[extropy-chat] Bayes, crackpots and psi

[Samantha Atkins]

On Dec 21, 2004, at 1:23 AM, BillK wrote:

>
> "Craig can't entirely help himself, being a Gemini," Hitchens said. 
> "Geminis
> are always very skeptical and destined to feel pain throughout life as 
> a
> result of their closed-mindedness. If you try to introduce Craig to 
> anything
> even remotely made-up, he starts going off about 'evidence this' and 
> 'proof
> that.' If only the poor man were open-minded enough to stop attacking
> everything with his brain and just once look into his heart, he'd find 
> all
> the proof he needed. But, sadly, he's unable to let even a little bit 
> of
> imagination drive his core beliefs."
>
>

Ah.  No wonder I doubted mysticism despite my own mystical experiences. 
  I'm a double Gemini!  I am not only skeptical but skeptical regarding 
my skepticism.  :-)

- samantha