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On Apr 19, 2019, tommy wrote: A false alibi isn't an alibi. Some alibis are proof. And you know that. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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An alibi is a plea of having been elsewhere when an action took place. An alibi is not proof but is merely evidence which can be accepted or rejected by the tribunal of fact. Where is Lobo anyway?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Apr 19, 2019, tommy wrote: Fair enough. I'll look for a different word. But you clearly understand the idea I'm expressing: if you were in gaol in Manchester, that's proof that you didn't commit a purse snatching in Mumbai at the same time. And, of course, none of this has any bearing on your burden of proof for your claim that one cannot prove a negative. Quote:
On Apr 19, 2019, tommy wrote: His bride recently had surgery and is home recuperating therefrom, so I'm imagine that a devoted husband such as Lobo is at her side day and night attending to her every need. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Truly sorry to hear that and we wish them well.
I think what you are trying to say Bill is that one can prove the negative that a man cannot be in two places at the same time.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5930 Posts
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My gawd, that was the most boring alibi I have ever heard. It was more like a lullibi. (Errant spelling on purpose)
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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How do we know it was not his doppelganger?
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 187 Posts
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On Apr 19, 2019, S2000magician wrote: I disagree. Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 187 Posts
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On Apr 19, 2019, Tom Cutts wrote: “Thinly veiled”?? Are you kidding me? And do you seriously think that I think that Cayce incorporated death rays in his method of diagnoses/treatments?? Come on Tom. You disingenuously deflected to death ray declarations and dubious definitions (more alliteration fun). Quote:
The 1st definition (which is usually the most common usage of a word) in your link says: 1. to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent Now are you going to argue about the word “equivalent” too? Or "represent"? The bottom line is that you modified my post to make your point that Cayce and modern medicine employ the same technique of throwing out many predictions/prescriptions and counted on the fact that people would remember the occasional hit and forget all the misses. Do I have that wrong? Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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It derives from equal, the same.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5930 Posts
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On Apr 20, 2019, R.S. wrote: Do you seriously think that I think that you think that Cayce incorporated death rays in his method? I don’t. I SPECIFICALLY said “I don’t see...”. It was a way of pointing out that those things which you chose to conflate by their increased proximity with the diagnosis and prescription technique are irrelevant to my point. Their sole purpose of use by you was simply to further impugn the character of the person rather than the specifics of the very basic description of something else which he did. Quote:
declarations and dubious definitions (more alliteration fun). That is a beauty! Quote:
Because you’re avoiding the question; I have not avoided the question. I have addressed it in that I explained that it is irrelevant. Quote:
The 1st definition (which is usually the most common usage of a word) in your link says: Are you unfamiliar with the concept of multiple definitions? Come on, Ron. Quote:
Now are you going to argue about the word “equivalent” too? Or "represent"? Why would I? Those are words used to describe the definition YOU choose to ascribe to my words. Then you further went to inflame your definition of “equate” to the phrase “virtually identical” That is your journey, not mine. I have shown you the definition I used in my words. It is a commonly accepted, often used definition, such that it even appears in the dictionary. Quote:
The bottom line is that you modified my post to make your point that Cayce and modern medicine employ the same technique of throwing out many predictions/prescriptions and counted on the fact that people would remember the occasional hit and forget all the misses. Do I have that wrong? No, but you are very close. I will make this distinction specifically for you, since you seem wrapped up in absolutes at the moment. Not “same”... “similar”. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Apr 20, 2019, R.S. wrote: I got that. So . . . you're saying that if psychic phenomena do not exist it is still possible to prove that they do? |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Are you saying that he is saying that he can prove a negative and that he is wrong?
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Apr 20, 2019, tommy wrote: No. But I admire your initiative. What does this have to do with your burden of proof? |
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On Apr 20, 2019, Tom Cutts wrote: Tom, whether he was impugned or not is totally irrelevant to this: “As far as Cayce, he (probably unwittingly) employed the current corporate medical practice of throwing out many predictions (and prescriptions in his case) and counted on the fact that people would remember the occasional hit and forget all the misses.” Which is what I have been trying to get to the bottom of this entire time. And by the way, it appears that the sole purpose of YOUR comment was to impugn current corporate medicine. Quote:
Thank you. Quote:
Again, it IS relevant because you posted this: As far as Cayce, he (probably unwittingly) employed the current corporate medical practice of throwing out many predictions (and prescriptions in his case) and counted on the fact that people would remember the occasional hit and forget all the misses. Quote:
Let’s put my post and yours side by side for comparison: MINE: “As far as Cayce, he (probably unwittingly) employed the standard psychic technique of throwing out many predictions (and prescriptions in his case) and counted on the fact that people would remember the occasional hit and forget all the misses.” YOURS: “As far as Cayce, he (probably unwittingly) employed the current corporate medical practice of throwing out many predictions (and prescriptions in his case) and counted on the fact that people would remember the occasional hit and forget all the misses.” It’s obvious from your “fix” of my post that you think that current corporate medical practice utilizes the SAME method that I ascribed to Cayce. If that’s not the same, I don’t know what is. And I was actually being generous by giving you some leeway and characterizing your comparison as “virtually identical”. So if you’re now going to insist that they’re not the same, but are just “similar”, then answer this: Would you rather be treated by someone like Cayce or by a modern science-based MD? Thanks. Ron
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 187 Posts
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On Apr 20, 2019, S2000magician wrote: No – I’m saying that “my current position on the status of psychic phenomena (that it has yet to be demonstrated) is not a declaration that it cannot ever be proven to exist.” Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Where there is nothing to prove, there is no burden of proof.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5930 Posts
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On Apr 21, 2019, R.S. wrote: Correct! That you chose to impugn him by conflating death rays and the above statement in an attempt to undermine the above statement (which it has become clear to me that you do not understand because you are restricting yourself to only definitions which are absolutes rather than those which are accurate, common use) does not affect it nor my use of the common (although possibly fading away in this day and age of internet, short attention span fads) use of “fixed that for you” However, once you did it, it was reasonable to address it. I did. Now I think we may have an accord. [To be clear by “accord” I mean “”(of a concept or fact) be harmonious or consistent with”, not the car, not a treaty, not a granting of anything.]. Death Rays, being a “psychic”, and yes, even ignoring the then current understanding of medicine are all irrelevant to my simple comparison of the similarities between the very basic technique in common between Cayce and modern corporate medicine. Quote:
And by the way, it appears that the sole purpose of YOUR comment was to impugn current corporate medicine. No, it wasn’t, but it is clear you completely missed the, small and albeit obtuse, humor in the use of “fixed that for you”. Is that why you are struggling to understand the meaning of the statement? Quote:
Let’s put my post and yours side by side for comparison: Since you are a stickler for absolutes: Those were not “side by side”; please try again. 
Quote: I agree that you don’t know. Are you aware that if two people wear what is commonly referred to as matching shirts to a party, and someone says, “Look, they wore the same shirt.” It doesn’t mean they are both wearing the one shirt, although that might be quite the talk of party. It doesn’t mean that both shirts are missing that peculiar extra button. It doesn’t mean that both shirts have the same snag from when Joe thought he could climb that tree that one day. Are you aware it means, in fact, that the two people have similar shirts which in some basic ways have commonality between each other?
I don’t know what is. As to you persistent, irrelevant question; it is still irrelevant. You should see a doctor about that. HA! Quote:
On Apr 16, 2019, R.S. wrote: Quote:
On Apr 21, 2019, R.S. wrote: So your position has changed in the last five days? |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Apr 21, 2019, R.S. wrote: This isn't a question about your current position. Try to keep up. You said that a statement that it doesn't exist is not a statement that it cannot be proven. It's that statement that I'm saying is wrong. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Apr 21, 2019, tommy wrote: You said that the burden of proof lies with the person who makes the claim, and you've made the claim that one cannot prove a negative. There most certainly is something to prove: the truth of your claim. Or are we simply to accept your claim as true without proof? You know: on faith. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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One cannot prove a negative is negative and therefore then there is nothing to prove.
“I see nobody on the road,' said Alice 'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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