Een overpeinzing of redenering over de meest logische gang van zaken in een gegeven situatie.

Het is de kunst om "de meest logische gang van zaken" te achterhalen door het verloop van de situatie onder te verdelen in kleinere stappen die op zo logisch mogelijke wijze in elkaar overvloeien. Vaak zijn er meerdere wegen mogelijk, maar de uiteindelijke conclusie blijft meestal gelijk of bijna gelijk.

Vandaag werd ik plotseling overvallen door een ingeving over de bizarre situatie die ontstaan is met mediums en paragnosten - hierna "paranormalen"genoemd - aan één kant en sceptici aan de andere kant; met name de sceptici die de openbaarheid zoeken (James Randi, Richard Dawkins, Penn & Teller, de mensen van Stichting Skepsis en op veel kleinere schaal ook Logates met zijn irriterende artikelen). De situatie is als volgt op te sommen:

- sprekers en schrijvers van beide kanten "preken toch vooral voor eigen parochie"; er worden maar weinig mensen van het andere "kamp" bereikt en dat lijkt met name voor sceptici spijtig aangezien zij vaak proberen andersdenkenden te overtuigen van hun standpunten.

- sceptici roepen dat paranormalen hun claims moeten bewijzen onder gecontroleerde omstandigheden

- paranormalen antwoorden dat ze niets te bewijzen hebben: de reacties van de cliënten is afdoende

- beide kampen proberen mensen die nog niet beslist hebben waartoe ze behoren voor zich te winnen, de paranormalen winnen denk ik op dit moment (ook al is het geen wedstrijd...of wel?)

Al met al denk ik niet dat men snel tot een gemeenschappelijk gedachtegoed zal komen. Alles wijst op een patstelling maar dat is slechts schijn: de patstelling wijst namelijk op het "logische gelijk" van de sceptici. Een simpel gedachtenexpiriment leidt tot die conclusie:

Het gedachtenexpiriment

Paranormalen willen de sceptici doen geloven dat paranormale fenomenen overal zijn en bovenal volstrekt normaal: de zielen van overleden dierbaren zijn altijd om ons heen en ze verlangen ernaar met ons te communiceren. Bovendien zijn ze alwetend van het leven hier op aarde en kunnen vaak zelfs een blik in de toekomst werpen. Iedereen zou in staat moeten zijn die communicatie te bewerkstelligen maar blijkbaar zijn er weinig mensen die de "gave" echt hebben ontwikkeld.

Uit bovenstaande alinea zou je logischerwijs kunnen concluderen dat het zaak is voor de gestorven zielen de geloofwaardigheid van de paranormalen te waarborgen, immers: als de mediums niet geloofd worden kunnen ze hun boodschappen niet naar ons overbrengen.

En nu de sleutelvraag (gedachtenexpirimenten hebben vaak een belangrijke vraag vlak voor de conclusie): wat is de makkelijkste manier voor de zielen om die geloofwaardigheid te waarborgen?

overtuig de meest prominente sceptici van hun ongelijk!

Als je een gestorven ziel zou zijn die een belangrijke boodschap heeft voor een sceptisch familielid zou je hem nooit kunnen bereiken. Als slimme ziel zou je er dan werk van kunnen maken om James Randi te verrassen: je zou bijvoorbeeld een medium kunnen helpen glansrijk voor zijn test te laten slagen of je zou een willekeurig persoon het voorwerp doorgeven (in een droom?) dat Randi heeft gestopt in een kistje in zijn huis. Je zou op kleinere schaal ook een medium op Logates kunnen afsturen en hem vertellen hoeveel tegels zijn badkamervloer telt of de eerste twintig namen en telefoonnummers van de telefoonlijst in zijn mobiele telefoon of de precieze omschrijving van de bank die hij van plan is te kopen; je kan erop rekenen dat daarover geschreven zal worden en wat is overtuigender dan een "die-hard" scepticus van mening doen veranderen omtrent het paranormale? Als je Randi op die manier weet te overtuigen zal je zelfs een wereldwijde schok veroorzaken die uiteindelijk kan leiden tot de algemene acceptatie van paranormale fenomenen! Zou dat niet de wens zijn van onze overleden dierbaren?

Juist omdat deze dingen nog nimmer gebeurd zijn zou je de volgende drie conclusies kunnen trekken:

a) de overleden zielen interesseert het allemaal niets en zijn niet van plan een kleine moeite te doen om ons allemaal te bereiken

b) de zielen van onze overleden dierbaren bestaan niet

c) de zielen van de overledenen bestaan wel maar zijn niet in staat met ons te communiceren

Conclusie B is de simpelste oplossing met de minste aannames (Occam's Razor*) en daarom vooralsnog de juiste. De omschreven patstelling aan het begin van dit artikel wijst dus wel degelijk op het gelijk van de sceptici. Ik vermoed dat paranormalen hun ogen én geest sluiten voor deze gedachten, maar het "probleem" dat de conclusie van dit gedachtenexpiriment voor paranormalen veroorzaakt valt moeilijk te ontkennen. Mocht dat wel zo zijn: laat het weten in een reactie, ik ben benieuwd! Ondertussen houd ik morgen mijn ogen open voor mensen die me benaderen met informatie over mijn badkamervloer...

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And the downfall is that when shit hits the proverbial fan, there is no sacred text, no omnipotent father (or mother) figure to turn to, whom will provide comfort, healing, or direction. Nothing for me exists but a cold, harsh reality. And when the compass is lost or broken, it is up to me, and ONLY ME to re-associate with my reason to live, that which gives me purpose. And sometimes it takes a fucking long time.

In my case, a time period that is quite nearing one year now. To wit, I took a day job to ensure ends are met. After a dismal 2006 film season for me, I came to a cold economic reality. I needed something more stable in the short term to make ends meet. Hence the day job. Sad thing is that it only kept me barely economically afloat to now. And for nearly nine months, I've been ranting, bitching, moaning, and searching for at least something better paying. Then it hit me. Most of the film electricians are also licensed electricians. And the only feasable fix (as I don't have $9000 plus living expenses to go back to school for four months full time) is to apprentice at BC Hydro. And I can make significantly more training there than I do right now being a bitch in a five ton.

As such, I have the waiting game. Day one was today, with no word as of yet. But that's not the only thing pressing on the soul. In the last fourteen days, I was in an accident in the truck (though not my fault thankfully) in which someone tried to pass me on the right while I was mid turn going right. What a twat. I had to change my spark plugs (to which I broke one and had to buy two more) and realized still more of my mechanics tools had been pilfered while staying at a shared residence a few years back. So more money spent there. I dropped my mobile in the loo. The list goes on. I really started to get the feeling that someone out there doesn't want me to get on with this. And not the brain dead gits that I work for either.

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Chapter Listing:

• Intuitive Aptitude
• Razor in Life
• Eat My Nightmares!
• Razor at Dawn
• Razor at Night
• Razor's Heel
• Razor in Death
• Razor to the End Prelude
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I stood, rooted to one spot for what seemed to be seven eternities, while the faint shapes of bustling people rushed all around me. Though people may move, everyone to my posterior remained stagnant and unchanging. A clump of people stood as one, in a disordered entropic “line”. With each passing moment, yet another person would move up from beside the line and juxtapose him/herself into the mass of people to my immediate front. Over and over, more and more squeezed through. The line reached equilibrium, where the speed at which people expelled from the front equaled the rate at which people entered from the middle. The back remained at the same position…

Another infinite amount of time progressed… Veins begin pumping visibly in my forehead, while a minor muscle spasm began to cause intermittent twitching in my cheekbone muscles. Still I waited, thoughts began popping into my head, a voice screamed for me to act. Still I bid my time. The veins began a grand symphony of synchronized systematic beating… This is… it… I… have…. had it…. Thud thud thud thud thud thud *twitch*. I scowled as yet another guy walked in front of me.

A second later, a muffled thud sounded. A body could be seen on the ground undergoing an episode of epileptic seizures. I retracted my fist and place it back into my pocket to walk away from the eternally stagnant line.

“Weren’t you going to buy lunch?” A round faced teenager inquired of me.

“Oh but of course” A hollow yet eerily resonant sound came from the depths of my vocal cavity. I grinned and sat down. After staring at the ceiling for a few moments I started mumbling and musing to myself. This was met with confusion, and the same quizzical individual now had another question.

“Wha–”

“Oh wouldn’t it be a shame if… something… were to completely decimate the cafeteria?” I commented in the same cold void voice, “hmm what if something… oh I don’t know… a thunderstorm… were to crash in and thoroughly annihilate all that which is symbolic of this demonic excuse for a lunch service? Oh how wonderful would it be if accurately controlled… sparks were to be projected through some form of medium… and specifically target individual neuron’s and interrupt the synaptic processes. Oh how interesting if these meticulously engineered energy waves were so precisely controlled that they would manipulate a person’s brainwave in such a manner as to incapacitate him/her and render him/her completely under the control of some outside force… Too bad today is a perfect day… A sunny day… A thunderstorm would be so unlikely… hehheh” My face was now completely devoid of emotions.

“Jason… are you…” Aaron stopped in mid sentence. Jason is nowhere to be seen…

“Die…” I uttered with a chilling smile. My eyes now glowed with a beaming blue flame as I levitated towards a particularly corpulent individual shoving his way into the crowd of people at the lunch lines. The chubby person sensed me and briskly turned around. He eyed me suspiciously and threw a punch right into my face. In that split instant time seemed to distort itself as I apparently entered a gravitational singularity. Slower and slower approached a monumental boulder hurled itself towards my centralized nervous system. With each passing instant, the threat of impact loomed closer, the threat of injury, of hurt, of destruction… of humiliation…..

The blow missed, he overstepped himself and lunged forward onto his underside. I floated back into the position where I used to be standing, the position which would have rendered me as a direct target of my assailant’s attack.

“Word of advice… Do not try to attack someone who can levitate… and especially don’t try to fight someone with flames coming out of his eyes…” The pitch-less toneless emptiness of my voice reverberated throughout the room. The sky began to darken, clouds slowly gathered above the Lynbrook campus, and a few stray lightning sparks flashed across the atmosphere. My hand began glowing a bright red, intensifying in hue every second. I started to float towards my downed assaulter. I raised my left hand, and instantly invisible forces lifted the person into the air. I flickered my hand; bright yellow sparks danced around his scalp, penetrating deep into the interior of his cranial cavity.

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“How in the world do you know my name…”

“Oh I know a lot of things about you… Like exactly what you fear the most” I flicked my left hand again. The yellow sparks suddenly turned to be green in color.

The room darkened… Bobby struggled to find his way when suddenly a hooded figure ignited a match stick.

“Welcome to the year 1995, Bobby… You are at the stadium…”

……

I watched as Bobby struggled on the ground of the Lynbrook cafeteria. Thick sweat beads dripped down his face as he broke out into an earsplitting scream… I winced…

“Guess, I’ll have to be cutting off his sweet dreams a bit earlier than expected…” I swayed my right hand, and the glowing red sparks arched towards him at light speed, penetrating into the deep confines of his body. Upon impact, all skin, then flesh, then bone vaporized in quick succession, disintegrated and reduced to a pile of smothering ashes…

“Quite an appetizer, now for the entrée…” I smiled. The storm was reaching an apex now… “Too bad I wouldn’t be here to enjoy this; I’ve got work to do”.

In an electrical flash I disappeared. At that exact moment, a bright amalgam of power and light, burning with the intensity of a trillion suns, produced a deafening roar. It paused for a moment in midair, and then soared towards the ground, in an azure streak. In a brief flash, an entire building was gone….

It is now day time again…. I was seen picking flowers in a green field… “Flowers”…

“Flowers…” A cold grin…

Now that it's broken, I thought I'd add some thoughts to other Razor announcements, specifically the signing of 23 draft picks from the first three rounds of this year's draft including #1 overall pick Tim Beckham to exclusive card contracts. 

Apparently some of my fellow bloggers believe this is a big deal.  Mario at Wax Heaven says Topps is "in serious trouble."  Chris Harris calls their promo card the "Bowman Killer," though I can't tell if he's serious here or not.  I honestly was not blown away by the card, and the scans I've seen show some chipping on the black borders. Not a good sign of quality.

But why do I think Razor's not a big deal?  Well, let me qualify this by saying there's two ways that it could turn big. One is if Razor signs a whole bunch more of these guys to exclusive contracts. With no players, Bowman would be forced out of production. The second would be if all 23 prospects they currently have become the top 23 prospects in all of baseball.  And I mean Jay Bruce kind of hype.  For all of them. 

I'm reasonably sure that the second one isn't going to happen, and if it did it would take some uncanny luck on Razor's part.  The first one, well, that could happen, but only if Razor has an unlimited pool of resources to draw from, and only if the rest of the prospects are willing to gamble on having their only card in a first year release with less marketing and name recognition then their competitor does.

And let's face it, it is a bit of a gamble for these prospects to sign with a relatively unknown company to appear in their debut baseball release instead of the well established and highly marketed and sought after Bowman brand.  Also remember that Bowman is an officially licensed MLBPA product. Razor is not.

Is Topps shaking in their boots? Probably not. Is the signing of these draft picks going to force a better Topps product? Again, probably not. The only thing these signings will force is other companies to sign more players to exclusive deals. Then you end up with less desirable products because Topps has all the even picks and Razor all the odds when really you just want picks 14-17.

And one other thing, so far nothing I've seen suggests that Razor is going to revolutionize the card collecting industry. They are simply working within the confines of what already exists in an effort to make a profit. It's that simple. They are going to do things to make money, even if it means more things that collectors don't really like, such as questionable cut autographs and $2000 packs.

So is Razor a big deal now? No, but they want to be, and they are drumming up publicity at every turn. Could these cards turn big? Sure. They could be the next '89 Upper Deck for all I know. But I think there's a better chance they'll end up like '88 Score

The product has nothing to do with baseball, but will instead mimic the Topps Update and Highlight insert featuring president's signatures as well as dual signatures cards with their wives and other figures associated with them (so John Kennedy and Jack Ruby are featured on a card, for example).

I'm just so glad that someone has listened to the call of the blogosphere and hardcore collectors everywhere by finally releasing a product that rivals my house payment for a month. I'm sure my wife will understand living on the street when I tell her it's for that Chester A Arthur/Ellen Lewis Herndon dual autograph I've wanted since I was 7.

Thanks Razor. Enjoy your free publicity.

The hobby has a new contender and the name is Razor Entertainment.  Today at the National Sports Collectors Convention Razor unveiled a new product called 2008 Oval Office Cut Signature Edition.  Each pack contains a cut signature of a U.S. President.  They plan to sell them for $2,000.00 per pack.  That is the most expensive pack of cards in the hobby's history.  You can read the full story here. 

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Below is a National Sports Collectors Convention exclusive being given out by Razor. While the card is blurry, it's in my opinion, head over heels better looking than 2008 Bowman.

Waxheaven.com was expecting some exclusive scans before the Nationals but apparently we were forgotten about. Thank goodness for eBay!

• 7 first round picks: Tim Beckham (Rays), Kyle Skipworth (Marlins), Jemile Weeks (A's), Aaron Hicks (Twins), Ethan Martin (Dodgers), Reese Havens (Mets), and Casey Kelly (Red Sox).
• 2 sandwich round picks: Jordan Lyles (Astros) and Brett DeVall (Braves).
• 2 second round picks: Destin Hood (Nationals) and Derrik Gibson (Red Sox).
• 2 third round picks: Stephen Fife (Red Sox) and David Adams (Yankees).

I am confident in predicting that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Many first round picks will not sign with the teams who drafted them until the signing deadline of August 15. I expect that we'll hear about many other big-name players signing with Razor between now and then.

Razor seems to be poised to make a big impact on the hobby when they release their draft pick card set later this year. It is great to see a new company being so aggressive in making these deals. With the amount of money that they are investing, I am hopeful that we'll see a high quality product.

So where does this leave Donruss-Playoff? With so many top draft picks not available to them, I'd be very surprised if they produce a follow-up to last year's Elite Extra Edition set. It might be a very long time before we see another baseball card from them.

And where does this leave Bowman? This year's Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects and Bowman Sterling releases will be significantly less interesting.

Now, if Razor would just sign this guy ...

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