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Old August 9th, 2003, 03:04 AM
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Yes, it all comes from your subconscious subtly influencing your motor functions to affect the objects in your environment to give you the response you desire. If you haven't been outside all day and you ask "Is it sunny," then it'll go to Don't Know or Can't Say (what's the difference, anyway?). If you ask a subjective question, like was the Iraqi war just, it'll go to whichever answer you feel is correct.

I thought this would be a thread to explain the hypnotic effect this site has over me. I seem to spend a lot of time on here, one could say too much time. But there's no such thing, now is there.
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Old August 9th, 2003, 03:23 AM
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it all comes from your subconscious subtly influencing your motor functions to affect the objects in your environment to give you the response you desire
Maybe if you're toying with a Oujia board, but not with the string. First of all, if you're consciously trying to determine if there's any motor movement, it's near impossible to discern a subconscious movement that's not reflexive.
Secondly, you could subtly get the weighted string to turn. But for it stop, then reverse direction takes a bit more effort from an involuntary reponse.
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Old August 9th, 2003, 03:47 AM
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If you're not trying to influence it, your brain is sending very small signals to your hand to swing the chain in a different direction. Believe me, I've seen it in a documentary. The one with Alan Alda. Can't remember the show's name. But the topic was Pseudo Sciences.
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Still don't believe you.
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Old August 9th, 2003, 07:10 PM
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LOL... believe what you want, but remember Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is most often the truth. What's more likely, the chain or Ouija board or whatever you're using is sensing your brain waves, and then reaching out to the stars to gain the answers you want and respond to you, or your own muscles are subtly moving the *whatever* to give you the answer you want.

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Avatar works fine in Safari. It's a photo using night-vision goggles or something.
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