so you can play with then every other week.

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   a1024s February 13, 2012 at 2:23 pm #

   @Sozlled I didn’t say “without any knowledge”, I’m sure you have a basic idea as to how internal combustion works by exploding a mist of gasoline, and how GPS works through satellites and relativity. I’m saying you wouldn’t be able to instruct people how to build them.
   It might disappoint you to know that Astronauts, while possibly better at it than you or I, can’t actually build space ships either- they’re pilots (military academy graduates mostly), not engineers.

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   Sozlled February 13, 2012 at 3:19 pm #

   @a1024s So you think that all aliens have access to ships and fly about the galaxy without any knowledge of how their ship works? That’s ridiculous. NASA astronauts usually have highly technical and engineering backgrounds, so ask them how the rocket works i am sure they could tell you.

   Any aliens that are going to travel light years are going to be highly intelligent. The average person in a car being asked how the engine works hardly compares to interstellar travel.

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    IHABC8 February 13, 2012 at 4:18 pm #

    There’s a lady on the Travel Channel show that apparently is real. A man hung himself..and she knew his name. The ‘haunted house’ was originally on a different location not far away, and she knew that. She didnt have time to research before they called her to help.

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    Smithpolly February 13, 2012 at 4:31 pm #

    I agree that psychics are bogus but I don’t see that using friend of friends stories is very convincing.

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    a1024s February 13, 2012 at 5:08 pm #

    On topic of aliens, imagine that you are stopped by aboriginals on a side of a highway (I know it’s silly, just bear with me) and they asked you how the engine in your car worked, or how to produce the steel it’s made of or (you obviously have this problem solved- the device that does it fits in your hand) how to find out where you are, would you be able to tell them? You could tell them about the dangers of cannibalism though… (just a thought)

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    SmokenSalemGuns February 13, 2012 at 5:26 pm #

    What do you think about Web Bot?

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    rnglnd6029 February 13, 2012 at 6:09 pm #

    I think believers delude themselves NOT becuz they want to believe in psychics, but becuz they want to believe that loved ones do still exist somewhere.

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    marcN19 February 13, 2012 at 6:15 pm #

    WOW…. go Derren go…………….

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