This thread is NOT about Daniel C Peterson

[_Dad of a Mormon]

Really gotta go this time. Otherwise, wife will kill me. (Note to Scratch: More revealing hints of violence in the Peterson home!)

I know how it is, Daniel. You have pressing obligations, but the opportunity to participate in a thread that is NOT about Daniel C. Peterson so rarely presents itself that you would do anything to take advantage of the opportunity. Even risk death at the hand of a loved one.

[_Hoops]

Fallout: New Vegas!

Is that any good?

[_Corpsegrinder]

Please keep that in mind. Feel free to make whatever comments you want, as long as they have nothing to do with Daniel C. Peterson, who is not the reason why I started this thread.

Dullest.

Thread.

Ever.

[_Yong Xi]

September!

Football!

And football is a sport Daniel C. Peterson has heard about.

Apparently not. In a recent thread, trying to make a point, Daniel posted about "Joe Montana making baskets for the 49ers". When I pointed out that Joe was a football player, Daniel's response was........... "Obviously!".

I think the closest Daniel has ever come to watching or participating in sports was his stint throwing batting practice to Paul H. Dunn.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Right. I was absolutely serious about Joe Montana scoring baskets for the San Francisco 49ers. Sure. There's not a chance I was being ironic. (I'm never ironic, right?) And certainly not a chance you're merely clueless.

Incidentally, I was a Little League pitcher, was a big-time Dodgers fan (watched Sandy Koufax pitch his first no-hitter), backpacked the entire John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevadas when I was eleven, lettered in swimming in high school . . .

Does it not bother you, even just a teensy little bit, to be pronouncing such confident judgments about the personal life of somebody you clearly don't know at all?

[_Doctor Scratch]

Does it not bother you, even just a teensy little bit, to be pronouncing such confident judgments about the personal life of somebody you clearly don't know at all?

If you can't take it, don't dish it out.

[_Yong Xi]

Right. I was absolutely serious about Joe Montana scoring baskets for the San Francisco 49ers. Sure. There's not a chance I was being ironic. (I'm never ironic, right?) And certainly not a chance you're merely clueless.

Incidentally, I was a Little League pitcher, was a big-time Dodgers fan (watched Sandy Koufax pitch his first no-hitter), backpacked the entire John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevadas when I was eleven, lettered in swimming in high school . . .

Does it not bother you, even just a teensy little bit, to be pronouncing such confident judgments about the personal life of somebody you clearly don't know at all?

Not too tough to draw you out, is it?

I don't imagine then, that you'll be commenting on your belief in the art of "dowsing".

[_Daniel Peterson]

I don't imagine then, that you'll be commenting on your belief in the art of "dowsing".

I already have.

Incidentally, I have no actual "belief" in the art of "dowsing." I simply had a disquieting experience with it once.

I'm still not quite sure what to make of that experience. It didn't fit my worldview. But I'm not going to lie in order to curry favor with people like you, and act as if it didn't happen.

Perhaps you believe in pretending you didn't have the experiences you've had when they seem to clash with conventional ideas or might draw mockery from people you wish to curry favor with, but I don't. I try to understand them, but I don't pretend that they didn't occur.

[_EAllusion]

The reason we do controlled experimentation with things like dowsing is because it is statistically inevitable that people will have "disquieting experiences" with it on occasion even if it doesn't work. That said, dowsing works via theideomotor effect, and some people are weirded out by that phenomenon alone.

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