KRAMER challenge
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shera "The
prize is in the form of negotiable bonds held in a special
investment account."
[Note: As of February 6th, that
sentence was no longer on that web page. Apparently someone
else also agreed it was confusing.
Yes. That was
me. Let's hope it reduces the confusion about the prize funds,
or (at least) minimizes the excuses some people will use for
NOT APPLYING.
The application, once signed, is a
contract. Period.
That's all any reasonable person
needs to know. We refuse to coddle inquirers.
Actual
applicants with fair questions? Sure.
Inquirers who
repeat the same questions again and again while refusing to
accept the words, "We will not answer any more of your
questions about the prize fund"?
Hell no. We know
where it leads; NOWHERE.
APPLY OR DON'T APPLY
is exactly what we mean, so that's exactly what we say. No
sincere applicant would be bothered by it. In fact, if I
myself were considering submitting an application, I'd hear
those words as A CHALLENGE, and that's exactly what
this is: A Challenge.
I'd rise to it, too (if I
sincerely wanted to make a paranormal claim, that
is).
We challenge you. Apply, or don't. People who make
Peabrain accusations about the prize funds never apply. They
just waste our time. This is always the case. Not just most of
the time, but ALWAYS.
I deal with a few applicants
(sometimes not even one per week), and TONS of email inquiries
that never ever ever result in a formal application. Randi
pays me to deal with The Paranormal Challenge and its'
applicants. I won't waste JREF funds by spending inordinate
hours exchanging emails with flakes who (experience tells me)
will never apply. My history here re-confirms this over and
over and over again, until I'm blue in the face. The air is
stifling enough around my desk. I don't need more smoke added
to it. I'm not an idiot. Once I start to choke, I get up and
walk away.
Do you folks really think I've posted every
such inquiry here? I've received hundreds of them, if not
thousands, and I've only posted a small few here on the forum,
so that anyone who so desires might peek into the true nature
of a fair sampling of our overall correspondence. A
fly-on-the-wall perspective, if you will, which I for one
would gather great insight from. It is to this end that I
include all emails, warts intact - even the ones in which I
lose my composure and withdraw any respect initially offered
(as is JREF protocol) to the inquirer.
Every inquirer
deserves respect, right up until the moment he starts tossing
accusations around or (for some other reason) causes it to be
rescinded, and PeaBrain has arrived at that place in flying
colors. Accusations about the validity of the Challenge don't
wash very well here.
Randi's ideal was to post the
Challenge applications and data about actual tests (which are
few and far between). My ideal goes a little bit further. I'm
not satisfied to simply give you data and statistics. I also
want you to have an opportunity to gleam a more human,
emotional sense of what goes on here. Like a good documentary,
I want you to come away from the forum with feelings and a
sense of experience, as well as the all-vital data.
I
want you all more involved.
I've wasted more than
enough time on this one. If Peabrain cannot comprehend what
has been explained to him by both myself and by the forum
members in this thread, it is most likely due to one of the
following three things:
A- He doesn't WANT to
comprehend... B- He is not CAPABLE of
comprehending... C- He has NO CLAIM.
I vote
"C".
And, despite the direct question being put to him
so often here, he will not reveal his claim. Isn't that
curious.
Perhaps he has yet to dream one up. Or perhaps
he won't apply until his patent comes through. Or perhaps the
JREF isn't worthy of being chosen by him to reveal his great
powers to the world at large. What next? The money is
"tainted"? Been there, heard that.
It's an old, old
song. I know it well enough by now to have no further need of
repeated listening. It's in my head, forever. I can whistle it
in my sleep.
Whatever the reasons for Peabrain's
refusal to divulge his lofty claim, this has been a complete
waste of my time, right from the start, and it continues to be
so. It's sole value lies in what forum members are learning
about some applicants, their possible motives, their
excuses for not applying, and their Peabrain antics.
I
say what I think, and I make no apologies for that.
__________________ KRAMER, JREF Paranormal
Claims Dept.
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