From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 11 18:33:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA19499 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:33:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA19482 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:33:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05659; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:30:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01073; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:30:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:30:09 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711120230.TAA01073@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Terry Lambert , don@partsnow.com, perhaps@yes.no, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) In-Reply-To: <19971112030023.06691@bitbox.follo.net> References: <3468FAD1.49A8@PartsNow.com> <199711120153.SAA20048@usr04.primenet.com> <19971112030023.06691@bitbox.follo.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Prayer experiment ] > > How can you seperate the telepathy theory from the God theory with this > > set up? > > > > The researchers should have lied about the names, or given only number, > > and/or not stated the symptom(s). > > This one is GOOD. I'd have liked them to pray by number, with the > number referencing a random list mapping to names stored in a computer > somewhere, and with about half as many numbers as there were people. > > God is allseeing, rigth? Then the complex mapping should be > inconsequential. Except to the people who are praying. They don't have the need to feel 'proven', they were merely going along with someone's idea of a test, based on their faith that the experiment would be successful. People are not lab rats, and have minds and feelings. Nate