Hi Chris, List
I for one, certainly appreciate your opinions. I have a great deal of
respect for your knowledge and abilities. I'm glad you're willing to
share the things you do with the List. I would miss it if you
didn't. If I haven't thanked you before for the things you share, I
will now. Thank you. And I mean that sincerely.
List, hopefully we have reviewed at least my original post about the
use of the rods all we need to. I have had someone contact me who did
not elaborate but their wish was for me to "stop please". I presume
they are wanting fewer emails. I intend to respect that wish at least
on this topic. I don't know exactly where the thread is off to now.
Because I don't think some of what I see now being brought up actually
pertains to my first post exactly. I believe I will have to
relinquish responsibility for the thread at this juncture. I will
apologize now for any headaches the number of emails to this point has
caused anyone. However I must admit, I have enjoyed the discussion
immensely.
Thanks all,
Mike in CO
On Oct 14, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
Actually, new ideas that are RIGHT have generally been accepted
fairly quickly. It is a myth of the pseudoscientist that so many
great minds have been considered wrong or crazy, and that the
establishment has usually been wrong. It is entirely appropriate
that new ideas be viewed with some skepticism before they are
accepted, however.
In fact, it is science that tells us very clearly that divining rods
do not work. This is something that has been put to the test, and
failed that test. Nobody can actually demonstrate that they work any
better than random chance. Only a fool would ignore that reality in
favor of quotes (some of dubious origin).
Divining rods, homeopathy, astrology... all these things are firmly
in the same category.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Meteorites USA" <e...@meteoritesusa.com
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To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stop Naysaying! (Was: Try divining
rods over a large iron)
Chris, I fully support the eviction of superstition from the human
mind.
BUT... Non believers and naysayers of radical ideas are typically,
historically, and statistically, often wrong!
People said the Wright brothers couldn't fly. But they did.
People said you would die if you went faster than a few tens of MPH.
They were wrong.
People disbelieved DaVinci's inventions. But modern science proved
many
to be possible.
People said it wasn't possible to fly to the Moon. Be we did.
People slammed Tesla, and persecuted him and his free wireless
electricity. Yet today we know induction charging and energy
transmission over distance is real.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -
Thomas Edison
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're
right." - Henry Ford
"Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers." - General Colin
Powell
"...The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does
not
expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is
like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the
foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and
labors and hopes...." Nikola Tesla
Thomas Jefferson, with such a great mind on politics and human
advancement still had problems and could be considered a naysayer when
he said.
"I would more easily believe that a Yankee professor would lie than
that
stones would fall from heaven." - Thomas Jefferson
Closedmindedness is the enemy of progress.
Regards,
Eric
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