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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 89 09:43:01 -0700
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From: "Talk t'me later; I wanna dance. 19-Sep-1989 1239" <callas@eris.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Okay, so what's the problem with Xtians?
I was walking along the street the other evening, and there were two Christians
playing tag-team revivalism on the passers-by (of which there weren't many). As
I walked by them as one was telling some guy about how he'd been saved, the
second comes over to me and asks, "Do you believe, brother?"
I grinned, looked him square in the eye and said "Yessiree, Bob!"
He said, "Peace, brother," and I went on.
Okay, so what's the big problem with Xtians? This one seemed like a reasonable
fellow to me.
Confused,
Jon
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 20:00:04 EDT
From: "M. Strata Rose" <strata@fenchurch.mit.edu>
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Subject: [Hugh_Messenger.EuroPARC@Xerox.COM : Seminar announcement ]
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All right West Coast Slackers, go forth and report back..
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Date: 19 Sep 89 05:01:27 PDT (Tuesday)
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I don't know if this is in keeping with the ground rules of this dl, but
here is a seminar announcement which might be of interest to folks in the
valley.
BTW, my mail link to the outide world is extremely slow at the moment. If
this announcement doesn't get to you before the seminar happens, my
apologies.
-- Rev. Wu Wei
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Date: Thursday, 21 September 1989
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: PARC Auditorium
PARC Forum
Ray Hyman
Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
Psychics and Scientists
How Smart People Get Fooled
Abstract:
Have you heard of experiments demonstrating the validity of psychic
phenomena, such as remote viewing, spoon bending, telepathy and the like?
In your opinion, are any or all of these effects real? If so, you have
plenty of company. Or do you feel that such claims run so clearly counter
to the established laws of physics that only a nut would accept them? Do
you wonder how so many people could take leave of their senses? You're not
alone.
In every decade for the last few centuries eminent scientists have
encountered psychic claims. In almost every case the scientist has been
convinced the claims were true. Their colleagues, however, thought the
scientist was badly deranged or seriously affected in some way. This
raises a number of questions. What is going on? Was the scientist
correct: there are paranormal phenomena? Were the critics correct: the
scientist was crazy, dishonest, or extremely incompetent? There is a third
possibility: people can be intelligent, competent, and yet badly mistaken.
This talk will demonstrate psychological principles to make that point,
principles of the human mind which can lead us far astray.
Ray Hyman is very much conversant with pyschic experiments, through his
years with the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the
Paranormal (CSICOP).
This Forum is OPEN. All are invited, but seating is limited and doors will
be closed when available seats are taken. Refreshments will be served at
3:45.
The PARC Auditorum is located at 3333 Coyote Hill Rd. in Palo Alto. We are
between Page Mill Road (west of Foothill Expressway) and Hillview Avenue,
in the Stanford Research Park. The easiest way here is to get onto Page
Mill Road, and turn onto Coyote Hill Road. As you drive up Coyote Hill,
PARC is the only building on the left after you crest the hill. Park in
the large parking lot, and enter the auditorium at the upper level of the
building. (The auditorum entrance is located down the stairs and to the
left of the main doors.)
Hosted by Ken Shoemake (PARC Electronic Documents Laboratory 415-494-4808)
[[If anyone goes to this and takes notes and sends me a copy, I'll
happily post them to the list.
I had to try twice to send this to the mailing list, apologies to
those receiving it twice.
Tim Freeman]]
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