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Subject: Re: Mind and Brain and Ki
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 13:25:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 13:25:14 1984
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[me]

>>>	On the other hand, if he says, "This is true, but I can't prove it.",
>>>	then I'll laugh in his face and tell him to move to net.religion :-).
>>>			Ray Chen

[somebody else]

>>A lot of people are saying "PSI does not exist," as if they're experts
>>or something.  What if I say electrons don't exist because I've never seen
>>any evidence for them?...

>>When you people say PSI (and all that other mumbo-jumbo) doesn't exist,
>>how do you explain (to yourself) the existence of acupuncture, all those
>>wierd things the asians do with karate, aikido, ta-chien...

[Dick Dunn]

>Look carefully at what Ray was postulating:  If someone says, "This is true
>but I can't prove it", you're safe to laugh in his face.  If instead he
>says, "Something is happening here and I don't know what it is..."  [do
>you, Mr. Jones--oops, sorry!:-], as is generally the case with, say,
>acupuncture, then you say, "gee, yeah, I hope that investigation turns up
>something soon."

BRAVO !!  Thank you, Dick, for the eloquent defense.  That's *exactly*
what I was trying to get across.

(And that's all at the net.  Back to you, Jim ...)

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