Robert de Boer

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Robert de Boer responded:

Subject: Re: Psychic Challenge
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:48:53 +1200
From: "Robert de Boer" <[email protected]>
To: "John Blanton" <[email protected]>

John
This is surprising for first you say that predicting Bush to win by one vote is normal and now you want to test me again without the prospect of a prize. Now if I said that Bush will be assassinated what would you say, "Oh that's fairly likely someone else could have predicted that". Well of course it's likely quite a few presidents have been assassinated over the years. I am from New Zealand so American politics don't rank highly. Here, Earthquakes are a daily event, now unless you get into predicting a big one you are fairly likely to be right as well.
What are you saying?
Ranking my success rate of future predictions from inspired dreams: better than 50%. It is the rareness of major one's that is a problem, but they have happened in the past so maybe they will reoccur in the future as well. For the future is changable it has not yet happened therefore a prediction in someway can change the future. E.g. if I said you are to die in a plane crash you might just keep out of planes or something like that, you use the knowledge and alter the future. Well I would try to in any case!

That is why I thought it needs to be a reported event. Stop mundane things like saying "I am going to get a fluffy white cat." or "I am going to meet so and so". But who is going to predict a future event and it's public report, now that is harder, so it is less likely to happen just by chance.
Must go to work now. Catch you latter.

Robert

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