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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Subject: Re: OBE tests that prove it DOESNT occur
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.124949.25325@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:49:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.002802.2341@nntp.uoregon.edu>, johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin) writes:
- >Ahem. This does NOT prove that OBE's don't occur. It DOES prove that
- >the "Amazing Randi" has never been able to demonstrate one. There is a
- >huge difference! If I have never seen something, this in NO WAY proves
- >that the "something" doesn't exist!
-
- It is not necessary to prove OOBEs doesn't exist, or better, it's *impossible*
- to prove they don't exist. You can try and watch all the people of the world
- in their sleep and awake, using complicated mechanisms, and if nobody has an
- OOBE, you still didn't disprove them. It's impossible, they are not
- falsifiable. Skeptics are well aware of that, and you don't have to repeat it.
-
- So the burden of proof is on the other side. (You don't go around and try to
- prove that Santa Claus, unicorns, werewolves, and fire-breathing chickens
- don't exist. If anybody claims their existence, let him prove it.)
-
- --
- --------------thomas kettenring, 2 dan, kaiserslautern, germany---------------
- Do you ask a Napoleon why it has to be Moscow, of all places? Do you ask a
- Mondrian why one has to paint only in the rectangularly framed primary colours
- Red, Blue, and Yellow? Ah, how all questions are ruined in view of a persuas-
- ively recited system of madness! And is there a mortar keeping those systems
- together firmer than real or supposed enemies? - Robert Gernhardt
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