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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: ESP
Message-ID: <1036@proper.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 01:43:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 01:43:38 1984
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What I find rather silly about this ESP discussion is that people are
willing to say:
	"couldn't have been a coicidence, couldn't have been subliminal
	 communication ... MUST be ESP ..."

... as easily as you could say "MUST have been the tooth fairy" or
"MUST have been aliens from Planet X."

You've simply taken a mysterious incident and given it a pseudo-scientific
name, `ESP.'

I am open-minded.  I do not know what strange things could bring about
two people thinking the same thing at the same time, or how someone could
predict something before it happens without any normal sensory clues.

BUT just by calling it `ESP' you have still not identified what is going
on!  STILL nothing has been explained.  `ESP' may as well just stand
for "I don't know."