Robert de Boer

E-mail Exchange Round 10

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Robert de Boer responded:

Subject: Re: Psychic Challenge
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:03:43 +1200
From: "Robert de Boer" <[email protected]>
To: "John Blanton" <[email protected]>

John,
It is morning here in NZ and we are just coming to grips with the horrific news.
Feel so frightened for travellers all over the world. I am not sure whether your comment was meant to be funny or what, but how could anyone say this is over, it sounds like US will have to go to war to revenge this one. I don't like the situation at all. Not funny man.

Robert de Boer

We responded:

Subject: Re: Psychic Challenge
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:58:20 -0500
From: John Blanton <[email protected]>
Organization: The North Texas Skeptics
To: Robert de Boer <[email protected]> Robert,

Death is never funny. Remember, you were willing to forecast earthquakes. I hope you don't believe earthquakes are painless. Are you still game for this?

John Blanton
--
The North Texas Skeptics
http://www.ntskeptics.org

Robert's response:

Subject: Re: Psychic Challenge
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:19:45 +1200
From: "Robert de Boer" <[email protected]>
To: "John Blanton" <[email protected]>

John,
I am not going to give up.
We wasted time, I wasn't even certain you accepted that prediction as "on", and if you were to research the Zero Year Curse you would know that it will not be from a Terrorist but a US Citizen that does the act.

Since I thought you didn't want predictions of certain people dying I passed this warning on to another in the USA with the expression that may be we should warn the President, and that was just 18 hours ago. But this Terrorist attack is a separate event all together.

Hoping you are well and I express my grief and sympathy for all those who have been affected.

Robert de Boer

Robert continued:

Subject: Psychic challenge - On a personal note.
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:57:11 +1200
From: "Robert de Boer" <[email protected]>
To: "John Blanton" <[email protected]>

John,
I can imagine what you will say when you read this letter, but please read it to the end an accept it as the truth.

We had only just completed the design of the challenge and in the night after I had sent you the email saying "let the Games begin", that next morning I awoke to a disturbing scene in a dream "there was destruction and large square blocks of concrete (dark square shapes that people were walking over and searching through. As they were working there another person came with a rifle and starting firing into the rescuers. I went and hid at the base of the rubble and covered myself with a blanket, and hoped I would not be killed."

That was the end of the dream I woke up thinking "surely, does this mean there is going to be a war, can I predict this so soon! The urgency to get some warning out was great but to whom.

So when you said I "missed that one", I did miss it in a different way than you might have imagined, and that made me annoyed at you for "wasting time", and for not always replying.

But how could anyone have made a definitive warning from the scene in that nightmre in any case.?

So please accept my apology for being so abrupt with you the other morning.

Robert de Boer

We responded:

Subject: Re: Psychic challenge - On a personal note.
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:06:19 -0500
From: John Blanton <[email protected]>
Organization: The North Texas Skeptics
To: Robert de Boer <[email protected]>

Robert,

Very good. You are getting into the spirit. Now if you can predict events before they happen we will really have something going. Keep sending predictions. In advance.

Also, please do this. Bracket your official prediction in []. I will disregard everything else outside the brackets.

Thanks,

John Blanton
--
The North Texas Skeptics
http://www.ntskeptics.org

More from Robert:

Subject: Re: Psychic challenge - On a personal note.
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:46:46 +1200
From: "Robert de Boer" <[email protected]>
To: "John Blanton" <[email protected]>

Tell me just out of interest if I had sent you that vision would you have said it was a premonition or not?
Would that sort of thing have made you curious? These are the types of questions going on for that is about as good as it can get.

Square brackets around predictions in the future OK.

Thanks for accepting the apology.
Robert de Boer

We responded:

From: John Blanton
To: Robert de Boer
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: Psychic challenge - On a personal note.

Actually, Robert, what you would have had to do is say: "This is my prediction [...]" If we ever get down to testing your ability to predict the future something like that is going to be required.

Send me your predictions. I am preparing a Web page to put them all up.

Best regards,

John Blanton
The North Texas Skeptics
http://www.ntskeptics.org

More from Robert

Subject: Re: Psychic challenge - On a personal note.
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 01:22:13 +1200
From: "Robert de Boer" <[email protected]>
To: "John Blanton" <[email protected]>

John that is exactly what I meant. Had I filled the brackets with those words what would you have said? Would it have been good enough?
I'm not looking for a point on the table but a gauge on your scoring. Remember you have to assess it's probability too. If the probability is not scored prior to the event then that would be as bad as making the prediction after the event.

You are most difficult to get an answer out of. Do you work in intelligence or something?

Robert

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