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Sent in my application today.

Neutralize

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Hello skeptics. Today I mailed my application form for the challenge. I am claiming to have the ability to read my friends thoughts. I am claiming that we have telepathy. I am very certain of this because this has been like this for over a year.
 
If I predict that I won't have won The Challenge by the 5th of May, will I therefore automatically win it?
 
skullerello said:
If I predict that I won't have won The Challenge by the 5th of May, will I therefore automatically win it?
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Neutralize, would you be willing to share your suggested test protocol with us?
 
Reading your friends thoughts? Thats not psychic. Thats a result of being friends and knowing each other well. Also, there is a probability that you became friends because you think alike about many things in the first place. Try reading a strangers mind and you may have something.
 
Test protocol

;) I would consider a test with me being supervised, and my lady friend as well by members or representatives from JREF. This could even work with us far apart like across town. I am positive that I could successfully transfer thoughts to her, and she could say what I am thinking or whatever. i am talking to her right now.
 
Neutralize said:
;) I would consider a test with me being supervised, and my lady friend as well by members or representatives from JREF. This could even work with us far apart like across town. I am positive that I could successfully transfer thoughts to her, and she could say what I am thinking or whatever. i am talking to her right now.
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How about a simple experiment where you pick a playing card from a pack and think about it and your friend writes the name of card down. Repeat twice.

You can practice at home.

At 10 o clock, say, you pick a card and think about it for 5 mins. At 5 past 10 you pick the next card. At 10 past 10 pick a third card then at quarter past you can compare the cards you chose with the 3 cards your friend (in a different room) has recorded. If they are all right you will have great chance of being able to pass a proper challenge.
 
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Neutralize said:
;) I would consider a test with me being supervised, and my lady friend as well by members or representatives from JREF. This could even work with us far apart like across town. I am positive that I could successfully transfer thoughts to her, and she could say what I am thinking or whatever. i am talking to her right now.
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Have you read this thread ? http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28936. The protocol used there is described in post 23 of that thread.

Is that something like you envision? If not, can you be more specific than what you wrote above?
 
Ausmerican said:
Reading your friends thoughts? Thats not psychic.
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Not _necessarily_ psychic. It all depends on the specifity of the thoughts being read. If the thought is 'hey, I'd like to go see movie X', then that's unlikely to be psychic, given that you are friends. If it's 'from this selection of random words I have selected X at random', then that's more likely to be psychic.
 
How have you tested this ability?

Any "blind" tests?

if you're talking to your friend now telepathically, is there a chance that she will remember that discussion next time you see her?
 
Welcome, Neutralize.

What kinds of experiences have you had which have made you believe you're psychic?

Have you read around the area? A search of this website will probably throw up all sorts of reasons why some people think they're psychic, but may in fact be mistaken.

Nevertheless, if you have some degree of control over your possible ability, it's probably quite easily testable, when the challenge is back up and running again. Have you had any ideas for a testing procedure?
 
Good luck Neutralise! Hopefully the application mechanism will be up and running again soon.
 
Neutralize said:
Hello skeptics. Today I mailed my application form for the challenge. I am claiming to have the ability to read my friends thoughts. I am claiming that we have telepathy. I am very certain of this because this has been like this for over a year.
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Well, this seems (deceptively?) simplistic to test: just ensure there are no devices, isolate both subjects and use whatever thought-form they wish to send to the other (if complex, impressive images are too much "overload", then simple strings of words will surely suffice) to determine a chance figure higher than 70%.
 
Plenty of folks are already directing you to ways to improve your chances with the challenge, so I'll just correct the shortage of people wishing you...

Good Luck!
 
The ideal message is something like a number from 1-6 or a playing card. There are 52 (common) playing cards, and there's no ambiguity between them.

Single words also work well, but then you are open to the problem of synonyms and misspellings. You sent knife, she read dagger--hit or miss? Or you sent knife, she wrote nife.

Pictures and ideas are also possible, but then there are a lot of possible pictures that could be considered matches. If you want to work with more abstract thoughts, I would suggest making a list of twenty or so distinct objects (pizza, automobile, shoe) that can't really be mistaken for one another, throw a die to pick one of the objects, and send that one.
 
Neutralize, if I could give you one piece of advice, it would be this: Keep it simple! You seem to have a very simple and easily testable claim; Try and keep it this way.

If you start to needlessly complicate the process, and start evading, you will encounter hostility on the forums here. If that bothers you, you should stop reading the forums immediately. However, if you keep it simple and stick to your claim, you will receive immense support from the forum. We are skeptics, but we are rooting for you. We would like nothing more than to see psychic powers proven!

Do it, and you've changed science as we know it, and you're $1,000,000 richer! Good luck!
 
ChristineR said:
Pictures and ideas are also possible, but then there are a lot of possible pictures that could be considered matches. If you want to work with more abstract thoughts, I would suggest making a list of twenty or so distinct objects (pizza, automobile, shoe) that can't really be mistaken for one another, throw a die to pick one of the objects, and send that one.
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And of course, don't share the list of pictures with the other person in advance :)
 
Neutralize,
Once the application procedure is restarted and yours is considered it's by no means impossible that you may be asked to provide notarized affidavits from people you've demonstrated your mind reading to.

Out of interest, would you be willing to tell us whether you have managed to convince anyone else of your abilities yet?
 
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And of course, don't share the list of pictures with the other person in advance :)
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Actually no, my protocol has you sharing the list in advance. This is a protocol for people who can send pictures but not numbers for some reason. Both sender and receiver look at the pictures. Then sender goes into the other room, rolls a die to pick a picture and concentrates on the picture. Receiver reviews the pictures and chooses the one that matches.

That way there is no question of "sort of" matching. For example, if a picture of a building was sent and the receiver saw a building, there could be a question whether they are the same buildings. But if the receiver says "I saw a building, as in picture 7," then the only question is whether the sent picture was seven or not.
 
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