Well, I'm off to the New Anita Thread to suggest ways in which she can help paleontology. After all, she should be able to ask or describe the ghost of a dinosaur affiliated with a particular bone, yes? So she can easily tell from a single piece what kind of animal it will turn out to be from...wow, that would be TESTABLE and all.
Growing up in a German-speaking household, this word was used to denote "a little bit." I don't know if the spelling is identical or the word's provenance, although I suspect it might be from Yiddish.
ETA: I see Jeff's already clarified it. Thanks, Jeff.
I am simultaneously now working on having the study with the local FACT Skeptics (credible witnesses!) and finding university students to participate in the study, and am contacting new locations asking to have the study there and now presenting it as a psychology study. I haven't given up! It just takes longer than we'd all like!
So much "action", and so little results...what are the odds?
So how goes the search in finding "university students" (but wait...you've said you don't want to include your university even though you've told at least 3 professors and another student already)?
New locations...BRILLIANT!
Given your stunning scientific approach thus far, The Nobel Prize can truly not be far off....
Gosh another change of direction now everyone has become thorougly bored with you? What a surprise.
Instead of presenting it as a paranormal investigation into possible extrasensory perception, I'm trying a different approach that might make it easier to arrange for location and participants. I'm presenting it as a psychology study into how much can be deduced about a person's health merely based on looking at external symptoms. The study will still take place in the same manner, but it should make it sound less provocative or controversial.
Oh more tests in fields you have no knowledge of?
You have zero psychology knowledge (in fact it appears you have zero scientific knowledge of any type but in particular you haven't even studied any psychology or even expressed any interest in studying psychology).
So without any training in Psychology or statistics any such test will be pointless - just another fun day out in the park with people giving Anita attention.
Why not try to get attention for who you are rather than for childish stories you have made up?
Do you not like who you are?
I am simultaneously now working on having the study with the local FACT Skeptics (credible witnesses!) and finding university students to participate in the study, and am contacting new locations asking to have the study there and now presenting it as a psychology study. I haven't given up! It just takes longer than we'd all like!
Oh how exciting! You get to write a whole new experiment that won't ever happen or won't be worth the paper it's printed on.
What a waste of of time.
Unless your primary goal is to get attention, in which case it is again a rather short term solution.
The lack of substance to this claim quickly becomes obvious to everyone.
You can do any of these thingsright now:
Detail what happened in the Study on January 3rd (I think "eventually" has officially passed now)
Fax the notes of said study to the contact details Unca Yimmy provided some time ago
Run a test on identifying crystals (as you claimed you could do to an amazing degree)
Provide the results of your analysis of Pup's pill experiment (even if the result are that you simply couldn't detect anything)
Detail what exactly you wrote down regarding Wayne (providing a scan of your notes would be even better)
But you won't.
Because you have no genuine interest in testing yourself.
You do not even believe any of this nonsense - you are just an attention seeker. It's rather sad.
From my distant studies of German, I'd imagine that it comes from the standard High German word "Biss", meaning a bite, which has as diminutive forms "Bisschen" or "Bissel", depending on which part of the country you're from.
Even less interestingly, I can recall my father, who is interested in such things, using the word as a proper noun to describe some kind of movable load-bearing locomotive axle. Or something. My eyes always used to glaze over when he got onto such topics.
Start looking 5 minutes and 20 seconds into this video, Also found here,
It is about Daniel Tammet who has an amazing talent in performing complex numerical calculations in his mind by being able to relate to numbers in terms of color and shapes, that then interact in his mind as colors and shape to produce the answers, as colors and shapes, that he can translate back into numbers. It reminds me of how I perceive things in terms of vibrations, color and feeling, and what I call Vibrational algebra (written about here), in which I combine the vibrational aspect of things to produce a resulting vibration that I then translate into physical significance. This is how I can predict the effects that combining physical things would have, or come up with the hypothesis of what would cure or change a certain health problem for example. This video gives an idea of what it is almost like when I perceive in vibration. It is very interesting.
Except, of course, that Daniel Tammet apparently can produce--and reproduce--actual results in the real world, when being witnessed; he can tell people what he can, and can't, do with his ability; and he doesn't call what he does "color algebra" or claim it lets him see ghosts.
Other than that, it's almost kinda sorta somewhat vaguely similar, if you squint and look at it in the right light.
Start looking 5 minutes and 20 seconds into this video, Also found here,
It is about Daniel Tammet who has an amazing talent in performing complex numerical calculations in his mind by being able to relate to numbers in terms of color and shapes, that then interact in his mind as colors and shape to produce the answers, as colors and shapes, that he can translate back into numbers. It reminds me of how I perceive things in terms of vibrations, color and feeling, and what I call Vibrational algebra (written about here), in which I combine the vibrational aspect of things to produce a resulting vibration that I then translate into physical significance. This is how I can predict the effects that combining physical things would have, or come up with the hypothesis of what would cure or change a certain health problem for example. This video gives an idea of what it is almost like when I perceive in vibration. It is very interesting.
Anita, Daniel Tammet is a truly extraordinary person. Who knows, your brains might work differently from a normal human being, but I hope you're not contrasting yourself with Daniel now. He can do things that are absolutely amazing and replicate them in the tightest possible test settings, but we have no reason at all to believe that you can do anything useful with your claimed ability (which itself is a big question mark anyways). Don't get me wrong, if you have an anomaly in brain function, I do hope you can find a way to do something useful with it. So far you've given us no evidence of this. If you want to have more insight on Daniel Tammet, check out his new book 'Born on a Blue Day'.
Anita, Daniel Tammet is a truly extraordinary person. Who knows, your brains might work differently from a normal human being, but I hope you're not contrasting yourself with Daniel now. He can do things that are absolutely amazing and replicate them in the tightest possible test settings, but we have no reason at all to believe that you can do anything useful with your claimed ability (which itself is a big question mark anyways). Don't get me wrong, if you have an anomaly in brain function, I do hope you can find a way to do something useful with it. So far you've given us no evidence of this. If you want to have more insight on Daniel Tammet, check out his new book 'Born on a Blue Day'.
That's his old book. His new one is called Embracing the Wide Sky.
Seriously, Daniel Tammet is one of the highest-functioning autistic savants in the history of the world. His number-as-shape ability has been tested and proven in laboratory settings. His abilities are very real, very repeatable but very much not paranormal and very much not magical, like yours would be were they ever confirmed. He's extraordinary, but he's not paranormal. In fact, he's very, very clear to state the bounds of his abilities.
This reminds me of when I was a child. I would see extraordinary people like this Daniel on TV, and wish I was like them in some way; I would make it seem, to myself, that I was. Or that I had that capability.
Of course, I grew out of it. But in a very real way, I feel like I know exactly what is going through Anita's mind, even though I cannot fathom why this would be so in her adult state.
Anita clearly wants to be extraordinary - she wants to have synesthesia. She does not have it. She has not been diagnosed with it. But, she wants it; she wants to be different.
I would say that Anita has given us plenty of evidence toward coming to the conclusion she is no different than anyone else (except in the way she thinks!). The persistent lies, and delusional fantasies are more than enough evidence to support she's just a wishful thinker.
No amount of evidence, logic, or downright common sense is going to get in the way of her fantasies.
There is a low-functioning autistic savant in the nursing home where my wife works. He can't feed himself, dress himself, or do much of anything on his own; but he can instantly tell you what day of the week any given date was (if he wants to).
I've seen him do this. I used my own birthdate; he said "November... cold then.. hmmm... Tuesday." And he was correct. If Anita could similarly demonstrate her ability, I for one would feel that there was something that warranted further study. Haven't seen anything like that though...
It reminds me of how I perceive things in terms of vibrations, color and feeling, and what I call Vibrational algebra (written about here), in which I combine the vibrational aspect of things to produce a resulting vibration that I then translate into physical significance. This is how I can predict the effects that combining physical things would have, or come up with the hypothesis of what would cure or change a certain health problem for example. This video gives an idea of what it is almost like when I perceive in vibration. It is very interesting.
Yeah, we've heard all this before. First it was an unverified paranormal ability, then it was unverified synesthesia, and now it's unverified savantism.
This is how I can predict the effects that combining physical things would have, or come up with the hypothesis of what would cure or change a certain health problem for example.
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