You really do have a difficult time avoiding jumping to hyperbole, don’t you? First with the virtue signaling thing and now it’s “stalking” you to curiously browse what you’ve contributed after you’ve taken the time to carelessly dismiss someone else’s work? You flatter yourself far too much to think you’re pushing my buttons with this level of discourse.
I’m actually already quite familiar with the arguments in favor of remote viewing, as well as the decades’ worth of literature disputing it written by highly credentialed people in a wide variety of professions (military, psychology, sociology, biology, physics, you name it). Attributing all of their criticisms to blindedness and propaganda is naively simplistic, if not also a sweeping generalization. Well, that and it’s more than a little ironic for you to go off on people building castles in their mind out of wishful thinking.
The experiments conducted by the CIA and the U.S. military are widely considered to be failures now for good reason. They produced no verifiable evidence that remote viewing works, and with no actionable intelligence, those agencies couldn’t justify wasting resources on it any longer. Don’t you think if any two such institutions — with nearly limitless resources at their disposal — could’ve found a way to exploit such a phenomena for strategic gain, it would’ve been those two? I wonder, how many of your pieces discuss the fact that Harold Puthoff, the Stanford parapsychologist who helped popularize remote viewing, drew influence from his beliefs as a Scientologist, or the implications this might have on his research? How many of them explore the numerous attempts at replicating the positive studies on remote viewing that have been unsuccessful?
Reaching for comfort in unwarranted assumptions about the blindedness or susceptibility to manipulation of those that disagree with you is often a crutch when you don’t have reason and evidence on your side. I don’t need to speculate about your mental state or personal biases to find ample confidence in my own position. Someone that can’t manage this is not the sort of person that should be handing out self-help and self-improvement advice to others, in my humble opinion. Because what does it really teach to disparage and ridicule the intellectual capacities and efforts of your opponents just to prop up your own views that little bit more? What are the odds that such a person’s notion of self-improvement is likely also premised on tearing down others to build themselves up?
TL;DR — you’ve given the best confirmation of my original TL;DR that I could’ve asked for. Thanks. :-)
