Posts by Stephen Judd
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What was the tone of the talkback, LegBreak? I was having similar thoughts to you and Lucy (see earlier comment about Jews stealing Christian children).
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Apropos doctors: one of things I like about my GP is he is disinclined to prescribe. I don't hold it against him -- I find it reassuring.
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OK, so that came out later in the day on the same day.
Thank you for checking in the actual paper to correct me -- my foo with Google News let me down :(
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philip: I repeat, the interview with Webber was on the morning on the 7th, barely two days after the disappearance, but the "Asian woman" sightings weren't reported until the 9th. So there is no particular reason for Webber to have guessed anything other than what she did.
She may not be a charlatan. She may be deluded into thinking that hunches and intuitions come from spirits rather than random brain activity. I'll grant that. I can imagine that if you start thinking that all your guesses that turn out to be true are divinely guided, whereas the others are just your own weak thoughts, you could end up where Webber is quite innocently.
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I’ll start believing in them the day the TAB stops returning a profit.
Oh Legbreak. Surely you know that psychics are ethical people who would never do anything so venal and wrong as use their skills to cheat in a wager. They only exercise them in upright ways like charging money for tickets and television appearances.
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The equivalency between asking for extraordinary (helll, ordinary) proof for extraordinary claims and burning people at the stake also eludes me somewhat.
Zing! I wish PAS had "favourites" buttons or some way I could give this a gold star.
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Thread-jacking?
This thread takes me to São Paulo with safe passage and a kilo of cocaine or Russell gets it, ok?
(also that was a very interesting article which I have forwarded to a friend who suffers already).
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philipmatthews: that interview was recorded on the 7th. At that time the abduction theory was only just getting legs. I never thought it was likely, frankly, and that the theory was mostly clinging to shreds of hope. It was always most likely that she was in the mangroves or down a creek or whatever.
Kids getting lost and drowning are common, abductions of two year olds are rare. It is human nature to favour the theory that enabled people to believe Aisling might still have been alive, but it wasn't the way to bet.
I felt sorry for the Asian community. In an earlier age the peasants would have been going through the Jewish quarter with torches already.
hilary: is there any form of disbelief that you wouldn't label "fear?"
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In the name of science I held my nose and listened to her interview with Henry just now link. Her words, verbatim are:
"ditch, hole, in, fallen."
The vague floundering of a charlatan.
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In the first place, it could not have been of use because so-called psychics don't exist.
In the second place, her actual words on TV were "she's in a ditch, hole, ..." as reported here.
Now a ditch is not a hole. The poor kid was found in a drain, which is not exactly either of those things.
So Webber's "information" is bullshit. To the extent that it's clear, it's wrong, and to the extent that it's accurate, it's useless.